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Bones is a major Japanese anime studio that has produced many popular series such as Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Eureka Seven, and Ouran High School Host Club. They have also worked on films such as Cowboy Bebop: The Movie and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.

Bones has produced numerous anime TV series such as RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, Scrapped Princess, Darker than Black, Ouran High School Host Club, Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. They have also worked on films including Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Sword of the Stranger and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.

Some key directors and animators that have worked at Bones include Makoto Watanabe, Takahiro Komori who is a character designer and animator, and Atsushi Ōkubo who is the creator of the Soul Eater manga.

Bones Inc. ( Kabushiki Kaisha Bonzu?

) often romanized as BONES in Japan,


is a Japanese anime studio. It has produced numerous series, including RahXephon, Wolf's
Rain, Scrapped Princess, Eureka Seven, Angelic Layer, Darker than Black, Soul
Eater,Ouran High School Host Club and two adaptions of the Fullmetal
Alchemist manga along with Star Driver and Gosick. Its headquarters is located
in Igusa, Suginami, Tokyo.[1]
Since the death of Hiroshi saka, two new additions have been made to the studio's board
of directors. The additions are Makoto Watanabe and Takahiro Komori. Takahiro Komori is
well known as a character designer and animator who has been with the studio since their
inception. His previous works as designer consist of Angelic Layer, Scrapped Princess,
and Darker than BLACK.[3]

Anime television[edit]
Title

Original
Broadcast
Channel

First
run
start
date

First
run
end
date

Notes

Hiwou War
Chronicles

NHK BS2

October 24,
May 1, 2001
2000

Original Work

Kid Tenshi Angelic


Layer

TV Tokyo

April 1,
2001

Based on a manga
by CLAMP

RahXephon

Fuji TV

January 21, September


2002
10, 2002

Wolf's Rain

Fuji TV

January 6,
2003

July 29, 2003 Original Work

Scrapped Princess

WOWOW

April 8,
2003

October 7,
2003

Based on a light novel


by Ichir Sakaki

Fullmetal Alchemist

MBS, TBS

October 4,
2003

October 2,
2004

Based on a manga
by Hiromu Arakawa

Kenran Butohsai The Mars Daybreak

TV Tokyo

April 1,
2004

September
23, 2004

Original Work

Kurau Phantom
Memory

TV Asahi

June 24,
2004

December 15,
Original Work
2004

Psalms of Planets
Eureka Seven

JNN (MBS)

April 26,
2005

April 5, 2006 Original Work

Ouran High School


Host Club

NTV

April 4,
2006

September
27, 2006

Based on a manga
by Bisco Hatori

Jyu-Oh-Sei

Fuji TV

April 13,
2006

June 22, 2006

Based on a manga
by Natsumi Itsuki

Ghost Slayers Ayashi MBS, TBS

October 7,
2006

March 31,
2007

Original Work

Darker than Black:


Kuro no Keiyakusha

MBS, TBS

April 5,
2007

September
28, 2007

Original Work

Skull Man

Fuji TV

April 28,

July 21, 2007 Based on a manga

September
30, 2001

Original Work

Title

Original
Broadcast
Channel

First
run
start
date

First
run
end
date

2007
Soul Eater

TXN (TV Tokyo)

April 7,
2008

Notes
by Shotaro Ishinomori

March 30,
2009

Based on a manga
by Atsushi kubo

Chiko, Heiress of the


Fuji TV
Phantom Thief

April 12,
2008

September
27, 2008

Based on a manga by
Shinji Ohara
(Co-production
with Telecom Animation
Film)

Fullmetal Alchemist:
JNN (MBS)
Brotherhood

April 5,
2009

July 4, 2010

Second adaptation
of Fullmetal Alchemist

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Fuji TV

July 9, 2009

September,
17 2009

Original Work
(Co-production
with Kinema Citrus)

Darker than Black:


Rysei no Gemini

MBS, TBS

October, 8
2009

December, 25 Sequel to Darker Than


2009
Black

Heroman

TXN (TV Tokyo)

April 1,
2010

September
23, 2010

Star Driver:
Kagayaki no Takuto

JNN (MBS)

October 3,
2010

April 4, 2011 Original Work

Gosick

TV Tokyo

January 7,
2011

July 2, 2011

Based on a light novel


by Kazuki Sakuraba

No. 6

Fuji TV

July 8, 2011

September
15, 2011

Based on the novels


by Atsuko Asano

Un-Go

Fuji TV

October 14, December 23, Loosely based on the


2011
2011
works ofAngo Sakaguchi

Original Work in
collaboration with Stan
Lee

Eureka Seven: Astral


MBS, TBS
Ocean

April 12,
2012

November
19, 2012

Sequel to Eureka Seven

Blast of Tempest

MBS, TBS

October 4,
2012

March 28,
2013

Based on a manga by Ky
Shirodaira

Tenkai Knights

Cartoon Network

August 24,
2013

Unknown

Original Work

Space Dandy

Adult
January 4,
Swim, Tokyo MX 2014

March 26,
2014

Original Work

Noragami

Tokyo MX

January 5,
2014

March 23,
2014

Based on the manga by


Adachitoka

Captain Earth

MBS

April 5,
2014

September
20, 2014

Original Work

Soul Eater Not!

TV Tokyo

April 8,
2014

July 2, 2014

Based on a manga by
Atsushi kubo

Original
Broadcast
Channel

Title

First
run
start
date

First
run
end
date

Notes
Spin-off to Soul Eater

Chaika - The Coffin


Princess

Tokyo MX

April 9,
2014

June 25, 2014

Based on a light novel by


Ichir Sakaki

Space Dandy II

Adult Swim,
Tokyo MX

July 6, 2014

September
28, 2014

Sequel to Space Dandy

Hitsugi no Chaika:
Avenging Battle

Tokyo MX

October,
2014

Unknown

Sequel to Hitsugi no
Chaika

Kekkai Sensen

TBA

2015

TBA

Based on the manga


byYasuhiro Nightow

Original video animation[edit]


RahXephon Interlude: Her and Herself/Thatness and Thereness (August 7, 2003)
Wolf's Rain (January 23, 2004 - February 25, 2004)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection (March 29, 2006)
Ghost Slayers Ayashi: Ayashi Diving Comedy (22 August, 2007 - 24 October, 2007)
Darker than Black: Beneath the Fully Bloomed Cherry Blossoms (March 26, 2008)
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (August 26, 2009 - August 25, 2010)
Prototype (part of Halo Legends) (2010)
Darker than Black: Gaiden (27 January, 2010 - 21 July, 2010)
Eureka Seven Ao: The Flowers of Jungfrau (20 September, 2012)
Noragami (February 17, 2014 - July 17, 2014)
Hitsugi no Chaika (March 10, 2015)

Web anime[edit]
Xam'd: Lost Memories (PlayStation Network, 16 July 20083 February 2009)

Movies[edit]
Escaflowne (June 2000 co-production with Sunrise)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (1 September 2001, co-production with Sunrise)
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio (19 April 2003)
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (23 July 2005)
Sword of the Stranger (29 September 2007)
Eureka Seven Pocket Full Of Rainbows (25 April 2009, co-production with Kinema Citrus)
Towa no Quon Movie Series
1.Fleeting Petals ( Utakata no Kaben?) (18 June 2011)
2.Wild Dance of Chaos ( Konton no Ranbu?) (16 July 2011)
3.Never ending Crime ( Mugen no Renza?) (13 August 2011)
4.Crimes in a Blank Dream ( Guren no Shoushin?) (10 September 2011)
5.Heroic Return ( Souzetsu no Raifuku?) (5 November 2011)
6.Eternal Eternity ( Towa no Quon?) (26 November 2011)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2 July 2011)
Un-Go episode:0 Inga chapter (19 November 2011)

Star Driver: The Movie (9 February 2013)


The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (23 November 2013) (was one of the animation
cooperation studios for Studio Ghibli)

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