About the studio
Shogakukan Productions is the earlier name for the company now operating as Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, or ShoPro, founded June 26, 1967. It didn't take its current, hyphenated name until 2008, when Shueisha acquired a capital stake in the business. *If you're seeing Shogakukan Productions credited on an older anime, that's the same company you'd find under ShoPro or Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions on something more recent.* Based in Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, the company has always functioned as a licensing and production committee entity rather than an animation studio, managing merchandising and adaptation rights for Doraemon, Chibi Maruko-chan, and co-production work on the Pretty Cure franchise. Nearly 60 years under one name or another, this company's core job, keeping Shogakukan and Shueisha's characters properly licensed and adapted, has stayed remarkably consistent even as the company's own name has changed.