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We invited staff from our Vietnamese partner company to Japan.
On June 16, 2025, we invited nine staff members from an external partner company in Vietnam to Japan.
The purpose of this trip was for them to see and learn about Japanese scenery and architecture to use as reference for the animation's background art.
One of the places they visited was Kuroiso High School in Tochigi Prefecture.
They had the opportunity to tour the school building and see classes, learning what Japanese schools are like.
The students came up with the idea of collaborating with Sanrio, and Hello Kitty dolls (male and female) wearing Kuroiso High School uniforms were released, and all of the Vietnamese staff who visited purchased a pair as souvenirs.
We imagine the paperwork for accepting a large number of foreign visitors at a public high school must have been difficult, but we are truly grateful to the teachers who graciously accommodated us.
What was also very impressive was that the students had memorized the Vietnamese greetings and greeted us with smiles, saying "Xin Chao!"
In fact, this visit was made possible thanks to our company's previous experience of holding an anime background course for students in the art club at Kuroiso High School.
It seems that this school tour was also the most memorable experience for our Vietnamese staff during their stay in Japan.
It was a day that once again reminded us of the wonderfulness of cultural exchange.
The article ran over six pages.
Senjukobo's recent activities
2025
| TITLE：FLOWER AND ASURA |
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| IN CHARGE： Art setting / Art board / Background Art |
| MEDIA：TV Animation |
| COPYRIGHT：武田綾乃・むっしゅ/集英社・すももが丘高校放送部 |
2024
| タイトル：無職転生Ⅱ ～異世界行ったら本気だす～ |
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| 担当業務：美術設定/美術ボード |
| ジャンル：TVアニメ |
| コピーライト：©理不尽な孫の手/MFブックス/「無職転生II」製作委員会 |
| TITLE：UsoNatsu The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie |
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| IN CHARGE：Background Art |
| MEDIA：Voice Drama |
| COPYRIGHT：LYCORIS |
2023
| タイトル：無職転生Ⅱ ～異世界行ったら本気だす～ |
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| 担当業務：美術設定/美術ボード |
| ジャンル：TVアニメ |
| コピーライト：©理不尽な孫の手/MFブックス/「無職転生II」製作委員会 |
| タイトル：お兄ちゃんはおしまい！ |
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| 担当業務：美術監督/美術設定/美術ボード |
| ジャンル：TVアニメ |
| コピーライト：©ねことうふ・一迅社/「おにまい」製作委員会 |
2021
| タイトル：無職転生 ～異世界行ったら本気だす～ |
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| 担当業務：美術設定/美術ボード |
| ジャンル：TVアニメ |
| コピーライト：©理不尽な孫の手/MFブックス/「無職転生」製作委員会 |
2017
| TITLE： Makeruna!! Aku-No-Gundan |
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| IN CHARGE： Background Art |
| MEDIA：TV Animation |
| COPYRIGHT：© 徳井青空／ブシロードメディア／あくのぐんだん製作委員会 |
2015
| TITLE： Fire Emblem if |
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| IN CHARGE： |
| MEDIA：Nintendo 3DS™ Games |
| COPYRIGHT：©2015 Nintendo/INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS |
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A Brief history of the representative
At that time, one of my senior coworkers praised me on how precise and detailed my background art of a cliff I was drawing at the time was, which is what inspired me to move in the direction of background and set piece artwork rather than character animation.
After leaving that studio, I was hired at Nippon Animation as a background artist.
Around this time I got married and had my first child, and moved to Hawaii as my husband was hired at Squaresoft (currently Square Enix), where I was also hired to work as a background artist. I began working on digital background here for the first time.
Although I left squaresoft and returned to Japan to care for my son's epilepsy, I had the opportunity to work on background art for videogames such as Final Fantasy 9 & 10, Kingdom Hearts and others.
At this time I returned to my mother's home town of Aidsu to begin freelance work. I mostly worked on TV animation series. I was able to personally make connections with animation studios and overseas outsourcing studios. After my son's recovery in 4 years, I parted ways with my husband and moved to Tokyo.
In Tokyo I worked as an art director for TV animations while training new employees at AIC studios, as well as teaching part time at Japan Electronics College.
I learned how to teach for the first time while I was here.
I returned to working on background art for animations and video games about 5 years ago. At this time I started up my own studio, Senjyu Kobo.
At first we took any sort of jobs, no matter how cheap, so I could pay my staff a fixed salary. But as time went by, we only got more and more exhausted, and we had nothing to gain.I talked together with my staff, and decided on changing to a "paid by the piece" system, so we could focus on raising the quality of our work. This took place in 2014, as well as Senjyu Kobo becoming a corporation.
Today Senjyu Kobo is comprised of 5 core staff members including myself. Together with other freelancers who like our work style, we keep busy producing high quality work on a daily basis.
As I was an idea giver to begin with, we gradually made the shift to a business style of providing our clients with concepts and ideas. We now work under the policy of "Staying with our clients to the very end = until the expressive work they've visualized has taken shape," and help our clients with any worries or concerns pertaining to their piece.
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