About the studio
If you grew up watching Pokémon, Naruto, or One Piece air week after week in Japan, you were watching TV Tokyo. The network began broadcasting on April 12, 1964 as Tokyo Channel 12, went independent in 1968, and took the name TV Tokyo in 1981. Based in Roppongi, Tokyo, it's part of TV Tokyo Holdings, majority owned by the Nikkei media group. Here's the thing about TV Tokyo: it's the smallest of Japan's major terrestrial networks, but somehow it became the go-to home for anime, especially the long-running kind that turns into a decade-spanning franchise. *Underdog energy, and it works.* Rather than one-off specials, TV Tokyo built its identity on shows that stick around, Pokémon has aired there since 1997. For a network that started as a niche broadcaster, that's a pretty remarkable legacy to end up with.