Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio headquartered at the Musaino YS Building in Nakacho, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan that was founded on October 19, 1962 by manga author Tatsuo Yoshida and his brothers Kenji Yoshida and Ippei Kuri, originally as a manga studio before entering into animation production three years later as the studio produced its first television series, an original work titled Space Ace and since then, the studio later produced several numerous anime series, such as Speed Racer, Gatchaman, The Genie Family, the Time Bokan series, Samurai Pizza Cats, Pinocchio: The Series, The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, and The Littl' Bits, among others, and holds numerous original rights and character copyrights for its original works in Japan and abroad.
