Just Landed: Jisogi - Anime Studio Tycoon
Running an anime studio sounds glamorous until the deadlines, debt, staff choices, and shifting trends start piling up. Jisogi, a worker-placement board game from Esper Game Studio, brings that pressure to the table with sharp tycoon-style play and a striking anime production theme.
Jisogi plays 1 to 4 players, takes 90 to 120 minutes, and suits ages 14 and up.
Build an anime before the business collapses
Designed and published by Esper Game Studio, with stunning art by Gou Eisuke and Senkawa Teien, Jisogi puts players in charge of a struggling studio.
In this tycoon-style game, players use Staff members (cards placed in front of their personal Studio board) to select from a range of available actions (limited by the type of Staff). Their objective is to release an original Anime composed of 3 Script parts (Setting, Plot, and Twist).
Whenever released, players will gain resources and points according to their popularity - determined by the technical level of the Anime and how many genre matches they have to rotating Trend cards.
The name comes from 自転車操業, jitenshasōgyō, meaning barely keeping a business running, like a bicycle that falls when it stops moving.
What's in the box
Inside are four double-layered Studio boards, one central board, wooden Art, Hype, Merchandise Deal and Lock tokens as well as wooden point trackers. There is also an acrylic first player token and acrylic popularity tokens, money tokens, Script parts, Debt, Network, Opportunity, Staff and Foil Trend cards, player aids and solo cards
That's a lot of Anime goodness in the box and you can find it now at Mind Games Melbourne and start chasing that breakout anime hit.
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