(short for Japan Creative Staff) is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1986 by Tatsunoko Production alumnus Tomoyuki Miyata. They have produced several notable anime series. More credits can be found here.They have also produced all four shows that star Rie Kugimiya as her forte (and a later fifth one). There Are No Coincidences?
Shows produced by J.C. Staff:
- 8 Man After (with Ashi Productions)
- Ai Yori Aoshi
- Alien Nine
- Amanchu!
- Angels of Death
- Arcana Famiglia
- Aria the Scarlet Ammo (excluding the spin-off, Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA, which was animated by Dogakobo)
- Azumanga Daioh
- Babel II (OVA remake. The original series was produced by Toei Animation.)
- Bakuman。
- Best Student Council
- Betrayal Knows My Name
- Blue Reflection Ray
- Bondage Queen Kate
- Cat Soup
- A Certain Magical Index
- Cleopatra DC
- Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
- Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
- Date A Live (third season)
- The Demon Girl Next Door
- Descendants of Darkness
- The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (TV series)
- Doki Doki School Hours
- Dream Eater Merry
- The Duke of Death and His Black Maid
- Earthian
- EDENS ZERO
- Eiken
- Excel♡Saga
- The Executioner and Her Way of Life
- The Familiar of Zero
- Flying Witch
- Food Wars!
- Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun
- Garzey's Wing
- Ghost Hunt
- Golden Time
- GTO: The Early Years (OVA)
- Gunparade March
- Hatsukoi Limited
- Hayate the Combat Butler!! ("!!" indicates season 2; SynergySP produced the first season, while Manglobe did the movie and the 3rd series Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- Heaven's Memo Pad
- Heavy Object
- Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan (original OVA, with Movic)
- High Score Girl
- His and Her Circumstances (co-produced with Studio Gainax)
- Honey and Clover
- How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
- Iketeru Futari
- Ikki Tousen (1st series only; replaced by ARMS Corporation)
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
- Joshiraku
- Karin
- Kill Me Baby
- Kimikiss
- Little Busters!
- A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
- Love Stage!!
- Loveless
- Maburaho
- Magimoji Rurumo
- Maid-Sama!
- Marginal #4 Kiss Kara Tsukuru Big Bang
- Maze Megaburst Space
- Melody of Oblivion (co-produced with Studio Gainax)
- Mewkledreamy
- Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club (with A.C.G.T.)
- Nabari no Ou
- Nanaka 6/17
- New Dominion Tank Police
- Nodame Cantabile
- Ōkami-san
- Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo
- One-Punch Man (second season)
- Otome Youkai Zakuro
- PaRappa the Rapper
- The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
- Potemayo
- Princess Army: Wedding★Combat
- Prison School
- Puni Puni☆Poemi
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- R.O.D the TV (With Studio DEEN)
- Rune Soldier Louie
- selector infected WIXOSS
- Shakugan no Shana
- Shigofumi
- Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist
- Shingetsutan Tsukihime (
though its existence is widely questioned) - Sing a Bit of Harmony
- Sky Girls
- Slayers (all series)
- Sorcerer Stabber Orphen
- Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko
- Starship Operators
- The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest
- Super Dimension Century Orguss (OVAs only, series by Studio Nue and TMS Entertainment)
- Sweet Blue Flowers
- Taboo-Tattoo
- Taishō Baseball Girls
- Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
- Toradora!
- UQ Holder! (with TYO Animations)
- Urara Meirocho
- Vatican Miracle Examiner
- Virus Buster Serge
- Voltage Fighters: Gowcaizer the Movie
- Waiting in the Summer
Other Projects:
- Ah! My Goddess: The Movie (Finish & In-Between Animation)
- A.I.C.O. Incarnation (In-Between Animation)
- Astro Boy (Backgrounds, 2003 series)
- Attack on Titan: Junior High (Finish Animation)
- Avenger (Finish Animation)
- Back Arrow (2nd Key Animation)
- Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail (Photography)
- Blade of the Immortal (In-Between Animation)
- Blood+ (Finish & In-Between Animation)
- BNA: Brand New Animal (2nd Key Animation)
- Bodacious Space Pirates (In-Between Animation)
- Bubble (2nd Key Animation)
- Buddy Daddies (2D Works)
- Case Closed (In-Between Animation)
- Catherine (In-Between Animation, cutscenes)
- Chainsaw Man (2nd Key Animation)
- Code Geass (In-Between Animation, R2 season)
- Cowboy Bebop (In-Between Animation)
- Cromartie High School (Finish Animation)
- Cross Ange (Finish Animation)
- Cyberteam In Akihabara (Animation Cooperation; Key Animation)
- Dark Gathering (2D Works)
- DARLING in the FRANXX (Finish Animation)
- Days (2nd Key Animation)
- Dante's Inferno: The Animated Epic (In-Between Animation)
- Darker than Black (Finish & In-Between Animation)
- Double Decker (Backgrounds)
- Double Dragon (1995 arcade) (assistance)
- éX-Driver (Photography)
- Fairy Tail (In-Between Animation)
- Fate/Zero (Finish Animation)
- FLCL (In-Between Animation)
- Flip Flappers (Line Test)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) (In-Between Animation)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (In-Between Animation)
- Getter Robo: Armageddon (Key Animation)
- Girls Band Cry (Cooperation)
- Guin Saga (Backgrounds; In-Between Animation, uncredited)
- Hand Maid May (Key Animation; Digital completion)
- Heroman (In-Between Animation)
- High Card (Backgrounds; 2D Works)
- IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (Finish Animation)
- Sunday Without God (Backgrounds)
- Key the Metal Idol (Finish Animation; Photography)
- Kuromukuro (Monitor Graphics)
- The Little Mermaid (1992) (For Walt Disney Animation Japan)List
- Macross Frontier (In-Between Animation)
- Madlax (Finish Animation)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (In-Between Animation)
- Gundam Build Fighters (Photography)
- Gundam: Reconguista in G (Line Test)
- My Hero Academia (In-Between Animation)
- New Game! (Finish & In-Between Animation)
- Noir (Finish Animation)
- Photon (Photography)
- The Prince of Tennis (Production with Production I.G and Trans Arts)
- Princess Principal (Finish & In-Between Animation; Line Test)
- Re:CREATORS (In-Between Animation)
- Re:Zero (Finish Animation)
- Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? (Finish Animation)
- Sakura Wars: The Movie (Finish Animation)
- Skull Man (In-Between Animation)
- Soul Eater (In-Between Animation)
- Speed Grapher (Backgrounds)
- Spy Classroom (2nd Key Animation)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legend of the Supermutants (Photography)
- Tiger & Bunny (In-Between Animation)
- Trigun (In-Between Animation)
- Ultima IV (illustrations - NES version)
- Wild 7 (Production Cooperation for episode 2note )
- You're Under Arrest! (Animation Assistance and Finish Animation for the OVA)
- Yuri!!! on Ice (Photography)
- YuYu Hakusho (Production Cooperation)
More credits can be found here.
Tropes Associated with JC Staff:
- Black Comedy: Prison School.
- Deranged Animation: In Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemi.
- Fanservice: Got a reputation for this for a time, largely due to Eiken, Ikki Tousen, Maburaho, and Familiar of Zero. Their recent work isn't as heavy on it, for the most part.
- Harem Series: Ai Yori Aoshi, Eiken, Maburaho, Zero no Tsukaima.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Hilariously, they used to be known for making shows that feature girls with huge breasts above all else, but every single one of their most popular anime series nowadays has a flat chested tsundere girl as its most popular and/or leading girl. ALL OF THEM.
- Magical Girl: Okusama Wa Mahou Shoujo. Parodied in Puni Puni Poemi.
- Playing Against Type: J.C. Staff, unlike some of the Japanese studios such as Toei Animation and TMS Entertainment, rarely lent their talents to U.S. productions, preferring to work on their own country's output. The sole exception was an episode of Disney's The Little Mermaid.
