Studio · Animation house
Telecom Animation Film
テレコム・アニメーションフィルム
49 animated productions (plus 4 producer credits) — working primarily in adventure, action, and comedy, active since 1979.
- Studio productions
- 49
- Producer credits
- 4
- Avg score
- 7.0
- Founded
- Est. 1975
- Favorites
- 139
On air · this week
1 active title
01Identity
What we know
Aggregated from the catalogue. Nothing in this section is curated copy.
Genre fingerprint
- Adventure 29 titles · 55%
- Action 28 titles · 53%
- Comedy 19 titles · 36%
- Seinen 17 titles · 32%
- Fantasy 14 titles · 26%
- Adult Cast 12 titles · 23%
At a glance
- Active years
- 1979–2025
- Founded
- 1975
- Avg score
- 7.0
- Output
- 1.0 studio titles/yr
- Dominant role
- Animation studio
- Catalogue
- 53 titles
As an affiliated company of Tokyo Movie (now know as TMS Entertainment), Telecom Animation Film, Co., Ltd was established on May 19, 1975 for the purpose of producing full-length animated theatrical films. Top class animators such as Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao and Ootsuka Yasuo joined the company and established the Golden Age of Japanese animation industry. Ootsuka Yasuo still works at Telecom as a supervisor as well as the Juku Master of Anime Juku and developing the young animators that leads the next generation. Telecom is now thriving with topnotch veteran animators, such as Tomonaga Kazuhide, Tomizawa Nobuo, Masuda Toshihiko, and Yano Yuichiro, taking the lead of production and continuously sending out top quality animation works. Telecom has a reputation for its delicate and heartwarming style of animation that would be produced in the studio where the developments, animation, ink & paint and filming can all be done in a single place.
02Catalogue
The body of work
53 titles across 3 chronological windows. Filter by role or hold for the prestige tier.
1979–1994
3 titles · Avg6.9
1995–2010
11 titles · Avg7.0
2011–2025
See all39 titles · Avg7.0
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Season 2
2024 · 12 ep
Studio · Catalog rating 7.4
03People
Top collaborators
Ranked by credit count across this company's catalogue, weighted toward senior positions (Director · Series Composition · Character Design · Music).
- Yuuichirou Yano Director 25 credits in this catalogue +4 roles
- Kazuhide Tomonaga Director 18 credits in this catalogue +8 roles
- Toshihiko Masuda Director 17 credits in this catalogue +3 roles
- Nobuo Tomisawa Director 16 credits in this catalogue +4 roles
The long bench
- Hiroaki Noguchi Animation Director 18×
- Kouichi Suenaga Animation Director 17×
- Yumiko Shirai Animation Director 17×
- Yoshihiro Kasahara Editing 16×
- Hisao Yokobori Episode Director 16×
- Keiko Oyamada Assistant Director 16×
- Teiichi Takiguchi Director 14×
- Miyako Takasu Chief Animation Director 13×
- Youichi Takada Character Design 13×
- Monkey Punch Original Creator 12×
- Miho Tanino Chief Animation Director 12×
- Satoko Yamamoto Color Design 11×
04Where they live
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