- CEO
- Katsuhiro Takagi
- Full Time Employees
- 911
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Address
- Nakano Central Park East Tokyo Japan 164-0001
- IPO Date
- Nov 15, 2019
- Business
- Toei Animation Co., Ltd. produces, markets, and licenses anime television series, feature films, original video animations, and digital content worldwide. The company offers a diverse portfolio encompassing action, adventure, drama, fantasy, and educational programming, including flagship franchises such as Dragon Ball, One Piece, Sailor Moon, Digimon, Saint Seiya, Pretty Cure, GeGeGe no Kitarō, and Slam Dunk; it also handles character licensing, merchandising, overseas distribution, and music publishing through subsidiaries. Founded in 1948 as Nihon Doga Co., Ltd. and incorporated in 1956 after acquisition by Toei Company, Ltd., Toei Animation maintains headquarters at 5F Nakano Central Park East, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, with studios in Nerima-ku, Tokyo, and overseas facilities including Toei Animation Phils. in the Philippines, Toei Animation Inc. in Los Angeles for the Americas, Toei Animation Europe S.A.S. in Paris for Europe and the Middle East, Toei Animation Enterprises in Hong Kong, and Toei Animation (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in China. The company lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market (code 4816) and employs 960 staff consolidated as of March 2025, generating ¥100.8 billion in gross sales. Recent developments include a 1-for-5 stock split in April 2024; the release of One Piece Film Red in August 2022 and The First Slam Dunk in December 2022, the latter achieving significant international box office success; a licensing partnership with KessCo in February 2024 for One Piece and Digimon tabletop games and toys launching in 2024-2025; the launch of new production label Eterna Animation in June 2025 with debut short Foxing slated for 2026; and the establishment of an Osaka Studio in August 2025 to expand domestic production capacity and address industry labor shortages by recruiting from the Kansai region.