TMS_Entertainment

TMS Entertainment

TMS Entertainment

Japanese animation studio


TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. (株式会社トムス・エンタテインメント, Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu Entateinmento), formerly known as the Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd.,[lower-alpha 1] also known as Tokyo Movie[lower-alpha 2] or Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie,[lower-alpha 3] is a Japanese animation studio established on October 22, 1946.

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TMS is one of the oldest and most famous anime studios in Japan, best known for numerous anime franchises such as Lupin the Third, Lilpri, The Gutsy Frog, The Rose of Versailles, Anpanman, Detective Conan, Monster Rancher, Magic Knight Rayearth, Hamtaro, Sonic X, D.Gray-man, Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Obake no Q-Taro (until 1972), Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Fruits Basket (2019), Dr. Stone, and feature-length films such as Golgo 13: The Professional, Akira, and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, alongside animation works for Western animation such as Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Inspector Gadget, The Real Ghostbusters, Rainbow Brite, DuckTales, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Animaniacs, and Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

In 2010, TMS Entertainment became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings.[1]

History

The company was originally established on October 22, 1946 by Yutaka Fujioka.[2] As Asahi Gloves Manufacturing Co., Ltd., it was originally a textile manufacturer. Later, the company name was changed to Asahi Ichi Henori Co., Ltd., Asahiichi Co., Ltd., Asahiichi Shine Industry Co., Ltd., and Kyokuichi Co., Ltd. In 2003, the company completely withdrew from the textile business.[citation needed]

Foray into animation

Former Tokyo Movie Shinsha logo

The company started operations in 1964 when it ventured into the animation industry as Tokyo Movie (東京ムービー, Tōkyō Mūbī) after the failure of Fujioka's previous studio, Tokyo Ningyo Cinema (東京人形シネマ, Tōkyō Ningyō Shinema).[3][4] The studio's first production was an animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Big X.[citation needed]

Hayao Miyazaki was associated with Tokyo Movie before founding Studio Ghibli.[5] His most notable work at TMS was his role as the director of The Castle of Cagliostro, which is notable for being his first feature-length debut.[6]

In 1972, Madhouse was established with funding from Fujioka, and co-produced its earliest series with Tokyo Movie.[citation needed] In 1977, Fujioka reformatted Tokyo Movie into Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Its first production was Lupin the Third Part II, which aired from 1977 to 1980. The film adaptation, The Mystery of Mamo, was the studio's first feature-length movie in history. A subsidiary, Telecom Animation Film, was founded in 1975, but didn't start production until after Tokyo Movie was restructured.[citation needed]

In 1980, TMS established a partnership with the French (later American) company DiC, as one of its overseas animation subcontractors, where the former would help animate many of the latter's programs, starting with the pilot of Ulysses 31. The two would also produce the 1982 unaired pilot Lupin VIII. This partnership would last until 1986, when DiC opened its own Japan-based animation facility known as K.K. DIC Asia (later Creativity & Development Asia) in 1983, for animation production on its shows in order to bypass overseas animation subcontractors.[citation needed]

In 1989, TMS released Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland in Japan, followed by a United States release in 1992. The movie was infamous for being in development hell with figures such as George Lucas, Chuck Jones, Hayao Miyazaki, and Gary Kurtz being involved with the movie before dropping out. The film received mixed reviews from critics, where it earned $11.4 million on a $35 million budget and was a box-office bomb. In response to this, founder Fujioka decided to retire from the animation business. TMS, having to recoup Little Nemo's losses by increased production on locally based anime programs including Anpanman and the yearly Lupin III television specials which the specials ran non-stop until 2013 (with additional special produced in 2016, 2018 and 2019) while Telecom became highly involved in animation for Western-based productions due to the Japanese bubble economy busting making it difficult to find local work, including Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, and Batman: The Animated Series in order to fund for its next project Farewell to Nostradamus.[7]

Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, TMS and its subsidiaries, Telecom Animation Film and South Korea-based Seoul Movie, animated for various companies, including DiC, Walt Disney Television Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, Marvel Films Animation, Studio Ghibli, Madhouse, Production I.G, Sunrise, Bones, Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment,[8] Since the early 2000s, TMS itself has no longer supplied animation services to western studios due to increasingly demanding costs,[8][9] although there have been a few exceptions such as Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) and Superman vs. The Elite (2012). While it still produces feature films, these films are primarily spinoffs from existing anime properties, which include the likes of Anpanman and Detective Conan.[citation needed]

Aside from Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, animators would leave TMS to form their own studios. One of these studios was Brain's Base.[citation needed] Similarly, animators at its subsidiary, Telecom Animation Film, would leave to form Ufotable in 2000,[citation needed] which they would be later known for works like Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tales of Symphonia, The Garden of Sinners, Fate/Zero, and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works.

Tokyo Movie Kyokuichi era

On July 1, 1991, Tokyo Movie Shinsha's holding company changed their name to Tokyo Movie Kyokuichi.[10]

TMS Kyokuichi Corporation era

In 1995, Tokyo Movie Kyokuichi merged with Tokyo Movie Shinsha.[10][11]

TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd era

In 2000, the company was re-branded as TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd.[10]

In 2003, American brokerage group Merrill Lynch became the second-largest shareholder in TMS Entertainment after acquiring a 7.54 percent stake in the studio. Merrill Lynch purchased the stake purely for investment purposes and had no intention of acquiring control of the firm's management.[12]

In 2007-02-01, TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. announced the establishment of studio D within the Tokyo studio building, set to operational in 2007-02-05.[13]

Partnership with Sega

On October 17, 2005, Sega Sammy Holdings announced that they had acquired a 50.2% majority stake in TMS and subsidized the studio under it.[14]

In 2012, the head office was relocated to Nakano, Tokyo.[2] In 2015, Sega Sammy placed TMS as a subsidiary of Sega Holdings.[15] In April 2017, Sega's CG production division, Marza Animation Planet, became a subsidiary of TMS.[16]

Subsidiaries

The company has numerous animation subsidiaries collaborating in conjunction with the company. Those include:

Productions

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Television series

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Foreign production history

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See also

Notes

  1. 株式会社東京ムービー新社, Kabushiki gaisha Tōkyō Mūbī Shinsha
  2. 株式会社東京ムービー, Tōkyō Mūbī
  3. キョクイチ東京ムービー, Kyokuichi-Tōkyō Mūbī

References

  1. "Notice Concerning Exchange of Shares to Convert Sammy NetWorks Co., Ltd., SEGA TOYS CO., LTD. and TMS ENTERTAINMENT, LTD. into Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC" (PDF). Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. 27 August 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  2. "COMPANY OVERVIEW". TMS ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  3. "思い出のキャラ図鑑". Ningyonoie.com. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. "COMPANY INFORMATION". TMS ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  5. "Hayao Miyazaki //". Nausicaa.net. 1941-01-05. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  6. Odell, Collin; le Blanc, Michelle (June 26, 2015). "Background". Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (Second ed.). Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1843444893. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  7. Cybersix: The Complete Series DVD Commentary
  8. "TMS ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD". TMS ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  9. "Merrill Lynch ups stake in TMS". The Japan Times. 2003-12-31. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  10. Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2014). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation (3rd ed.). Stone Bridge Press. p. 850. ISBN 9781611720181.
  11. "ABOUT". MARZA ANIMATION PLANET. December 20, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  12. Loo, Egan (January 16, 2018). "Lupin III's 5th Anime Series Reveals Staff, April Debut, Modern Setting". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  13. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (August 1, 2016). "Chain Chronicle Anime's Promo, Cast, Staff, 3-Part Theatrical Screenings Revealed". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  14. Ressler, Karen (June 13, 2016). "Orange Anime's 2nd Promo Video Previews Theme Songs". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  15. Ressler, Karen (December 29, 2015). "Sentai Filmworks Adds Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  16. Loo, Egan (March 4, 2010). "Captain Harlock's New CG Pilot Images, Staff Revealed". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  17. "[MOVIE] 'RESIDENT EVIL' will be CG'd by a SEGA company behind SPACE PIRATE: CAPTAIN HARLOCK". MARZA ANIMATION PLANET. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  18. Siegel, Tatiana (June 10, 2014). "'Sonic the Hedgehog' Movie in the Works at Sony". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  19. Kamisama Kiss◎ (in Japanese). Event occurs at opening credits. アニメーション制作 - トムス・エンタテインメント / V1Studio [Animation Production - TMS Entertainment / V1 Studio]
  20. The Thousand Musketeers (in Japanese). Event occurs at opening credits. 制作 - TMS / だぶるいーぐる [Production - TMS Entertainment / Double Eagle]
  21. Dr. Stone (in Japanese). Event occurs at opening credits. アニメーション制作 - TMS / 8PAN [Animation Production - TMS Entertainment / 8PAN]
  22. "Megalo Box CAST & STAFF" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December 31, 2018. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  23. Lupin III: Goodbye Partner (in Japanese). Event occurs at ending credits. アニメーション制作 - TMS / トロワスタジオ [Animation Production - TMS Entertainment / Trois Studio]
  24. "Title List Action and Adventure". TMS Entertainment. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  25. "Title List Science Fiction". TMS Entertainment. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  26. "Title List Family Entertainment". TMS Entertainment. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  27. "New York Magazine". 8 September 1986.
  28. "New York Magazine". December 1986.
  29. Patten, Fred (September 15, 2013). "The "Teenagers From Outer Space" Genre". Cartoon Research. Retrieved May 28, 2014.

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