Brains Base

Brains Base is a Japanese studio first established in 2000.

Compare Manglobe, Studio BONES and The Answer Studio, three other Japanese studios established in the 2000s.

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Works created by Brains Base include:

• Baccano! and its Spiritual Successor Durarara!!
• Akikan
• Dororon Enma-kun
• Innocent Venus
• Gunparade Orchestra
• Kure-nai
• New Getter Robo
• Kamisama Dolls
• Mawaru Penguindrum
• Mazinkaiser
• Princess Jellyfish
• Natsume Yuujinchou

Additional Work includes

• Blue Exorcist (2nd Key Animation; Production Assistance)
• Code Geass (2nd Key and In-Between Animation; R2 season)
• Eden of the East (In-Between Animation)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2nd Key and In-Between Animation)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2nd Key, Key and In-Between Animation)
• Gintama (2nd Key Animation)
• Golgo 13 (In-Between Animation; 2005 series)
• Gosick (In-Between Animation)
• Halo Legends (Ink & Paint)
• Kamichu! (Animation; In-Between Animation)
• Ouran High School Host Club (In-Between Animation)
• Ponyo (Animation Cooperation)
• Saki (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Sengoku Basara (2nd Key Animation)
• Sora no Manimani (In-Between Animation)
• Soul Eater (In-Between Animation)
• Tekkon Kinkreet (In-Between Animation)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (In-Between Animation)

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Brains Base provides examples of the following tropes:

• Animation Bump: They're one of the better Japanese studios.
• Off-Model: They still have their moments though.
  • Their worst is probably Akikan