Creator / Koko Enterprises

The Dong Yang logo.

Koko Enterprises was a Seoul based South Korean company founded in February 19, 1990. Not much is known about them other than TMS Entertainment and Sega own them, see here.

Koko was quite often paired with another South Korean studio called Dong Yang Animation, which originated in 1981. They've done a number of projects together, mainly those by Warner Bros. For simplicity's sake, both studios have been merged into this one article. Strangely, both studios haven't been credited on a show since 2005 (which would suggest that it's closed), despite being two of the busier overseas studios of the '90s and part of the 2000's.

Compare AKOM, Rough Draft Studios, DR Movie, Sunwoo Entertainment, Digital eMation, Saerom, Hanho Heung-Up, Dong Woo Animation and JM Animation, other South Korean studios (and Koko Enterprises' partners for several series).

Has no relation to Koko Productions, which is a Canadian voice casting/recording studio.

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Shows worked on by Koko/Dong Yang include:

Domestic work

• Dodani (Dong Yang)
• Once Upon a Time (Dong Yang) (other episodes by Hanho Heung-Up, Shin Won, and Take One)
• Penking & Liking (Dong Yang, with K-Land)
• Red Hawk (Dong Yang; additional services for Dai Won)

Subcontract work

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series (Koko) (22 episodes) ^List "He Followed Me Home", "No Train, No Gain", "Dogs of De Vil", "On the Lamb", "Four Stories Up", "Roll Out The Pork Barrel", "Barnboozled", "Cadet of The Month", "Lobster Tale", "Shipwrecked", "The Life You Save", "On The Lamb", "Walk a Mile in My Tracks", "Snow Boundin'", "Gnaw or Never", "Humanitarian of The Year", "Cupid Pups", "Beauty Pageant Pandemonium", "Hog Tied", "Cone Head", "Best of Show", "My Fair Moochie"
• Animaniacs (Koko; 6 shorts) ^List  "Cute First (Ask Questions Later)", "Here Comes Attila", "Boo Wonder", "The Carpool", "The Sunshine Squirrels", "Birds on a Wire", plus bits of "Hooray For North Hollywood, Part 1" with Wang Film Productions
• Appleseed (Dong Yang) (Finish & In-Between Animation for the OVA)
• Ashita Tenki ni Nare! (Additional services)
• The Batman (Dong Yang) (8 episodes)^List "Traction", "The Cat and the Bat", "The Big Dummy", "The Rubberface of Comedy", "Riddled", "Fire & Ice", "Pets", "Grundy's Night"
• Batman: The Animated Series [Dong Yang] (39 episodes)^list "Joker's Favor", "Nothing to Fear", "Appointment in Crime Alley", "Two Face Part II", "I've Got Batman in My Basement", "The Forgotten", "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy", "Perchance to Dream", "Night of the Ninja", "Tyger Tyger", "Almost Got 'im", "Terror in the Sky", "His Silicon Soul", "The Laughing Fish", "Harley and Ivy", "Zatanna", "Birds of a Feather", "Robin's Reckoning Part II", "See No Evil", "Fire From Olympus", "Shadow of the Bat", "The Worry Men", "Paging the Crime Doctor", "House and Garden", "Sideshow", "Trial", "Harlequinade", "Bane", "Second Chance", "Riddler's Reform", "Time Out of Joint", "Harley's Holiday", "Make 'Em Laugh", "Batgirl Returns", "Lock-Up", "Deep Freeze", "Showdown", "Catwalk", "The Lion and the Unicorn"
  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm [Dong Yang] (with Spectrum Animation)
  • Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero [Koko/Dong Yang]
• Batman Beyond
  • Unconfirmed: On the commentary track for Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Bruce Timm suspects that Koko did some uncredited work for one of the night club scenes, but can't say with 100% certainty.
  • The Zeta Project (season 1; replaced by DR Movie, Dong Woo Animation, and Sunmin Animation)
• Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (Koko) (5 episodes)^List "The Reluctant Assassin", "Wages of Fire", "World of Pain", "The Five Thousand Fingers of Rusty", "Sickout"
• Captain N: The Game Master (Dong Yang, uncredited)
• Channel Umptee-3 (Koko)
• Charlie's Angels Animated Adventures (Koko, uncredited)
• City Hunter 2 (Dong Yang) (Finish Animation)
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (Dong Yang)
• Da Boom Crew (Koko)
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (animated sequences, with Hanho and Ji-Reh Animation)
• Diplodo (with other studios)
• Extreme Ghostbusters (Koko) (31 episodes)^List "Darkness at Noon Parts 1-2" "True Face of a Monster", "Fear Itself", "Deadliners", "Casting the Runes", "Home is Where the Horror is", "The Unseen", "The Crawler", "The Pied Piper of Manhattan", "Be Careful What You Wish For", "The Jersey Devil Made Me Do It", "Sonic Youth", "Ghost Apocalyptic Future", "Bird of Prey", "Seeds of Destruction", "The Luck of the Irish", "The Ghostmakers", "Moby Ghost", "Fallout", "Till Death Do We Start", "Ghost in the Machine", "Dog Days", "Mole People", "A Temporary Insanity", "Rage", "Heart of Darkness", "The Sphinx", "Witchy Woman", "Back in the Saddle Parts 1-2"
• Family Guy (Koko) (1 episode)^List "E Peterbus Unum"
• Freakazoid! (Koko/Dong Yang) (every episode except "The Chip Part 1", which was entirely by Animal Ya)
• Futari Daka (Dong Yang)
• Gargoyles (Koko/Dong Yang) (17 episodes)^List "City of Stone Parts 1-4", "Upgrade"*, "Avalon Parts 1, 2**, 3"*, "Walkabout", "Mark of the Panther", "Sentinel", "Cloud Fathers", "The Gathering Parts 1, 2"**, "Vendettas"**, "The Reckoning"**, "Possession"** (*=with Seoul Movie ; **=With Anima Samwon)
• Godzilla: The Series (Koko) (3 episodes)^List "Monster Wars: Part 3", "Protector", "Shafted"
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (Koko)
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) (Koko/Dong Yang)
• Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (Koko)
• Histeria! (Koko) ^List every episode except for "The Wild West", "The American Revolution", "The Know-it-Alls", "Great Heroes of France", "The Wheel of History", "When Time Collides", "Around the World in a Daze", and "The Russian Revolution"
• Iron Man: The Animated Series (Koko; second season. Replacing Rainbow Animation Group)
• Johnny Bravo (Koko/Dong Yang) (seasons 2-3)
• Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures (Koko) (16 episodes)^List "Escape to Questworld" (with Dong Yang), "Rage's Burning Wheel" (with Seoul Movie and Anima Sam Won), "Assault on Questworld" (with Dong Yang), "Ezekiel Rage" (with Anima Sam Won), "Alien in Washington" (with Anima Sam Won), "The Alchemist" (with Seoul Movie), "Trouble on the Colorado" (with Seoul Movie), "In the Wake of Mary Celeste", "AMOK", "Besieged in Paradise", "Heroes", "The Ballad of Belle Bonnet" (with Dong Yang), "In the Darkness of the Moon", "The Secret of the MOAI", "Ice Will Burn", "To Bardo and Back"
• Jumanji: The Animated Series (2 episodes)^List "Bargaining For Time", "Master Builder" (with Seoul Movie)
• Justice League (Koko/Dong Yang)
• Justice League Unlimited (Dong Yang)
• The Karate Kid (Dong Yang, uncredited)
• The Legend of Calamity Jane (Koko) (5 episodes) ^List "Like Father, Like Daughter", "Train Kept a-Rollin'", "The Final Curtain", "The Way of the Buffalo", "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia"
• Lupin III (Both instances through Koko):
  • Lupin III: Dead or Alive (In-Between Animation)
  • Farewell to Nostradamus (In-Between Animation)
• Men in Black: The Series (Koko) (the vast majority of the series; Mook DLE did a few episodes in season 1, and the intro sequence)
• Mighty Max (Dong Yang)
• Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series (Koko) (8 episodes) ^List  "The First Face Off Part 2", "Phil in the Blank", "The Human Factor", "Mondo-Man", "Mad Quacks Beyond Hockeydome", "The Most Dangerous Duck Hunt", "Duck Hard", "To Catch a Duck"
• Mission Odyssey (Koko; with Hyun Young and Sae Hahn Productions)
• Miyuki-chan in Wonderland (Dong Yang; Additional services)
• ¡Mucha Lucha! (Koko) (19 episodes)^List "Bring Your Dad to Lucha Day", "La Flamencita", "The Man from M.A.S.K.", "Calling All Monsters", "Dances with Bugs", "Show Me the Funny", "Big Buena Sellout", "Election Daze", "Poocha Lucha", "Epic Tale of Donuts and Heroes", "Buena Basura", "Monkey Business", "Medico Mayhem", "Buena on Wheels", "Brains Meets Brawn", "The Match Before Xmas" (with Jadooworks), "Getting His Goat", "Niko Sushi's Happy Battle Funtime Dome 3000!", "The Magnificent Three" (with Jadooworks)
• NASCAR Racers (Koko) (season 2)
• Ninja Senshi Tobikage (Dong Yang) (Production Cooperation)
• O-bake no... Holly (Additional services)
• Patapata Hikousen No Bouken (Koko; Additional services for TMS for episodes 4, 5, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20, 21 and 23, also Co-Production)
• Project Gee Ke R (Koko/Dong Yang) (6 episodes)^List "Nightmare Park", "23", "In the Geek of the Night", "Independence Daze" (with Seoul Movie), "Worm", "Geekman"
• The Proud Family (Koko; 10 episodes^List "Poetic Justice", "Behind The Family Lines", "Pulp Boot Camp", "There's Something About Rene", "Penny Potter", "Monkey Business", "Election", "Twins to Tweens", "Who You Callin' A Sissy", "Psycho Duck" and The Movie)
• The Real Ghostbusters (Dong Yang, some episodes; other studios that worked on the show include Wang, Saerom/Plus One Animation, TMS, Toei Animation, Sei Young, Dai Won, Hanho, KK C&D Asia and Visual 80 among other studios)
• Robin Hood no Daibōken (Additional services)
• Samurai Pizza Cats (Dong Yang; Additional services)
• Shuten Doji: The Star Hand Kid (Dong Yang; Additional services)
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Koko) (the 6 episodes of season 1, alternating with Sheen Production and Sung Production)
• Spicy City (Koko/Dong Yang)
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series (Koko, uncredited)
• Spider-Man Unlimited (Koko)
• Static Shock (Koko/Dong Yang) (24 episodes) ^List "Shock to the System", "Aftershock", "The Breed", "They're Playing My Song, "The New Kid", "Sons of the Fathers", "Winds of Change", "Junior", "Replay", "Tantrum", "Brother-Sister Act", "Bad Stretch", "Static in Africa", "The Usual Suspect", "A League of Their Own Parts 1 & 2", "Romeo in the Mix", "Flashback", "She-Back!", "Fallen Hero", "No Man's an Island", "Hoop Squad", "Where the Rubber Meets the Road", "Kidnapped"
• Street Fighter II V (Dong Yang) (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Superman: The Animated Series (Koko/Dong Yang) (34 episodes) ^List "The Last Son of Krypton Parts 1-3", "Feeding Time", "Stolen Memories", "The Main Man Parts 1 & 2", "Tools of the Trade", "Blast from the Past Parts 1 & 2", "Livewire", "Identity Crisis", "Target", "Mxyzpixilated", "Brave New Metropolis", "Monkey Fun", "Father's Day", "The Hand of Fate", "Prototype", "Heavy Metal", "Warrior Queen", "Apokolips... Now! Parts 1 & 2", "Little Girl Lost Parts 1 & 2", "Where There's Smoke", "Knight Time", "New Kids in Town", "Obsession", "Absolute Power", "In Brightest Day", "The Demon Reborn", "Legacy Parts 1 & 2"
• The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries (Koko) ^List "The Cat Who Knew Too Much" (with Anima Sam Won), "A Chip Off the Old Castle" (with Dong Yang), "Bull Running on Empty" (with Seoul Movie), "A Ticket to Crime" (with Seoul Movie), "Outback Down Under" (with Dong Yang), and all of seasons 2-5 with Seoul Movie
  • Tweety's High Flying Adventure
• Timon & Pumbaa (Koko; 2 shorts: "Handle With Caribbean", "Rumble in the Jungle")
• Tom and Jerry: (Koko; one short — "The Mansion Cat")
• Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (Koko)
• Totally Spies! (Koko; First two seasons only, replaced by Digital eMation and Seoul Movie afterwards)
• Toy Warrior, The (Dong Yang; digital ink and paint)
• Vytor The Starfire Champion (Dong Yang, uncredited)
• Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad (with AKOM)
• Wing Commander Academy (Koko) (3 episodes)^List "The Last One Left", "Lords of the Sky", "Expendable"
• Xiaolin Showdown (Dong Yang) (6 episodes) ^List "The Shard of Lighting", "Sizing Up Omi", "Hear Some Evil, See Some Evil", "The Evil Within", "The Black Vipers", "The Last Temptation of Raimundo"
• Xyber 9: New Dawn (Koko)
• Zula Patrol (Koko)

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Tropes Associated with the studio:

• Animation Bump:
  • Koko provided a well needed one to the Iron Man cartoon and on Patapata Hikousen No Bouken, but has been very inconsistent otherwise. Has been pointed out by the Batman: TAS crew. A number of 101 Dalmatians: The Series episodes as well.
  • Any episode where Spectrum or TMS provided the layouts looks much better than Dong Yang's solo work on Batman: TAS.

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