This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "Shin-Ei Animation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2018)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (July 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,425 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:シンエイ動画]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|シンエイ動画}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd. (Japanese: シンエイ動画株式会社, Hepburn: Shīn'eī Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese animation studio owned by TV Asahi and founded in Tokyo in 1965 as A Production by Daikichirō Kusube, who was previously an animator for Toei Animation.

^ "会社情報". shin-ei-animation.jp. Retrieved 7 February 2026.

History

[edit]

Logo used from 1976 to 2021.

Shin-Ei Animation's history begins in December 1965 as A Production (Aプロダクション, Ei Purodakshon)^[1] by Daikichirō Kusube who was then a former animator at Toei Animation.

Disgruntled by the rigid hierarchy prevalent in Toei Animation he, and a couple of his colleagues, formed A Production, and immediately got into a partnership with the newly-formed Tokyo Movie, under the condition that Kusube would remain independent.

For ten years, A Production served as Tokyo Movie's primary subcontractor for animation as well as co-production.

In 1976, after Tokyo Movie founded Telecom Animation Film, they offered Kusube to lead the division. However, knowing that he would lose his independence, he refused, cut all ties with Tokyo Movie and restructured his company to Shin-Ei Animation (シンエイ動画, Shin-ei Douga).

Shin-Ei Animation is best known as the animation studio behind two anime series, Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan, which have aired on TV Asahi since 1979 and 1992 respectively; Shin-Ei Animation has since produced television series and films of the two anime series.

In 2010, TV Asahi had acquired the animation studio.^[2]

In April 2017, SynergySP became a subsidiary of the company.^[3]

^ 会社情報 - 沿革 [Company Information - History]. Shin-Ei Animation (in Japanese).
^ "TV Asahi to Own 100% of Doraemon's Shin-ei Animation". Anime News Network. October 6, 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
^ About - 会社概要 - 沿革 [About - Company Profile - History]. SynergySP (in Japanese). Archived from the original on November 7, 2017.

Work list

[edit]

Works currently airing on Japanese television are in bold.

Television

[edit]

As A-Production (i.e. co-produced with Tokyo Movie)

1960s

[edit]

Obake no Q-tarō
Perman
Kyojin no Hoshi
Kaibutsu-kun (1968)
Roppō Yabure-kun
Moomin
Attack No. 1

1970s

[edit]

(Co-produced with Tokyo Movie)

Shin Obake no Q-Tarō
Tensai Bakabon
Lupin The Third Part I
Akado Suzunosuke
Dokonjō Gaeru
Jungle Kurobee
Kōya no Shōnen Isamu
Karate Baka Ichidai
Samurai Giants
Judo Sanka
First Human Giatrus
Gamba no Bouken
Ganso Tensai Bakabon
Hana no Kakarichō
Ore wa Teppei (1977–78, co-production with Nippon Animation)
Highschool Baseball Ninja (1978)

As Shin-Ei Animation

1970s

[edit]

Doraemon (1979–Present Time)
Heart of the Red Bird (1979)

1980s

[edit]

Kaibutsu-kun (September 2, 1980 – September 28, 1982)
Ninja Hattori-kun (September 28, 1981 – December 25, 1987)
Game Center Arashi (1982)
Fukuchan (1982–84)
Perman (April 4, 1983 – March 31, 1985) (co-production with TMS Entertainment)
Oyoneko Boonyan (1984)
Pro Golfer Saru (1985–88, co-produced with Studio Deen)
Obake no Q-Taro (April 1, 1985 – March 29, 1987)
Esper Mami (April 7, 1987 – October 26, 1989)
Ultra B (1987–89)
Tsurupika Hagemaru-kun (1987–89)
New Pro Golfer Saru (1988)
Biriken^[1] (1988–89)
Oishinbo (October 17, 1988 – March 17, 1992)
Obotchama-kun (1989–92)
Biriken Nandemo Shokai^[1] (1989)
The Laughing Salesman (October 10, 1989 – September 29, 1992)
Chimpui (November 2, 1989 – April 18, 1991)