Satelight

Not to be confused with Satellite.
SATELIGHT Inc.
株式会社サテライト
Business corporation
Industry Animation studio and production enterprise
Founded December 1995 in Sapporo, Hokkaidō
Headquarters Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
 Michiaki Satō (President)
Shōji Kawamori (Executive Director)[1]
Number of employees
 110 (April 2013)
Parent Sankyo Group
Website Satelight official site

Satelight Inc. (株式会社サテライト Kabushiki-gaisha Sateraito) is a Japanese animation studio which serves as a division of pachinko operator Sankyo Group. Aside from several stand alone projects, the studio is also known for producing the Aquarion and Symphogear franchises, and later installments of the Macross franchise.

History

The studio was founded in December 1995, in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, their first project being Bit the Cupid, the world's first fully digitally-animated television series.[2] The name Satelight consists of S for Sapporo, A for Animate, T for Technology and E for Entertainment. The company's president is Michiaki Satō. Noted anime director and creator Shōji Kawamori is an executive director at the studio.[1]

In 1996, the studio's next project was producing the CG animation for Group TAC's Īhatōbu Gensō: Kenji no Haru. It soon established a production studio in 1998 in Suginami, Tokyo. The studio soon produced their first television series, Kawamori's Chikyū Shōjo Arjuna in 2001. In 2006, the studio changed its headquarters from Sapporo to Tokyo.

Works

Productions

Games

Other involvement

References

  1. 1 2 "SATELIGHT Inc. : AboutUs　Corporate Profile". Archived from the original on December 5, 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  2. ↑ "SATELIGHT Inc. : AboutUs　Corporate history". Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-16.

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