MadHouse

MADHOUSE Limited (株式会社 マッドハウス, Kabushiki-gaisha Maddohausu?) is a Japanese animation studio, founded in the early 1970s by ex-Mushi Pro animators including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It has created and helped to produce many well known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! in 1973, and including western favorites Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Trigun and Di Gi Charat. Madhouse produced animation in OVA format in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but unlike studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was in TV shows and theatrical features. They were also responsible for the first Beyblade anime series as well as the Dragon Drive anime. Among their later works is Texhnolyze. Another close tie to the studio is mangaka Naoki Urasawa. Madhouse has made adaptations of three of his manga: Yawara!, Master Keaton and Monster. They have also animated some of Clamp's catalogue: Tokyo Babylon, two versions of X, Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits.