Toei Animation
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 Toei Company, Ltd. 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, Voltron(aka Golion), Tranzor Z(aka Mazinger Z), Getter Robo, Steel Jeeg, Grendizer, Daiku Maryu Gaiking, Dragonball Z, One Piece, Digimon, 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. Following that, season 2 got split up between Toei, AKOM and an unnamed studio from the Philippines[1], with Toei animating 39 episodes[2], whereas the other two studios would handle the remaining ten episodes. The unknown animation studio could very well be Toei's Philipines studio as they also own a studio there as well as Japan.
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 commercials, the title sequences for season 1, 2 and 4 (4 being comprised of commercial animation Toei had done), all the season 1 and season 2 bumpers and all five public service announcements.
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.
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, Takara would retain Toei to animate all of the Japanese-exclusive cartoons: Headmasters (35 episodes using all-new footage), Super-God Masterforce (43 episodes), Victory (38 episodes) and the Zone OVA.
In 1998, eight years after animating Zone, Toei were called upon once again to animate the Beast Wars II segment of the Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers theatrical movie, "Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!". The animation studio called to do the Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo series was actually the studio Production Reed, formaly Ashi Productions, so the info about Toei animated the animated portion of the Beast Wars II movie could very well be false! It's revealed on Production Reed's official website that they animated Beast wars II, not Toei.
