OLM

オー・エル・エム

OLM (OLM, Inc.), previously called Oriental Light & Magic (Oriental Light & Magic, Inc.) before June 1994, is a Japanese animation and production studio located in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. On October 3, 1990, former employees of Gallop and OB Planning, led by Toshiaki Okuno, Shuukichi Kanda, Shouji Oota, Kunihiko Yuyama, Naohito Takahashi, Yuriko Chiba, Nobuyuki Wasaki, Tsukasa Koitabashi, and Takaya Mizutani, founded OLM as Oriental Light & Magic (Oriental Light & Magic, Inc.). Since its founding, OLM has established various subsidiaries that make up the OLM Group: OLM Digital, Inc. (April 1997); OLM MUSIC, Inc. (June 2012); OLM Ventures Inc. (June 2017); OLM Asia SDN BHD (December 2017); Viracocha Inc. (March 1997); and Sprite Entertainment, Inc. (May 2002). Since April 2016, OLM has operated as a majority-owned subsidiary of the IMAGICA Group.
As of 2023, the studio is split into six production teams: OLM TEAM INOUE, consisting of former TEAM WASAKI employees led by Takashi Inoue; OLM TEAM KATO, made up of former employees from TEAM OTA, TEAM IGUCHI, TEAM IWASA, and TEAM KAMEI, led by Hiroyuki Kato; OLM TEAM YOSHIOKA, comprising former TEAM IWASA and TEAM WASAKI employees led by Daisuke Yoshioka; OLM TEAM MASUDA, led by former MAPPA producer Katsudo Masuda; OLM TEAM ABE, led by former SynergySP producer Isamu Abe; and OLM TEAM MIIKE, an OLM Digital division that produces live-action works under the direction of Takashi Miike and is led by Misako Saka.