Creator / Tama Productions

Tama Productions (タマ・プロダクション) was an animation studio founded by former Mushi Productions animator Eiji Tanaka in 1965. During their life, Tama mostly provided additional work for other studios (including Walt Disney Animation Japan, Warner Bros. and Madhouse) before they went out of business in 2011. Their successor, a companion studio known as drop (ドロップ, established in 2004), would take their spot, but eventually fell into the same fate as Tama in late 2018.

See Anime Workshop Basara, a studio founded by former Tama employee Shinichi Suzuki.

See also Jade Animation, a partner of theirs for many The Disney Afternoon shows and Golden Bell and Hong Ying, who've worked with them on several anime.

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Projects worked on by Tama/drop (Stuff with Jade maked with *)

Western Animation - Disney, Tama

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series* ^List "Howl Noon", "Rolly's Egg-celent Adventure", "Wild Chick Chase", "It's a Swamp Thing", "My Fair Chicken", "Horace and Jasper's Big Career Move"
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Animation outsourced by TMS Entertainment, uncredited)
• Aladdin: The Series* ^List "Fowl Weather", "The Spice is Right", "Power to the Parrot", "Hero Worth a Thousand Feathers"
• Bonkers ^List "Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers", "Hamster Houseguest", "Poltertoon"
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (One episode - "42")*
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (uncredited)
• Darkwing Duck* ^List "Darkly Dawns the Duck (Part 2)", "Duck Blind", "Can't Bayou Love", "Smarter Than a Speeding Bullet", "Toys Czar Us", "Life, the Negaverse and Everything", "Planet of The Capes", "Dead Duck", "Let's Get Respectable", "Stressed To Kill", "Film Flam", "Negaduck", "Slaves to Fashion", "Calm a Chameleon"
• Gargoyles* ^List "Awakening, Part 3", "Temptation", "Reawakening", "The Silver Falcon", "Revelations", "The Hound of Ulster", "Bushido"
• Goof Troop* ^List "Come Fly With Me"
• Hercules: The Animated Series* ^List "Hercules and the Driving Test", "Hercules and the Epic Adventure"
• The Little Mermaid (1992)* ^List "The Great Sebastian", "Stormy", "Charmed", "Red", "Against The Tide"
• Nightmare Ned
• TaleSpin (One episode - "Vowel Play")
• The Tigger Movie (additional animation)

Western Animation - Other

• The video for Radiohead's 15 Step [drop]
• The Alvin and the Chipmunks DTV movies Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein and Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman [Tama]
• An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster [Tama] (with uncredited assistance by an unknown Chinese studio ^Note (either Jade Animation or Shanghai Animation Film Studio, based on the names in the credits))
• Bad [drop] (Promotional video for the 25th anniversary)
• Barbapapa [Tama] (Original series, with Topcraft)
• Batman: The Animated Series [Tama] (Animation Cooperation for TMS for Yuichiro Yano's "Read My Lips", uncredited)
• Constant Payne [Tama] (Animation Cooperation with Madhouse and Golden Bell)
• Eight Crazy Nights [Tama]
• Freakazoid!! [Tama] (One segment: "House of Freakazoid")
• Galaxy High [Tama] (uncredited Animation services for TMS)
• Joseph: King of Dreams [Tama] (Effects services)
• The Legend of Calamity Jane [Tama] (2 episodes)^List "As Easy as One, Two, Three...", "Protege"
• Monsuno [drop] (Key Animation)
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons [Tama] (several shorts, alongside Rough Draft Studios, Plus One Animation, Galaxy Digimation, Yeson Entertainment and Saerom)
• The Pirates of Dark Water [Tama] (season 1 only, with Fil-Cartoons and others)
• Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer [Tama] (Color Painting)
• Rambo: The Force of Freedom [Tama] (uncredited)
• Static Shock [Tama] (With Hong Ying and Golden Bell) ^List  "Pops’ Girlfriend", "Attack of the Living Brain Puppets", "Jimmy", "Consequences"
• Thrill Seekers: Putt n' Perish [Tama] (Cartoon Network pilot)
• Transformers: Animated [Tama] (Composite for "The Thrill of the Hunt", through Hiroki Iwasawa)
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) [drop] (2D Effects & Mattes for Polygon Pictures; 48 episodes total)^{three season 1 episodes} "Deep Trouble", "Lockout", "Battlegrounds, Part 1", ^{season 2 onward} "Overloaded" (both parts), "Metal Meltdown", "Suspended", "Cover Me", "Brainpower", "Misdirection", "Bumblebee's Night Off", "Impounded", "Portals", "Graduation Exercises", "Decepticon Island" (both parts), "History Lessons", "Strongarm's Big Score", "Pretzel Logic", "Mighty Big Trouble", "Mini-Con Madness", "Worthy", "King of the Hill" (both parts), "Defrosted", "Blurred", "Sphere of Influence", "Bee Cool", "The Great Divide", "Get a Clue", "Out of the Shadows", "Disordered Personalities", "Guilty as Charged", "The Golden Knight", "The Fastest Bot Alive", "Railroad Rage", "Combine & Conquer", "Moon Breaker", "Exiles", "Breathing Room", "Prepare for Departure", "Prisoner Principles", "Collateral Damage", "Something He Ate", "Sick as a Bot", "Five Fugitives", "Enemy of My Enemy", "Freedom Fighters"
• Video Power [Tama] (Power Team segments, uncredited)
• Welcome to Eltingville [Tama] (pilot)
• X-Men: Evolution [Tama] (key animation for Mook DLE)^list "Shadowed Past"

Anime, Tama

• Akahori Gedou Hour Lovege (Key, 2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Astro Boy (Finish Animation; Production Support, 2003 series)^List "Dawn of the Techno-Revolution", "Shape Shifter", "Firebird", "Into The Dragon's Lair", "Battle of Steel Island"
• Astroganger (Key Animation and Character Designs for Knack)
• Black Lagoon (In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation, episode 7)
• Blue Submarine No. 6 (Finish Animation)
• Brave Story (Animation)
• Case Closed (Key Animation)
• Chargeman Ken! (subcontracted from Knack)
• Code Geass (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Dai-chan, Daisuki
• Darker than Black (2nd Key Animation)
• The Day the Earth Moved
• Death Note (Animation Assistance; In-Between Animation; Photography)
• Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (Animation)
• Dominion Tank Police (Finish Animation)
• El Cazador de la Bruja (In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation, episode 10)
• Eureka Seven (In-Between Animation)
• Fist of the North Star (Production Cooperation, movie)
• Futakoi Alternative (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Future Police Urashiman (Key & In-Between Animation)
• Gate Keepers (Key & In-Between Animation)
• Genesis Climber MOSPEADA (Key Animation)
• Genesis of Aquarion (2nd Key Animation)
• Glass Fleet (2nd Key Animation)
• Gotō ni Naritai
• GUN×SWORD (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Looking Up at the Half-Moon (In-Between Animation)
• Initial D (Key & Finish Animation, Second Stage)
• The Legend Of The Gold Of Babylon (In-Between Animation)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (2nd Key Animation; Photography)
• Magical Witch Punie-chan (2nd Key Animation)
• Maria Watches Over Us (In-Between Animation for Season 3)
• Miami Guns (Finish Animation)
• Minami-ke (Key & In-Between Animation)
• My-Otome (In-Between Animation)
• Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon (With OLM Incorporated)
• Powerpuff Girls Z (In-Between Animation)
• The Prince of Tennis (Finish Animation)
• Project Blue Earth SOS (In-Between Animation)
• Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Animation, uncredited)
• Speed Racer (Animation, uncredited)
• Spider Riders (In-Between Animation)
• Sugar Sugar Rune (In-Between Animation)
• Sword of the Stranger (In-Between Animation)
• Time Bokan (Animation)
• Transformers: Cybertron (In-Between Animation)
• Wangan Midnight (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Tokkô (2nd Key Animation)
• Welcome to the NHK (In-Between Animation)
• Uchurei
• Zillion (Animation Production Coordination for episodes 3 & 7; Key & In-Between Animation)

Anime, drop

• ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• A.I.C.O. Incarnation (2nd Key Animation)
• Aikatsu! (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• AKB0048 (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• The Ambition of Oda Nobuna (2nd Key & Finish Animation)
• Amnesia (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Angelic Layer (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Aoharu × Machinegun (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Aquarion Evol (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Asura's Wrath (Finish Animation for Studio 4°C's shorts)
• Attack on Titan (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Bamboo Blade (2nd Key & Finish Animation)
• Basquash! (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Batman Ninja (In-Between Animation; 2D pastoral sequence)
• Big Order (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Black Clover (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Animation Check; Production Cooperation)
• Black God (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Blessing of the Campanella (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Blood+ (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Blue Drop (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Bodacious Space Pirates (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Backgrounds for Abyss of Hyperspace)
• Btooom! (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Buddy Complex (2nd Key Animation for the series; Finish & In-Between Animation for Into The Skies of Tomorrow)
• Capeta (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Cat Planet Cuties (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Celestial Method (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Chess King (Chinese-Japanese Co-Production; with Hong Ying)
• Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Code:Breaker (In-Between Animation)
• Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou (Key, 2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Cross Ange (Finish & In-Between Animation; Photography Assistance)
• Dagashi Kashi (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Daimidaler the Sound Robot (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Diamond no Ace (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Digimon
  • Digimon Adventure tri. (Finish & In-Between Animation, movies 1 and 3-5)
  • Digimon Fusion (Key Animation)
    • Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time (Key Animation; Production Assistance)
• Dimension W (In-Between Animation; Line Test)
• élDLIVE (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Ergo Proxy (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Etotama (2nd Key Animation)
• Eureka Seven AO (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Fairy Tail (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Flip Flappers (Line Test)
• The Flowers of Evil (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• From the New World (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Fuuka (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Future Card Buddyfight (Finish & In-Between Animation; Key, Finish & In-Between Animation, Animation Check and Production Assistance for X)
• Gangsta. (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Gatchaman Crowds (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Gingitsune (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Girls und Panzer (Photography Assistance for Der Film; Finish & In-Between Animation for the OVA)
• Glitter Force (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Golgo 13 (Animation Production Cooperation, five episodes)
• Gosick (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Gundam: Reconguista in G (Finish & In-Between Animation)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (Line Test)
• Hayate the Combat Butler (In-Between Animation, first season)
• Heavy Object (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• HEYBOT! (2nd Key Animation)
• The iDOLM@STER (2nd Key Animation)
  • THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Infinite Stratos (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Itazura Na Kiss (Key & In-Between Animation; Digital Paint)
• Izetta: The Last Witch (2nd Key Animation)
• Japan Animator Expo (In-Between Animation)^list "Yamadeloid"
• Jojos Bizarre Adventure (2nd Key Animation for the 2012 series; 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation and Photography Assistance for Stardust Crusaders)
• Karneval (2nd Key Animation)
• Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Keijo!!!!!!!! (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Kiniro Mosaic (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Kiss Him, Not Me (In-Between & Finish Animation)
• KonoSuba (2nd key, Finish & In-Between Animation, second season)
• Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Leviathan: The Last Defense (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Lord Marksman and Vanadis (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Love Live (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Travels Of Marco Polo - Another Page (2nd Key Animation)
• Macross Frontier (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Magical Girl Ore (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Animation Check; Production Cooperation)
• Marvel Anime: Iron Man (2nd Key Animation)
• Matoi the Sacred Slayer (2nd Key Animation)
• Miss Monochrome (2nd Key Animation)
• Monster Musume (2nd Key Animation)
• Moonlight Mile (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• "Mr. Heartache" (Animation Sequence)
• Naruto Shippuden (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Animation Check; Production Cooperation)
  • Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Animation Check; Color Design; Production Cooperation)
  • Boruto (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Nanbaka (Finish & In-Between Animation, second season)
• Night Raid 1931 (2nd Key Animation)
• Nobunagun (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Noein (Animation Production Assistance, episode 4)
• One Piece (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation for Episode of Nami; Animation and Production Assistance for Strong World)
• Orange (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Oreimo (2nd Key Animation)
• Osomatsu-san (Production Assistants for almost every episode/short; led by Studio Pierrot. Also handed Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation and Animation Check)
• Overlord (2012) (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Parasyte (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• The Perfect Insider (Opening Rotoscope Animation)
• Princess Principal (Line Test)
• Prison School (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Punch Line (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Re:Zero (2nd Key Animation)
• Record of Grancrest War (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Red Garden (2nd Key Animation)
• Rewrite (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Robotics;Notes (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Rolling Girls (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Photography Assistance)
• Romeo × Juliet (Animation)
• Saint Seiya Omega (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Seraph of the End (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Servamp (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Sgt. Frog (2nd Key & Finish Animation)
• Shangri-La (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Shirobako (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Silver Spoon (Key Animation)
• Sket Dance (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation; Production Assistance)
• Sky Girls (2nd Key Animation)
• Soul Eater (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
  • Soul Eater Not! (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Space☆Dandy (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Star Driver (In-Between Animation)
• Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: The Inspector (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Symphogear (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation for the first two seasons)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Tokyo Ghoul (2nd Key Animation for √A and the Jack OVA)
• Toradora! (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Tōka Gettan (Key & Finish Animation)
• Transformers: Go! (Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Trinity Seven (2nd key & In-Between Animation for the series, Photography Assistance for Eternal Library & Alchemic Girl)
• Un-Go (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• UQ Holder! (Finish & In-Between Animation; Production Cooperation)
• ViVid Strike! (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Wake Up, Girls! (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace (Effects)
• White Album (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation, both seasons)
• Wizard Barristers (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Wonder Momo (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• The World God Only Knows: Goddesses Arc (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Yatterman (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation and Animation Co-Production for episodes 8, 11, 22, 40, 46 and 52 of the 2008 remake)
• Yatterman Night (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Yona of the Dawn (2nd Key & Finish Animation)
• Yuki Yuna is a Hero (In-Between Animation; Photography Assistance)
• Yumeiro Pâtissière (2nd Key Animation; Production Assistance)
• Yuri!!! on Ice (Photography Assistance)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)

More credits can be found here and here

Tropes for Tama/drop:

• all lowercase letters: how drop is commonly credited as, even by the company itself.
• Medium Blending: Transformers
• Meaningful Name: Tama, which is the Japanese word for drop, appropriately enough.
• Production Posse: With Jade, Golden Bell, Hong Ying, and in more recent years, T2 Studio.
  • Similarly, drop's also seen heavy use from Studio Pierrot.
  • Served as part of Disney, Warner Bros. and Madhouse's posses during the 1990s-mid 2000s.
• Rotoscoping: The opening to The Perfect Insider, as listed above.
• Spiritual Successor: drop, to Tama.

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