ABC Animation Studio

ABC Animation, Inc. is a Japanese animation planning, production and content company that serves as a subsidiary of the Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, the company was formed as part of a spin-off of ABC's animation co-production business into a separate company, as part of a major restructuring of ABC's restructuring of its content production division. ABC Animation also owns animation studio Silver Link as well as other companies such as Zero G Act and CGCG Studio. The company is responsible for the planning and production of anime, including films and television series as well as content sales and licensing. Among these is Toei Animation's long-running magical girl series Pretty Cure which has been airing since 2004. Since the shows air on a daytime slot, all entries from 2016 onwards are co-produced jointly with ABC Television, which previously solely handled co-production duties from the franchise's first entry in 2004. ABC-A began co-producing the series since Witchy Pretty Cure.