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Eiken (studio)

is a Japanese anime studio in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. The company was formerly known as Television Corporation of Japan Co., Ltd. or TCJ before the sales division spun off to form Zuiyo Eizo. As a result, it changed its name in 1969 to Eiken. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of ADK Emotions.

History

The studio was established as in 1952. It started off producing commercials before entering the anime industry with adaptations of Ko Kojima's Sennin Buraku and Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go. Since then, it has co-produced (with TBS) numerous anime like Super Jetter, Space Boy Soran, Noboru Kawasaki's Skyers 5 and Sanpei Shirato's Sasuke.

In March 1969, TCJ manager, Shigeto Takahashi, along with the sales division, spun off from TCJ, to form Zuiyo Eizo. The animation division remained and spun-off itself to . The company struck gold with their anime adaptation of Machiko Hasegawa's long-running manga, Sazae-san. It still continues to run on Fuji TV to this day, making it the longest running anime. It renamed itself to Eiken in 1970 to produce Norakuro-kun and eventually adopted it as its official name in 1973.

Works

TCJ era

Eiken era

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