Animal Ya

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Animal Ya, alternatively called Animal House, is a Japanese studio established sometime in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Since 2003, one of their production arms, Studio Comet (a studio founded in 1986 by Ex-Tsuchida Production staff members after the studio went out of business, which after that, Comet was funding by Animal Ya), split from them.

For sake of simplicity, both companies have been combined into this article.

Compare TMS Entertainment, Toei Animation, and Madhouse, other anime companies that have had a presence in Western Animation (TMS in particular). Do not confuse for Animal House (see Name's the Same).

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Shows (Anime & American) worked on by Animal-Ya/Studio Comet

• Art of Fighting
• Bonkers (animation Outsourced by Walt Disney Animation Japan for The Cheap Sheep Sweep, Luna-Toons, Hand Over the Dough, The Toon That Ate Hollywood and Cartoon Cornered)
• Capeta
• Captain Tsubasa J
• Dragon Warrior
• Freakazoid! (Plus the opening, as Animal House; with Koko Enterprises/Dong Yang, Seoul Movie and Tama Productions)
• Gargoyles (Paired with Jade Animation and Morning Sun)
• Goof Troop (outsourced by WDAJ and Tama)
• Humanoid Monster Bem (2nd series)
• Jewelpet
• The Little Mermaid (subcontracted by WDAJ)
• The Marshmallow Times
• Miami Guns (with Group TAC)
• The Mighty Ducks (four episodes; with WDAJ, Sunwoo, Wang Film Productions, Koko and Plus One Animation)
• Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm (With Hong Ying)
• Onegai My Melody
• Peach Girl
• Saint October
• School Rumble
• Several Jetlag Productions films.
• Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children: Light & Dark (With Actas)
• Sora no Manimani
• Super Inventor Boy Kanipan
• Suzuka
• Wan Wan Serebu Soreyuke! Tetsunoshin
• What a Cartoon Show (With Wang, Rough Draft Studios, Kennedy Cartoons, Carbunkle Cartoons, Star Toons and other studios)

Other Anime Worked on by Animal-Ya/Studio Comet

• A Channel (In-Between Animation)
• Ah! My Goddess (In-Between Animation for The Movie)
• Ai Yori Aoshi (In-Between Animation)
• Akira (Animation Cooperation, with Studio Gainax, Kyoto Animation, Mook DLE, Studio DEEN, Studio Pierrot, Studio Fantasia and others. Led by TMS Entertainment)
• Anpanman (In-Between Animation)
• Black Jack (1994 OVA, Animation)
• Bleach (Animation)
• Blood Plus (In-Between Animation)
• Burn Up (Animation Cooperation for Scramble)
• Cardfight Vanguard (Production Assistance with TMS for six episodes)
• A Certain Scientific Railgun (2nd Key & In-Between Animation
• Le Chevalier d'Eon (In-Between Animation)
• The Daughter of Twenty Faces (Production Cooperation with Studio BONES and TMS for two episodes)
• Darker than Black (In-Between Animation)
• DearS (Animation)
• Durarara!! (In-Between Animation)
• Eyeshield 21 (Animation)
• Fairy Tail (In-Between Animation)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (In-Between Animation; Production Assistance)
• Gintama (In-Between Animation)
• Gosick (In-Between Animation)
• Halo Legends (In-Between Animation)
• Hayate the Combat Butler (In-Between Animation, second series)
• Heroman (In-Between Animation)
• IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (In-Between Animation)
• Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (Animation Cooperation for A-Un, 2D animation only, all CGI animation is done by Hal Laboratory themselves with Game Cube hardware)
• Lupin III (Key Animation for Dead or Alive and From Russia With Love)
• Nodame Cantabile (In-Between Animation for Finale)
• Overman King Gainer (In-Between Animation)
• Pandora Hearts (In-Between Animation)
• Saki (2nd Key Animation)
• SHUFFLE! (In-Between Animation)
• Skip Beat! (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Soul Eater (In-Between Animation)
• Spider Riders (In-Between Animation)
• Squid Girl (In-Between Animation)
• Steel Angel Kurumi (Animation)
• Sword of the Stranger (In-Between Animation)
• ~Tokyo Magnitude 8.0~ (In-Between Animation)
• Toradora! (2nd Key Animation)
• Valkyria Chronicles (2nd Key Animation)
• You're Under Arrest (In-Between Animation)

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Animal Ya provides examples of the following tropes:

• Animation Bump
• Conspicuous CG: Kirby (yet Hal did all the CG themselves); School Rumble made fun of it.
• Off-Model: Suzuka and Gargoyles mostly.