Doga Kobo

動画工房

Doga Kobo (Doga Kobo, inc.) is a Japanese animation studio located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. Hideo Furusawa, who was involved in founding Toei Animation and NICHIDO SHIN PRO, along with Megumu Ishiguro, incorporated Doga Kobo, inc. as a limited company in July 1973. The entity was reorganized into a joint-stock company on July 11, 2006. That same month, the studio became a majority-owned subsidiary of TYO, joining its other animation subsidiaries at the time, Hal Film Maker and Yumeta Company. This arrangement ended in April 2009 when the studio left the TYO Group following Ryo Ishiguro’s management buyout of TYO’s shares. In April 2020, Doga Kobo Animation Department Co., Ltd. was established through an incorporation-type split from Doga Kobo’s animation department, aimed at improving conditions for its animators.
Since the studio began producing animations with Myself; Yourself in 2007, its notable works include Yuru Yuri (2011), Monthly Girls’ Nozaki Kun (2014), Plastic Memories (2015), New Game (2016), and Oshi No Ko (2023).