In response to the Nationwide Tax Registry of Japan and Business Registry of Japan, animation studio GRIZZLY (株式会社GRIZZLY) was dissolved on February 20, 2025.

GRIZZLY was based on December 25, 2017, with the intention of solely producing boys’ love (BL) anime. The corporate was registered beneath an e-mail belonging to MAPPA producer Makoto Moriwaki (森脇誠), with MAPPA CEO Manabu Ootsuka (大塚学) as consultant of the corporate. The studio was initially situated in the identical constructing as MAPPA’s headquarters, the Asahi Seimei Suginami constructing within the Suginami ward of Tokyo and later moved to Nakano ward.

Their first work was launched in 2018, an OVA adaptation of Ogeretsu Tanaka’s Yarichin Bitch Membership, which spanned two episodes. In 2020, the studio produced a feature-length movie adaptation of Kou Yoneda’s Twittering Birds By no means Fly manga, directed by Kaori Makita, with plans of producing a trilogy collection. A prequel OVA titled Do not Keep Gold was launched in 2021.

MAPPA animation producer Fuuko Noda (野田楓子) was in command of each collection with Ootsuka serving as co-animation producer for Yarichin Bitch Membership and manufacturing supervisor for each of the Twittering Birds By no means Fly tasks. Albeit a definite authorized entity, a lot of the identical workers from MAPPA labored on all of those tasks.

In 2021, it was introduced that Makita would direct Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku beneath studio MAPPA for launch in 2023, with a sequel later confirmed for 2026; and between 2020 and 2024, GRIZZLY made no bulletins for upcoming works. Noda left MAPPA in 2024; and by early 2025, GRIZZLY’s web site was offline.

Ootsuka was the liquidator within the dissolvement.

Due to Mazen for the preliminary report.