Talk:Shaft (company)

message: I've previously discussed this before, but I think it's probably a good idea to have a section dedicated to gross outsourcing (meaning, non-prime contract work given to the studio in which they produce an episode or all episodes of a work under contract from an actual prime contractor). The previous arguments made against this is that they were not particularly relevant to the studio or as important to the studio as actual prime contract work, but in retrospect I think this is incorrect. For example, we can look at Tezuka Productions occasionally outsourcing an episode of their work to Shaft-- in these cases, Shaft's work seems to be highly praised over Tezuka Productions' own studio, and even include things like their own credited animation producer (Cafe Terrace #9) insinuating just how deep into the production the staff of Shaft actually were on an episode of a work they weren't even a prime contractor for.
Going back even further, we can bring up the aforementioned Legend of the Galactic Heroes and even Silent Mobius, and a variety of other productions. None of these are prime contract works, yet the staff who worked on these productions will say things like "I worked from Shaft, because that's where all of the animation staff were"; and Higuchi says this in regard to Mori no Tonto-tachi, while president Kubota mentions that the staff of Silent Mobius worked out of Shaft because they were subcontracted by Radix for all episodes (see citation on page). Many of these older works are probably done this way simply because the studio did not have the capital to secure the rights to the work and produce it under prime contract, or weren't given that opportunity and simpl asked as a subcontractor to produce it. Either way, Zuiyo may be the prime contractor for Tonto-tachi, but the staff worked from Shaft; so it would be worthwhile to have a section dedicated to that kind of production and other episodic things that the studio does. Most recently, the company is assisting Bug Films with the production of Zom 100, which Bug Films' CEO Hiroaki Kojima even commented on (see citation on page). Rather than simply have a mention, I think it's worthwhile to include a section for "sub-contracting" work, as it is highly relevant to the business relations between other studios (i.e., the reason Triangle Staff and director Ryuutarou Nakamura worked often with Shaft; see article, Gigazine source), the work output of staff of the studio, and even their significance when it comes to media and fan interaction with them.
JP Wiki has their own sub-contracting tables for this kind of work, but I don't know if I'd want a table per se. Either way, I think the notion that they aren't important is incorrect, and the notion that they aren't *as* important is irrelevant. Maria Holic Alive is considered a Shaft work, but every episode was outsourced to Studio Pastora; and so if Studio Pastoral had a page, I think it would be worth noting such a thing on their page in its own little section for outsourced episodes. While I don't think it's worth noting every single minor outsourcing credit a company does (i.e., Shaft participating as in-betweeners on the final episode of Golden Kamuy 4th), full-episode gross outsources are worthwhile. 
As a final comment, there's already precedent for this as JP wiki includes such lists on several of their pages (even with sources for many). Sarcataclysmal (talk) 21:46, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outsourcing