Production I.G
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| Business corporation | |
| Industry | Anime, film, television, video games |
| Founded |
Kokubunji, Tokyo (December 15, 1987) |
| Founder |
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Takayuki Goto |
| Headquarters | Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (Founder, President) Takayuki Goto (Founder, Character Designer) |
| Products | Anime, film, television, OVA, video games, manga |
| Revenue | ¥5,439,000,000 (2006)) |
| ¥404,000,000 (2006) | |
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Number of employees
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120 (as of December 2012) |
| Parent | IG Port |
| Website | www |
Production I.G (株式会社プロダクション・アイジー Kabushiki-gaisha Purodakushon Ai Jī?) is a Japanese anime studio and production enterprise, founded on December 15, 1987, by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and headquartered in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan.
Production I.G has been involved in the creation of numerous anime television series, OVAs, theatrical films, and is further involved in video game design and development, as well as music publishing and management. Among its prominent works are Guilty Crown, Psycho-Pass, Eden of the East, and the Ghost in the Shell series. It is known in the video game industry for developing intros, cut-scenes, and artwork for games such as the Namco Tales Studio's title, Tales of Symphonia.
The letters I and G derive from the names of the company founders, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and popular character designer Takayuki Goto. The company is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA), an association of over 50 Japanese anime studios.
Initially founded as "IG Tatsunoko Limited" in 1987, it was a break-off branch-studio of Tatsunoko Productions which created Zillion. Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, the producer of Zillion, founded the studio to obstruct the dispersing of the excellent staffs of the Tatsunoko branch. The members of the Tatsunoko Production annex, "鐘夢" (pronounced "chaimu" after the English "chime"), which led by Takayuki Goto joined the Ishikawa's Tatsunoko Branch that used the same floor of Goto's annex and Goto was also the character designer of Zillion. Kyoto Animation, one of the finishers of Zillion, supported Ishikawa and the "IG Tatsunoko Limited" was founded on December 15, 1987. The "IG" was named after the initials of Ishikawa and Goto. The initial shareholders of the studio were Ishikawa, Goto, Hideaki Hatta (Kyoto Animation) and Tatsunoko Production, etc.
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