Traded as JASDAQ: 4816 | Website www.toei-anim.co.jp Founded 23 January 1948 | |
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Key people Kozo Morishita(Chairman)Katsuhiro Takagi(President) Owner Toei Company (32%)TV Asahi (14.29%)Fuji Television (7.14%)Bandai Namco Holdings (2.00%)Sony (1.86%) Stock price 4816 (TYO) JP¥ 6,660 -20.00 (-0.30%)31 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer Profiles | ||
Toei Animation Co., Ltd. (東映アニメーション株式会社, Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha) (pronounced toe ay) is a Japanese animation studio primarily owned by the Toei Company.
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Inside toei animation part 2
History
The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films (日本動画映画, Nihon Dōga Eiga, often shortened to 日動映画 (Nichidō Eiga)). In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, 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.
Until 1998, Toei Animation was known as Toei Doga (東映動画株式会社, Tōei Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha) (although its English-language name was Toei Animation Company); "dōga" is Japanese for "animation", widely used until the 1970s. Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptation of Puss in Boots.
Toei Animation produced anime versions of works by manga artists, including Go Nagai (Mazinger Z), Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009), Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko), Takehiko Inoue (Slam Dunk), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (Sally the Witch), Masami Kurumada (Saint Seiya), Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump), Leiji Matsumoto (Galaxy Express 999), and Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon). 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 (an adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name), 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 (then known as Nippon Sunrise) provided the animation.
Toei Animation 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.
Dubbing
Animated productions by foreign studios dubbed in Japanese by Toei are The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981 Russian film, dubbed in 2008); Les Maîtres du temps (1982 French-Hungarian film, dubbed in 2014), Alice's Birthday (2009 Russian film, dubbed in 2013); and Kochadaiiyaan (2014 Indian film, dubbed in TBA). The live-action films dubbed in Japanese by Toei are Hero (1983 Bollywood film); Brothers (2015 Bollywood film, dubbed in TBA); Shiva Ka Insaaf (1985 Bollywood film); Time Raiders (2016 Chinese film, dubbed in TBA); and Rangoon (2017 Bollywood film, dubbed in TBA).
Commission work
Toei has been commissioned to provide animation by Japanese and American studios such as Sunbow, Marvel, Hanna-Barbera, DiC and Rankin-Bass.