Oh! Production

Oh! Production

Native name	有限会社オープロダクション
Romanized name	Yūgen-gaisha Ō Purodakushon
Company type	Yūgen-gaisha
Industry	Anime
Founded	May 1970; 54 years ago (May 1970)
Founder	Norio Shioyama Kōichi Murata Kazuo Komatsubara Kōshin Yonekawa
Headquarters	Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Number of employees	26 (as of 2009)
Website	Official site

Oh! Production Co., Ltd., (Japanese: 有限会社オープロダクション, Hepburn: Yūgen-gaisha Ō Purodakushon), sometimes credited as Oh! Pro or Oh-Pro, is an anime production studio in Amanuma, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in May 1970 by animators Norio Shioyama, Kōichi Murata, Kazuo Komatsubara, and Kōshin Yonekawa.^[1][2]

Former members

• Kazuo Komatsubara (deceased, founding member of Oh! Pro, animation director)
• Kitarō Kōsaka
• Norio Shioyama (deceased, founding member of Oh! Pro, animation director)
• Kazuhide Tomonaga (left in 1978, currently one of the head animation directors of Telecom Animation Film)

Works

OVAs

• Devilman: The Birth (1987)
• Devilman: The Demon Bird (1990)

Films

• Furiten-kun (1981)
• Jarinko Chie (1981) (supporting animation)
• Gauche the Cellist (1982)
• Fair, then Partly Piggy (1988)
• Umi Da! Funade Da! Nikoniko, Pun (1990)
• La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008)

Game animation

• Tales of Symphonia (2003)

References

1. Ettinger, Benjamin (2006-12-29). "Koichi Murata & Oh Pro". AniPages Daily. Retrieved 2007-05-14.
2. オープロとは？ (in Japanese). Oh! Production. Archived from the original on 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2007-05-14.

External links

• (in Japanese) Official site
• Oh! Production at Anime News Network's encyclopedia