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Doga Kobo

Japanese animation studio

Summary

Japanese animation studio

Field	Value
name	Doga Kobo, Inc.
native_name	株式会社動画工房
native_name_lang	ja
logo	Doga Kobo Logo.svg
image	Doga Kobo Anime Office Nerima.jpg
image_caption	Headquarters in Nerima, Tokyo
type	Kabushiki gaisha
foundation
key_people
founder	Megumu Ishiguro
location	Toyotamakita
location_city	Nerima, Tokyo
location_country	Japan
industry	Japanese animation
num_employees	62 (as of June 2024)
parent	Kadokawa Corporation
divisions	Photography Department
website

Doga Kobo, Inc. is a Japanese animation studio formed by former Toei Animation members Hideo Furusawa and Megumu Ishiguro, located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. The studio was established on July 11, 1973, and is a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation.

Although the studio gained significant commercial success from their adaptations of yuri or yuri-ish anime like Koihime Musō and especially YuruYuri, the studio is also known for more traditional romantic shows such as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Plastic Memories, and Tada Never Falls in Love, and for slice of life comedy series such as Gabriel DropOut and Himouto! Umaru-chan.

In recent times the studio gained a wide popularity due to the anime adaptation of Oshi no Ko, a manga series written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari.

In July 2024, Kadokawa announced that it had acquired Doga Kobo. Later in December 2024, Sony, which had acquired shares in the company in 2021, had acquired 10% shares of Kadokawa, including Doga Kobo. Sony is the parent company of global anime distributor, Crunchyroll, LLC, which is a joint venture of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex.

Productions

Television series

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.	Refs.	2007	2008	2009	2010
Myself ; Yourself	Yasuhiro Kuroda
Tetsuaki Matsuda
(chief episode director)	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Visual novel	13
Ryoko's Case File	Tarō Iwasaki	Tazuko Fukudo
Ryuu Ishiguro	Light novel	13
Koihime†Musō	Nobuaki Nakanishi	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	12
Shin Koihime†Musō	Nobuaki Nakanishi	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	12
11eyes	Masami Shimoda	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Visual novel	12
Shin Koihime†Musō: Otome Tairan	Nobuaki Nakanishi	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	12
A Bridge to the Starry Skies	Takenori Mihara	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	12
YuruYuri	Masahiko Ohta	Tazuko Fukudo	Manga	12
YuruYuri♪♪	Masahiko Ohta	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Natsuyuki Rendezvous	Kō Matsuo	Hajime Kamata	Manga	11
Mangirl!	Nobuaki Nakanishi	Hajime Kamata	Manga	13
GJ Club	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Hajime Kamata	Light novel	12
Majestic Prince (co-animated with Orange)	Keitaro Motonaga	Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	24
Love Lab	Masahiko Ohta	Producer:
Hajime Kamata	Manga	13
Devils and Realist	Chiaki Kon	Yoshiya Asato	Manga	12
Engaged to the Unidentified	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun	Mitsue Yamazaki	Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	12
Laughing Under the Clouds	Hiroshi Haraguchi	Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	12
Plastic Memories	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Producer:
Hajime Kamata	Original work	13
Mikagura School Suite	Tarō Iwasaki	Yousuke Nakamura	Light novel	12
Himouto! Umaru-chan	Masahiko Ohta	Hajime Kamata
Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	12
Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA	Takashi Kawabata	Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	12
Luck & Logic	Koichi Chigira	Kenichi Motohashi	Original work	12
Three Leaves, Three Colors	Yasuhiro Kimura	Shouta Umehara	Manga	12
New Game!	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru	Takashi Naoya	Yousuke Nakamura	Online game	12
Gabriel DropOut	Masahiko Ohta	Kenichi Motohashi	Manga	12
Hina Logi ~from Luck & Logic~	Hiroaki Akagi	Kenichi Motohashi	Original work	12
New Game!!	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Himouto! Umaru-chan R	Masahiko Ohta	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Zoku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru	Tomoaki Koshida	Hajime Kamata	Video game	12
Tada Never Falls in Love	Mitsue Yamazaki	Hajime Kamata	Original work	13
Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!	Masahiko Ohta	Hajime Kamata
Shingo Saitou	Manga	12
Anima Yell!	Masako Sato	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me	Daisuke Hiramaki	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
The Helpful Fox Senko-san	Tomoaki Koshida	Hajime Kamata
Taiki Sekine	Manga	12
How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?	Mitsue Yamazaki	Hajime Kamata
Shingo Saitou	Manga	12
Asteroid in Love	Daisuke Hiramaki	Ryou Kobayashi	Manga	12
Sing "Yesterday" for Me	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Hajime Kamata	Manga	12
Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater	Takaharu Okuma	Taiki Sekine	Manga	12
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle	Mitsue Yamazaki	Shingo Saitou	Manga	12
Ikebukuro West Gate Park	Tomoaki Koshida	Ryou Kobayashi
Shingo Saitou	Novel	12
Osamake	Takashi Naoya	Taiki Sekine	Light novel	12
Selection Project	Daisuke Hiramaki	Ryou Kobayashi	Multi-media project	13
My Senpai Is Annoying	Ryota Itoh	Ryou Kobayashi
Shingo Saitou	Manga	12
Chiikawa	Takenori Mihara	Hajime Kamata
Saori Wakabayashi	Manga
RPG Real Estate	Tomoaki Koshida	Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	12
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie	Ryota Itoh	Ryou Kobayashi
Shingo Saitou	Manga	12
Technoroid Overmind	Ka Hee Im	Hajime Kamata
Shingo Saitou	Multi-media project	12
Oshi no Ko	Daisuke Hiramaki	Ryou Kobayashi	Manga	11
Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence	Sumie Noro	Ryou Kobayashi	Manga	12
Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night	Ryohei Takeshita	Shingo Saitou	Original work	12
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian	Ryota Itoh	Ryou Kobayashi	Light novel	12
Oshi no Ko (season 2)	Daisuke Hiramaki	Ryou Kobayashi	Manga	13
The Shiunji Family Children	Ryouki Kamitsubo	Ryou Kobayashi	Manga	12
Let's Go Karaoke!	Asami Nakatani	Manga	5	last=Hodgkins	first=Crystalyn	title=Anime of Yama Wayama's Let's Go Karaoke!, 'Captivated, by You' Manga Reveals Partial Cast, 2025 Debut	url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-08/anime-of-yama-wayama-let-go-karaoke-captivated-by-you-manga-reveals-partial-cast-2025-debut/.217637	website=Anime News Network	access-date=November 8, 2024	date=November 8, 2024}}
Captivated, by You	Asami Nakatani	Manga	5
Oshi no Ko (season 3)	Daisuke Hiramaki	Ryou Kobayashi	Manga	11
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (season 2)	Hiroshi Haraguchi		Light novel
Though I Am an Inept Villainess	Mitsue Yamazaki		Light novel
Möbius Dust

OVA/Short series

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.
Space Family Carlvinson	Kimio Yabuki		Manga	1
Kahey no Umi	Hiroshi Hariguchi
Toshirou Kuni		Biography	1
Memories Off 5: Togireta Film	Tarou Iwasaki	Hajime Kamata
Tazuko Fukuchi	Visual novel	1
Shin Koihime†Musō LIVE Revolution	Nobuaki Nakanishi	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	1
11eyes	Masami Shimoda	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	1
A Bridge to the Starry Skies	Takenori Mihara	Hajime Kamata
Ryuu Ishiguro	Eroge visual novel	1
Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco!	Takenori Mihara		Manga	21
GJ Club@	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Hajime Kamata	Light novel	1
Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco! Season 2	Takenori Mihara		Manga	22
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun	Mitsue Yamazaki	Yousuke Nakamura	Manga	6	.
Himouto! Umaru-chan	Masahiko Ohta	Hajime Kamata
Yousuke Nakamura (1)	Manga	2
Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!	Masahiko Ohta	Hajime Kamata
Shingo Saitou	Manga	1
Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me	Daisuke Hiramaki	Hajime Kamata	Manga	1

Films

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Makuai Kaisōroku~	Takashi Naoya		Video game
Toku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ (3 films)	Takashi Naoya (1)
Tomoaki Koshida (2)
Sumie Noro (3)		Video game
Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me: Precious Friends	Daisuke Hiramaki	Ryuu Kobayashi	Manga

Others

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Refs.	2023
"Idol" music video	Naoya Nakayama	Ryō Kobayashi	Song

Notable staff

Representative staff

Megumu Ishiguro (founder, first president from 1973~2006)
Ryuu Ishiguro (second president since 2006)
Kei Ishiguro (director/board member)
Tazuko Fukudo (director/board member)
Hajime Kamata (director/board member)

Animation producers

Kenichi Motohashi (2003~2017)
Yousuke Nakamura (2007~present)
Shouta Umemhara (2010~2016)
Taiki Sekine (2010~present)
Saori Wakabayashi (2010~present)
Shingo Saitou (2013~present)
Ryou Kobayashi (2016~present)

Production staff

(2005~??, production assistant and scriptwriter)

Animators

(1983~1987)
(1983~??)
(1985~??)
(1988~??)
(1989~??)
(1989~??)
(2001~??)
(??)
(??~present)
(??~present)

Notes

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