Editing Toei Animation

[[Image:ToeiLogo1.gif|right|130px|thumb|Pero, Toei's mascot]]
'''Toei Animation Co., Ltd''' (東映アニメーション株式会社 ''Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha'') is an animation studio based in Japan and owned by [[Wikipedia:Toei Company|Toei Company, Ltd]].  They are responsible for most of the animation produced for the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1]] television series.  They are known for animating many American and Japanese cartoons, such as ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'', ''Devilman'', ''Sailor Moon'', ''Voltron''(aka ''Golion''), ''Tranzor Z''(aka ''Mazinger Z''), ''Getter Robo'', ''Steel Jeeg'', ''Grendizer'', ''Daiku Maryu Gaiking'', ''Dragonball Z'', ''One Piece'', ''Digimon'', ''[[Susan Hoffman#Related characters|The Real Ghostbusters]]'', ''Zatch Bell'', ''Bobobo-bo-Bobobo'', the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''Pryde of the X-Men'', ''Kinnikuman''...look, it might just be shorter to list the stuff they ''haven't'' worked on.

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 [[Unknown Filipino animation studio|unnamed studio from the Philippines]]<ref>[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/60-astrominutes/paul-davids/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>, whereas the other two studios would handle the remaining ten episodes. 

Toei also animated [[The Transformers: The Movie]] and the ''[[Scramble City]]'' OVA (which contained 15 minutes of all-new footage) as well as all the animated television [[commercial]]s, the [[title sequence]]s for season 1, 2 and 4 (4 being comprised of commercial animation Toei had done), all the season 1 and season 2 [[Commercial bumper|bumpers]] and all five [[public service announcement]]s. 

Season 3 (''[[Transformers 2010 (franchise)|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]]" series finale) was then handled entirely by AKOM.

Despite that, 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, [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] would retain Toei to animate all of the Japanese-exclusive cartoons: [[The Headmasters (cartoon)|''Headmasters'']] (35 episodes using all-new footage), [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|''Super-God Masterforce'']] (43 episodes), [[Victory (cartoon)|''Victory'']] (38 episodes) and the [[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|''Zone'' OVA]].

In 1998, eight years after animating ''Zone'', Toei were called upon once again to animate the ''[[Beast Wars II (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' segment of the ''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers]]'' theatrical movie, "[[Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!]]".

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

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