Madhouse (company)
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| MADHOUSE Ltd. 株式会社マッドハウス | |
|---|---|
| Type | Business corporation |
| Founded | October 17 1972 |
| Headquarters | Image:Flag of Japan.svg Ogikubo, Suginami-ku, Tokyo |
| Key people | Jungo Maruta, President |
| Industry | Animation studio and production enterprise |
| Owner | Index Holdings (majority shareholder) Nippon Television Dentsu Sony Pictures Entertainment Hakuhodo DY WOWOW |
| Website | http://www.madhouse.co.jp/ |
MADHOUSE Ltd. (株式会社 マッドハウス Kabushiki-gaisha Maddohausu?) is a Japanese animation studio, founded in the early 1970s by ex–Mushi Pro animators including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It has created and helped to produce many well known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! in 1973, and including western favourites Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Trigun and Di Gi Charat. Madhouse produced animation in OVA format in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but unlike studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was in TV shows and theatrical features. They were also responsible for the first Beyblade anime series as well as the Dragon Drive anime.
Another close tie to the studio is mangaka Naoki Urasawa. Madhouse has made adaptations of three of his manga: Yawara!, Master Keaton and Monster. They have also animated some of CLAMP's catalogue: Tokyo Babylon, two versions of X, Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits.
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[edit] Films
Their theatrical work includes assistance on the Barefoot Gen films, an anime movie based on the space opera Lensman series by pulp science fiction legend E.E. "Doc" Smith, animating the Osamu Tezuka version of Metropolis as well as two feature-length films for Sanrio starring Tezuka's unicorn character Unico, and producing all four (to date) of Satoshi Kon's films: Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika. Madhouse produced the 2003 anime film, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, which was adapted from the seinen manga Nasu by Iou Kuroda and directed by Studio Ghibli veteran Kitaro Kosaka.
[edit] List of anime series
- Ace o Nerae!
- Akagi
- Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution
- Azuki-chan
- Barefoot Gen
- Batman: Gotham Knight
- Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
- Beyblade (all seasons)
- Birdy the Mighty
- Black Lagoon
- Bobby's In Deep!
- Boogiepop Phantom
- The Boondocks (Season 2)
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran
- Chance Pop Session
- Chobits
- Claymore
- Clover
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Death Note
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Dennou Coil
- Devil May Cry
- Di Gi Charat
- Di Gi Charat Nyo
- Dragon Drive
- Galaxy Angel
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Gokusen
- Gungrave
- Gunslinger Girl
- Hajime no Ippo
- Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
- Ichigo 100%
- Ikki Tousen
- Kaibutsu Oujo
- Kaiji
- Kemonozume
- Kiba
- Killer 7
- Lament of the Lamb
- Last Order: Final Fantasy VII
- Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro
- Master Keaton
- MapleStory (anime)
- Metropolis
- Millennium Actress
- Mokke
- Monster
- Nana
- Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
- Nineteen19
- Oh! Edo Rocket
- Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin
- Paprika
- Paradise Kiss
- Paranoia Agent
- Perfect Blue
- "Program" (The Animatrix)
- Record of Lodoss War
- Reign
- Shigurui
- Strawberry Panic!
- Sweet Valerian
- Tenjho Tenge
- Texhnolyze
- Tokyo Babylon
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Trigun X
- Trigun
- Tsuki no Warutsu
- Unico
- Uninhabited Planet Survive!
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- Wicked City
- A Wind Named Amnesia
- "World Record" (The Animatrix)
- WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
- X
- Yona Yona Penguin
[edit] Collaborations
Madhouse worked with Square Enix on the OVA Last Order: Final Fantasy VII. They also contributed to Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's 2004 feature, Howl's Moving Castle.
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Madhouse Official Site
- Madhouse Studios at Anime News Network's Encyclopediade:Madhouse (Studio)
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