TMS Entertainment
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 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 through the Telecom unit.
Notes
- A mistaken belief long held in the fandom is that TMS animated the Generation 1 episode "Call of the Primitives".[1] However, the episode's director Eiji Suganuma has explained that it had, in fact, been contracted to regular Transformers animation studio 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 International Animation Institute.[2] 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 cartoon, or one of the anime that followed it is not specified.[3]
References
- ↑ Post from 2001 on alt.toys.transformers espousing mistaken belief
- ↑ "当時の僕はまだ駆け出しのアニメーターで正確な受注ラインはよく判ってないのですが…。 ［元請け］ （東映動画…かな） ↓ ［スタジオルック］ （下請け会社） ↓ ［国際アニメーション研究所原画室］ （作画監督と一部の原画を担当） 当時の僕はここにお世話になってました。"—Eiji Suganuma, Twitter, 2020/7/11
- ↑ interview where the claim came from stating that TMS "is famous for producing the Transformers and Sonic cartoon seies."
External links
- TMS's official website (in Japanese)
- TMS Entertainment at Wikipedia
