Breaking Your Anime Collection Down By Studio

Demelza

Demelza

Adventuring Alchemist
AUKN Staff
We were discussing this on the Discord earlier, so I figured I'd make a forum topic for it as well. :)

If you broke your anime collection down by the studio who produced the show, which studio comes out on top? Here's my list as an example:

A-1 - 7
Production I.G - 6
J.C Staff - 6
OLM - 5
BONES - 5
Brain’s Base - 4
Comix - 3
Wit Studio - 3
Studio DEEN - 2
Madhouse - 2
Studio Rikka - 1
Xebc - 1
TMS Entertainment - 1
SHAFT - 1
AIC - 1
Pierrot - 1
Silver Link - 1
8Bit - 1
Doga Kobo - 1
Toei - 1
Trigger - 1

I made this list by going through my discs and counting each release as one entry. For example, I have both parts of Haikyu!! Season 1 which I counted as 2 entries. However, combined releases like the Fullmetal Alchemist Ultimate Edition would count as one release (despite having two collector's sets in it), because ultimately I think we should judge it by SKU's. Make sense? Good, now get to it! :D
 
A-1 Pictures - 6
Animation Do - 1
BONES - 11
Brain's Base - 3
Doga Kobo - 1
Gainax - 3
Ghibli - 1
Gonzo - 2
Graphinica - 1
Kyoto Animation - 3
Lerche - 3
Liden Films - 1
Madhouse - 3
PA Works - 1
Pierrot - 2
Polygon Pictures - 1
Production I.G. - 6
Sanzigen - 1
SHAFT - 2
Shuka - 1
Studio DEEN - 1
Studio Khara - 2
Studio Rikka - 1
Sunrise - 8 (Overall), 1 (Studio 1), 1 (Studio 2), 1 (Studio 3), 1 (Studio 4), 1 (Studio 8), 2 (Studio 10), 1 (Nerima Studio)
TMS Entertainment - 1
Toei Animation - 1
Trigger - 3
TROYCA - 2
Wit Studio - 9
 
Here is mine, this is blu-rays only. Decided to leave out DVDs, partly because my DVD collection is a lot smaller, but also because the amount of individual volume releases would give certain studios (Sunrise, KyoAni) an unfair advantage. :p

Sorry for this list being unorganised, this is how I noted everything down in Notepad going through my releases individually, in alphabetical order.

Shaft 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
KyoAni 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Pro IG 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sunrise 1 2 3 4 5 6
Doga Kobo 1
AIC ASTA 1 2 3 4
A1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Madhouse 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Triangle Staff 1
Imagin 1
Brain's Base 1 2 3 4
White Fox 1 2 3
CoMix Wave 1 2
Tokyo Movie Shinsha 1
PA Works 1 2 3 4
Lerche 1 2
Mushi Production 1
OLM 1
JC Staff 1 2
Khara 1 2
Graphinica 1
Silver Link 1 2
DEEN 1
Ufotable 1 2
BONES 1 2 3 4 5 6
TMS Entertainment 1 2
Toei Animation 1 2 3 4 5
The Answer Studio 1
Gainax 1 2
Wit Studio 1 2 3
Satelight 1
Ghibli 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
TRIGGER 1 2 3
Seven Arcs 1
GoHands 1 2 3
Studio Rikka 1
Manglobe 1
MAPPA 1
Studio Chizu 1
Artland 1
Bee Train 1
Gonzo 1 2

tl;dr: Madhouse and KyoAni tied for first place with 13 releases, Shaft a close second with 12.
 
Last edited:
Took me quite a while to do mine, I do have a few titles after all, so to save me a lot of typing, I'll just list my top 3 then link my spreadsheet.

1. Shaft - 28 - Hardly a surprise with all the Monogatari I own, honestly.
2. Studio Pierrot - 23 - Entirely due to Bleach. Without me owning all of it, it wouldn't be anywhere near the top.
3. Madhouse - 21 - This was the biggest shocker to me, I honestly didn't know how many Madhouse shows I owned.
4. Sunrise - 20 - I know I said top 3, but since Pierrot barely counts, I guess Sunrise is honorary third. This is mostly because of Gundam.

Link to full spreadsheet!

For the sake of time and my sanity, this doesn't include all of my review copies. I might update this sometime.
 
Give me a week...[taking forever]... Seriously though does anyone know if My Anime List does a breakdown of Studios/Distributers and Staff?

I really want to give and answer but 300+ titles kinda hurts. All help appreciated. :)
 
mikezilla2 said:
what is thsi 10% off deal you speak of ?
Click to expand...

cudwieser said:
Give me a week...[taking forever]... Seriously though does anyone know if My Anime List does a breakdown of Studios/Distributers and Staff?

I really want to give and answer but 300+ titles kinda hurts. All help appreciated. :)
Click to expand...

There is as club that you can join which does this search for you it's graph.anime.plus
 
Last edited:
Mine isn't logged online so it's all pen and paper for me. I'll have to update as I work through since my collection is one of the larger ones here :)

Sunrise: 44
JC Staff: 7
Studio Pierrot: 24
Studio Deen: 5
Daume: 2
Plum: 1
Xebec: 2
Gonzo: 1
Studio Live: 1
AIC: 7
Triangle Staff: 2
Phoenix Entertainment: 1
Toei: 1
Madhouse: 2
OLM: 6
PA Works: 1
Feel: 1
Venet: 1
Group TAC: 1
Shaft: 2
Actas: 2
Doga Kobo: 1
TNK: 1
Genco: 1
 
A-1 Pictures: 11
Actas: 1
AIC A.S.T.A.: 3
AIC Build: 1
Arms: 3
Bee Train: 3
Bones: 14
Brains Base: 2
CoMix Wave Films: 4
Daum: 1
Digital Frontier: 2
Gainax: 6
GoHands: 3
Gonzo: 13
Graphinica: 1
Group TAC: 1
J.C. Staff: 2
Khara: 3
Kinema Citrus: 2
Kyoto Animation: 3
Madhouse: 24
Manglobe: 6
MAPPA: 2
OLM: 2
Oxybot: 1
P.A. Works: 1
Polygon Pictures: 1
Production I.G.: 23
Sanzigen: 2
Satelight: 2
Seven Arcs Pictures: 1
Shaft: 4
Silver Link: 1
Square Enix: 2
Studio 4°C: 1
Studio Chizu: 1
Studio Deen: 2
Studio Ghibli: 22
Studio Pierrot: 2
Studio Rikka: 2
Sunrise: 13
Tatsunoko Production: 2
Tezuka Productions: 1
The Answer Studio: 1
TMS Entertainment: 5
Toei Animation: 2
Triangle Staff: 2
Trigger: 3
Ufotable: 4
White Fox: 3
Wit Studio: 4
Xebec: 1
 
Mine would be effectively impossible as I have no lists of my collection at all and it's huge but I strongly suspect that Pierrot would win by a landslide; I have the single releases for shows like Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Recca and Urusei Yatsura which will probably completely dominate in a per-release counting system.

R
 
I throw my list down now.

Shaft = 20
Studio Pierrot = 14
Madhouse = 13
Sunrise = 12
Kyoto Animation = 10
J.C.Staff = 9
Bones = 8
Production I.G = 7
AIC A.S.T.A. = 5
Gonzo = 5
A.C.G.T. = 4
Gainax = 4
A-1 Pictures = 3
Brain's Base = 3
Manglobe = 3
TMS Entertainment = 3
Xebec = 3
Actas = 2
Silver Link. = 2
Studio Gallop = 2
Tokyo Movie Shinsha = 2
White Fox = 2
AIC Spirits = 1
AIC Spirits / Asread = 1
A.P.P.P. = 1
Bee Train = 1
E&G Films = 1
feel. = 1
Gainax / Production I.G = 1
Imagin = 1
Lerche = 1
P.A. Works = 1
Polygon Pictures = 1
Saban Entertainment / Toei Animation = 1
Satelight = 1
Studio Chizu = 1
Studio Deen = 1
Studio Rikka = 1
Studio Rikka / Purple Cow Studio Japan = 1
Tezuka Productions / Mappa = 1
Toei Animation = 1

Decided to keep releases that had more than one studio on the production as a separate listing rather than split multiple points to any individual studio. Also, all studios have been named as they were at the time of release so there may be odd listing where the studios names are split (e.g Tokyo Movie Shinsha > TMS Entertainment). Also, anything that's on my 'surplus to requirements' pile has not been included as they aren't included within my full on main collection.
 
Last edited:
Was already adding studios to my spreadsheet so just needed to fill in the blanks. Also for my count for a series with singles i only count them once, as i think this makes for a more fair comparison.

Actually fun to see for which studios i have the most titles, and it was a close, ongoing, race between Production I.G and Madhouse with Sunrise and J.C. Staff hot on the top 2 their tails :)

  1. 56 Production I.G
  2. 54 Madhouse
  3. 51 Sunrise
  4. 51 J.C. Staff
  5. 42 A-1 Pictures
  6. 39 Studio Deen
  7. 38 Bones
  8. 30 Shaft
  9. 25 Gonzo
  10. 23 Studio Ghibli
  11. 19 AIC
  12. 18 Toei Animation
  13. 18 Satelight
  14. 17 Kyoto Animation
  15. 16 Xebec
  16. 16 Studio Pierrot
  17. 14 Silver Link
  18. 13 Tokyo Movie Shinsha
  19. 13 P.A. Works
  20. 13 Manglobe
  21. 13 Brain’s Base
  22. 12 Tatsunoko Production
  23. 12 Gainax
  24. 10 Arms

  1. 212 FUNimation Entertainment
  2. 131 Sentai Filmworks
  3. 72 Aniplex
  4. 61 Anime Limited
  5. 56 Manga Entertainment
  6. 42 NIS America
  7. 42 MVM Entertainment
  8. 32 Kazé
  9. 30 Viz Pictures
  10. 29 Pioneer Entertainment
 
Last edited:
I've done the first two shelves so far got about 7 left to do.

White Fox 1
Polygon Pictures 1 2
Kyoto Animation 1 2 3 4 5
P.A Works 1 2
Madhouse 1 2
Ufotable 1 2
Sunrise 1 2 3 4
Production I.G 1
Brains Base 1
Satelight 1
Mappa 1
Shaft 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Wit Studio 1
Lidenfilms 1 2

 
I think I've missed a few due from my list due to decorating at home and putting my collection into temp storage. Here's the list I was able to get... Production I.G. clearly heading the leader board.

Production I.G 27
Madhouse 21
Bones 11
Sunrise 13
Ghibli 7
Gonzo 5
Kyoto Animation 5
Gainax 4
Studio Pierrot 4
AIC 4
Khara 3
Studio 4C 3
Digital Frontier 3
J.C. Staff 2
Imagin 2
Studio Deen 2
Comix 2
Agent 21 2
Square Enix 2
Statelight 2
White Fox 1
Phoenix Entertainment 1
Brains Base 1
Production Reed 1
Triangle Staff 1
Tokyo Shinsha 1
Arms 1
Xebec 1
Manglobe 1
 
Each Show/Movie/OVA is counted as one, duplicates are disregarded as are releases on a different format. I own Evangelion on LaserDisc (14 volumes), the DVD Release and the Japanese Blu-ray, this all counts as one. Probably missing a few here and there.

  1. Madhouse 25
  2. Studio Ghibli 22
  3. Gainax 14
  4. Sunrise 14
  5. Production I.G 13
  6. Tatsunoko Production 7
  7. Tokyo Movie Shinsha 7
  8. CoMix Wave Films 5
  9. Bones 4
  10. Studio Deen 4
  11. Nippon Animation 3
  12. Khara 3
  13. Studio Pierrot 3
  14. Triangle Staff 3
  15. Artland 3
  16. Studio 4°C 3
  17. J.C.Staff 2
  18. Trigger 2
  19. OLM 2
  20. Toei Animation 1
  21. APPP 1
  22. Zexcs 1
  23. Mu Animation Studio 1
  24. Shaft 1
 
Reviving a bit of an old thread, with a six-month update ... or thereabouts. Madhouse took over the top spot from Production I.G in my collection.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, May 25th 2017
  1. 61 (+7) Madhouse
  2. 58 (+2) Production I.G
  3. 55 (+4) Sunrise
  4. 55 (+4) J.C. Staff
  5. 49 (+7) A-1 Pictures
  6. 42 (+4) Bones
  7. 42 (+3) Studio Deen
  8. 32 (+2) Shaft
  9. 29 (+4) Gonzo
  10. 24 (+7) Kyoto Animation
  11. 24 (+1) Studio Ghibli
  12. 21 (+2) AIC
  13. 20 (+4) Studio Pierrot
  14. 20 (+4) Xebec
  15. 20 (+2) Toei Animation
  16. 19 (+1) Satelight
  17. 15 (+1) Silver Link
  18. 14 (+1) P.A. Works
  19. 14 (+1) Manglobe
  20. 14 (+1) Brain’s Base
  21. 13 (+3) Arms
  22. 13 (+1) Tatsunoko Production
  23. 13 (+1) Gainax
  24. 13 (-) Tokyo Movie Shinsha
  25. 10 TMS Entertainment
  26. 10 Doga Kobo
  27. 10 AIC A.S.T.A.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, May 25th 2017
  1. 212 (+28) FUNimation Entertainment
  2. 131 (+22) Sentai Filmworks
  3. 72 (+9) Aniplex
  4. 61 (+18) Anime Limited
  5. 56 (+5) Manga Entertainment
  6. 48 (+6) MVM Entertainment
  7. 42 (-) NIS America
  8. 38 (+6) Kazé
  9. 36 (+6) Viz Pictures
  10. 29 Discotek Media
  11. 29 (-) Pioneer Entertainment
 
One year later, so a new breakdown. Not much of a change in the ranking, but Madhouse takes a bigger lead.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, December 17th 2017.
  1. 71 (+10) Madhouse
  2. 63 (+5) Production I.G
  3. 62 (+7) Sunrise
  4. 61 (+12) A-1 Pictures
  5. 61 (+6) J.C. Staff
  6. 45 (+3) Bones
  7. 45 (+3) Studio Deen
  8. 36 (+7) Gonzo
  9. 36 (+4) Shaft
  10. 35 (+11) Kyoto Animation
  11. 26 (+6) Xebec
  12. 24 (+4) Toei Animation
  13. 24 (-) Studio Ghibli
  14. 23 (+3) Studio Pierrot
  15. 21 (+2) Satelight
  16. 21 (-) AIC
  17. 20 (+6) Brain’s Base
  18. 20 (+5) Silver Link
  19. 18 (+5) Arms
  20. 16 (+3) Gainax
  21. 15 (+2) Tatsunoko Production
  22. 15 (+1) P.A. Works
  23. 15 (+1) Manglobe
  24. 14 (+4) Doga Kobo
  25. 14 (+4) TMS Entertainment
  26. 14 (+1) Tokyo Movie Shinsha
  27. 13 White Fox
  28. 12 8bit
  29. 12 Lerche
  30. 12 Studio 4°C
  31. 11 Diomédea
  32. 10 AIC A.S.T.A.
  33. 10 Bee Train

Break down by distributor, learned that in the first six months of this year i didn't get any MVM release, so i rectified that later on and also got 5 of their releases during the MVM Christmas Sale. In the ranking Anime Ltd. takes over top three place from Aniplex.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, December 17th 2017

  1. 307 (+95) FUNimation Entertainment
  2. 208 (+77) Sentai Filmworks
  3. 109 (+48) Anime Limited
  4. 95 (+23) Aniplex
  5. 69 (+21) MVM Entertainment
  6. 67 (+11) Manga Entertainment
  7. 48 (+6) NIS America
  8. 46 (+17) Discotek Media
  9. 39 (+3) Viz Pictures
  10. 39 (+1) Kazé
  11. 30 Bandai Visual
  12. 29 (-) Pioneer Entertainment
  13. 28 Nozomi Entertainment
  14. 25 ADV Films
  15. 24 StudioCanal UK
  16. 23 Beez Entertainment
  17. 22 Geneon Entertainment
  18. 20 Dybex
 
Another year is passed, so i thought let's make another overview what has changed since the last year (because I love my lists :) ).

No big changes in the top, except that Sunrise now takes position two instead of Production I.G ... must be something called Gundam

between brackets amount of titles since last count, December 26th 2018.
  1. 85 (+14) Madhouse
  2. 80 (+18) Sunrise
  3. 75 (+12) Production I.G
  4. 69 (+8) A-1 Pictures
  5. 68 (+7) J.C. Staff
  6. 57 (+12) Studio Deen
  7. 52 (+7) Bones
  8. 41 (+5) Shaft
  9. 38 (+2) Gonzo
  10. 36 (+1) Kyoto Animation
  11. 31 (+5) Xebec
  12. 30 (+6) Toei Animation
  13. 29 (+6) Studio Pierrot
  14. 25 (+5) Brain’s Base
  15. 25 (+5) Silver Link
  16. 24 (-) Studio Ghibli
  17. 23 (+2) AIC
  18. 22 (+1) Satelight
  19. 20 (+2) Arms
  20. 20 (+6) TMS Entertainment
  21. 19 (+4) P.A. Works
  22. 19 (+5) Tokyo Movie Shinsha
  23. 17 (+1) Gainax
  24. 17 (+2) Tatsunoko Production
  25. 17 (+4) White Fox
  26. 16 (+1) Manglobe
  27. 15 (+3) Lerche
  28. 14 (+3) Diomédea
  29. 14 (+4) Doga Kobo
  30. 13 (+1) 8bit
  31. 13 feel.
  32. 12 Studio 4°C
  33. 10 (-) AIC A.S.T.A.
  34. 10 (-) Bee Train
  35. 10 Kinema Citrus
  36. 10 LIDEN FILMS
  37. 10 Studio Gokumi

Looking at distributor, FUNimation is still in the lead. But the biggest jump is made by Discotek going from 8 to position 6.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, December 26th 2018
  1. 364 (+57) FUNimation Entertainment
  2. 270 (+62) Sentai Filmworks
  3. 134 (+25) Anime Limited
  4. 107 (+12) Aniplex
  5. 78 (+11) Manga Entertainment
  6. 76 (+30) Discotek Media
  7. 74 (+5) MVM Entertainment
  8. 50 (+11) Viz Pictures
  9. 48 (-) NIS America
  10. 39 (-) Kazé
  11. 37 (+11) Nozomi Entertainment
  12. 34 (+4) Bandai Visual
  13. 29 (-) Pioneer Entertainment
  14. 25 (-) ADV Films
  15. 25 Maiden Japan
  16. 24 (-) StudioCanal UK
  17. 23 (-) Beez Entertainment
  18. 22 (-) Geneon Entertainment
  19. 20 (-) Dybex
 
So here we are again, with a new overview of what I have in my collection and how it expanded during the last year concerning studios and distributors. Actually I bought less anime titles in 2020 compared to 2019 and the years before it. That's also why there are no big changes in positions ...
... but finally Sunrise played catch-up with Madhouse and for both i have 87 titles in my collection. The reason Sunrise is now also in top spot is obviously due to Anime Ltd. Gundam releases :)

J.C. Staff now takes over spot three over from Production I.G

Biggest jumps are made by TMS Entertainment from 20 to 15 and Doga Kobo from 29 to position 21.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, December 24th 2019.
  1. 87 (+2) Madhouse
  2. 87 (+7) Sunrise
  3. 77 (+9) J.C. Staff
  4. 77 (+2) Production I.G
  5. 72 (+3) A-1 Pictures
  6. 59 (+2) Studio Deen
  7. 52 (-) Bones
  8. 44 (+3) Shaft
  9. 40 (+2) Gonzo
  10. 40 (+4) Kyoto Animation
  11. 33 (+4) Studio Pierrot
  12. 33 (+2) Xebec
  13. 32 (+7) Silver Link
  14. 31 (+1) Toei Animation
  15. 28 (+8) TMS Entertainment
  16. 27 (+2) Brain’s Base
  17. 25 (+2) AIC
  18. 24 (-) Studio Ghibli
  19. 23 (+1) Satelight
  20. 22 (+2) Arms
  21. 20 (+6) Doga Kobo
  22. 20 (+3) Gainax
  23. 19 (+4) Lerche
  24. 19 (+3) Manglobe
  25. 19 (-) P.A. Works
  26. 19 (-) Tokyo Movie Shinsha
  27. 18 (+1) White Fox
  28. 17 (+2) Tatsunoko Production
  29. 15 (+2) 8bit
  30. 15 (+1) Diomédea
  31. 14 (+1) feel.
  32. 12 (+2) Kinema Citrus
  33. 12 (-) Studio 4°C
  34. 12 WIT Studio
  35. 11 (+1) AIC A.S.T.A.
  36. 11 (+1) LIDEN FILMS
  37. 10 Artland
  38. 10 (-) Bee Train
  39. 10 Hal Film Maker
  40. 10 MAPPA
  41. 10 Studio Gokumi
  42. 10 Zexcs

In the distributor list not much has changed this year. FUNimation still leads the pack. Anime Works is the new comer this year.

between brackets amount of titles since last count, December 26th 2018
  1. 398 (+34) FUNimation Entertainment
  2. 299 (+29) Sentai Filmworks
  3. 168 (+34) Anime Limited
  4. 115 (+8) Aniplex
  5. 95 (+17) Manga Entertainment
  6. 91 (+15) Discotek Media
  7. 85 (+11) MVM Entertainment
  8. 54 (+4) Viz Pictures
  9. 48 (-) NIS America
  10. 39 (-) Kazé
  11. 38 (+1) Nozomi Entertainment
  12. 35 (+1) Bandai Visual
  13. 29 (-) Pioneer Entertainment
  14. 27 (+2) Maiden Japan
  15. 25 (-) ADV Films
  16. 24 (-) StudioCanal UK
  17. 23 (-) Beez Entertainment
  18. 22 (-) Geneon Entertainment
  19. 21 Anime Works
  20. 21 (+1) Dybex
 
Back
Top