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Toei Animation Marks 70th Anniversary With Special Video

Toei Animation turned 70 on July 31, and the animation studio released a special video to celebrate the anniversary. The video offers a retrospective on Toei Animation's history and works, decade by decade:

Toei Animation also opened a 70th anniversary website with a comprehensive history of the studio's productions and a message from its president Katsuhiro Takagi:

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the countless pioneers and employees, whose daily efforts, have made this possible, and above all, to our many fans and all stakeholders for their warm support. Without forgetting our gratitude for the past 70 years, we will treat this milestone as a steppingstone toward our 100th anniversary, renew our resolve, and continue to take on new challenges so we can deliver anime to people all over the world.

Toei Animation officially began operating under that name on July 31, 1956. The studio's first feature-length animation production was The White Snake film in 1958, and Its second was the 1959 film Magic Boy. The studio then animated its first TV production, 1963's Ōkami Shōnen Ken. Since then, it has worked on several popular anime series including the Gegege no Kitarō franchise, the Dragon Ball franchise, One Piece, the Precure franchise, the Mazinger Z franchise, Cutie Honey, the Galaxy Express 999 franchise, Fist of the North Star, Sailor Moon, Slam Dunk, Ojamajo Doremi, the Digimon franchise, and the Saint Seiya franchise. Toei Animation's most recent production is this year's Star Detective Precure! TV series.

Sources: Toei Animation's X/Twitter account, Toei Animation's YouTube channel, Toei Animation 70th Anniversary's website via Comic Natalie