About the studio
Studio Comet was founded January 21, 1986 by Hiroshi Kanazawa, an animation director and character designer, alongside producer Kazuo Harada and animator Shin Misawa. Based in Nerima, Tokyo, the studio has built its filmography around long-running children's and toy-tie-in television anime. *Not every studio chases prestige, some just keep making solid, dependable kids' anime for decades, and that's a legitimate niche too.* Its detailed catalog is less widely documented in English-language sources than some flashier studios, though its longevity in the toy-tie-in space suggests a steady, reliable relationship with that particular corner of the industry. Nearly 40 years since its founding, Studio Comet exemplifies a kind of anime studio that rarely gets written up in retrospectives or best-of lists but has nonetheless kept working consistently, the unglamorous backbone of children's television animation.