remind me tomorrow
remind me next week
never remind me

Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Toei Animation

Kanji name: 東映アニメーション

Foundation date: 1948-01-23

Official website:

TOEI ANIMATION

Toei Line Up (Japanese)

Twitter oficial de Toei Animation para América Latina (Spanish)

Facebook oficial de Toei Animation para América Latina (Spanish)

Instagram oficial de Toei Animation para América Latina (Spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGgGKdDtvzu_gkvas9CnVw (Japanese)

https://youtu.be/IDs8phomNQQ

アニメといえば、東映アニメーション！ TOEI ANIMATION (Japanese)

Mailing address: 5F Nakano Central Park East,
4-10-1, Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001
Japan

About:

From its official founding in 1956 until October 1998 Toei Animation was known as Toei Douga or Toei Moving Picture (東映動画—Tōā Dōga). It is often listed in sources by that name.

News: Show: 10 +68 +87 ref. +757 unverified

Toei Animation, Sonic the Hedgehog Designer Naoto Oshima Announce Hypergalactic CG Animated Film (Feb 6, 2024)

Expelled from Paradise Anime Staff Unveil New Film Project on January 27 (Jan 17, 2024)

Toei Animation Streams 1993 Slam Dunk Anime on YouTube (Jul 19, 2023)

Toei, Toei Animation Establish New Flare Creators Company (Jul 3, 2023)

Toei Animation Unveils Girls Band Cry Original Anime (Apr 23, 2023)

Gosu Webtoon Gets Japanese-S. Korean Animated Adaptation (Apr 16, 2023)

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund Increases Stake in Both Toei, Nintendo (Mar 6, 2023)

Toei Animation Produces Original Musical Animation Spicy Candy for Chinese Market (Feb 15, 2023)

Toei Sets New Box Office Record With 32 Billion Yen in 2022 (Jan 11, 2023)

Expelled from Paradise Anime Staff's New Film Project to Be Unveiled Next Spring (Nov 15, 2022)

Interest: Show: 10 +4

Happy Father's Day From the Anime World! Part I (Jun 16, 2024)

Twins Arrested for Selling Kamen Rider Helmet Replicas (May 29, 2024)

Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Cast Reunite for New 30th Anniversary Episode (May 13, 2024)

Toei Develops Virtual Girl Lisa Using AI Tech (Oct 21, 2023)

The Biggest Booth Displays at AnimeJapan 2023 (Apr 3, 2023)

Toei Animation, Sony Recreate 1999 Otaku Room in VR (Feb 15, 2023)

Saint Seiya Anime Reveals 35th Anniversary Visual (Mar 28, 2022)

Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla, Evangelion, Ultraman, Kamen Rider Films Join Forces on Events, Merch (Feb 14, 2022)

Anime YouTubers Targeted For Copyright Strikes By Toei, Sho-Pro (Feb 2, 2022)

Toei Animation, Funimation to Hold Global Livestream Celebrating One Piece's 1,000th Episode on November 20 (Oct 22, 2021)

Press Releases:

Toei Animation Brings U.S.' First-Ever Mugiwara Store Pop-Up as Part of New Merchandise Showcase for Fans at Anime Expo 2024 (Jul 2, 2024)

Crunchyroll and Toei Animation Announce Theatrical Release Dates for ‘One Piece Film Red’ Opening in November (Sep 13, 2022)

Shout! Factory and Toei Animation Enter Multi-Picture Distribution Deal for New Digimon Anime Feature Film Series (Jan 20, 2017)

Nickelodeon Debuts Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Brand-New CGI-Animated Action Series, Sunday, Dec. 6 (Sep 11, 2015)

Toei Animation Teams With Japanese Pop Star Yoshiki For Saint Seiya Movie Theme Song (Apr 18, 2014)

Other articles: Show: 3 +6 ref. +134 unverified

Interview: Eisaku Inoue (Nov 16, 2017)

Toei Files Trademark for 'Dōbutsu Sentai Jyūōger' (Sep 29, 2015)

Hey, Answerman! - Strike a Poser (Apr 5, 2013)

You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

Anime which this company has licensed:
Air Master (TV)
Ashita no Nadja (TV) (Portugal)
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)
Digimon Frontier (TV) (Portugal)
Digimon Tamers (TV) (Portugal)
Digimon: Data Squad (TV) (Portugal)
Interlude (OAV)
Saint Seiya (TV)
Slam Dunk (TV)

This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site

DISCLAIMER

add information

report an error

lookup sources

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z all licensing

convention

4 comments

President Kondo and the Power of In-House Staff at Nihon Falcom

Jul 13, 21:00

4 comments

games

How does a relatively small studio continue to create deeply satisfying story-led games? President Kondo shares Nihon Falcom's secrets to success. ― Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo kicked off a busy July 4 weekend at Anime Expo. He and the other Nihon Falcom staff spoke to fans at the various panels and at the NIS America booth as they eagerly playtested the company's signature JRPGs. Origina...

column

13 comments

The Anime Backlog - Alien 9

Jul 13, 05:30

13 comments

anime

Lynzee dusts off an old DVD and discovers an OAV full of gory action sequences and 12-year-old girls frequently crying for their mommies. ― Thank you everyone for patiently tuning in to another edition of The Anime Backlog. As you can guess, last week (and three weeks leading up to it) was one the busiest for me while I coordinated Anime Expo coverage. You can expect two editions of The Anime Backlo...

feature

403 comments

The Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide

Jul 13, 00:45

403 comments

anime

It's time to add few more rom-coms to summer mix with MAKEINE: TOO MANY LOSING HEROINES! We also have reviews for ATRI, Why Does No One Remember Me In This World?, Bye Bye Earth, My Deer Friend Nokotan, Monogatari, Elusive Samurai, and more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics writes up their impressions instantly, to be posted h...

review

7 comments

Ishura Season 1 Anime Series Review

Jul 13, 00:00

7 comments

anime

While Ishura seems to take itself incredibly seriously with such silly names, it's best enjoyed as a supremely daft, flashy action show. ― Ishura is about the closest thing I've seen to a good old Fate-style Grail War in a while. We've got a huge cast of overpowered individuals with godlike abilities duking it out with one another over a vast canvas of multi-factional war. Everyone has their own agen...

column

14 comments

This Week in Games - Pokémon, Kaiju, and Pals

Jul 12, 22:00

14 comments

games

Jean-Karlo deep-dives into Pokémon's Ultraman origins, the big update to Palworld, and classic games making a comeback! ― Welcome back, folks! I've been playing the much-anticipated summer event in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE. It's what you expect: the bathing suits are scandalous, and the Live2D animations are Live2D, but the story is surprisingly good. It's not Shakespeare, but the NIKKE events do a ...

survey

Choose Your Daily Streaming Anime Reviews: Summer 2024

Jul 12, 21:00 anime

It's time to fill in your ballot and cast your vote for this season's anime reviews!

convention

1 comment

Bocchi the Rock! Staff Reflect on Growth and Change

Jul 12, 21:00

1 comment

anime

Director Keiichirō Saitō and voice actor Yoshino Aoyama from Bocchi the Rock! sat down with Anime News Network to discuss the behind-the-scenes details of adapting the show-stopping anime. ― The anime adaptation of Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga was a sleeper hit in late 2022. Viewers related to Bocchi's awkwardness and social anxiety, while entertained by the off-the-cuff animation. In addition, Kes...

column

19 comments

This Week in Anime - What Is This, An Anime Crossover Episode?

Jul 12, 02:00

19 comments

anime

Lucas and Chris recall some of the strangest and most surprising crossover episodes in anime history. Which are your favorite? ― Lucas and Chris recall some of the strangest and most surprising crossover episodes in anime history. Which are your favorite? Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discu...

review

2 comments

Rising Impact Season 1 Anime Series Review

Jul 12, 00:00

2 comments

anime

I walked away from the first half of this series feeling reasonably entertained despite a rough start; it eventually managed to veer into something fun, if a bit uninspired. ― While it can be hard to gauge how well anime generally performs on Netflix, if there's one series that's undoubtedly been a success for them, it's Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins. So much so that they've been consistently...

news

24 comments

Rent-A-Girlfriend Anime Gets 4th Season in 2025

Jul 11, 23:09

24 comments

anime

Anime of Hawaiians arc announced on manga's 7th anniversary ― The staff for the anime of Reiji Miyajima's Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) manga announced on Friday that a fourth season will air in 2025. The new season will cover the Hawaiians arc. Friday marks the seventh anniversary of the manga's launch. The anime's third season premiered on July 7, 2023 in the Super Animeism block on MBS,...

convention

1 comment

My Hero Academia's Mamoru Miyano, Daiki Yamashita Discuss Manga's Imminent Conclusion

Jul 11, 04:45

1 comment

anime manga events

'I'm sure Horikoshi-sensei is burning his soul, like One For All, and he's going to deplete his soul like All Might after he finishes drawing the final episode.' ― While discourse around My Hero Academia has focused on the manga's imminent ending as of late, you wouldn't have thought the franchise was running out of gas based on the MY HERO ACADEMIA SPECIAL EVENT at this year's Anime Expo. Filling t...

convention

1 comment

Interview: An Umineko Retrospective with Ryukishi07 & Sayaka Ohara

Jul 11, 01:00

1 comment

games

Popular sound novel creator Ryukishi07 and Beatrice voice actor Sayaka Ohara look back on Umineko's mysterious ending. ― Ryukishi07, the mind behind the When They Cry franchise, and voice actress Sayaka Ohara came together for Anime Expo 2024. Ohara voices the legendary Golden Witch, Beatrice, from Ryukishi's Umineko When They Cry series. Although the final chapter in the story was released in 2011,...

review

7 comments

The Duke of Death and His Maid Season 3 Anime Series Review

Jul 11, 00:00

7 comments

anime

Despite my grievances with how the story is told, I cried like a baby by the end. The Duke of Death and His Maid feels like it can only be described as wholesome edging. ― We have finally approached the end of this journey. When I first watched The Duke of Death and His Maid, I didn't think I would grow as emotionally attached to these characters as I did. What I thought would be a light yet digestib...

news

7 comments

BEASTARS Creator Paru Itagaki's Sanda Manga Gets TV Anime by Science SARU

Jul 10, 23:25

7 comments

anime

Near future hero action manga ended on Thursday ― A website opened on Thursday to announce that a television anime of Paru Itagaki's SANDA manga has been green-lit. Science Saru is animating the project. The "unconventional Santa Claus hero action" manga tells the story of adults and children in the near future with a declining birth rate. An ordinary boy named Sanda finds out that one of his classma...

news

5 comments

Makoto Takatsu's Migratory Birds & Snail Manga Gets TV Anime, Returns from Hiatus

Jul 10, 19:02

5 comments

anime

Manga about two people sleeping, traveling in car launched in 2019 ― The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Makoto Takatsu's Wataridori to Katatsumuri (Migratory birds & Snail) manga, revealed that it will get a television anime adaptation, and also announced the manga's return from its four-year hiatus, on Wednesday. Takatsu also drew an illustration to celebrate the manga's return and anime ...