Animation studio Shin-Ei Animation introduced on Monday that it’s going to set up a brand new studio in Kobe Metropolis that can start operations in September. The corporate is presently recruiting animators and manufacturing managers for the brand new studio. Shin-Ei Animation Kobe Studio would be the firm’s first department exterior Tokyo.

Shin-Ei Animation is finest recognized for producing Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan, two long-running tv anime that each persistently rank among the many highest weekly rankings for animated applications in Japan. Daikichirō Kusube based the studio in 1976.

The studio’s current well-known sequence embrace Teasing Grasp Takagi-san, These Snow White Notes, and Pui Pui Molcar. The studio additionally incessantly co-produces anime with different studios, together with such current anime as The World Ends with You the Animation, Sweetness & Lightning, and the presently airing A Couple of Cuckoos.

Sources: Animation Enterprise Journal (Tadashi Sudo), Shin-Ei Animation‘s web site