Plott moves its short anime from YouTube to terrestrial TV
Plott, the Tokyo studio behind YouTube short-anime series such as Teikō Penguin and Konketsu no Karekore, will enter Japan's terrestrial television anime business in 2027 with three series, handling planning, production, licensing and merchandising itself.
Plott Inc. has announced that it will enter Japan's terrestrial television anime business, with the Tokyo studio planning to roll out three short anime series from 2027. The company says it will handle planning, production, licensing, merchandising and other business development for the titles, and will name them at a later date.
From YouTube channels to a broadcast slot
Plott has built its business on short anime made for YouTube and TikTok. Since it was founded in 2017 it has produced series including Teikō Penguin, Konketsu no Karekore, Zenryoku Kaihi Flag-chan! and Shiritsu Para no Maruko Kōkō, and it says its channels now draw more than 900 million views a month, with 14 million cumulative subscribers and 24 billion cumulative views.
What a broadcast slot changes
The studio frames the move as a way to reach viewers its online channels never touch, and to expand the licensing, merchandise and event business that starts from a broadcast. It also says it will push its terrestrial titles overseas for broadcast and streaming, leaning on audiences outside Japan after global viewing passed 900 million in August 2026.
Our opinion
Plott's pitch is really an intellectual-property play. Shorts are cheap to make and quick to test, and a television slot is a shop window for the licensing machine behind them. The risk is that the economics of late-night terrestrial anime are unforgiving, and three series in a single year is an ambitious first step for a studio that has never had to fill a broadcast schedule. If Plott's data-driven approach travels beyond the internet, though, it is one of the few genuinely new routes into television anime Japan has opened in years.