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Toei Studios is an animation studio based in Japan. They are responsible for most of the animation produced for the 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 Meeths the Eye. Following that, season 2 got split up between Toei, AKOM and an unnamed studio from the Philippines[1], with Toei animating 39 episodes[2] (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 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 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 series finale) was then handled entirely by AKOM.
Toei would animate all of the Japanese-exclusive cartoons: Headmasters (35 episodes using all-new footage), Masterforce (43 episodes), Victory (38 episodes) and the Zone OVA.
