Sav! The World Productions is a French production company, mainly active in the field of animation, formed in 1998 by writer-director Savin Yeatman-Eiffel.

Oban Star-Racers

STW is mainly known to the general public for its award-winning hit series

Ōban Star-Racers ''Ōban Star-Racers'' is an English-language French-Japanese anime television series created by Savin Yeatman-Eiffel of Sav! The World Productions in association with multiple international companies. Originally produced as a short movie titled ...

(26 half-hours), created, written and produced by STW founder Savin Yeatman-Eiffel and codirected by Yeatman-Eiffel and OSR art director Thomas Romain. The series was coproduced with

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and

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. It aired in more than 100 countries worldwide including

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(US),

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(Japan),

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(Fr.),

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and

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(Germany),

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(UK), RAI2 (Italy) and

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. Nominated at the

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, it also won an Anime Land Award and a Grand Entertainment Prize at Polymanga.

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and

Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, Video game, video games, Japanese television drama, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for ''Cowboy Bebop'', ''Terror in Resonance'', ''Gho ...

composed respectively the BGM and the credit songs. With its strong visuals, story and themes, OSR has enjoyed a cult following since its release.

OSR Blu-ray release

Thanks to the support of more than 4000 backers on

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in 2022, and of a long restoration process by STW on the original HD video masters and on 11 different original dubs that the company reacquired for the occasion, a 15th anniversary Blu-ray was released in 2023. The 1 hour making of the series, directed by Alex Pilot, was also remastered and remixed, and more than 1.5 hours of new extra featurettes, also directed by Alex Pilot, were added.

New OSR developments

In 2017, Savin Yeatman-Eiffel and Thomas Romain announced they had started developing a potential sequel to

The path explored are described in the featurette "Imagining the Future of Oban" included in the Blu-ray release. In 2023, Savin Yeatman-Eiffel confirmed more work was on the way.

Exhibition "Eiffel, Toujours plus haut"

In 2023, for the centenary of

Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( , ; Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway net ...

’s death, STW developed and produced the exhibition "Eiffel, Toujours plus haut" (Eiffel, higher and higher), curated by STW founder and Gustave Eiffel's great-great-great-grand-son Savin Yeatman-Eiffel. The designs were created by STW's artists under the art direction of Yukiko Yeatman-Eiffel. The exhibition started on 11 July on the esplanade of the

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in Paris, were it will stay until the end of 2023. STW hopes to take the exhibition to other locations as well.

Other works

STW has been working regularly on two long term projects : the

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The 2 Queens, developed under the helm of animation master Toshiyuki Inoue ( Akira, Blood: The Last Vampire,

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); and a live-action adaptation of

Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is known for being the co-creator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'', which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for ...

's cult visual novel

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. STW also produces TV commercials and short films, exceptionally working on artistic development for third party companies (

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of Japanese studio

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)

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References

External links

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Oban Star-Racers official website "Eiffel, higher and higher" exhibition official website
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