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Madhouse (company)

MADHOUSE Inc.
株式会社マッドハウス
Kabushiki gaisha
Industry Animation studio and production enterprise
Founded October 17, 1972; 44 years ago (1972-10-17)
Founders Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Headquarters Honchō, Nakano, Tokyo
Key people
Masahiro Takahashi (Representative Director and President)
Owner Nippon Television (95%)
Dentsu
VAP
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
WOWOW
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Number of employees
70 (including contractors)
Parent Nippon Television (since 2011)
Subsidiaries Madbox Co., Ltd.
Website madhouse.co.jp/english

MADHOUSE Inc. (株式会社マッドハウス Kabushiki-gaisha Maddohausu?) is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro animators, including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

Madhouse has created and helped to produce many well-known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! (produced by Tokyo Movie) in 1973, and including Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Trigun, Di Gi Charat, Black Lagoon, Death Note, and most recently, One-Punch Man. Unlike other studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was and is primarily in TV shows and theatrical features. Expanding from the initial Mushi Pro staff, Madhouse recruited such important directors as Morio Asaka, Masayuki Kojima, and Satoshi Kon during the 1990s. Their staff roster expanded in the 2000s to include Mamoru Hosoda, Takeshi Koike, and Mitsuo Iso, as well as many younger television directors. The studio was also responsible for the first Beyblade anime series as well as the Dragon Drive anime, and the 2011 anime adaptation of Hunter × Hunter.


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