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Nippon Animation Co.

Tokyo, Japan(approximate location)

Nippon Animation Co., Ltd. marked its 50th anniversary on June 3, 2025. Looking forward, we promise to deliver dreams continuously to the world in our own unique way.

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television · Animation
LocationTokyo, Japan
Websitenippon-animation.co.jp
Emailmail@nippon-animation.co.jp
Social
YouTube
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.2IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

32 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

3 wins from 4 nominations across all awards

Box office
$10m

Combined US gross, 1 of 152 titles

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Highest rated
Future Boy Conan
1978
8.85,210 votes
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Lowest rated
Sengoku Youko
2024
6.3271 votes
Mostly
animation, adventure, drama
Active
1973–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
53%
Best known for
Penelope

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 62 of 152 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
9746 seasons

1963–2025

Television rating
8.1IMDb

Their films average 7.5, so the television rates 0.5 higher.

Networks
  • Fuji TV14
  • TV Tokyo4
  • tv asahi3
  • YTV2
  • NHK Educational TV2
  • CBC2

Across 44 series matched to TMDB, 3,387 episodes. 2 still returning or in production.

Longest runningTales of Little Women · 4 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 162

56 films · 98 TV titles

Titles per year60 titles · busiest 2001 with 9

60 titles across 30 years, averaging 2.0 a year. The last five years hold at 2.2 a year. 7 of those 30 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time17 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 7.2200020102020

Their 2020s work is their strongest, averaging 8.3 across 5 titles. The 6 titles since 2016 average 8.3, 0.7 above their 7.6 overall. 7 of 17 rated titles sit above their 7.6 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Yoshio Kuroda4
Writers
  • Nobuyuki Fujimoto2
  • Ryûzô Nakanishi2
  • Akira Miyazaki2
Notable cast
  • Masako Nozawa4
  • Mamoru Miyano3
  • Banjô Ginga3
  • Hiroya Ishimaru3
  • Masako Ikeda2
Genres
  • Animation59 of 61
  • Adventure22 of 61
  • Drama21 of 61
  • Comedy19 of 61
  • Family9 of 61

Names appearing on two or more of Nippon Animation Co.’s produced titles, across the 61 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside Nippon Animation Co. on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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