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Toei Animation Company, Limited (東映アニメーション株式会社 Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha?) (JASDAQ: 4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The is a Securities exchange headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. JASDAQ is not related to NASDAQ in the United States but operates an electronic trading (anime in Japanese, () is a Japanese film and Television production and distribution Corporation. The studio was originally 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 was reincorporated under its current name. Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, and movies, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Go Nagai, and Yoichi Kotabe have all worked with the company in the past. is a is one of the most famous directors of Anime, or Japanese Animated Films. is a Japanese manga creator and an important innovator of several genres within Anime and Manga. Yōichi Kotabe (小田部 羊一 こたべ よういち Kotabe Yōichi （Born September 15, 1936 in Taiwan Taipei City and went back to Japan after World War Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network, Animax, along with other noted anime studios and production enterprises such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems Inc. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Satellite television is Television delivered by the means of Communications satellites as compared to conventional Terrestrial television and Cable See also Animax Mobile TV is a Japanese Anime Satellite television network dedicated to broadcasting anime programming is a Japanese Anime studio and production enterprise It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. [1][2][3]

Until 1998, Toei Animation was known as Toei Doga (東映動画株式会社 Tōei Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha?) (although even at that time the company’s formal English name was indeed “Toei Animation Co. Ltd. ”), with “dōga” being the native Japanese word for “animation” which was widely used until the 1970s. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptation of Puss in Boots.

Toei Animation produced the anime versions of works by many legendary manga artists, including Go Nagai, Akira Toriyama, and Shotaro Ishinomori. is a Japanese manga creator and an important innovator of several genres within Anime and Manga. born on April 5 1955 in Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan, is a widely known and acclaimed Japanese manga artist known mostly for his creation of was an influential figure in Manga, Anime and Tokusatsu who created several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and In addition, the studio helped propel the popularity of the magical girl and Super Robot genres of anime; among Toei's most legendary and trend-setting TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sally, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come. belong to a sub-genre of Japanese fantasy Anime and Manga. Magical girl stories feature young girls with superhuman abilities who are forced to fight evil and protect is a term used in Manga and Anime to describe a giant robot or Mecha, with an arsenal of fantastic super-powered weapons sometimes transformable or combined from is a Japanese manga creator and an important innovator of several genres within Anime and Manga. known as Tranzor Z in North America is a Manga series by Go Nagai, serialized in Shueisha Shōnen Jump from October

Anime created by Toei Animation that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Galaxy Express in 1981, Saint Seiya in 1987, and Sailor Moon in 1992. is a Japanese Anime and entertainment magazine which Tokuma Shoten began publishing in July 1978. also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a Manga series authored by Masami Kurumada, and later adapted to Anime. is the title of a Japanese Media franchise created by Naoko Takeuchi.

In addition to producing anime for domestic consumption in Japan, in the 1980s, Toei Animation also provided animation work for several American-made television series and feature films (for Amercian animation studios such as Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions, Rankin/Bass, Hanna-Barbera and Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Inc among others), such as Muppet Babies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Adventures of the American Rabbit, Dungeons & Dragons (TV series), Defenders Of The Earth, My Little Pony, Jem, Transformers and G.I. Joe. Marvel Productions Ltd was a television and motion picture studio based in Hollywood California. Sunbow Entertainment is an Animation studio, founded in 1980 first in Japan and owned up until 1998 by Griffin-Bacal Advertising in New York. Rankin/Bass Productions Inc (formerly Videocraft International Ltd Jim Henson's Muppet Babies was a popular American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1984 to December 29 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some other European countries The Adventures of the American Rabbit (released in the UK as simply The American Rabbit) was an animated film released in 1986 Dungeons & Dragons is an American Animated television series based on TSR's Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game. Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series produced in the late 1980s featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate My Little Pony was an American Animated television series based on the My Little Pony toys released by Hasbro. Jem is an American Animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U This page is about the original Transformers Animated series. GI Joe A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series These series' producers outsourced animation production work to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and other Asian countries because of cheaper labor costs.

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Outsourced Production Work

Notes and references

  1. ^ Animax official website - corporate profile (Japanese)
  2. ^ Toei Animation official website - history section, Toei Animation official website. Fred Wolf is an American Animator. His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials Sky Commanders is an Animated television series created by Hanna-Barbera Studios. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some other European countries X-Men Pryde of the X-Men (commonly known as Pryde of the X-Men) is an animated Television pilot originally broadcast in (Japanese)
  3. ^ Toei Animation - official website - English section - History Toei Animation official website.
  4. ^ Animax Award official site, Animax official website. (Japanese)

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