Hoods Entertainment

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Hoods Entertainment Inc.
Native name
フッズエンタテインメント株式会社
Kabushiki-gaisha Fuzzu Entateimento
Company typeKabushiki gaisha
IndustryJapanese animation
FoundedFebruary 2009
FounderMasaru Nagai
SuccessorStaple Entertainment
HeadquartersSuginami, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Masaru Nagai (CEO)
ProductsAki Sora
The Qwaser of Stigmata
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Drifters
Number of employees
4 (as of 2017)[1]
Websitewww.hoods.co.jp

Hoods Entertainment Inc. (Japanese: フッズエンタテインメント株式会社, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Fuzzu Entateinmento) is a Japanese animation studio that was established in February 2009.

History[edit]

The studio was founded in 2009 by Masaru Nagai, who acts as the company's representative director.

The studio has not been credited in an anime since 2021 which indicates that the studio may be inactive or defunct. Shinya Ueda, an animation producer with the studio from 2014 to 2020, left and took former Hoods staff members (such as production manager and director Ryou Nakamura) to his new studio Staple Entertainment. However, freelance animator Kiyoshi Tateishi, a common collaborator of Hoods Entertainment, lists on his Facebook page his freelancing work experience as "Hoods Entertainment (Staple Entertainment)" after working on Staple Entertainment's first production (Vermeil in Gold);[2][3] furthermore, Staple Entertainment's studio address is the exact same as Hoods Entertainment's headquarters, indicating that Hoods Entertainment may be defunct with Staple Entertainment taking over.[4]

Works[edit]

Television series[edit]

Year Title Director(s) Animation producer(s) Source Eps. Refs.
2010 The Qwaser of Stigmata Hiraku Kaneko Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 24
2011 The Qwaser of Stigmata II Hiraku Kaneko Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 12
Manyū Hiken-chō Hiraku Kaneko Manga 12
2012 Mysterious Girlfriend X Ayumu Watanabe Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 12
2013 Fantasista Doll[a] Hisashi Saitou Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Yuuji Hori
Masaru Nagai[a]
Original work 12
BlazBlue Alter Memory
(co-producued with teamKG)
Hideki Tachibana Masaru Nagai
Takao Asaga
Video game 12
2014 If Her Flag Breaks Ayumu Watanabe Light novel 12
A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd
(co-animated with Felix Film)
Team Nico[b] Shinya Ueda
Tomohito Naka
Light novel 12
2016 Drifters (as Hoods Drifters Studio) Kenichi Suzuki Shinya Ueda Manga 12
2018–2019 Märchen Mädchen Hisashi Saitou (chief)
Shigeru Ueda
Takuo Kimura (11–12)
Masaru Nagai
Masanobu Arakawa (7–10)
Light novel 12
Real Girl Takashi Naoya Shinya Ueda Manga 24
2019 Val × Love Takashi Naoya Shinya Ueda Manga 12
2021 Gekidol Shigeru Ueda Masaru Nagai Multi-media project 12

OVA/ONAs[edit]

Year Title Director(s) Animation producer(s) Source Eps. Refs.
2009 Aki Sora Takeo Takahashi Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 1
2010 Aki Sora ~Yume no Naka~ Takeo Takahashi Masaru Nagai Manga 2
The Qwaser of Stigmata: Portrait of the Empress Hiraku Kaneko Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 1
2012 Mysterious Girlfriend X Ayumu Watanabe Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 1
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (episodes 1–2) Shingo Natsume (1)
Erkin Kawabata (2)
Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 2
2013 Kagaku Na Yatsura Hiraku Kaneko Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 1
Rescue Me! Keiichiro Kawaguchi Producer:
Masaru Nagai
Manga 1
Ark IX Keiichiro Kawaguchi Masaru Nagai Manga 1
2013–2014 Vanquished Queens Shin Itagaki Masaru Nagai
Kazuaki Morijiri
Multi-media project 4
2014 If Her Flag Breaks Ayumu Watanabe Light novel 1
2014–2015 A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd
(co-animated with Felix Film)
Team Nico[b] Light novel 6
2015 Senran Kagura: Estival Versus- Shōjo-tachi no Sentaku Shigeru Ueda Masaru Nagai Video game 1
2015–2016 Hantsu × Trash Hisashi Saitou Masaru Nagai Manga 3
2016 Drifters: Special Edition
(as Hoods Drifters Studio)
Kenichi Suzuki Shinya Ueda Manga 1
2017–2018 Drifters
(as Hoods Drifters Studio)
Kenichi Suzuki (1–2)
Hitomi Ezoe (3)
Shinya Ueda Manga 3
2021 Alice in Deadly School Shigeyasu Yamauchi Multi-media project 1

Notable staff[edit]

Representative staff[edit]

  • Masaru Nagai (founder and president)

Animation producers[edit]

  • Shinya Ueda (2014~2020, founder of Staple Entertainment)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Project generalization (プロジェクト統括) by Amber Film Works and Juumonji. Hoods Entertainment's Masaru Nagai served as "production producer" (制作プロデューサー), while Amber Film Works and Juumonji presidents Kazuhiko Ikeguchi and Yuuji Hori (respectively) are credited as "animation producers" (アニメーションプロデューサー).
  2. ^ a b A team consisting of directors Kaori Hayashi, Tomomi Kamiya, Kenichi Konishi, Yuu Nobuta, and Mami Sodeyama

References[edit]

  1. ^ "フッズエンタテインメント株式会社(81583)の転職・求人情報". エン転職. エンジャパン. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  2. ^ 「金装のヴェルメイユ」に岡野友佑・石原夏織ら、本PVやビジュアル公開. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. May 11, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  3. ^ "Kiyoshi Tateishi's Facebook Page". Facebook (in Japanese). Retrieved December 31, 2022.
  4. ^ "ABOUT". Staple Entertainment (in Japanese). Retrieved January 7, 2024.

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