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 -

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★ 1979

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★ 1985

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★ 1986

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★ 1993

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★ 1994

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★ 1995

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★ 1996

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★ 1999

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★ 2002

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★ 2004

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★ 2004

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★ 2007

★ 1988-1997

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★ 1988

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★ 1990

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★ 1997

★ 1991-1993

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★ 1991

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★ 1992

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★ 1993

★ 1990-1997

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★ 1990

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★ 1991

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★ 1992

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★ 1993

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★ 1994

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★ 1995

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★ 1996

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★ 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

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★ 2002

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★ 2004

★ 2004

★ 2005

★ 2005

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ 2006

★ 2007 (scheduled)

★ 2007

★ (tentative title) 2007 (scheduled)

★ ''Keroro Gunsō Movie 3'' (tentative title) 2008 (scheduled)
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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 Kondō, Hiroyuki Yamada)

★ Bones (Masahiko Minami)

★ Manglobe (Shinichirō Kobayashi, Takashi Kochiyama)

Members

Directors

★ Yasunao Aoki ★ Tetsurō Amino ★ Mitsuo Fukuda ★ Yōichi Fujita ★ Masakazu Hishida ★ Shūji Iuchi ★ Tatsuya Igarashi ★ Masashi Ikeda ★ Shōji Ikeno ★ Yasuhiro Imagawa ★ Takashi Imanishi ★ Kuniharu Iwai ★ Norio Kashima ★ Mitsuko Kase ★ Kazuyoshi Katayama

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

★ Shigeki Takagi (deceased) ★ Ryōsuke Takahashi ★ Shinji Takamatsu ★ Isao Takiyama ★ Toshifumi Takizawa ★ Masaki Takuno ★ Gorō Taniguchi ★ Satoshi Toba ★ Yoshiyuki Tomino ★ Masayoshi Yatabe ★ Akira Yoshimura ★ Yoshitomo Yonetani ★ Shinichirō Watanabe ★ Tetsuya Watanabe

Animators and character designers

★ Tōyo Ashida ★ Yuriko Chiba ★ Tsukasa Dokite ★ Hisashi Hirai ★ Hirokazu Hisayuki ★ Yoshihito Hishinuma ★ Takehiko Itō

★ Yoshiyuki Itō ★ Masahiro Kase ★ Hiroyuki Kitazume ★ Takahiro Kimura ★ Tomonori Kogawa ★ Hideyuki Motohashi ★ Kazuaki Mōri

★ Shukō Murase ★ Mamoru Nagano ★ Seiichi Nakatani ★ Hiroshi Ōsaka ★ Ken'ichi Ōnuki ★ Takuya Saitō ★ Norio Shioyama

★ Kōji 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

★ Takurō Shinbo ★ Shinichi Takahashi ★ Iwao Teraoka ★ Atsuo Tobe ★ Yōichi Ueda ★ Susumu Yamaguchi ★ Kōhei Yoneyama

Animators and mecha animation directors

★ Hiroshi Arisawa ★ Yoshinobu Andō ★ Yū Ikeda ★ Yorihisa Uchida ★ Masami Ōbari ★ Hidetoshi Ōmori ★ Hiroyuki Okiura

★ Hisa Saitō ★ Hirotoshi Sano ★ Atsushi Shigeta ★ Satoshi Shigeta ★ Tatsuya Suzuki ★ Takuya Suzuki ★ Tsutomu Suzuki

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

Mechanical designers

★ Mika Akitaka

★ Junichi Akutsu

★ Hideki Fukushima

★ Junya Ishikagi

★ Yutaka Izubuchi

★ Noriyuki Jingūji

★ Hajime Katoki

★ Shōji Kawamori

★ Kazutaka Miyatake

★ Seiichi Nakatani

★ Masayuki Nagura

★ Kunio Okawara

★ Takeshi Takakura

★ Kenji Teraoka

★ Kimotoshi Yamane

Screenwriters

★ Naruhisa Arakawa

★ Akinori Endō

★ Fuyonori Gobu

★ Tatsuhito Higuchi

★ Hiroyuki Hoshiyama

★ Masaya Honda

★ Kazuho Hyōdō

★ Tsunehisa Itō

★ Hiroaki Kitajima

★ Chiaki J. Konaka

★ Keiko Nobumoto

★ Ichirō Ōkouchi

★ Takayoshi Suzuki

★ Jinzō Toriumi

★ Yumiko Tsukamoto

★ Ryōta Yamaguchi

★ Yū Yamamoto

★ Sōji Yoshikawa

★ Hiroyuki Yoshino

References

1. SUNRISE Official Site
2. SUNRISE INTERNATIONAL Information
3. 日本バトリング協会富野監督担当 作品概要

See also

★ Hajime Yatate

★ Sunrise Interactive

★ Bandai Visual

★ Sotsu Agency

External links

★ Sunrise's official site

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