Japan’s animators in pencil peril over production halt
published : 3 Feb 2021 at 19:42
TOKYO: Japan’s animators are losing one of the tools of their trade after Mitsubishi Pencil said this week it would scale back a long-running line of coloured pencils.
Mitsubishi Pencil will reduce its 7700 line of hard coloured pencils to a single red iteration starting in June. The three colours to be cut – orange, yellow-green and pale blue – were saved from a broader…
