Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Hire staff, assemble scripts, read shifting trends, manage loans, and release the anime that saves your struggling studio.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Market
Buy and sell through a shared supply whose availability or prices can change.
Contracts
Complete specific requirements to earn rewards, income, or victory points.
Income
Receive recurring resources according to your position, assets, or development.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Loans
Borrow resources now and repay them later, usually with an additional cost.
Read the full game description
Jisogi: Anime Studio Tycoon is an economic worker-placement game about keeping a creative studio alive long enough to make something extraordinary. Staff cards sit around a personal studio board and act as specialized workers, determining which shared actions you can take and how efficiently you perform them. The production goal is to assemble an original anime from Setting, Plot, and Twist script parts, add artwork, and align its genres with the current trend cards. A release converts that creative combination into money and reputation, but the studio’s obligations do not pause: employees need salaries, loans accrue interest, and the market for talent and opportunities keeps moving. Hiring, promotion, merchandising, networking, and calculated debt build an engine over four rounds. Because trends rotate, a perfect project can become mistimed before it reaches the screen, rewarding studios that balance long-term specialization with flexible scripts. The 1.5 edition refines the interface and flow while preserving the central idea behind the title: like a bicycle, the business falls over when it stops moving.
