Sony's Anime Academy

[Yojimbo]

Sony is rolling out a new program called Anime Academy which will focus on "developing talent" to help in the production of anime. A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks are central parts of this new initiative. Both these companies are subsidiaries of Aniplex, which is a division of "Sony Music Entertainment Japan". Sony Group's Chairman and CEO, Yoshida Kenichiro, and President, COO, and CFO Totoki Hiroki commented on the upcoming "Anime Academy"

The launch of a project to establish an academy [comes] with the aim of nurturing anime creators in global markets, mainly by Aniplex and Crunchyroll with collaboration from across the industry.

(A-1 Pictures' recent projects from the past couple years include Solo Leveling, Sword Art Online, Mashle: Magic & Muscles, and Lycoris Recoil) and CloverWorks, Spy x Family, The Promised Neverland, and Bocchi The Rock)

 

[Frontier]

I'm curious if this will lead to more foreign staff members on anime staffs or more foreign "anime."

 

[Daikun]

Didn't Crunchyroll used to do stuff like this before Sony bought them?