Creator / Satelight

Satelight (サテライト) is a Japanese Anime studio mostly known for the Animated Adaptation of Fairy Tail and Macross Frontier. They are also known for producing the Aquarion and Symphogear franchises.

Founded in December of 1995, the company is the second Japanese studio^note Following TMS Entertainment's lead on AKIRA and the Animaniacs short "Hooked on a Ceiling" to utilize digitally colored animation. The company also uses CG in many (if not all) of their works.

Compare Rough Draft Studios (and Orange, which was established with animators of both companies), Toon City, GONZO, DR Movie and Digital eMation, who also use CG in their animation. See also JM Animation, a partner of theirs for several shows. For more credits, see their ANN entry.

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Shows animated by Satelight:

• AKB0048
• Animal Detectives Kiruminzoo ^note Co-produced with JM Animation
• Arata: The Legend ^note  Co-produced with JM Animation
• Basquash!
• Baldr Force EXE Resolution
• Bit the Cupid ^note Co-produced with Group TAC
• Black Summoner
• Bodacious Space Pirates
• Caligula
• Cannon Busters (with Yumeta Company)
• Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth
• Earth Maiden Arjuna
• Engage Planet Kiss Dum
• Fairy Tail ^note Co-produced with A-1 Pictures; replaced with Bridge from episode 176 onward
• Fresh Pretty Cure! ^note Co-produced with Toei Animation
• Galaxy Angel Rune
• Genesis of Aquarion
  • Aquarion Evol
• Geneshaft
• Glass Fleet ^note Co-produced with GONZO
• Guin Saga
• Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
• Heat Guy J
• Helck
• Hellsing Ultimate (Episodes 1-4)
• Kamichama Karin
• Kiddy GiRL-AND
• Last Hope (2018)
• Lord Marksman and Vanadis
• Macross
  • Macross Zero
  • Macross Frontier
  • Macross Delta
• Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
• M3: The Dark Metal (with Bandai Namco)
• Nobunaga the Fool
• Noein
• Rokudou's Bad Girls
• Shugo Chara!
• Symphogear
• WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?
• Time Jam: Valérian and Laureline
• White Album 2

Other shows worked on by Satelight:

• 07-Ghost (In-Between Animation)
• 18if (Photography Assistance)
• A Letter to Momo (In-Between Animation)
• Ace Attorney (2016) (In-Between Animation)
• Ah! My Goddess (Final Line, 2005 series)
• Angel Sanctuary (Digital Animation)
• Attack on Titan (Photography Assistance; Line Test)
• B: The Beginning (In-Between Animation)
• Big Order (In-Between Animation)
• Bleach (2nd Key Animation)
• Bloody Roar (Associated Company)
• Blue Exorcist (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Boys Be... (Digital Animation; Photography)
• Brain Powerd (CGI)
• Linkin Park's Breaking the Habit^note Are confirmed to have been involved by Studio Wanpack, but it's unclear as to what they actually did.
• Cardfight!! Vanguard (Production Assistance; Photography)
• Celestial Method (Editing)
• Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter (Mechanical Designs through Shoji Kawamori, Thomas Romain, Yukio Ikeda and Stanislas Brunet)
• Classroom Crisis (Editing)
• Code Geass (In-Between Animation)
• Cowboy Bebop (CG, Paint)
• Cross Ange (Photography Assistance)
• DARLING in the FRANXX (In-Between Animation)
• The Daughter of Twenty Faces (Production Assistance)
• Devil May Cry 5 (Devil Breaker Design, through Shoji Kawamori)
• Diabolik Lovers (In-Between Animation)
• Dimension W (Editing)
• Dog & Scissors (Photography Assistance)
• Durarara!! (In-Between Animation)
• Eden of the East (2nd Key Animation)
• Ergo Proxy (Key Animation)
• Escaflowne: The Movie (CG)
• Fate/Zero (In-Between Animation)
• FLCL Progressive (Background Design Cooperation)
• Flip Flappers (Editing)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (In-Between Animation)
• Ga-Rei -Zero- (2nd Key Animation)
• Gantz (Paint, CG, Production Support)
• GARO: The Animation (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
  • GARO: Vanishing Line (2nd Key & In-Between Animation; Photography Assistance)
• GATE (In-Between Animation)
• Girls und Panzer (2nd Key Animation)
• Godzilland (CG Assistance)
• Gosick (2nd Key Animation)
• Granblue Fantasy: The Animation (2nd Key Animation)
• Guilty Crown (2nd Key Animation; Photography Assistance)
• Hard Corps: Uprising (Animation Support for Studio 4°C)
• Heroman (In-Between Animation)
• Haikyuu!! (In-Between Animation)
• Initial D (Photography, Fourth Stage)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Photography Assistance)
• Kill la Kill (In-Between Animation)
• Knight's & Magic (2nd key & In-Between Animation)
• Michiko & Hatchin (In-Between Animation)
• Mind Game (In-Between Animation)
• Mob Psycho 100 (In-Between Animation)
• Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (Photography Assistance)
• My Hero Academia (In-Between Animation)
  • My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (In-Between Animation)
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (In-Between Animation)
• Persona 2 (Another Self trailer)
• Persona 5 (In-Between Animation)
• Psychic Squad (Animation Production Assistance)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2nd Key Animation)
• Pumpkin Scissors (Key & In-Between Animation)
• Punch Line (Photography Assistance)
• REDLINE (Composite Cooperation)
• Real Drive (In-Between Animation)
• Reincarnated as a Sword (Production Cooperation)
• Skull Man (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Soul Eater (2nd Key Animation)
• Space☆Dandy (Mechanical Designs through Thomas Romain)
• Squid Girl (Photography Assistance)
• Strike Witches (2nd Key Animation)
• Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (Editing)
• Synduality: Noir (CG Assistance; Editing; In-Between Animation; Animation Check; Production Cooperation)
• Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (Key Animation)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (In-Between Animation)
• Thunderbirds Are Go (Design for the Thunderbird Shadow, through Shoji Kawamori)
• Tokyo Ghoul (Work Assistance)
• Tokyo Ravens (In-Between Animation; 3D Modeling)
• Toradora! (In-Between Assistance)
• Toriko (Key Animation)
• Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (CG)
• Welcome to the Ballroom (In-Between Animation)
• White Album (2nd Key Animation and Photography Assistance)
• Winter Sonata (In-Between Animation)
• Xam'd: Lost Memories (In-Between Animation)
• Yuri!!! on Ice (2nd Key Animation; Photography Assistance)
• Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (CG Assistance)
• Zombie Land Saga (2nd Key Animation)

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Tropes exhibited by Satelight:

• Animation Bump: Certain episodes of Macross Frontier, often the CG is of far higher quality. This can quality for most of their anime, including Basquash!! and Genesis of Aquarion.
• Deranged Animation: They worked with Hong Ying on Basquash!!, which is an odd series in and of itself. Fairy Tail also has its moments.
• No Export for You: They're one of the many ^note along with Harmony Gold, Big West, Tatsunoko Production and Studio Nue involved with the Macross licensing spat.

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