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Doga Kobo

Doga Kobo, Inc. (株式会社動画工房) is a Japanese animation studio formed by former Toei Animation members Hideo Furusawa and Megumu Ishiguro, located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. The studio was established on July 11, 1973, and is a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation.

Although the studio gained significant commercial success from their adaptations of yuri or yuri-ish anime like Koihime Musō and especially YuruYuri, the studio is also known for more traditional romantic shows such as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Plastic Memories, and Tada Never Falls in Love, and for slice of life comedy series such as Gabriel DropOut and Himouto! Umaru-chan.

In recent times the studio gained a wide popularity due to the anime adaptation of Oshi no Ko, a manga series written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari.

In July 2024, Kadokawa announced that it had acquired Doga Kobo.[1]

Productions

Television series

OVA/Short series

Films

Others

Notable staff

Representative staff

  • Megumu Ishiguro (founder, first president from 1973~2006)
  • Ryuu Ishiguro (second president since 2006)
  • Kei Ishiguro (director/board member)
  • Tazuko Fukudo (director/board member)
  • Hajime Kamata (director/board member)

Animation producers

  • Kenichi Motohashi (2003~2017)
  • Yousuke Nakamura (2007~present)
  • Shouta Umemhara (2010~2016)
  • Taiki Sekine (2010~present)
  • Saori Wakabayashi (2010~present)
  • Shingo Saitou (2013~present)
  • Ryou Kobayashi (2016~present)

Production staff

  • Satoko Sekine (2005~??, production assistant and scriptwriter)

Animators

  • Akihiko Nishiyama (1983~1987)
  • Katsuichi Nakayama (1983~??)
  • Masafumi Satou (1985~??)
  • Hiroyuki Kanbe (1988~??)
  • Hisashi Mori (animator) (1989~??)
  • Noboru Koizumi (1989~??)
  • Susumu Mitsunaka (2001~??)
  • Megumi Kagawa (??)
  • Junichirou Taniguchi (??~present)
  • Takenori Mihara (??~present)

External links

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