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P Productions
Company typeKabushiki gaisha
IndustryTelevision
GenreAnime/Tokusatsu
Founded1960
FounderTomio Sagisu
HeadquartersOgikubo, Suginami, Tokyo,
Japan
OwnerShirō Sagisu[1]
Websitep-production.jp

P Productions (ピー・プロダクション, Pī Purodakushon) is a Japanese production company, which has produced anime and tokusatsu television programs, with minor work in motion pictures. It was founded in 1960 by the late TV producer Tomio Sagisu (also known as Soji Ushio).[1] The company exists today as a stockholder.

Perhaps their most famous creations are Osamu Tezuka's Ambassador Magma, one of the first tokusatsu series dubbed into English and aired in the United States, and the three series that make up the unique Lion-Maru franchise, featuring anthropomorphic lion samurai battling evil in feudal Japan. Most of P Productions' film and television projects, like Ambassador Magma for example, features animation sequences created with matte paintings by Yoshio Watanabe with Tomio Sagisu himself, and termed in Japanese as "composited drawings" (合成作画, Gōsei Sakuga) or "drawing synthesis" (作画合成, Sakuga Gōsei). The company is currently owned by Shirō Sagisu, best known for composing scores for the Neon Genesis Evangelion series, and the 2016 Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla.[1][2]

On August 21, 2024, after almost 18 years after Lion-Maru G the company ceased producing tokusatsu series. P-Pro subsequently announced that they had successfully sold the intellectual property of all their tokusatsu works to Khara, Inc..[3]

Selected productions

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Anime

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Tokusatsu

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "株式会社ピー・プロダクション". 株式会社ピー・プロダクション (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  2. ^ "ピー・プロダクション|鷺巣 詩郎 Shiro SAGISU Official Website". www.ro-jam.com. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  3. ^ "P-PRO's copyright management office is Khara Co., Ltd". X/Twitter (in Japanese). August 21, 2024.
  4. ^ Tokusatsu hiho. 3 (Tokushu supekutoruman sanda tai gaira shashin hakkutsu urutora kyu urutoraman busuka urutora sebun). Yosensha. 2016. ISBN 978-4-8003-0865-8.
  5. ^ Sagisu 1999, p. 95.
  6. ^ Sagisu 1999, p. 96.

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