Netflix-sponsored anime school goes back to basics

New training academy for budding anime artists is surprisingly old school in its goals

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Netflix has partnered with WIT Studio, original producers of "Attack on Titan," and Tokyo's Sasayuri Video Training Institute to launch a scholarship-only anime school in Japan.

ROLAND KELTS, Contributing writer

TOKYO -- For Japan's anime industry, the best of times could soon augur the worst. Never before have Japanese studios been so flush with contracts, licensing deals and cash. And never before has their talent pool been so shallow.

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