Studios

Founded by ex-Mushi Pro animators and known for handing directors an unusual amount of room. Its catalogue swings from Perfect Blue to Hunter x…

Founded around Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Features first, television almost never, and a standard of drawn animation the rest of the industry…

An Aniplex studio with unusually broad range — Your Lie in April, Kaguya-sama, Solo Leveling.

Spun out of Production I.G and made its name on the vertical, weightless motion of early Attack on Titan. Later work leans quieter — Vinland Saga,…

Started by Madhouse's founder as a second act and grew into one of the busiest studios in the industry — Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, the final…

Split off from Sunrise and built a reputation on fight choreography that stays readable — Fullmetal Alchemist, Mob Psycho, My Hero Academia.

Makoto Shinkai's home studio. Photoreal backgrounds, weather as a character, and skies nobody else bothers to paint.

An in-house studio that trains its own staff and keeps them, which shows in the consistency: light, layout and small human gesture handled better…

Ghost in the Shell gave it a reputation for hard science fiction; Haikyu!! proved it could do warmth just as well.

The mecha house — Gundam, Code Geass, Cowboy Bebop — with a sideline in some of the sharpest character writing on television.

Compositing specialists who fold digital effects into hand-drawn work until the seam disappears. The look that made Demon Slayer a phenomenon.

Small, precise, and drawn to stories about time and consequence — Steins;Gate, Re:ZERO.

A Satelight offshoot working in sports and fantasy, best known for Blue Lock and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.

A veteran house whose Legend of the Galactic Heroes remains one of the longest and most ambitious productions in television animation.

A dependable adaptation house that stepped up with Shangri-La Frontier and Bocchi-adjacent comedy work.

Split from A-1 and quickly built a signature: expressive, elastic character acting pushed further than the script strictly needs.

Decades of subcontract work before finding its own voice in comedy and slice of life, where its character animation is unusually alive.

A fan circle that turned professional and produced Neon Genesis Evangelion, which the medium has been arguing about ever since.

Romantic comedy and light-novel adaptation at industrial scale, with Toradora! as its high-water mark.

Best known for Made in Abyss — lush, storybook worlds used to deliver material that is anything but.

The long-runner specialist — Naruto, Bleach — with the production discipline that decade-long shows demand.

Founded by Masaaki Yuasa and Eunyoung Choi. Fluid, elastic, and entirely uninterested in drawing things the standard way.

Mamoru Hosoda's studio, built around features about families that don't fit the usual shape.

Prolific and eclectic, with a comedy instinct that turned KonoSuba's rough edges into the joke.

A giant with a century-spanning back catalogue, still producing at volume — Dr. Stone, Detective Conan.

The oldest studio still working at scale, and the reason a great deal of what anime looks like looks that way. One Piece, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon.

The studio behind Akira, and a bridge between the theatrical animation of the seventies and everything that followed it.

Founded by Gainax alumni who took the loud parts with them. Everything is drawn a size too big, on purpose.