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'''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 '''Tokyo Movie Shinsha''' (東京ムービー新社, ''Tōkyō Mūbī Shinsha''), is a Japanese animation studio currently owned by [[Sega]] Holdings Co., Ltd.  Some of their domestic productions include nearly every ''Lupin III'' series and movie since the '70s, ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic X]]'', ''The New Adventures of Gigantor'', ''Bakugan'', ''Detective Conan'', ''Space Cobra'' and five decades worth of other stuff.

As both TMS and their sub-studio '''Telecom''', they have done a LOT of work for foreign animation, including the Hasbro series ''[[Visionaries]]'', ''Inspector Gadget'', ''The Real Ghostbusters'', ''Bionic Six'', ''Mighty Orbots'', ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', ''Animaniacs'', ''[[Batman]] the Animated Series'', ''Justice League: Doom'', the 1994 ''[[Spider-Man]]'' cartoon, and you wouldn't believe how much more. Basically, if the animation in any of these shows looks ''absolutely stunningly fantastic'', it was probably TMS.

TMS provided background artwork for two episodes of ''[[Transformers:_Cybertron_(cartoon)|Transformers: Cybertron]]'' through the Telecom unit.

==Notes==
*A mistaken belief long held in the fandom is that TMS animated the ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1]]'' episode "[[Call of the Primitives]]".<ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/alt.toys.transformers/c/uUVHUV6a9l8/m/dxxnVhzdc3QJ Post from 2001] on [[alt.toys.transformers]] espousing mistaken belief</ref> However, the episode's director [[Eiji Suganuma]] has explained that it had, in fact, been contracted to regular ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' animation studio [[Toei Animation|Toei]], who then—as was common—sub-contracted the work (at least in part) to [[Studio Look]]. They, in turn, employed students from a vocational school, the {{w|lang=ja|国際アニメーション研究所|International Animation Institute}}.<ref>[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/1281977703504048128?s=20 Tweet by Eiji Suganuma] describing the production of "Call of the Primitives"</ref> At least part of this misattribution can be put upon an interview released in 1998 by Sega Saturn Magazine where a crewmember of the video game ''Burning Rangers'' (of which TMS did the cutscenes for) mentions the studio working on a Transformers series, though whether it's the original, or one of the anime that followed it, is not specified.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151220201838/http://user.tninet.se/~cio759u/teamwork/int4.htm interview where the claim came from; "This company is famous for producing the Transformers and Sonic cartoon seies."</ref>

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==External links==
*[http://www.tms-e.co.jp/ TMS's official website (in Japanese)]
*{{w|TMS Entertainment}} at Wikipedia

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