Top 10 Best Anime Studios
These creative powerhouses are where your favorite anime series and films are brought to life, blending art, storytelling, and cutting-edge animation. From iconic classics that have defined genres to the latest in visual innovation and narrative depth, these anime studios are the unsung heroes behind the scenes, pushing the boundaries of what animation can be.
Many prominent and highly-rated anime have been produced by this studio. Death Note, Hunter x Hunter, Parasyte, Overlord, Trigun, and One Punch Man are just a few of the many examples.
A subsidiary of Sunrise Studio, Bones was established shortly after Sunrise completed Cowboy Bebop. They have contributed to several highly praised anime, such as Full Metal Alchemist, Wolf's Rain, Ouran Host Club, Soul Eater, and Space Dandy.
Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio founded in 1985. The studio is best known for its animated feature films, and has also created several short subjects, television commercials, and 1 television film. This studio even released the iconic anime film "Spirited Away" in 2001. How is this not number one?! Do you not remember Ponyo, Totoro, Castle in the Sky, or Spirited Away? Why is this not number one?
Studio Ghibli is so underrated! It has produced many anime classics, like Spirited Away, Totoro, Ponyo, and Castle in the Sky. Its storylines are all original, and the art is absolutely gorgeous!
Kyoto Animation is the animator behind some very stylized anime such as Clannad, Lucky Star, K-On!, A Silent Voice, and Violet Evergarden, to name a few.
Gainax is known for their involvement with some deep, complex, and sometimes trippy anime such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fooly Cooly (also known as FLCL), Gurren Lagann, His and Her Circumstances, and Gunbuster.
A branch of Gainax who are known for some intricate and trippy anime, similarly to Gainax. Some of their most notable work is within Kill La Kill, Little Witch Academia, Kiznaiver, part of Panty & Stocking as well as part of Darling Franxx.
Formed by former employees of Mushi Production, Sunrise's most notable contributions include Cowboy Bebop, Mobile Suit Gundam, Code Geass, and the Animatrix.
Founded within Tatsunoko Productions, Production I.G has gone on to help create some beloved anime such as Ghost in the Shell, Psycho-Pass, Haikyu!, and Ao Ashi.
Studio Pierrot has helped create notable anime like Naruto, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Tokyo Ghoul, and Tokyo Mew Mew.
Some notable anime that this studio's work was in is My Teenage RomCom, School Babysitters and Spice & Wolf.
As one of the first anime studios ever created, Toei Animation is behind some major classics like Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, Sailor Moon, Digimon, and some of the Precure series.
This studio used to do great work, but now it is not as great.
Originally a subsidiary of I.G., the most notable anime they were involved in are Angel Beats, Another, True Tears, Charlotte and the movie Maquia.
Initially formed by employees from both Telecom and TMS, Ufotable has contributed to some of the most notable anime, including various Fate series, God Eater, and more recently, Demon Slayer.
Originally established to assist the company Aniplex, A-1 Pictures is credited with notable anime such as Fairy Tail, Sword Art Online, and Your Lie in April.
This anime studio has the best female designs overall.
A subsidiary of A-1 and Aniplex, this is another more recently formed studio. Their most notable work is likely Rascal Does Not Dream. Other anime they've been involved in would be The Promised Dreamland, Wonder Egg Priority and part of Darling Franxx.
Another older studio whose first major hit that they're credited would likely be Lupin 3rd. Since then, they're work has been in anime like Monster Rancher, Detective Conan, Rose of Versailles and Akira; and that is just naming a few of many.
Another subsidiary of Gainax, this studio is known for involvement some other complex and often metaphorical anime such as Hellsing, Full Metal Panic, Rosario + Vampire, Afro Samurai and Desert Punk.
The anime they were most notable for helping with is Puella Magi Madoka, April Like a Lion, some of Nisekoi and most of the Monogatari series.
More of a sub-studio; their work is mostly translating, marketing and distributing anime. However, they've helped in the creation of a few, mainly Date A Live and Haganai.
Branched from Madhouse, this studio was founded relatively recently. Their work was involved in more recent anime hits like JuJu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Dororo, part of Vinland Saga and the final part of Attack on Titan.
Another smaller-branch studio known to be behind slightly lewder anime, mainly the first 3 seasons of Highschool DxD. They also helped with Redo of Healer, Blade Dance Elemental and other anime like that.
A studio that has collaborated with numerous other anime studios throughout its time. The anime they are credited the most with is Steins;Gate, Re:Zero, Goblin Slayer, and part of Katanagatari, to new a few.
