Toei Animation
Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including Sally the Witch, Gegege no Kitaro, Mazinger Z, Galaxy Express 999. Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Slam Dunk, Digimon, One Piece, The Transformers and the Precure series.
History
The studio was founded by animators Kenzō Masaoka and Zenjirō Yamamoto in 1948 as Japan Animated Films. In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was renamed Toei Doga Co., Ltd., doing business as Toei Animation Co., Ltd. outside Japan. In 1998, the Japanese name was renamed to Toei Animation. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yasuji Mori, Leiji Matsumoto and Yoichi Kotabe have worked with the company. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network Animax with other anime studios and production companies, such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems Inc. The company is headquartered in the Ohizumi Studio in Nerima, Tokyo.Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptation of Puss in Boots.
Toei Animation produced anime versions of works from manga series by manga artists, including Go Nagai, Eiichiro Oda, Shotaro Ishinomori, Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, Takehiko Inoue, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Masami Kurumada, Akira Toriyama, Leiji Matsumoto, and Naoko Takeuchi. The studio helped propel the popularity of the Magical Girl and Super Robot genres of anime; Toei's TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sally, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, an adaptation of his manga which set the standard for Super Robot anime. Although the Toei Company usually allows Toei Animation to handle its animation, they occasionally hire other companies to provide animation; although the Toei Company produced the Robot Romance Trilogy, Sunrise provided the animation.
Toei Animation's anime which have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award are Galaxy Express 999 in 1981, Saint Seiya in 1987 and Sailor Moon in 1992. In addition to producing anime for release in Japan, Toei Animation began providing animation for American films and television series during the 1960s and particularly during the 1980s.
Subsidiaries
Currently in production
TV animation
1960–69
1970–79
1980–89
1990–99
2000–09
2010–19
2020–present
TV movies and specials
Theatrical films
CGI Films
Original video animation (OVA) and original net animation (ONA)
Video-game animation
Video-game development
Dubbing
Animated productions by foreign studios dubbed in Japanese by Toei are The Mystery of the Third Planet ; Les Maîtres du temps, and Alice's Birthday.Commission work
Toei has been commissioned to provide animation by Japanese and American studios such as Sunbow, Marvel, Hanna-Barbera, DiC, Rankin/Bass and World Event Productions.| Production | Year |
| The King Kong Show | 1966–1969 |
| The Wacky World of Mother Goose | 1967 |
| The Mouse on the Mayflower | 1968 |
| The Smokey the Bear Show | 1969–1970 |
| The World of Strawberry Shortcake | 1980 |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1981 |
| ' | 1981 |
| Spider-Man | 1981 |
| ' | 1982 |
| Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends | 1982 |
| The Charmkins | 1983 |
| ' | 1983–1986 |
| Inspector Gadget | 1983 |
| Dungeons and Dragons | 1983–1985 |
| My Little Pony | 1984–1985 |
| Gallavants | 1984 |
| The Transformers | 1984–1987 |
| ' | 1984 |
| Turbo Teen | 1984 |
| Snorks | 1984 |
| Jim Henson's Muppet Babies | 1984–1987 |
| Adventures of the Gummi Bears | 1985-1991 |
| Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters | 1985 |
| Super Sunday | 1985–1986 |
| Inhumanoids | 1985 spinoff TV series |
| Jem | 1985–1988 spinoff TV series |
| Voltron season 3 | 1985 |
| ' | 1986 |
| ' | 1986 |
| Defenders of the Earth | 1986–1987 |
| The Adventures of the American Rabbit | 1986 |
| ' | 1986 |
| My Little Pony 'n Friends | 1986–1987 |
| The Glo Friends | 1986–1987 |
| The Jetsons | 1987 |
| Blondie and Dagwood | 1980 |
| ' | 1987 |
| Sky Commanders | 1987 |
| The Flintstone Kids | 1987 |
| The Smurfs | 1987–1988 |
| Foofur | 1987 |
| Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater | 1987 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 1987-1989 |
| The New Archies | 1987 |
| Bobobobs | 1988–1989 |
| Police Academy | 1988–1989 |
| Dennis the Menace | 1988 |
| The Real Ghostbusters | 1988 |
| Superman | 1988 |
| ' | 1989 |
| Halo Legends: Odd One Out | 2010 |
| ' | 2012 |
| 2015–present |