About the studio
Shogakukan was founded August 8, 1922 by Takeo Oga, originally with a focus on educational publishing, before growing into one of Japan's Big Three manga publishers alongside sister company Shueisha (which it founded) and Hakusensha. Together, they're known as the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing conglomerates in the world. *Started as textbooks, ended up publishing Detective Conan. Career pivots don't get much bigger.* Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Shogakukan publishes Weekly Shōnen Sunday, home to franchises like Detective Conan, InuYasha, and Ranma ½, and its catalog includes Doraemon's original manga too. As with the other major publishers, Shogakukan's role in anime is upstream, spotting and publishing the source material, then often joining production committees when it gets adapted. Over a century after its founding, Shogakukan remains a cornerstone of the manga industry, the kind of publisher whose magazines have quietly shaped what anime worthy even means.