is a Japanese animation studio. It is the first studio to produce boys' love or BL (male-male romance)

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exclusively.

History

Grizzly was established on December 25, 2017, and formally unveiled at

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on March 23, 2018, with the announcement that the studio would adapt ''

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'' into a series of

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s (OVAs). An affiliation between Grizzly and

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has been reported, after the MAPPA

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account posted and deleted material that was later posted on the Grizzly account, and after the Grizzly website was found to be registered using a MAPPA email. , neither MAPPA nor Grizzly have commented on a link between their studios.

Works

Anime films

OVAs and OADs

References

External links

* Animation studios in Tokyo Japanese animation studios Japanese companies established in 2017 LGBT in anime and manga LGBT-related mass media in Japan Mass media companies established in 2017 Yaoi {{anime-org-stub