Since Haoliners was established in 2013 by Li Haolin, a rising animator who had not yet turned 30 at the time, it has become one of China’s leading domestic animation studios.
The five-story building houses the entire anime production operation at the Japan branch of Shanghai-based animation company Haoliners.
On one breezy weekend in February, employees at the animation studio Emon were busy setting up new workstations in their Kichijoji office at the edge of Tokyo.