Ashi Productions

Ashi Productions (葦プロダクション Ashi Purodakushon) is a Japanese anime studio based in Suginami, Tokyo. Their domestic anime work includes such series as Powered Armor Dorvack, Dancougar, Machine Robo, Macross 7, Blue Seed and F-Zero GP Legend.

They've also worked on Western animated productions as an outsourced studio, including such shows as the Ruby-Spears Mega Man, season 2 of M.A.S.K., Skysurfer Strike Force and Diabolik.

Masami Ōbari, Shin Matsuo, Nobuyoshi Habara, and Shinya Ohira worked for them during the '80s.

In 1984, Takatoku Toys produced figures based on Ashi Productions' designs for Powered Armor Dorvack (特装機兵ドルバック, tokusō kihei dorubakku) anime series.

Upon Takatoku Toys' bankruptcy, molds of two of the Dorvack figures were purchased by Bandai and subsequently licensed to Hasbro in 1985, where they were released as the Deluxe Vehicles, Roadbuster and Whirl.

As a result of being based on toys from an Ashi Productions anime series, the Hasbro boxed versions of the two Deluxe Vehicles include a small "AP" (Ashi Productions) sticker on the packaging, in addition to an Ashi Production copyright marking on the figures themselves.