Studio MAPPA producer and CEO Manabu Ohtsuka along with Sendai city mayor Emiko Okuyama announced on Thursday that MAPPA plans to open a new studio in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture in spring 2018.
The studio will be the first regional studio for MAPPA.
The city of Sendai last year launched a plan to attract business in the digital contents industry to the area.
The studio has been the main animation studio for such anime as Kids on the Slope, Terror in Resonance, Yuri!!!