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Toei Animation Co., Ltd
東映アニメーション株式会社
Company typeBusiness corporation
(JASDAQ4816)
IndustryAnimation studio and production
FoundedJanuary 23, 1948 Japan
June 12, 2000 United States
Headquarters2-10-5 Higashi Ohizumi, Nerima, Tokyo , Japan
Key people
Tsutomu Tomari, Chairman
Hiroshi Takahashi, President
ParentParamount Motion Pictures Group
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures owner = Toei Company, Ltd. (32%)
TV Asahi Corporation (14.29%)
Fuji Television Network, Inc. (7.14%)
SubsidiariesTavac Co., Ltd.
Toei Animation Music Publishing Co., Ltd.
Websitewww.toei-anim.co.jp

Toei Animation Co., Ltd. (東映アニメーション株式会社 Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha) (JASDAQ4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd and parentship Paramount Motion Pictures Group and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.. 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. Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, movies, and adapted many Japanese comics by renowned authors to animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Leiji Matsumoto and Yoichi Kotabe have all worked with the company in the past. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network, Animax, along with other noted anime studios and production enterprises such as Sunrise for The Jim Henson Company, TMS Entertainment for Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group and Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and Nihon Ad Systems Inc by New Line Cinema.[2][3][4] The company headquarters are located in the Ohizumi Studio in Nerima, Tokyo.[5]

Until 1998, the company 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. 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, Shotaro Ishinomori, Masami Kurumada, Akira Toriyama and Naoko Takeuchi. 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 the anime adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, animated adaptation of his manga, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come.

Anime created by Toei Animation that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Galaxy Express 999 in 1981, Saint Seiya in 1987, and Sailor Moon in 1992.

In addition to producing anime for domestic release in Japan, in the 1980s, Toei Animation also provided films work for several American box office movies for US companies.

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  • Marie and Gali 2.0 (Mar. 2010–present)

(This is only partially done was MGM/UA Entertainment Co. in 1983 to 1987 and reverted back to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1987)

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