Key facts
- Native name
- 株式会社マッドハウス
- Romanized name
- Kabushiki-gaisha Maddohausu
- Company type
- Kabushiki-gaisha
- Industry
- Animation , Entertainment
- Founded
- October 17, 1972 ; 53 years ago ( 1972-10-17 )
- Founders
- Masao Maruyama Osamu Dezaki Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Headquarters
- Honchō , Nakano , Tokyo , Japan
- Key people
- Sanae Tashiro ( president and CEO ) Satoki Toyoda ( managing director ) Yuuzou Kuwahara ( board ) Toshiya Gotou ( board )
- Owner
- Nippon Television Network Corporation (95%) Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (5%)
- Number of employees
- 70 (including contractors)
- Subsidiaries
- Madbox Co., Ltd.
- Website
- www .madhouse .co .jp
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 70
- Official website
- www.madhouse.co.jp
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- inception
- 1972-10-17
- Commons category
- Madhouse (company)
- social media followers
- 40304
- Stack Exchange tag
- anime.stackexchange.com/tags/madhouse
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Madhouse, Inc. is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro staff, including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
Madhouse has created and helped produce many well-known shows, OVAs and films, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! (produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha) in 1973, and including Wicked City, Ninja Scroll, Perfect Blue, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Trigun, Di Gi Charat, Black Lagoon, Death Note, Chi's Sweet Home, Paprika, Wolf Children, Parasyte: The Maxim, the first season of One-Punch Man, the second adaptation of Hunter × Hunter, Overlord, and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Unlike other studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was and is primarily in TV shows and theatrical features. Expanding from the initial Mushi Pro staff, Madhouse recruited important directors such as Morio Asaka, Masayuki Kojima, and Satoshi Kon during the 1990s. Their staff roster expanded in the 2000s to include Mamoru Hosoda, Takeshi Koike, and Mitsuo Iso, as well as many younger television directors.