Equipment RentalFilm

The Answer Studio

Suginami, Japan(approximate location)

The only design studio built exclusively for the music industry. Founded by designer Thomas Greenslade, Chester

Contact & details

TypeEquipment Rental · Film
LocationSuginami, Japan
Websiteanswerstudio.co
EmailHELLO@ANSWERSTUDIO.CO
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
8.3IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

7 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

21 wins from 71 nominations across all awards

Box office
$5m

Combined US gross, 1 of 20 titles

Mostly
animation, adventure, action
Active
2004–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
Best known for
Your Name.

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 11 of 20 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
710 seasons

2004–2025

Television rating
7.2IMDb

Their films average 8.0, so the television rates 0.8 lower.

Networks
  • NHK Educational TV1
  • Gunma TV1
  • Tokyo MX1
  • BS111
  • Tochigi TV1
  • TV Tokyo1

Across 5 series matched to TMDB, 178 episodes.

Longest runningSuper Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! · 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.

Credits23

13 films · 6 TV titles

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  • 2006 · TV

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  • 2020

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  • 2017

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  • 2013

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Titles per year23 titles · busiest 2006 with 2

23 titles across 23 years, averaging 1.0 a year. The last five years hold at 1.0 a year. 6 of those 23 years carry no credit on file. 23 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2006 (2). 5 in the last five years shown, against 6 in the five before.

Quality over time7 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
13579their average 8.3200020102020

The 3 titles since 2016 average 7.4, 0.5 below their 7.8 overall. 2 of 7 rated titles sit above their 7.8 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up. 7 titles rated on IMDb between 1997 and 2026, averaging 8.3 weighted by votes. Highest: The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) at 8.0; lowest: Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017) at 1.8.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Hiroshi Kawamata2
  • Hiro Takashima2
Notable cast
  • Omi Minami2
  • Takumi Yamazaki2
Genres
  • Animation10 of 10
  • Adventure6 of 10
  • Action5 of 10
  • Family2 of 10

Names appearing on two or more of The Answer Studio’s produced titles, across the 10 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 The Answer Studio on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

Other companies near Suginami

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