Doga Kobo
{{Short description|Japanese animation studio}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Doga Kobo, Inc.
| native_name = 株式会社動画工房
| native_name_lang = ja
| logo = Doga Kobo Logo.svg
| image = Doga Kobo Anime Office Nerima.jpg
| image_caption = Head office in Nerima, Tokyo
| type = Kabushiki gaisha
| foundation = {{start date and age|1973|07|11}}
| key_people = {{ubl|Ryuu Ishiguro (president)|Kei Ishiguro (director)|Tazuko Fukudo (director)|Hajime Kamata (director)}}
| founder = Megumu Ishiguro
| location = Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
| industry = Japanese animation
| num_employees = 62 (as of June 2024)
| subsid =
| parent = Kadokawa Corporation
| divisions = Photography Department{{efn|{{nihongo|Doga Kobo Photography department|動画工房撮影部}}, the studio's photography department.}}
| website = {{url|http://www.dogakobo.com/}}
}}
{{Nihongo|Doga Kobo, Inc.|株式会社動画工房|Kabushiki-gaisha Dōga Kōbō|literally "Video Workshop"}} is a Japanese animation studio formed by former Toei Animation members Hideo Furusawa and Megumu Ishiguro, located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. The studio was established on July 11, 1973, and is a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation.
Although the studio gained significant commercial success from their adaptations of yuri or yuri-ish anime like Koihime Musō and especially YuruYuri, the studio is also known for more traditional romantic shows such as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Plastic Memories, and Tada Never Falls in Love, and for slice of life comedy series such as Gabriel DropOut and Himouto! Umaru-chan.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}
In recent times the studio gained a wide popularity due to the anime adaptation of Oshi no Ko, a manga series written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari.
In July 2024, Kadokawa announced that it had acquired Doga Kobo.{{cite web|last=Hodgkins|first=Crystalyn|title=Kadokawa Acquires Anime Studio Doga Kobo |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-07-11/kadokawa-acquires-anime-studio-doga-kobo/.213100|website=Anime News Network|date=July 11, 2024|access-date=July 11, 2024}}
Productions
=Television series=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Director(s) ! scope="col" | Animation producer(s) ! scope="col" | Source ! scope="col" | {{abbr|Eps.|Episodes}} ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | 2007
|style=text-align:center |Yasuhiro Kuroda |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |13 | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2008
|style=text-align:center |Tarō Iwasaki |style=text-align:center |Tazuko Fukudo |Light novel |13 | |
| Koihime†Musō
|style=text-align:center |Nobuaki Nakanishi |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2009
|style=text-align:center |Nobuaki Nakanishi |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |12 | |
| 11eyes
|style=text-align:center |Masami Shimoda |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Visual novel |12 | |
| scope="row" | 2010
| Shin Koihime†Musō: Otome Tairan |style=text-align:center |Nobuaki Nakanishi |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |12 | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2011
| A Bridge to the Starry Skies |style=text-align:center |Takenori Mihara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |12 |
| YuruYuri
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Tazuko Fukudo |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2012
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 | |
| Natsuyuki Rendezvous
|style=text-align:center |Kō Matsuo |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |11 |
| scope="row" rowspan="5" | 2013
| Mangirl! |style=text-align:center |Nobuaki Nakanishi |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |13 |
| GJ Club
|style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Light novel |12 |
| Majestic Prince (co-animated with Orange)
|style=text-align:center |Keitaro Motonaga |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Manga |24 |
| Love Lab
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}} |Manga |13 |
| Devils and Realist
|style=text-align:center |Chiaki Kon |style=text-align:center |Yoshiya Asato |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2014
|style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
|style=text-align:center |Mitsue Yamazaki |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Manga |12 |
| Laughing Under the Clouds
|style=text-align:center |Hiroshi Haraguchi |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2015
|style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}} |Original work |13 |
| Mikagura School Suite
|style=text-align:center |Tarō Iwasaki |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Light novel |12 |
| Himouto! Umaru-chan
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA
|style=text-align:center |Takashi Kawabata |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2016
|style=text-align:center |Koichi Chigira |style=text-align:center |Kenichi Motohashi |Original work |12 |
| Three Leaves, Three Colors
|style=text-align:center |Yasuhiro Kimura |style=text-align:center |Shouta Umehara |Manga |12 |
| New Game!
|style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
|style=text-align:center |Takashi Naoya |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Online game |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2017
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Kenichi Motohashi |Manga |12 |
| Hina Logi ~from Luck & Logic~
|style=text-align:center |Hiroaki Akagi |style=text-align:center |Kenichi Motohashi |Original work |12 |
| New Game!!
|style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 | |
| Himouto! Umaru-chan R
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 | |
| scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2018
|style=text-align:center |Tomoaki Koshida |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Video game |12 | |
| Tada Never Falls in Love
|style=text-align:center |Mitsue Yamazaki |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Original work |13 |
| Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| Anima Yell!
|style=text-align:center |Masako Sato |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2019
| Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me |style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| The Helpful Fox Senko-san
|style=text-align:center |Tomoaki Koshida |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
|style=text-align:center |Mitsue Yamazaki |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="5" | 2020
|style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Manga |12 |
| Sing "Yesterday" for Me
|style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |12 |
| Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
|style=text-align:center |Takaharu Okuma |style=text-align:center |Taiki Sekine |Manga |12 |
| Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
|style=text-align:center |Mitsue Yamazaki |style=text-align:center |Shingo Saitou |Manga |12 |
| Ikebukuro West Gate Park
|style=text-align:center |Tomoaki Koshida |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Novel |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2021
| Osamake |style=text-align:center |Takashi Naoya |style=text-align:center |Taiki Sekine |Light novel |12 |
| Selection Project
|style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Multi-media project |13 |
| My Senpai Is Annoying
|style=text-align:center |Ryota Itoh |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2022
| Chiikawa |style=text-align:center |Takenori Mihara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |{{TableTBA}} |
| RPG Real Estate
|style=text-align:center |Tomoaki Koshida |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Manga |12 |
| Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie
|style=text-align:center |Ryota Itoh |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Manga |12 |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2023
|style=text-align:center |Ka Hee Im |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Multi-media project |12 |
| Oshi no Ko
|style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Manga |11 |
| Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence
|style=text-align:center |Sumie Noro |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Manga |12 |
| rowspan="3" scope="row" | 2024
| Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night |style=text-align:center | Ryohei Takeshita |style=text-align:center | Shingo Saitou |Original work |12 |
| Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
|style=text-align:center |Ryota Itoh |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Light novel |12 |
| Oshi no Ko 2nd Season
|style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Manga |13 |
| rowspan="3" scope="row" | 2025
|style=text-align:center |Ryouki Kamitsubo |style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |Manga |{{TableTBA}} |
| Captivated, by You
|style=text-align:center |Asami Nakatani |style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |Manga |{{TableTBA}} |{{cite web|last=Hodgkins|first=Crystalyn|title=Anime of Yama Wayama's Let's Go Karaoke!, 'Captivated, by You' Manga Reveals Partial Cast, 2025 Debut|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-08/anime-of-yama-wayama-let-go-karaoke-captivated-by-you-manga-reveals-partial-cast-2025-debut/.217637|website=Anime News Network|access-date=November 8, 2024|date=November 8, 2024}} |
| Let's Go Karaoke!
|style=text-align:center |Asami Nakatani |style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |Manga |{{TableTBA}} |
| scope="row" | 2026
|style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |Manga |{{TableTBA}} |{{cite web|last=Cayanan|first=Joanna|title=Oshi no Ko Season 3 Premieres in 2026|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-02-02/oshi-no-ko-season-3-premieres-in-2026/.220758|website=Anime News Network|access-date=February 2, 2025|date=February 2, 2025}} |
| rowspan="3" scope="row" | {{TableTBA}}
| Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian 2nd Season |style=text-align:center |Ryota Itoh |style=text-align:center |Ryou Kobayashi |Light novel |{{TableTBA}} |
| Möbius Dust
|style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} | |{{TableTBA}} |
| Though I Am an Inept Villainess
|style=text-align:center |Mitsue Yamazaki |style=text-align:center |{{TableTBA}} |Light novel |{{TableTBA}} |{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-17/though-i-am-an-inept-villainess-light-novels-tv-anime-confirmed/.222479|title=Though I Am an Inept Villainess Light Novels' TV Anime Confirmed|website=Anime News Network|date=March 17, 2025|access-date=March 17, 2025}} |
=OVA/Short series=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Director(s) ! scope="col" | Animation producer(s) ! scope="col" | Source ! scope="col" | {{abbr|Eps.|Episodes}} ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | 1988
|style=text-align:center |Kimio Yabuki | |Manga |1 | |
| scope="row" | 2005
| Kahey no Umi |style=text-align:center |Hiroshi Hariguchi | |Biography |1 |
| scope="row" | 2006
| Memories Off 5: Togireta Film |style=text-align:center |Tarou Iwasaki |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |1 |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2010
| Shin Koihime†Musō LIVE Revolution |style=text-align:center |Nobuaki Nakanishi |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |1 | |
| 11eyes
|style=text-align:center |Masami Shimoda |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |1 |
| scope="row" | 2011
| A Bridge to the Starry Skies |style=text-align:center |Takenori Mihara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Eroge visual novel |1 |
| scope="row" | 2013
| Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco! |style=text-align:center |Takenori Mihara | |Manga |21 | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2014
| GJ Club@ |style=text-align:center |Yoshiyuki Fujiwara |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Light novel |1 |
| Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco! Season 2
|style=text-align:center |Takenori Mihara | |Manga |22 | |
| scope="row" | 2014–2015
|style=text-align:center |Mitsue Yamazaki |style=text-align:center |Yousuke Nakamura |Manga |6 |
| scope="row" | 2015–2017
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |2 |{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-06-13/himoto-umaru-chan-manga-inspires-video-anime/.89233|title=Himōto! Umaru-chan Manga Inspires Video Anime|website=Anime News Network|date=June 13, 2015|access-date=October 1, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-11-17/himoto-umaru-chan-gets-original-anime-disc-in-spring-2017/.108939|title=Himōto! Umaru-chan Gets Original Anime Disc in Spring 2017|website=Anime News Network|date=November 17, 2016|access-date=October 1, 2021}} |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2019
|style=text-align:center |Masahiko Ohta |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |1 |
| Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me
|style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Hajime Kamata |Manga |1 |
=Films=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Director(s) ! scope="col" | Animation producer(s) ! scope="col" | Source ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | 2017
|Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Makuai Kaisōroku~ |style=text-align:center |Takashi Naoya | |Video game |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2022
|Toku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ (3 films) |style=text-align:center |Takashi Naoya (1) | |Video game |
| Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me: Precious Friends
|style=text-align:center |Daisuke Hiramaki |style=text-align:center |Ryuu Kobayashi |Manga |
Notable staff
=Representative staff=
- Megumu Ishiguro (founder, first president from 1973~2006)
- Ryuu Ishiguro (second president since 2006)
- Kei Ishiguro (director/board member)
- Tazuko Fukudo (director/board member)
- Hajime Kamata (director/board member)
=Animation producers=
- Kenichi Motohashi (2003~2017)
- Yousuke Nakamura (2007~present)
- Shouta Umemhara (2010~2016)
- Taiki Sekine (2010~present)
- Saori Wakabayashi (2010~present)
- Shingo Saitou (2013~present)
- Ryou Kobayashi (2016~present)
=Production staff=
- {{ill|Satoko Sekine|ja|関根聡子}} (2005~??, production assistant and scriptwriter)
=Animators=
{{div col}}
- {{ill|Akihiko Nishiyama|ja|西山明樹彦}} (1983~1987)
- {{ill|Katsuichi Nakayama|ja|中山勝一}} (1983~??)
- {{ill|Masafumi Satou|ja|佐藤昌文}} (1985~??)
- {{ill|Hiroyuki Kanbe|ja|神戸洋行}} (1988~??)
- {{ill|Hisashi Mori (animator)|ja|森久司}} (1989~??)
- {{ill|Noboru Koizumi|ja|小泉昇}} (1989~??)
- {{ill|Susumu Mitsunaka|ja|満仲勧}} (2001~??)
- {{ill|Megumi Kagawa|ja|賀川愛}} (??)
- {{ill|Junichirou Taniguchi|ja|谷口淳一郎}} (??~present)
- {{ill|Takenori Mihara|ja|三原武憲}} (??~present)
{{div col end}}
Notes
{{notelist}}
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.dogakobo.com/en Official website] {{in lang|en}}
- {{anime News Network|company|id=228}}
{{Doga Kobo}}
{{Japanese animation studios}}
{{Kadokawa Corporation}}
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