About the studio
Worth a quick disambiguation upfront: this Seven, founded September 2007 and based in Kamiogi, Suginami, Tokyo, is a distinct studio from the similarly named Seven Arcs, and the two are sometimes mixed up in fan databases. This Seven was founded by Taku Horie, a former Wao World producer, with many staff coming from the bankrupt Radix Ace Entertainment. *Building a studio partly from the wreckage of a company that didn't make it, a scrappy kind of origin story.* Its catalog includes Ai-Mai-Mi, King's Game The Animation, and Holmes of Kyoto, generally mid-tier TV series and OVAs rather than major flagship franchises. Nearly two decades in, Seven has settled into a smaller but steady production role in the industry, the kind of studio that keeps working without necessarily becoming a household name.