Tarou Takanashi (高梨 太郎 Takanashi Tarō) is one of the supporting characters of the SHIROBAKO anime series. Tarou is working as a Production Assistant at Musashino Animation in anime timeline.
In movie timeline, to accepts a staging offer after the incident, Taro quits from Musani but later accepts to be SIVA's staging.
Appearance
Tarou is a young man of average height. Tarō has short spiky blonde hair, with the sides shaved. He always wears a black T-shirt, bracelets, blue jeans, and shoes.
Personality
Whoever comes here, will do better than Tarou. ~ Hironori Madoka in Episode 11, when commenting on the job interview.
Tarou has shown to be bumbling, air-headed, annoying and tactless. Tarō is also very childish but he sometimes knows when to take his work seriously. Tarō can be kind and generous, but it is his childish side that usually takes over. He thinks greatly of himself and always tries to make himself look like an expert in any field, failing each time.
He never listens to advice and always blames others on his blunders and drags them with him. He is part of the comic relief that parallels the stress at the company. He often makes remarks that either offend or annoy people, even though his intentions may be to help someone feel better.
In the movie, Taro is still seen as trouble-maker by his co-workers and former co-workers. Although he has many ideas about the anime, all of them are rejected, even when producing SIVA. Taro believes that it's because his idea is "Very innovate". Although this, Taro is sensitive about the anime: During the preview of the final climax, Taro pointed out that the final climax has some problems(But the others think his complaint is impolite), which Kinoshita later admits it.
Background
One month before Aoi Miyamori joins Musani, Tarou enters Musani. After a year, Musani release Exodus!. During producing, Tarou miss failed to finish the keyframes in time. Eventually, Aoi handles with it. However, he later faces a situation that Ryosuke Endo refuses to work due to his poor communication skill. Aoi finally settles this again. He later promoted to chief production assistant after Honda's departure.
After four years, Tarou becomes a staging.[1]
Trivia
- According to Tsutomu Mizushima, the director of anime, Tarou is based on himself in younger ages.[2]
- Tarou's dream is to become a director.
- In the earlier development, Tarou's catchphrase was "it can't be helped" (仕方ない Shikata nai), and in the final episode Yutaka Honda will make fun of his name and the catchphrase. The catchphrase was finally dropped.[3] Tarou was more useless in the earlier development, too.[4]
Gallery
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New Type Magazine in April, 2020. Page 16.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ @ShirobakoScript: タローの口癖を「仕方ない」にしよう...
- ↑ @ShirobakoScript: ゲームばっかりやってるとか。原画の上にカップ麺置くとか。
| Production Characters | |
|---|---|
| Musashino Animation | Shun Watanabe • Aoi Miyamori • Sara Satou
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| Western Entertainment | Gotaro Katsuragi • Kaede Miyai |
| Other companies | Tomigaya • Masahiko Inami • Keiji Takekura • Tatsuya Ochiai • Eisuke Enjo • Takumi Yarase • Tsuyoshi Makurada • Hisamitsu Isokawa • Kenichi Mimura
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| Former staffs | Yutaka Honda
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| Terms | Producer • Production Desk • Production Assistant |