G-ko Joins Anime Studio bees, Citing Limits Of Solo Work
The piece is the third in KAI-YOU's series on bees, and its value is the account from inside: a director with commercial MV credits describing why a studio founded in January 2026 in Enoshima is the structure she chose over continuing alone.
Reporting from 1 source: KAI-YOU.
G-ko, an animation artist who graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts and has directed music videos for Zutomayo and Ado, joined the studio bees inc. in spring 2026. In a KAI-YOU piece, G-ko describes years of freelance animation that grew lonely and uneven in quality, and says the Enoshima studio offers the collective production that solo work could not support.
bees inc. opened in January 2026 with an office in Katase-Enoshima, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and KAI-YOU has been following the studio across the year. The first installment came from vice representative Nwoka, the second from representative YAMAAD on the management side, and the third hands the floor to G-ko, who joined in spring 2026 after the studio was already running.
G-ko traces the decision to the end of 2022, when the credits on Komugiko 2000's music video for Zutomayo's Kira Killer showed what a large crew could carry. Freelance work alone, G-ko writes, pushed quality down under deadlines and was lonely besides.
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