Company logo
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Public kabushiki gaisha | |
Traded as | JASDAQ: |
Industry | Animation studio and production enterprise |
Founded | January 23, 1956 |
Headquarters | 2-10-5 Higashi Ohizumi, Nerima, Tokyo 178-8567, Japan |
Key people
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Kozo Morishita (Chairman) Katsuhiro Takagi (President) |
US$ 29.911 million | |
Owner |
Toei Company (32%) TV Asahi (14.29%) Fuji Television (7.14%) Bandai Namco Holdings (2.00%) Sony (1.86%) |
Subsidiaries | Tavac Toei Animation Music Publishing Toei Animation Philippines Toei Animation Europe |
Website | www |
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.
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.