In JISOGI: Anime Studio Tycoon, you step into the role of a new manager, tasked with reversing the fortunes of a struggling anime studio. Build powerful synergetic work teams from 52 unique Staff Cards. Create Anime stories by mixing and matching uniquely themed and illustrated Script Parts across 5 key genres that follow anime trends represented on 20 beautifully illustrated foil tarot cards. Manage your income from anime releases against your debts, and your team's growing abilities and salaries, to become increasingly profitable. Chase scoring opportunities each round based on your achievements.

Gameplay Overview
JISOGI: Anime Studio Tycoon is a tycoon-style engine-building game that puts you in the manager's chair of a struggling anime studio, tasked with turning it into a powerhouse of the industry. The core loop is built around two interlocking systems: assembling synergistic teams from 52 unique Staff Cards (animators, directors, voice actors, and more), and crafting anime stories by combining Script Parts across five genre categories — action, romance, comedy, sci-fi, and fantasy — to chase the trending genre shown on the beautifully illustrated foil tarot Trend Cards. Balancing income from releases against staff salaries and studio debts creates a genuine economic tension, while round-based achievement scoring rewards players who read the market and plan their production pipeline efficiently. With 20 foil tarot-card trend cards and a richly thematic anime production setting, it's a distinctly stylish take on the worker placement and engine-building genre.