Content:Companies
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Credits
- Unknown Relation
- Add if you're absolutely sure the company had something to do with the making of the anime, but the correct credit isn't available, or you don't know what.
English Only
Use when only english is given.
- Animation Co-Production
- Animation Production
- Financial Production
- Music Production
- Original Story
Japanese
Use when you have the exact japanese credit given, in the video or on an official website.
- Animation (アニメーション)
- Animation Work (アニメーション制作)
- Animation Work Assistance (アニメーション制作協力)
- Music Work (音楽制作)
- Original Work (原作)
- Photography (撮影)
- Production (製作)
- Production Assistance (製作協力)
- Production Studio (製作スタジオ)
- Work (制作)
- Work Assistance (制作協力)
- Work Studio (制作スタジオ)
Categories that should be added
- Animation Assistance (アニメーション協力)
- Publication (著作)
- Music Work Assistance (音楽制作協力)
- 音楽制作協力: イマジン (Grenadier)
- Music Assistance (音楽協力)
- 音楽協力: テレビ東京ミューシック (Mugen no Ryvius, Suzuka)
- Music Production (音楽製作)
- 音楽製作: ビクターエンタテインメント (.hack//GIFT)
- Assistance/Cooperation (協力) (warning though, often used as a generic credit for anyone or anything)
- 協力: バンダイビジュアル (Mugen no Ryvius)
- 協力: WOWOW (Grenadier)
Other Japanese not currently listed
For interest.
- Direction (監督) Kantoku
- Assistant/Episode Direction (副監督) Fuku Kantoku
- Overview/Direction (演出) Enshutsu
- Animation Direction (作画監督) Sakuga Kantoku
- Art Direction (美術監督) Bijutsu Kantoku
- Sound Direction (音響監督) Onkyou Kantoku
- Music Direction (音楽監督) Ongaku Kantoku
- Photographic Direction (撮影監督) Satsuei Kantoku
- Supervision (監修) Kanshuu
- Script/Screenplay (脚本) Kyakuhon
- Character Design (キャラクターデザイン)
- Mechanical Design (メカニックデザイン)
- Colour Specification (色指定) Iro Shitei
- Storyboard (絵コンテ) E Conte lit. 'picture continuity'
- Key Animation (原画) Genga, lit. 'original picture'
- Animation (動画) Douga
- Animation Check (動画チェック) Douga Check
- Animation Inspection (動画検査) Douga Kensa
- Music (音楽) Ongaku
- Song Writing (作詞) Sakushi
- Composition (作曲) Sakkyoku
- Song/Sung by (歌 or 唄) Uta
- Arrangement (編曲) Henkyoku
- Original Plan (原案) Gen'an
- Planning (企画) Kikaku
- General Manager (ゼネラルマネージャー)
- Executive Producer (エグゼクティブプロデゥーサー)
- Producer (プロデューサー)
- Director/Manager (ディレクター)
- Sponsor (提供) Teikyou
- Can be companies, products, other tv shows (in an advertising exchange deal), or anything else that provides some cash in exchange for a short advert.
Major Companies
Some big names. Not exhastive, see the producer list in anidb for everything.
Animation Studios
The companies that employ the people who draw.
- AIC
- A.P.P.P.
- Gainax (ガイナックス)
- Gonzo (formerly Gonzo Digimation)
- Group Tac (グループ・タック)
- J.C.Staff (J.C.スタッフ)
- Madhouse (マッドハウス)
- Nippon Animation (日本アニメーション)
- OLM (オー・エル・エム)
- Production I.G (プロダクション I .G)
- Studio 4°C
- Studio Deen (スタジオディーン)
- Studio Ghibli (スタジオジブリ)
- Studio Pierrot (スタジオぴえろ)
- Sunrise (サンライズ)
- Tōei Animation (東映アニメーション) (formerly Tōei Dōga)
Broadcasters
Involved in the prodution of most anime made for television, and key players in the financing of anime in general.
- CBC (中部日本放送)
- MBS (毎日放送)
- NTV (日本テレビ)
- TBS (東京放送)
- TV Asahi (テレビ朝日)
- TV Ōsaka (テレビ大阪)
- TV Tōkyō (テレビ東京)
- WOWOW
- Yomiuri TV (よみうりテレビ / 読売テレビ)
Distributors
Retailers and manufacturers, involved in production, finance and cashing in on the toys.
- Bandai Visual (バンダイビジュアル)
- KSS (ケイエスエス)
- Tōhō (東宝)
- Pony Canyon (ポニーキャニオン)
- SME Visual Works
Publishers
As owners of copyright on most manga, involved at least nominally in the production of a large proportion of anime, and often provide finance and planning as well.
- Hakusensha (白泉社)
- Kadokawa Shoten (角川書店)
- Kōdansha (講談社)
- Shōgakukan (小学館) (under 'Shogakukan Productions')
- Shūeisha (集英社)
- Tokuma Shoten (徳間書店)
Record labels
They make and license the music, and often provide some cash as well.
- BeSTACK
- KingRecords (キングレコード)
- Lantis (ランティス)
- Victor Entertainment (ビクターエンタテインメント)
Other tricky ones
Companies with fun kanji names.
Company relations
Prior to making exp code something into anidb, a collection of relations between companies.
Bandai Group
- Bandai (バンダイ) (founded 1950)
- Bandai Visual (バンダイビジュアル) (Visual branch, founded 1983)
- Sunrise (サンライズ) (Visual branch, founded 1976, acquired... a few years later)
- Ashi Productions (葦プロダクション) (Visual branch, founded 1975)
- Happinet (ハピネット) (Sales branch, founded 1969)
- Bandai Entertainment (World branch, in CA, US, founded 1995)
Animate Group
Formed by merger of several companies, source
- Animate (アニメイト)
- MOVIC (ムービック)
- MOVIC Promote Service (ムービックプロモートサービス)
- Animate Film (アニメイトフィルム)
- Coade (コアデ)
- Frontier Works (フロンティアワークス)
Tōei Group
source, also on ja.wikip Tōei and Tōei Animation
- Tōei (東映) (Film branch, parent company)
- Tōei Video (東映ビデオ) (Video and sales branch)
- Tōei Animation (東映アニメーション) (Animation branch, formerly Tōei Dōga)
- Tōei Advertising (東映エージェンシー) (Advertising and retail branch)
Other subsidiaries
- Production I.G (owns) XEBEC
- KingRecords (キングレコード) (owns) Starchild (すたちゃまにあ)
- Asatsu (旭通信社) (merged with) Dai-ichi Kikaku (第一企画) (to form) ADK
Renamings
- Sony Music Entertainment (renamed?) SPE Visual Works (renamed) SME Visual Works (renamed) Aniplex
- Pioneer LDC (renamed) Geneon Enterntainment
- GONZO Digimation (renamed) GONZO plus other stuff
TMS Entertainment
- ----Tokyo Movie Shinsha
- 東京ムービー新社 Tōkyō Movie Shinsha (early name)
- キョクイチ東京ムービー Kyokuichi Tōkyō Movie (post merger)
- トムス・エンタテインメント TMS Entertaiment