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Season’s greetings
Posted by Studio TRIGGER


Happy holiday seasons and best wishes for the upcoming new year!

At last the physical production for Little Witch Academia 2 (LWA2, title pending) has started in the studio! It is a great pleasure to see Akko and her friends receive the chance to be animated once again. Of course, this would not have been possible without the support of Kick Starter, and most importantly our fans! I would like to once again say my thanks to all of our supporters on behalf of TRIGGER.

In our previous update, we have announced that we have finally came up with a scenario that we are happy to work with. Today I would like to update our backers that our director Yoh Yoshinari is just about finishing up on drawing up the storyboard for our new episode! If all goes well, we should have a completed storyboard by this weekend! Below is couple of image from the previous LWA’s storyboard. As much as we would like to show the current storyboard, we have concluded that it is best to not spoil the story.

With the storyboard just a moment away from completion, the studio is making final preparation to animating the project! Just a night ago, we had our first Saku-uchi (industry lingo for animator’s meeting with the director to get consensus with each other.) At the current rate of process, we are hoping to finish the project around May 2015. Still a long way to go, but we will do our best to keep our backers informed with the latest information regarding LWA2!

For starters, we would like to start the year by sending out our first bunch of surveys for the rewards! While the shipping date is still pending at the moment, we would like to start early to make sure that the rewards will safely arrive to your doorsteps.

We also have a small holiday gift from TRIGGER! We have made the first episode of Little Witch Academia available once again on Youtube for a limited time (roughly 24 hours) for everyone to enjoy! (you can access the stream from the link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlqxEIJ_Cg

Again, a thanks to all of our supporters, and a Happy new year from TRIGGER!

Producer of Little Witch Academia 2
Naoko Tsutsumi

I thought it would be a good idea to take some time and write about what went right -- and wrong -- with the project. Overall, it's been a great experience for me, but there is always room for improvement.

But before that, some housekeeping and a humble request...

"Aieee! I haven't gotten my set!"

Well, first of all, in the immortal words of Douglas Adams, "Don't Panic". No matter what, you are going to get your set.

Don't get too concerned if the tracking on your package doesn't seem to update, in particular for international packages. We've had more than a few cases where the tracking got "stuck" and the package turned up in the mailbox -- sometimes without being marked as "delivered".

Conversely, we've also had some cases where a package was marked "delivered" but there was nothing in the mailbox... and then it turned up a few days later. We're not quite sure what's happening here, but it may be that in these cases, "delivered" really means "delivered from customs to the post office for delivery". We have dispatched some of our Shipping Ninja to investigate, but they are encountering heavy resistance...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIj0Qq0c14o&t=0m41s

Here's what I advise:

US: If you haven't gotten your package by January 2nd, or if the package tracking says "delivered" and it doesn't arrive by the following day, contact your local Post Office and inquire. If you haven't gotten your package (or an update as to what happened) within a week of that inquiry, let me know and I'll send you another one.

International: If you haven't gotten your package by January 9th, or if the package tracking says "delivered" and it doesn't arrive within 3-4 days, contact your local Post Office and inquire. If you haven't gotten your package (or an update as to what happened) within a week of that inquiry, let me know and I'll send you another one. If the tracking says the package is being returned to sender, then when it comes back I'll contact you to reconfirm your address info and resend it.
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A Humble Request

As most of you know, I developed a custom logistics system for managing this Kickstarter. I have now unleashed BackerSupport on an unsuspecting world using a "pay what you think it's worth" model, in the hopes that other KickStarter creators will find it useful.

The hard part, of course, is making them aware it even exists, which is where you come in. Many of you are active in the KickStarter community, so I would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to tell the creators of the other projects you've backed about it. You can point them to http://www.backersupport.com/ for more information.

We have check disks for all remaining sets, including the fixed Black Jack set 2! Time to run them through all devices on hand...

Oh, and Dororo still ain't done. Two thousand bucks, even, to go.

These are all shows that have a realistic chance of making it. If you have any interest in ether, please consider tossing some money towards them.

Adamanto wrote:

These are all shows that have a realistic chance of making it. If you have any interest in ether, please consider tossing some money towards them.

They only have that realistic chance because they have no definite end date for pledging, otherwise they'd have all failed if given a month or two.