TYO Animations

TYOアニメーションズ

TYO Animations (TYO Animations Inc) served as the corporate name for Yumeta Company (YUMETA CO., LTD.) between July 1, 2009, and December 1, 2017. The entity was originally established as Shizuoka Animation (Shizuoka Animation Co., Ltd.) on March 5, 1986, by Satoshi Yamaguchi, a former animator at Tama Production. The studio subsequently changed its name to Yumeta Company (YUMETA CO., LTD.) and became a subsidiary of TYO in January 2005. In July 2009, TYO merged its anime studio subsidiaries—Yumeta Company and Hal Film Maker—to create TYO Animations (TYO Animations Inc), with Hal Film Maker being absorbed into Yumeta Company. Satoshi Yamaguchi and Katsunori Haruta, the then-current representative directors of Yumeta Company and Hal Film Maker respectively, were appointed as representative directors of the new entity. According to TYO’s press release, the merger aimed to reduce costs associated with animation production and to strengthen planning and production capabilities. In December 2017, the studio was acquired by Memory-Tech Holdings from AOI TYO Holdings, placed under its Graphinica subsidiary, and its name was reverted to Yumeta Company.
After the formation of TYO Animations, the Hal Film Maker and Yumeta Company brands remained in use until 2010. All subsequent works, beginning with Plastic Neesan in 2011, were produced under the TYO Animations name until 2017. Notable works produced as TYO Animations include Tamayura: Hitotose (2011), Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji (2014), and Yuru Yuri San☆Hai! (2015).