Jisogi: Anime Studio Tycoon – Founders Edition (Kickstarter Preorder)

Estimated Release Date: Q3 2025

Preorder items are not yet available. The quantity available and “in stock” notations are the quantities we have available for advance order.

If there are other items on the order, the entire order will not ship until all preorders release.

Image, contents, and release date are subject to change.

Note: This is the “Founder Pledge” pledge. For more information, link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/esper-games/jisogi-anime-studio-tycoon-boardgame/description

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.

Game Genre: Strategy, Worker Placement

Players: 1-4
Age: 12+
Game Length: 60-120