Jisogi: Anime Studio Tycoon Board Game (Retail Edition)

Manage an Anime Studio: Take your team to the top! In JISOGI: Anime Studio Tycoon, you step into the role of a new manager, tasked with reversing the fortunes of a struggling anime studio. Build powerful synergetic work teams from 52 unique staff cards. Create Anime stories by mixing and matching uniquely themed and illustrated Script Parts across 5 key genres that follow anime trends represented on 20 beautifully illustrated foil tarot cards. Manage your income from anime releases against your debts, and your team's growing abilities and salaries, to become increasingly profitable. Chase scoring opportunities each round based on your achievements. Jisogi is a brand new worker-placement board game designed and published by Esper Game Studio, with art by Eisuke Gou and Senkawa Teien. The theme is Anime, more specifically the hard-working folks and the crushing business behind it. 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 + how many genre matches they have to rotating Trend cards. "Jisogi" comes from 自転車操業, jitenshasōgyō, an expression that refers to barely keeping a business going (an analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating). Get ready for a challenging tycoon-style game where you'll hustle to make your dream Anime against all odds. Players: 1 - 4 Time: 90-120 minutes Ages: 14+ Designer: Rodrigo Esper Artists: Gou Eisuke, Thomas Romain, Senkawa Teien Publishers: Esper Game Studio, Choo Choo Games, Good Games Publishing, Synergic Games