Native name
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株式会社トムス・エンタテインメント |
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Romanized name
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Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu Entateinmento |
Formerly called
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Kabushiki gaisha | |
Industry | Animation studio |
Founded | August 1964 |
Founder | Yutaka Fujioka |
Headquarters | Nakano, Tokyo, Japan |
Key people
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Hideki Okamura (Chairman) |
Parent | Sega Holdings |
Subsidiaries |
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Website | www.tms-e.co.jp/english/ |
TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. (株式会社トムス・エンタテインメント Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu Entateinmento?), formerly known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha (東京ムービー新社 Tōkyō Mūbī Shinsha?), also known as Tokyo Movie or TMS-Kyokuchi, is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1964.
TMS is one of the oldest anime studios in Japan; best known for produced numerous anime franchises such as Lupin the 3rd, Detective Conan, Bakugan D.Gray-man, and Sonic X and feature-length films Akira and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland alongside animation works for western animation such as Animaniacs, Batman: The Animated Series, Ducktales, Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
The company has animation subsidiaries collaborating in conjunction with the company, Telecom Animation Film (TAF), which co-animates shows with TMS, and Koko Enterprises, located in Seoul, South Korea. In 2010, TMS Entertainment became a wholly owned subsidiary for Sega Sammy Holdings in the entertainment and contents business.