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1[[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Xebeclogo160_1959.png]]
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3Xebec, Inc. was an anime studio known primarily for the anime of ''Manga/LoveHina,'' ''Manga/ToLoveRu'''s anime adaptations, ''Manga/ShamanKing'' and the ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}'' franchise.
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5Founded by former Ashi Productions producer Yukinao Shimoji, literary manager Toru Sato and animator Nobuyoshi Habara on May 1, 1995, the studio was a subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG. As such, they had a tendency to use [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CG]] in some of their animation. They also utilized similar sound effects to the ones that Creator/{{Sunrise}} use.
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7In 2002, the company established Creator/TripleA as a subsidiary. Triple A became independent in 2005.
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9In 2003, the company re-organized Studio Z5 as a subsidiary under the name XEBEC M2. It was disbanded in 2009, with some of its staff transferred to XEBEC zwei.
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11In 2018, the studio's parent company, IG Port, sold XEBEC to Creator/{{Sunrise}} after constant deficits that the subsidiary had in different years. In March 2019, the studio was rebranded Sunrise Beyond; while its paint and photography divisions were absorbed into Signal.MD and I.G itself, respectively. The studio was officially shut down on May 31 of that year, with the copyrights to its works reverting to IG Port. Their final completed project, ''Fafner: The Beyond'', premiered on May 17, two weeks before Xebec's shuttering.
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13See also Creator/ToonCity, Creator/RoughDraftStudios, Creator/DRMovie, Creator/DigitalEMation & Creator/{{GONZO}}, other studios that use CG in their animation.
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16!!Anime Xebec animated:
17[[index]]
18* ''Anime/{{Avenger}}'' (With Creator/BeeTrain)
19* ''Baku Tech! Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' (Replacing Creator/TMSEntertainment and Creator/JapanVistec)
20* ''Manga/BakusouKyoudaiLetsAndGo''
21* ''Anime/BangDream''
22* ''Manga/BottleFairy''
23* ''Manga/BlueSeed Beyond'' (with Production I.G)
24* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' (with Creator/StudioDEEN)
25* ''Literature/ClockworkPlanet''
26* ''Animation/CubixRobotsForEveryone'' (with Creator/{{Cinepix}} and Creator/DaiWon; also produced the Japanese Dub)
27* ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara: The Movie''
28* ''Anime/DaiGuard''
29* ''Anime/DICE2005'' (with [[Creator/WangFilmProductions CGCG]], Creator/StudioBihou and Studio Galapagos)
30* ''Manga/DNAngel''
31* ''Anime/ElementalGelade''
32* ''Anime/ExDriver'' (With Creator/{{Actas}}; episode 1 only)
33* ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor''
34* ''[[Literature/FullMetalPanic Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory]]''
35* ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'' (all series, with Creator/OLMIncorporated)
36* ''Manga/HenZemi''
37* ''Anime/HeroicAge''
38* ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}''
39* ''Manga/{{Keijo}}''
40* ''Literature/LadiesVersusButlers''
41* ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne''
42* ''Manga/LoveHina''
43* ''Anime/MaoChan''
44* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico''
45** ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' (even in the ''Nadesico'' universe, the show is credited to them!)
46* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior2002''
47* ''Literature/{{MM}}''
48* ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}''
49* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' (first series only. The second series, ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'', is done by Creator/StudioShaft)
50* ''Anime/OccultAcademy'' (with Creator/A1Pictures)
51* ''Manga/OutlawStar'' (with Sunrise, episodes 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 13 & 22[[labelnote:*]]episodes outsourced to Creator/StudioGiants[[/labelnote]])
52* ''Manga/PandoraHearts''
53* ''Manga/PilotCandidate''
54* ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'' (Episodes 2 & 3 with Studio Izena)
55* ''Anime/RioRainbowGate''
56* ''Anime/ShamanKing2001''
57* ''Manga/{{Softenni}}''
58* ''Manga/SorcererHunters'' - their first series
59* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'' (With Creator/{{AIC}})
60** ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2202''
61* ''Manga/SteamDetectives''
62* ''Anime/StellviaOfTheUniverse''
63* ''Literature/TheThirdTheGirlWithTheBlueEye''
64* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', ''Motto To Love-Ru'' and ''To Love-Ru Darkness''
65* ''Manga/TriageX''
66* ''Manga/{{Upotte}}''
67* ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'' (their last series under the Xebec name)
68* ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}'' (all series sans ''Fuzors'', Production Assistance on ''Genesis'')
69** ''Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury''
70** ''Anime/ZoidsNewCentury''
71* ''Manga/ZombieLoan''
72[[/index]]
73
74!!Other Projects Xebec worked on include:
75* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' (2nd Key Animation)
76* ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'' (In-Between Animation)
77* ''Anime/AKB0048'' (In-Between Animation)
78* ''Literature/{{Akikan}}'' (In-Between Animation)
79* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' (Animation)
80* ''Literature/AsuraCryin'' (Key & In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
81* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' (In-Between Animation)
82* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' (Animation)
83* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' (Photography Assistance)
84* ''[=BackGuiner=]'' (In-Between Animation)
85* ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty Decode:02'' (Paint)
86* ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' (Paint)
87* ''Anime/BloodC'' (In-Between Animation)
88** ''Anime/BloodPlus'' (In-Between Animation; Production Assistance)
89* ''Manga/BrokenBlade'' (In-Between Animation)
90* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' (Key & In-Between Animation; Animation Production Cooperation - series and four movies, including ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'')
91* ''Anime/LeChevalierDEon'' (In-Between Animation)
92* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvGUeGgnS4A Children of Ether]]'' (Complimentary Animation)
93* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' (In-Between Animation)
94* ''Anime/CoyoteRagtimeShow'' (In-Between Animation)
95* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' (In-Between Animation - all seasons)
96* ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' (In-Between Animation)
97* ''Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja'' (In-Between Animation)
98* ''Anime/EurekaSevenAO'' (2nd Key Animation)
99* ''Manga/FairyTail'' (In-Between Animation)
100* ''Anime/FancyLala'' (In-Between Animation)
101* ''Anime/{{Fractale}}'' (2nd Key Animation)
102* ''Anime/FullMoon'' (Animation Cooperation)
103* ''Anime/GaReiZero'' (2nd Key Animation; Animation Cooperation; Effects)
104* ''Anime/GatchamanCrowds'' (Photography)
105* ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'' (In-Between Animation)
106* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' (In-Between & 2nd Key Animation)
107* ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' (In-Between Animation)
108* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''
109** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' (In-Between Animation)
110** ''Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer'' (In-Between Animation)
111** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' (In-Between Animation)
112** ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' (In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
113* ''Anime/GunXSword'' (In-Between Animation)
114* ''[[VideoGame/GunparadeMarch Gunparade Orchestra]]'' (Finish & In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
115* ''Anime/HeroicAge'' (Production Cooperation)
116* ''Manga/{{Heroman}}'' (In-Between Animation; Production Assistance)
117* ''Manga/HouseOfFiveLeaves'' (2nd Key Animation)
118* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' (In-Between Animation, ''Can't Take My Eyes Off You'' and ''Cuties''; Digital Paint for the former)
119* ''Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai'' (In-Between Animation; Dreamcast version)
120* ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'' (In-Between Animation)
121* ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' (Finish & In-Between Animation)
122* ''Anime/KiddyGirlAnd'' (Key Animation)
123* ''Series/{{Kikaider}}'' (Production Assistance)
124* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' (In-Between Animation Assistance)
125* ''Anime/LupinIII''
126** ''Anime/LupinIIIElusivenessOfTheFog'' (In-Between Animation)
127** ''Anime/LupinIIISweetLostNight'' (Key Animation)
128** ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' (Key & In-Between Animation, Digital Paint and Animation Production Cooperation)
129* ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' (Key & In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
130* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
131* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' (In-Between Animation)
132* ''Franchise/MegaMan''
133** ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' (Cutscenes)
134** ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' (Cutscenes)
135** ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'' (Cutscenes)
136* ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' (Production Cooperation; episodes 7 & 9)
137* ''Manga/NatsuyukiRendezvous'' (Finish & In-Between Animation)
138* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (Animation for ''End of Evangelion'' and Finish & In-Between Animation for ''Death and Rebirth''. Also produced the later episodes of ''Anime/PetitEva'')
139* ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' (In-Between Animation)
140* ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' (In-Between Animation)
141* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove''
142* ''Literature/{{Oreimo}}'' (In-Between Animation)
143* ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' (In-Between Animation)
144* ''[[VideoGame/PhantasyStarI Phantasy Star Generation 1]]'' (Animation art)
145* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' (In-Between Animation)
146* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' (2nd Key Animation)
147* ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'' (In-Between Animation)
148* ''Anime/RealDrive'' (In-Between Animation)
149* ''VisualNovel/RoboticsNotes'' (In-Between Animation)
150* ''Anime/RODTheTV'' (In-Between Animation)
151* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' (In-Between Animation)
152* ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'' (Animation Assistance)
153* ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'' (2nd Key Animation)
154* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' (In-Between Animation, ''2nd Semester'')
155* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' (In-Between Animation, series; Key Animation, movie)
156* ''VideoGame/ShiningHearts'' (2nd Key Animation)
157* ''Manga/SketDance'' (In-Between Animation)
158* ''WesternAnimation/SkySurferStrikeforce'' (Photography; through Katsutoshi Hirose)
159* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}: The Motion Picture'' (Production Assistance)
160* ''Manga/SpaceBrothers'' (2nd Key Animation)
161* ''Manga/SquidGirl'' (In-Between Animation)
162* ''Anime/StarDriver'' (In-Between Animation)
163* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
164* ''Anime/TariTari'' (Finish Animation)
165* ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'' (In-Between Animation)
166* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' (In-Between Animation; Animation Assistance)
167* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' (Illustration work for the ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' Autobot Collection DVD set; through Nobuyoshi Habara)
168* ''Anime/UnlimitedPsychicSquad'' (2nd Key, Key & In-Between Animation)
169* ''Anime/UtaKata'' (In-Between Animation)
170* ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
171* ''VideoGame/WarioLand: Shake It!'' (In-Between Animation; Cutscenes)
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174!!Tropes associated with Xebec:
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176%%* BigBeautifulWoman
177* {{Fanservice}}: See ''Literature/{{Kanokon}},'' ''Literature/LadiesVersusButlers,'' ''Manga/LoveHina,'' ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi,'' ''Anime/RioRainbowGate,'' ''Manga/{{Softenni}},'' and ''Manga/ToLoveRu.''
178* PronouncingMyNameForYou: It's even in the company's logo.
179%%* MerchandiseDriven: ''Zoids.''

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