My student spirit

Brief history
"My student spirit" was originally Leena Kilevaya's final year project and was created when she was studying 3D Animation at HSE Art and Design School, and at first wasn't planned to be an animated series from Phoenix Animation. However, after a series of circumstances, her project caught the attention of Fedor Nechitaylo. Fedor was interested in Leena's project and offered to act a producer for the series. So on June 6th, 2019, a trailer was released on the Russian Phoenix Animation channel, which was warmly received by the channel's audience. After that, they started actively working on bringing this series to life.

On June 27th, 2019, Leena graduated from university and took up a role as a producer at a Visual Design company in Moscow. In parallel with her new day job, Leena continued working on her passion project.

Synopsis
My student spirit is a slice of life mystery drama that takes place in Moscow, Russia and follows two students - Dmitry Bratsky and Elijah Douchnov - in very unusual circumstances. Elijah is a ghost of a straight-A student, tied to the dormitory, unable to move on, as "his" room keeps being offered to new students, one of which ends up being Dmitry Bratsky - a party-loving, ordinary Russian tough guy. He learns of Elijah's existence and, despite the clash of characters, they both have to work together to ensure Dmitry doesn't get expelled and Elijah finds peace.

First Episode
Some time later, Leena has decided to leave her day job to pursue work on her passion project, "My student spirit', full-time. After that followed many weeks of hard work to release the first episode in Russian, which was released on March 13th, 2020. However, that date was less than optimal, not only for the animators but also for Leena and Fedor, as that left them with no time for additional edits, but they had to release it as scheduled.

On December 21st, 2020, work on the English adaptation of the series has officially begun, lead by Wright Gottlen.

First episode is scheduled to air on Phoenix Animation's YouTube channel in February 2021.

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