E&G Films or Easy Film was a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1971 as Easy World Pro by ex-Toei animator Shiro Murata. In 1988, the company changed to their final name after absorbing and merging photography studio Lucky More (who provided photography services for Grave of the Fireflies among others).
E&G was primarily a subcontractor, they spent much of The '80s working on Rankin/Bass shows such as ThunderCats and Silverhawks. However, their busiest years would be during The '90s as they had expanded to thee point where they could be the primary animation studio for TV productions and to help get episodes done on time, E&G established a subsidiary in Indonesia called Bintang Junaka Cartoon Film.
In the 90's, KADOKAWA, Enoki Films, King Records note and TV Tokyo as well as their subsidiary, TV Tokyo Medianet note became their main clients starting with Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai in 1994 and led to them producing the first 3 seasons of Slayers, which was by far E&G's biggest hit.
However despite all this, E&G's productions were always on a smaller scale with low budgets, short delivery times, and strict deadlines (even for two-cour shows) and were often prone to having many instances of Off-Model animation, the most infamous example from them being episode 4 of Lost Universe. And they never made much money off of Slayers or their other productions during this period as most of that money went to their above mentioned clients.
The studio would shut down in 2003 after working on low-budget adaptations of titles like Genma Wars, Wild 7 and Barom One.
Credits include:
As Easy World Pro
- The Comic Strip ("Karate Kat" segments; uncredited, series with Mook DLE, Aubec, and Wang)
- Dirty Pair (Ink & Paint for the TV series; Studio Gallop episodes only)
- Inspector Gadget (Ink & Paint for season one)
- The Littles (Color Styling; Studio Gallop episodes only)
- Megazone 23 (Ink & Paint for Parts 1 and 2)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Supporting Finish Animation)
- Silverhawks (uncredited; with AIC, Hanho Heung-Up, Anime R, and Wang Film Productions)
- Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade (Ink & Paint)
- ThunderCats (uncredited, with AIC, Hanho, Wang and Anime R)
- Touch (1981) (Finish Animation)
As E&G Films
- Beast Wars II (Production Cooperation)
- Gate Keepers (Backgrounds)
- Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai
- Gokudō (Backgrounds; Ink & Paint; In-Between Animation)
- Ken'yu Densetsu Yaiba (Production Cooperation)
- Lost Universe
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Key Animation)
- Muteki Ou Tri-Zenon
- Slayers (first 3 seasons only; with J.C. Staff)
- The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz
- You're Under Arrest! (In-Between Animation)
