| Industry | Animation |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founder | Kim Dae-jung |
| Defunct | October 1998 |
| Fate | Merged With Dong Woo Animation |
| Headquarters | Seoul, South Korea |
Sei Young Animation Co., Ltd. (Korean : 세영동화(주); Hanja : 世映動畵(株)) was an animation studio based in South Korea, known best for working overseas for North America animated TV shows, such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! , The Legend of Zelda, and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 . And for Japan, Final Yamato , Video Senshi Laserion and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water . They merged with Dong Woo Animation in October 1998 due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Kim Dae-jung (the founder of Sei Young Animation) died from liver cancer on September 14, 2017. [1]
Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including Sally the Witch, GeGeGe no Kitarō, Mazinger Z, Galaxy Express 999, Cutie Honey, Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Slam Dunk, Digimon, One Piece, Toriko, World Trigger, The Transformers, and the Pretty Cure series.
Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and often shortened to Tatsunoko Pro, is a Japanese animation company. The studio's name has a double meaning in Japanese: "Tatsu's child" and "sea dragon", the inspiration for its seahorse logo.
The fourth season of the Sailor Moon anime series, Sailor Moon SuperS was produced by Toei Animation and directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. It adapts the "Dream" arc of the Sailor Moon manga series by Naoko Takeuchi and follows the adventures of Usagi Tsukino and her fellow Super Sailor Guardians. The series is divided into two story arcs: the first arc for 22 episodes depicts a mighty deity known as Pegasus, entering Chibiusa's dreams to flee from the Amazon Trio, minions of the Dead Moon Circus, who are trying to steal the legendary Golden Crystal from him. The second arc for 17 episodes depicts the arrival of the Amazoness Quartet, a group of enemies who dream of remaining young forever, as well as Queen Nehelenia, the depraved ruler of the Dead Moon Circus.
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AKOM Production, Ltd. is a South Korean animation studio in Songpa-gu, Seoul that has provided much work since its conception in 1985 by Nelson Shin. It is most notable for the overseas animation of more than 200 episodes of The Simpsons, a total which continues to increase. In 2007, the studio produced a portion of the overseas animation for The Simpsons Movie.
Saerom Animation, Inc. is an animation studio located in Seoul, South Korea founded in 1987 by Gilhwan Kim. While it mainly animates shows from American animation studios, the company started making its own cartoons in 2003.
Daewon Media, formerly Daiwon C&A Holdings, is a South Korean company specializing in character and animation-related business. Founded in 1973, Daewon's subsidiaries include Daewon C.I., Haksan Publishing, and Daewon Broadcasting; it is involved in comic publishing, animation production, video gaming, character licensing, TV animation broadcasting, and animation importing/exporting. Its current chair and co-CEO is Jung Wook and its president and co-CEO is Ahn Hyeon-dong.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is an American animated television series. It premiered on September 8, 1990, on NBC. It is the second animated series to be based on Nintendo's Mario video game series and is loosely based on the video game Super Mario Bros. 3. The animation was provided by Sei Young Animation.
Tom and Jerry Tales is an American animated television series featuring the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment Co., it is the seventh installment in the Tom and Jerry franchise as well as the first Tom and Jerry production to emulate the original theatrical shorts created by Hanna-Barbera founders and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio staff William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; it originally ran in the United States from September 23, 2006 to March 22, 2008, on Kids' WB. This is the first Tom and Jerry television series from Warner Bros. Animation after parent company Time Warner had bought Turner Broadcasting System, then-owners of the franchise, in 1996.
Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd. (한호흥업㈜) is an animation service studio based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1984 by Steven Hahn, over the years the studio has produced animation for many of the industry’s leading SVOD, cable, and broadcast studios and distributors, including Disney, Warner Bros., Fox, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and others. Hanho has worked on dozens of TV-series and feature films, including: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Star Wars: Droids, The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Bob's Burgers, Doug, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Magic School Bus, Turbo FAST, Paradise PD, and many more. In its native land, Hanho is best known for its work on ly, Superboard, which aired on the KBS network from 1990 to 2002.
SynergySP Co., Ltd., is a Japanese animation studio founded on September 24, 1998, as Synergy Japan which originally split off from Studio Junio. In 2005, the company became associated with Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, a subsidiary of the Shogakukan publishing company. In April 2017, the company became a subsidiary of Shin-Ei Animation.
phuuz entertainment is a company based in Universal City, California that develops content for various forms of media, including television, theaters, the internet, mobile devices, and video games. The president of the company is former Warner Bros. Animation executive Ken Duer. Other company heads include animation artist and producer Eric Radomski, and former Film Roman and LEVEL13.net manager Jay Francis.
Pucca is an animated comedy television series based on a series of shorts created by the South Korean company VOOZ Character System. The series revolves around Pucca, a young girl who is in love and infatuated with a ninja named Garu. The series has aired on Champ TV and MBC TV in Korea. The series has also aired on Toon Disney's Jetix block in the U.S., and on the international Jetix channels throughout Europe and Latin America. In Canada, the show had aired on Family Channel.
Tank Knights Fortress is a Korean-Japanese co-produced animated series by SBS Productions, Dong Woo Animation and Daewon Media of South Korea in partnership with SUNRISE, NAS and Bandai Visual of Japan. This animated series was broadcast and shown in the Philippines and Taiwan. It also has an array of original merchandise such as manga, on-line games, toy figures and an audio CD soundtrack.
Strong Heart is a South Korean talk show or talk battle broadcast by SBS. It aired on Tuesdays from 11:50 to Wednesdays 00:30. It was hosted by Kang Ho-dong and Lee Seung-gi, and later by Lee Dong-wook and Shin Dong-yup with Boom, Super Junior's Leeteuk, Shindong and Eunhyuk as hosts of a special segment and regular guests along with Kim Hyo-jin, Jung Ju-ri and Yang Se-hyung, who are known as six-fixed guests. The program relaunched as a second season with Shin Dong-yup and new hosts, actress, Kim Hee-sun, and singer, Yoon Jong-shin, in February 2013.
Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming is a 1994 Japanese anime science fiction martial arts film and the tenth Dragon Ball Z feature film. It was released in Japan on March 12 at the Toei Anime Fair alongside Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo!! Follow the Rescued Shark... and the first Slam Dunk film. It was preceded by Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound and followed by Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters is a 12-episode mini-series commissioned and produced by 4Kids Entertainment in the United States, and animated by Studio Gallop in Japan shortly after the conclusion of the original series. This miniseries is an addendum to the first half of the final season of the anime, taking place after the Grand Championships but before the climactic Dawn of the Duel arc. The miniseries was produced exclusively for international broadcast, making it the only anime series in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise not to see a release in Japan. A short-lived board game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters Collectible Figure Game, was created based on this mini-series.
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FNC Entertainment is a South Korean entertainment company established in 2006 by South Korean singer and record producer Han Seong-ho. The company operates as a record label, talent agency, music production company, event management and concert production company, and music publishing house. Since January 2012, the company has been based in its offices in Cheongdam-dong.
TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd., formerly known as the Kyokuichi Corporation is a Japanese animation studio owned by Sega Corporation.
