Toei Animation

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[[Image:ToeiLogo1.gif|right|250px|thumb|Pero, Toei's mascot]]

'''Toei Studios''' is an animation studio based in Japan. They are responsible for most of the animation produced for the [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|Generation 1]] television series. They are known for animating many American and Japanese cartoons, such as ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', ''Devilman'', ''Sailor Moon'', ''Digimon'' and a ton of others.

Toei Studios animated the entirety of season 1 of the Generation 1 cartoon, including the three-part pilot episode [[More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1|More Than Meets the Eye]]. Following that, season 2 got split up between Toei, [[AKOM]] and an unnamed studio from the Philippines<ref>[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/60-astrominutes/paul_davids_3.html Interview with production coordinator Paul Davids at the Cybertron Chronicle, confirming the use of a studio from the Philippines]</ref>, with Toei animating 39 episodes<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030106085836/www.toei-anim.co.jp/oldies/collabo2.html Archived version of Toei's resume for joint productions, confirming their share in seasons 2 and 3]</ref> (the highlights in terms of quality being "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]" and "[[Auto Berserk]]"), whereas the other two studios would handle the remaining ten episodes. Toei also animated [[The Transformers: The Movie (1986)|''Transformers: the Movie'']] and the ''[[Scramble City]]'' OVA (which contained 15 minutes of all-new footage) as well as all the animated television commercials and episode [[wikipedia:Commercial_bumper|bumpers]]. Season 3 (''Transformers 2010'' in Japan) saw a decline in Toei's participation, as they were gradually outsourced by AKOM's more cost-efficient animation, thus only producing 13 episodes for this season. The short-lived Season 4 (the three-part "[[The Rebirth, Part 1|The Rebirth]]" series finale) was then handled entirely by AKOM.

Additionally, during the entirety of the Generation 1 line, Toei would be solely responsible for the unique animation seen in all Transformers toy commercials, even during and after 1986, when the animated series itself had largely switched to AKOM.

After [[Hasbro]] stopped funding further Transformers cartoon episodes, [[Takara]] would retain Toei to animate all of the Japanese-exclusive cartoons: [[Headmasters (cartoon)|''Headmasters'']] (35 episodes using all-new footage), [[Masterforce (cartoon)|''Masterforce'']] (43 episodes), [[Victory (cartoon)|''Victory'']] (38 episodes) and the [[Zone (animation)|''Zone'']] OVA.

In 1998, eight years after animating ''Zone'', Toei were called upon once again to animate the ''[[Beast Wars II]]'' segment of the ''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers]]'' theatrical movie.

==External links==
* [http://www.toei-anim.com/ Toei's Official English-language Website]

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