{"id":138413,"date":"2025-10-31T04:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=138413"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:51:11","slug":"gridman-directors-the-lenticulars-web-anime-drops-1st-episode-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/gridman-directors-the-lenticulars-web-anime-drops-1st-episode-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridman Director&#8217;s The Lenticulars Web Anime Drops 1st Episode on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>The Lenticulars<\/em>, the previously teased <strong>TRIGGER<\/strong>-produced anime from <em>Gridman Universe<\/em> director <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/07\/01\/studio-triggers-akira-amemiya-it-was-the-heisei-gamera-series-that-made-me-truly-aware-of-my-interest-in-visual-storytelling\/\"><strong>Akira Amemiya<\/strong><\/a>, has had its first episode released on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The show is a short-form youth anime centered on high school students, with the debut episode (numbered as #1 a\/) having the title &#8220;Work Gloves Are Gloves.&#8221; It uses very limited animation that&#8217;s partially masked by the characters having a paper-cutout look.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Amemiya handled the series composition, script, character designs, storyboards, episode direction, animation, and coloring, and had a hand in the backgrounds as well. 24chocolate&#8217;s <strong>Rikiya Okada<\/strong> composed the music.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#1 a\/ \u300c\u8ecd\u624b\u304c\u624b\u888b\u300d\u2502 Web\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u30b6\u30fb\u30ec\u30f3\u30c1\u30ad\u30e5\u30e9\u30fc\u30ba\u300f\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlgATKUIfv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>The Lenticulars<\/em>&#8216; title and existence were revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ol5H7PpeAXc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teaser video<\/a> from October 25 JST. Following Amemiya as he walks in the night and muses about his past and his <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/gridmans-akira-amemiya-draws-cover-art-for-upcoming-transformers-generations-2025-book\/\">post-<em>Gridman Universe<\/em> activities<\/a>, the video includes the director saying, &#8220;When I make anime, I always think about how to express something primitively like an initial impulse, a raw roar. I hope I am able to convey the feelings I had when I was making anime back in my student days.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Originally a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/06\/08\/gainax-files-for-bankruptcy\/\"><strong>GAINAX<\/strong><\/a>, Amemiya was assistant director on TRIGGER&#8217;s debut TV anime, <em>Kill la Kill<\/em>. Before the Gridman anime trilogy, he directed <em>Inferno Cop<\/em> (also a limited animation web series with a motion comic feel),<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/07\/25\/game-impressions-ninja-slayer-neo-saitama-in-flames-delivers-weak-ninja-action\/\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0N<\/span>inja Sl<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">ayer From Animation<\/span><\/em><\/a>, and the<em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> Denk<\/span>i Chojin Gridman boys invent great hero <\/em>short for Animator Expo. His contributions to non-TRIGGER-produced projects include drawing the storyboards for the 2021 <em>Sorairo Utility<\/em> short and the TV series version&#8217;s 12th episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> TRIGGER CHANNEL<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lenticulars, the previously teased TRIGGER-produced anime from Gridman Universe director Akira Amemiya, has had its first episode released on YouTube. 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