P.A. Works Launches 25th Anniversary Crowdfunding With Event Tickets
This crowdfunding marks the first time P.A. Works has directly invited fans to co-fund an anniversary celebration, bundling exclusive access to its physical studio and staff with commemorative products.
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P.A. Works has opened a crowdfunding campaign hosted by parubooks to celebrate the studio's 25th anniversary. The campaign, which runs from April 21 to June 30, 2025, offers backers tickets to the studio's anniversary event "Tou Matsuri -Lantancy-" scheduled for October 19, 2025, at P.A. Works headquarters in Nanto City. Rewards also include a fan-voted recipe book for dishes that appeared in P.A. Works anime, a commemorative book chronicling the studio's history, and various merchandise. The event itself will feature studio tours, a special exhibition, an animation production experience session, a production desk experience, and a live recording of the studio's internal radio show "P.A. RADIO" with staff from the creation, production, and branding departments. The key visual for the event was illustrated by Tomomi Takada, known for character designs on "Welcome to the驹田 Distillery" and "Narenare -Cheer for You!-". The event name references the studio's corporate philosophy of "illuminating the future, creating lights."
The crowdfunding campaign is hosted by parubooks, a retailer that regularly sells P.A. Works merchandise, and is separate from the studio's own operations. Backers can choose from multiple reward tiers, with the top tier including the event ticket plus all physical goods. The fan-voted recipe book collects dishes from P.A. Works series such as Shirobako and Hanasaku Iroha, selected through an online poll. The commemorative history book covers the studio's output from its founding in 2000 through 2025. The event's animation production experience, called the "absolutely-not-going-to-hit-a-wall anime production experience," is a 25th-anniversary edition of a workshop P.A. Works has run three times before. Participants receive a prepackaged kit beforehand and attend a lecture on the day. The production desk experience simulates the role of a production assistant, modeled after the character Aoi Miyamori from Shirobako. Both experiences include a custom name card and a special internal newsletter as souvenirs. The radio show recordings will be edited and released later exclusively to P.A. Salon members and ticket holders.
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- P.A.Works parubooks様主催 P.A.WORKS 25周年記念クラウドファンディング