Creator / Mook DLE

It is not the same thing.

MOOK DLE (or simply just Mook Animation) is a Japanese animation studio.

Spun off from Trans Arts in 1986, the company's best known for Transformers: Animated, Rocket Girls, several Scooby-Doo movies and Armitage III, the last of which with AIC. Tetsuro Kumase was the company's president.

Not to be confused with Mooks or Mecha-Mook, see also Toei Animation, AKOM, Mainframe Entertainment, Ashi Productions, Studio Gallop, Dong Woo Animation, Actas, Wang Film Productions, GONZO,Sunwoo Entertainment, Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain and Studio 4°C, other studios involved with the Transformers franchise.

More credits can be found here, here, here, here and here.

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Projects worked on by Mook:

Western Animation, credited

• Æon Flux (season 3)
• The Condor
• Golden Films videos (With KK C&D Asia and PASI; Prop & Background Design)
  • Aladdin (Golden Films)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1992)
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Pinocchio (1992)
  • Sinbad
  • The Three Musketeers
  • Thumbelina (1992)
• Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures (Season two)
• Les Jumeaux du Bout du Monde
• Men in Black: The Series (Four Season 1 episodes and the opening)
• Mosaic (AKOM animated the title sequence)
• Mummies Alive! (stock footage and 22 episodes)^List "Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra", "Sleepwalk Like an Egyptian", "Pack to the Future", "The Gift of Geb", "Body Slam", "The Prince and The Presley", "The Egypt-Su Kid", "Miscast", "Sleight of Hand", "Loss of Face", "Kid Scarab", "Married to the Geb", "A Dark and Shrieky Night", "Pepped With Good Intention", "Eye of the Beholder", "Object of His Affections", "True Believer", "My Dad the Hero", "Brother's Keeper", "New Mummy in Town", "The Heart's Arrow", "Show Me The Mummy"
  • Mummies Alive: The Legend Begins
• Scooby-Doo (The movies between Zombie Island to Cyber Chase)
• Sophie and Virginie (with Miyuki Production and Studio Swing)
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn (3 episodes of season 3 ^List "Twitch is Down", "Hunter's Moon", "Prophecy"; Season done with DR Movie and New Millennium)
• Street Sharks (season 2 only; with Wang Film Productions, Fil-Cartoons, Jade Animation, and Rainbow Group)
• Stripperella (7 episodes)^List "Crime Doesn’t Pay - Seriously, It Really Doesn’t", "Everybody Loves Pushy", "You Only Lick Twice", "Evil Things Come in Small Packages", "Eruption Junction, What’s Your Function", "Cheapo by the Dozen", "The Curse of the WereBeaver" (Wang Film Productions and Sunmin Animation did the rest)
• SWAT Kats (4 episodes of season 1^List "The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice", "Night of the Dark Kat", "Metal Urgency", "Katastrophe" and all 10 episodes of season 2 and both intro animations. The other episodes are by Hanho Heung-Up)
• Transformers: Animated (With The Answer Studio, seven season 1 episodes^List "Transform and Roll Out", "Total Meltdown", "Blast from the Past", "Along Came a Spider", "Lost and Found", "Survival of the Fittest", "Megatron Rising - Part 1", seven season 2 episodes^List "The ‎Elite Guard", "Mission Accomplished", "Velocity", "A Fistful of Energon", "Black Friday", "Sari, No One's Home", "A Bridge Too Close, Part II" and all of season 3)
• Ultra Force (Opening only)
• X-Men: Evolution (24 episodes, with various support studios)^List "The X-Impulse", "Mutant Crush", "Middleverse", "SpykeCam", "Shadowed Past", "The Cauldron Part 1", "Fun and Games", "Adrift", "African Storm", "Mindbender", "Retreat", "Walk on the Wild Side", "Day of Reckoning Part 1", "Day of Recovery", "Mainstream", "Blind Alley", "Under Lock and Key", "X23", "Dark Horizon Part 2", "Impact", "Target X", "Uprising", "Ghost of a Chance", "Ascension Part 2" (Madhouse & DR Movie did the rest)

Western Animation, uncredited

• ALF Tales (With KKC&D and Studio Shaft)
• Beverly Hills Teens (With KKC&D and Hong Ying)
• Biker Mice from Mars (original, with Big Star and Philippine Animation Studio Inc.)
• Bionic Six (Animation Cooperation for TMS Entertainment, five episodes)
• The Comic Strip (Main titles and individual openings^note sans "Street Frogs")
• C.O.P.S. (With KK C&D Asia, layouts and intro animation)
• G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 (for GONZO, thirteen episodes)
• King Arthur & the Knights of Justice (With KKC&D and other companies, Opening and two episodes)
• Little Shop (With KKC&D and PASI, six episodes)
• Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) (Additional animation for Ashi, two episodes)
• Skysurfer Strike Force (same as Mega Man, three episodes)
• Spiral Zone (Additional Animation for AKOM & Visual 80)
• Sylvanian Families (With KKC&D, Sei Young and TMS)
• Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation Cooperation for TMS on Hisao Yokobori's Test Stressed)
• Video Power (With KKC&D and Hong Ying)

Anime, main

• The Adventures of T-Rex (With Madhouse, PASI and others; Opening and fifteen episodes)
• Armitage III
• Rocket Girls
• Sin in the Rain
• Triangle Heart: Sazanami Joshiryo

Anime, support

• Ah My Buddha (Key Animation)
• Ah! My Goddess (In-Between Assistance, 2005 series)
• Ai Yori Aoshi (Digital Paint)
• AKIRA (Animation Cooperation)
• Angel Heart (In-Between Animation; Digital Paint)
• Another (In-Between Animation)
• Astro Boy (Key Animation; Digital Paint; Production Support, 2003 series)^List "Battle-bot", "Avalanche"
• Bakugan (2nd Key Animation; Production Assistance - Gundalian Invaders season)
• Basquash! (In-Between Animation; Paint)
• Beast Wars Neo (Production Assistance)
• Beck (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Black Lagoon (Key & In-Between Animation; Trace & Paint)
• Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (Production Cooperation, two episodes)^List "Atom Heart Mother", "Hydra"
• Case Closed (In-Between Animation)
• Chobits (Production Cooperation, three episodes)
• Code Geass (In-Between Animation)
• Deadman Wonderland (2nd Key Animation)
• Demon King Daimao (2nd Key Animation)
• Eureka Seven (2nd Key Animation)
• Eyeshield 21 (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Ga-Rei -Zero- (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Gallery Fake (In-Between Animation; Digital Paint)
• Gantz (In-Between Animation; Paint)
• Genesis of Aquarion (In-Between Animation)
• Getbackers (In-Betweem Animation)
• Godannar (2nd Key & In-Between Animation; Paint)
• Gosick (Production Assistance)
• GUN×SWORD (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Hanamaru Kindergarten (Finish & In-Between Animation Cooperation)
• Heroman (In-Between Animation; Production Assistance)
• Idol Defense Force Hummingbird (In-Between Animation)
• Kaleido Star (In-Between Animation)
• Loups=Garous (In-Between Animation)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (2nd Key & In-Between Animation; Digital Paint)
• Mars Daybreak (Finish & In-Between Animation; Paint; Production Cooperation)
• Michiko & Hatchin (In-Between Animation)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Monster (Animation Assistance; Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Naruto Shippuuden (Digital Paint; In-Between Animation)
• New Cutey Honey (Animation)
• Now and Then, Here and There (In-Between Animation)
• Oh! Edo Rocket (2nd Key, Finish, In-Between & Key Animation; Production Cooperation)
• Origin: Spirits of the Past (Production Support)
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (In-Between Animation)
• Peach Girl (Animation Production Assistance)
• Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions (In-Between Animation Assistance)
• Romeo X Juliet (digital paint, inbetween animation)
• Rozen Maiden (Finish Animation)
• Sisters of Wellber (2nd Key Animation)
• Softenni (In-Between Animation)
• Soul Eater (2nd Key & In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
• Strike Witches (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Tokkô (Color Coordination; In-Between Animation)
• Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (In-Between Animation)
• Toradora! (Digital Finishing; Finishing Cooperation; In-Between Animation; In-Between Assistance)
• Transformers: Cybertron (Consulting Producers, uncredited)
• Trinity Blood (Animation; Finish Animation)
• Twin Princess of Wonder Planet (Key Animation)
• White Album (Digital Paint; In-Between Animation)
• X-Men (2nd Key Animation)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! (Animation Cooperation)
• Zoids Fuzors (Key Animation)

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Tropes Associated with Mook:

• Animation Bump: The Scooby Doo movies.
• Merchandise-Driven: Transformers Animated; Bakugan and Yu-Gi-Oh! to some extent
• Off-Model: Transformers Animated came down with a bad case of this in its third season when Mook became the only studio involved.

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