SUNRISE (COMPANY)


is a Japanese anime studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Its former name was 'Nippon Sunrise', and prior to that, 'Sunrise Studios'.
Among Japan's largest and most famous studios, Sunrise is renowned for several critically-lauded and popular original anime series, such as ''Gundam'', ''Armored Trooper Votoms'', ''Vision of Escaflowne'', ''Cowboy Bebop'', ''Witch Hunter Robin'', ''Planetes'', ''My-HiME'', ''My-Otome'', ''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion'', as well as its numerous adaptations of popular manga and light novels such as ''Dirty Pair'', ''City Hunter'', ''InuYasha'', ''Yakitate!! Japan'', ''Keroro Gunso'', ''Gintama'' and several others.
Anime created by Sunrise have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED in 2002, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, and in 2006.

Contents
Productions
TV anime
Series
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Anime films
1980s
1990s
2000s
OVA
1980s
1990s
2000s
Companies founded by former staff
Members
Directors
Animators and character designers
Animators and character animation directors
Animators and mecha animation directors
Mechanical designers
Screenwriters
References
See also
External links

Productions


TV anime

Series


★ 1979 -


★ 1979


★ 1985


★ 1986


★ 1993


★ 1994


★ 1995


★ 1996


★ 1999


★ 2002


★ 2004


★ 2004


★ 2007

★ 1988-1997


★ 1988


★ 1990


★ 1997

★ 1991-1993


★ 1991


★ 1992


★ 1993

★ 1990-1997


★ 1990


★ 1991


★ 1992


★ 1993


★ 1994


★ 1995


★ 1996


★ 1996
1970s


★ - 1972

★ - 1973

★ - 1975 (''Co-production with:'' Tohokushinsha)

★ - 1975 (''Co-production with:'' Unimax)

★ - 1975

★ - 1976 (''Co-production with:'' Tsuburaya)

★ - 1976 (''Co-production with:'' Toei)

★ - 1976 (''Co-production with:'' Tohokushinsha)

★ - 1977 (''Co-production with:'' Toei)

★ - 1977

★ - 1978

★ - 1978 (''Co-production with:'' Toei)

★ - 1978 (''Co-production with:'' Toei)

★ - 1979

★ - 1979 (''Co-production with:'' Tsuburaya)

★ - 1979 (''Co-production with:'' Toei)

★ - 1979 (''Co-production with:'' Toei)
1980s


★ - 1980

★ - 1980

★ - 1981

★ (Title Anime) - 1981

★ - 1981

★ - 1982

★ - 1983

★ - 1983

★ - 1983

★ - 1984

★ - 1984

★ - 1984

★ - 1984

★ - 1985

★ - 1985

★ - 1987

★ - 1987

★ - 1987

★ - 1988

★ - 1989

★ - 1989

★ - 1989
1990s


★ - 1990

★ - 1991

★ - 1991

★ - 1992

★ - 1993

★ - 1994

★ - 1994

★ - 1995

★ - 1995

★ - 1996

★ - 1996

★ - 1996

★ - 1996

★ - 1998

★ - 1998

★ - 1998

★ - 1998

★ - 1998

★ - 1998

★ - 1998

★ - 1999

★ - 1999

★ - 1999

★ - 1999

★ - 1999

★ - 1999

★ - 1999/2003
2000s


★ - 2000

★ - 2000

★ - 2000

★ - 2000

★ - 2000

★ - 2000

★ - 2001

★ '' - 2001

★ - 2001

★ - 2001

★ - 2002

★ - 2002

★ - 2003

★ - 2003

★ - 2003

★ - 2003

★ - 2004

★ - 2004

★ - 2004

★ - 2004

★ '' - 2005

★ - 2005

★ - 2005

★ - 2005

★ - 2005

★ - 2006

★ - 2006

★ - 2006

★ - 2006

★ - 2006

★ - 2007

★ - 2007
Anime films

1980s


★ 1981

★ 1981

★ 1982

★ 1982

★ 1982

★ 1983

★ 1983

★ 1983

★ 1986

★ 1987

★ 1987

★ 1988

★ 1989

★ 1989
1990s


★ 1990

★ 1990

★ 1991

★ 1992

★ 1998

★ 1998
2000s


★ ''ESCAFLOWNE'' 2000

★ 2001

★ 2001

★ 2002

★ 2002

★ 2002

★ 2002

★ 2003

★ 2004

★ 2004

★ 2005

★ 2005

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ 2007 (scheduled)

★ 2007

★ (tentative title) 2007 (scheduled)

★ ''Keroro GunsÅ Movie 3'' (tentative title) 2008 (scheduled)
'Sources:'[3]
OVA

1980s


★ 1985

★ 1985

★ 1985

★ 1986

★ 1987

★ 1987

★ ''DEAD HEAT'' 1987

★ ''New Story of Aura Battler DUNBINE'' 1988

★ 1988

★ 1988-1989

★ 1989-1991

★ 1989

★ '' 1989

★ 1989

★ 1989-1991
1990s


★ 1990-1992

★ 1990-1992 Bandai, Tohokushinsha

★ 1991-1992

★ 1992-1993

★ 1992-2000

★ 1993-1994

★ 1994-1996

★ 1994

★ 1994-1996

★ 1994-1995

★ 1996-1999

★ 1997

★ 1997

★ 1997

★ 1998

★ 1999
2000s


★ 2000-2003

★ '' 2001

★ 2005

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ ''FREEDOM PROJECT'' 2006-

★ 2007 (scheduled)

Companies founded by former staff



Studio Deen (Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takeshi Mochida)

Studio Dub

Studio Takuranke (Yasuhiko KondÅ, Hiroyuki Yamada)

Bones (Masahiko Minami)

Manglobe (ShinichirÅ Kobayashi, Takashi Kochiyama)

Members


Directors


Yasunao Aoki
TetsurÅ Amino
Mitsuo Fukuda
YÅichi Fujita
Masakazu Hishida
Shūji Iuchi
Tatsuya Igarashi
Masashi Ikeda
ShÅji Ikeno
Yasuhiro Imagawa
Takashi Imanishi
Kuniharu Iwai
Norio Kashima
Mitsuko Kase
Kazuyoshi Katayama

Toshifumi Kawase
Takeyuki Kanda (deceased)
TÅru Kitahata
Hiroaki KudÅ
Hotaka Kuramoto
Shunsuke Machiya
Azumi Matsumura
Seiji Mizushima
Masato Miyoshi
KeitarÅ Motonaga
Kunihiro Mori
Tadao Nagahama (deceased)
Akihiko Nishiyama
Hirofumi Ogura
Masakazu Obara

Shigeki Takagi (deceased)
RyÅsuke Takahashi
Shinji Takamatsu
Isao Takiyama
Toshifumi Takizawa
Masaki Takuno
GorÅ Taniguchi
Satoshi Toba
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Masayoshi Yatabe
Akira Yoshimura
Yoshitomo Yonetani
ShinichirÅ Watanabe
Tetsuya Watanabe

Animators and character designers


TÅyo Ashida
Yuriko Chiba
Tsukasa Dokite
Hisashi Hirai
Hirokazu Hisayuki
Yoshihito Hishinuma
Takehiko ItÅ

Yoshiyuki ItÅ
Masahiro Kase
Hiroyuki Kitazume
Takahiro Kimura
Tomonori Kogawa
Hideyuki Motohashi
Kazuaki MÅri

ShukÅ Murase
Mamoru Nagano
Seiichi Nakatani
Hiroshi ÅŒsaka
Ken'ichi ÅŒnuki
Takuya SaitÅ
Norio Shioyama

KÅji Sugiura
Shinji Takeuchi
Moriyasu Taniguchi
Akira Yasuda
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Akihiko Yamashita
Kenichi Yoshida

Animators and character animation directors


Misao Abe
Katsunori Enomoto
Kenji Hayama
Masahiko Itoshima
Yūsuke Kamata
Satoshi Koike
Takao Maki

Tetsuya Matsukawa
Hiromitsu Morishita
Naoyuki Onda
Masashi Ozone
Akiko Nagashima
Takahiro Nakayama
Shūji Sakamoto

TakurÅ Shinbo
Shinichi Takahashi
Iwao Teraoka
Atsuo Tobe
YÅichi Ueda
Susumu Yamaguchi
KÅhei Yoneyama

Animators and mecha animation directors


Hiroshi Arisawa
Yoshinobu AndÅ
YÅ« Ikeda
Yorihisa Uchida
Masami ÅŒbari
Hidetoshi ÅŒmori
Hiroyuki Okiura

Hisa SaitÅ
Hirotoshi Sano
Atsushi Shigeta
Satoshi Shigeta
Tatsuya Suzuki
Takuya Suzuki
Tsutomu Suzuki

Kenichi Takase
Fumi Nakamori
Eiji Nakata
Masanori Nishī
Tsutomu Miyazawa
Yamane Masahiro
TÅru Yoshida

Mechanical designers


Mika Akitaka

Junichi Akutsu

Hideki Fukushima

Junya Ishikagi

Yutaka Izubuchi

Noriyuki Jingūji

Hajime Katoki

ShÅji Kawamori

Kazutaka Miyatake

Seiichi Nakatani

Masayuki Nagura

Kunio Okawara

Takeshi Takakura

Kenji Teraoka

Kimotoshi Yamane
Screenwriters


Naruhisa Arakawa

Akinori EndÅ

Fuyonori Gobu

Tatsuhito Higuchi

Hiroyuki Hoshiyama

Masaya Honda

Kazuho HyÅdÅ

Tsunehisa ItÅ

Hiroaki Kitajima

Chiaki J. Konaka

Keiko Nobumoto

IchirÅ ÅŒkouchi

Takayoshi Suzuki

JinzÅ Toriumi

Yumiko Tsukamoto

RyÅta Yamaguchi

YÅ« Yamamoto

SÅji Yoshikawa

Hiroyuki Yoshino

References



1. SUNRISE Official Site
2. SUNRISE INTERNATIONAL Information
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See also



Hajime Yatate

Sunrise Interactive

Bandai Visual

Sotsu Agency

External links



Sunrise's official site



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