Who owns Toei Animation?
Toei Animation is owned by Toei (Japan, TSE: 9605).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Toei Group Integrated Report 2025 (English), Toei Company, Ltd, 1 December 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- TOEI COMPANY, LTD. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1956
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Film & television › Animation studios
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 9605
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Toei Animation
Toei Animation began in 1956 as Toei Doga, when Toei acquired Nichido Film and started full-scale production of animated works. The company, a consolidated Toei subsidiary, produces and sells visual content and licenses visual and character merchandising rights, selling DVDs, Blu-rays and other home video, and runs sales subsidiaries in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Paris, a video editing arm in the Philippines and a Shanghai company.
Ownership timeline of Toei Animation
Where Toei Animation sits in Toei
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Toei
Toei controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- T-Joy (2000)
- Toei (1951)
- Toei Video (1970)
- Uzumasa Kyoto Village (1975)
Other brands in animation studios, and who owns them
The 13 brands in animation studios on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is TOHO, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Science SARU | TOHO | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Doga Kobo | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| House of Cool | WildBrain | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Studio Bazooka | CJ ENM | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| DreamWorks Animation | Comcast | 🇺🇸 United States |
| NITRO PLUS | CyberAgent | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Pixar | Disney | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Tatsunoko Production | Nippon TV Holdings | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Toei
Toei is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1951. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 9605.
Toei is a Tokyo film company founded in 1951 as a film production company, listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under code 9605. Its integrated report describes a group of 16 domestic and 5 overseas consolidated subsidiaries working across film and video, entertainment, events, tourism real estate and architectural interior design. Group films and television are made in Tokyo and Kyoto studios; animation, home video, a cinema chain and a studio theme park each sit in separate group companies.
🇯🇵 Toei Animation and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Toei Animation is not one of them.
- Aggretsuko — Sanrio 🇯🇵
- BS Nippon — Nippon TV Holdings 🇯🇵
- Doga Kobo — Kadokawa 🇯🇵
- Godzilla — TOHO 🇯🇵
- Gundam — Bandai Namco 🇯🇵
- NITRO PLUS — CyberAgent 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Toei Animation?
The parent company of Toei Animation is Toei, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Toei Animation Japanese?
Yes. Toei Animation originated in Japan in 1956 and its owner, Toei, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Toei Animation still owned by Toei?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Toei Animation is still owned by Toei. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Toei Group Integrated Report 2025 (English) — Toei Company, Ltd., Annual report, published 1 December 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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