TMS Entertainment

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TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Logo used since 2000
Native name	株式会社トムス・エンタテインメント
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu Entateinmento
Formerly	Asahi Gloves Manufacturing Kyokuichi Knitting & Weaving Kyokuichi Shine Industries Kyokuichi
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Anime
Predecessor	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Founded	October 22, 1946; 78 years ago (1946-10-22) (as Asahi Gloves)
Headquarters	Nakano, Tokyo , Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Haruki Satomi (chairman) Tadashi Takezaki (president and CEO)
Owner	Sega Corporation
Number of employees	256 (2018)
Divisions	3xCube 8PAN Double Eagle Studio 1 Trois Studio 7STUDIO
Subsidiaries	Telecom Animation Film Toon Additional Pictures Toon Harbor Works Toms Photo TMS Music TMS Jinni's TMS Entertainment USA TMS Entertainment Europe
Website	www.tms-e.co.jp/global/
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TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. (株式会社トムス・エンタテインメント, Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu Entateinmento), formerly known as Kyokuichi^[a] is a Japanese animation studio owned by Sega Corporation.

TMS is one of the oldest and most renowned animation studios in Japan, known for its numerous anime franchises such as Detective Conan, Lupin the Third, and Anpanman.^[4]

TMS Entertainment is the animation business company of the Sega Group and a well-established animation studio with its origins in Tokyo Movie. Originally established in 1946 as a textile manufacturer, the company entered animation when they merged with animation studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha to start an animation production business, known as the Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie^[b] division or TMS-Kyokuichi.^[c][3][4]

Tokyo Movie Shinsha was one of the five major studios in the early days of Japanese animation, producing and/or animating a string of popular works from the 1960s to the 1970s, including Obake no Q-Tarō, Star of the Giants, Moomin, Attack No. 1, Tensai Bakabon, Lupin the 3rd Part I, Aim for the Ace!, and Gamba no Bouken.^[5]

TMS has studios 1 through 7 under its production headquarters, each with a nickname for the work they are involved in, such as Studio 1, 3xCube, Trois Studios, Rogue Studio, and Double Eagle. Each studio has its own production and management staff, including producers and production assistants. As for animators, each studio contracts them on a work-by-work basis. However, head creators sometimes have exclusive contracts and are given their own desks within the company to work on.^[3]

In addition to its own studios, TMS has wholly-owned animation studios such as Telecom Animation Film, TMS Jinni's and Toon Additional Pictures.^[4]

Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, TMS and its subsidiaries, Telecom Animation Film and South Korea-based Seoul Movie, animated for various companies, including DiC, Walt Disney Television Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, Marvel Films Animation, Studio Ghibli, Madhouse, Production I.G, Sunrise, Bones, ShoPro, Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment among others,^[6] Since the early 2000s, TMS itself has no longer supplied animation services to Western studios due to increasingly demanding costs,^[6][7] although there have been a few exceptions such as Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) and Superman vs. The Elite (2012). While it still produces feature films, these films are primarily spinoffs from existing anime properties, which include the likes of Anpanman and Detective Conan.^{[citation needed]}

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