Studio Signpost

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Expand language Template:Infobox company Template:Nihongo is an animation studio subsidiary of Pierrot. The studio is an associate-member of The Association of Japanese Animations.

History

The company was founded in 1959 as a magazine advertising agency and stepped into the anime industry in 1989 by Keiji Kusano and Yoshikazu Tochihira. In 1993, the company took on the name Studio Kikan and released their first animated works Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou. In 1996, the company established Arms as a separate studio to focus on adult animation and subcontracted animation work.

The studio became a subsidiary of Pierrot in 2008 and changed its name to Pierrot Plus in 2009. Kusano stepping down as CEO to become a chairman, and was replaced by CEO of Arms, Osamu Shimizu.

On September 20, 2019, the company changed its name to Studio Signpost. Ken Hagino, who had worked at Pierrot as animation producer was appointed as the new CEO. In conjunction with this change, the official website of Arms was closed down, and the company was later dissolved on October 6, 2020.

Works

Television series

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.	Refs.
1993–2008	Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō	Hisayuki Toriumi	Template:Small Shintarou Kozaki Yoshikazu Tochihira	Manga	726
1994–1995	Template:Ill	Tsutomu Shibayama	Template:Small Yoshikazu Tochihira	Manga	20
	Chō Kuse ni Narisō	Tetsuya Endo	Template:Small Yoshikazu Tochihira	Manga	39
2008–2010	Hakken Taiken Daisuki! Shimajirou			Manga	101
2009–2010	Letter Bee	Akira Iwanaga	Osamu Shimizu	Manga	25
2010–2011	Letter Bee Reverse	Akira Iwanaga	Osamu Shimizu	Manga	25
2010–2012	Shimajirou Hesoka			Manga	101
2011–2012	Beelzebub	Template:Ill	Osamu Shimizu	Manga	60
2014	Survival Game Club!	Masahiko Ohta	Kazuyoshi Ozawa	Manga	12
2015	Re-Kan!	Masashi Kudō	Osamu Koshinaka Kazuyoshi Ozawa	Manga	13
2016	Onigiri	Takashi Yamamoto	Shingo Chiba	Video game	13
	The Morose Mononokean	Akira Iwanaga	Shintarou Nozaki	Manga	13
2018	Magical Girl Ore	Itsuro Kawasaki	Kazuyoshi Ozawa Shingo Chiba	Manga	12
	Shinya! Tensai Bakabon	Template:Ill		Manga	12
2019	The Morose Mononokean II	Itsoru Kawasaki	Osamu Shimizu Shingo Chiba	Manga	13
	Ultramarine Magmell	Hayato Date	Kazuyoshi Ozawa	Manhua	13
2020	Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga	Hideotoshi Takahashi	Shingo Chiba	Manga	12
2020–2021	Kingdom (season 3) (co-animated with Pierrot)	Kenichi Imaizumi Kazuya Monma	Yasuyuki Ogoshi	Manga	26
2022	Kingdom (season 4) (co-animated with Pierrot)	Kenichi Imaizumi Kazuya Monma	Yasuyuki Ogoshi	Manga	26
2023	My Clueless First Friend	Shigenori Kageyama	Osamu Shimizu	Manga	13
2024	Kingdom (season 5) (co-animated with Pierrot)	Kenichi Imaizumi	Yasuyuki Ogoshi	Manga	13
	TsumaSho	Noriyuki Abe	Shintarou Nozaki	Manga	Template:TBA

OVAs

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.	Refs.
1991–1992	The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor (eps. 7–12)Template:Efn	Masahiro Ōtani (7–9) Naoto Hashimoto (10–12)	Template:Small Osamu Shimimzu	Manga	6
1993	Template:Ill	Hiromitsu Oota	Template:Small Yoshiharu SakashitaTemplate:Efn	Manga	1
1994	Butt Attack Punisher Girl	Template:Ill	Template:Small Osamu Shimizu	Manga	1
	Butt Attack Punisher Girl R	Hiroshi Yoshida	Template:Small Osamu Shimizu	Manga	1
1994–1995	Wild 7	Template:Ill	Nagateru Katou Keiji Kusano	Manga	2
2008	Naisho no Tsubomi	Template:Ill		Manga	3
2008–2009	Master of Martial Hearts	Template:Ill	Template:Small Keiji Kusano	Original work	5
2010	Beelzebub: Jump Festa 2010 Special	Template:Ill	Template:Small Osamu Shimizu	Manga	1

Gross outsource

Series in which Studio Signpost, Pierrot Plus, or Studio Kikan served as a gross (full) outsourcing studio, either for singular episodes or across entire series.

List of gross outsources Year Title Primary contractor(s) Director(s) Episode(s) Note(s) Refs. 2005 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Seven Arcs Keizō Kusakawa 4 2005–2009 Bleach Pierrot Noriyuki Abe 23 episodesTemplate:Efn 2006 Himawari! Arms Shigenori Kageyama 1–13 2007 Himawari Too!! Arms Shigenori Kageyama 1–13 Deltora Quest OLM Mitsuru Hongo 34 2012 Hiiro no Kakera: The Tamayori Princess Saga 2 Studio Deen Bob Shirahata 9 Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie Pierrot Hayato Date Film 2013 Rozen Maiden: Zurückspulen Studio Deen Mamoru Hatakeyama 4, 8, 12 I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job Asread Kinji Yoshimoto 7 Gatchaman Crowds Tatsunoko Production Kenji Nakamura 6 Freezing Vibration A.C.G.T Takashi Watanabe 9 2013-2014 Gaist Crusher Pierrot Yoshihiro Takamoto 1–51 2016 Soul Buster Pierrot Kōbun Shizuno
Toshinori Watanabe 1–12 Tsukiuta the Animation Pierrot Itsuro Kawasaki 1–12 2017 Convenience Store Boy Friends Pierrot Hayato Date 1–12 Dynamic Chord Pierrot Shigenori Kageyama 1–12 2018 Tokyo Ghoul:re Pierrot Toshinori Watanabe 1–24 2019 Astra Lost in Space Lerche Masaomi Andō 4 A Certain Scientific Accelerator J.C.Staff Nobuharu Kamanaka 7 Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Asread Kinji Yoshimoto 2, 8, 11

Notable staff

Representative staff

• Keiji Kusano (co-founder, president of Studio Kikan (1989~2009))
• Yoshikazu Tochihira (co-founder and animation producer)
• Osamu Shimizu (Studio Kikan producer (1991~2009), president of Pierrot+ (2009~2019))
• Ken Hagino (president of Studio Signpost (2019~present))

Animation producers

• Shintarou Nozaki (1994~present)
• Shingo Chiba (2007~present)
• Yuuya Kumagai (2013~2019)
• Kazuyoshi Ozawa (2013~present)
• Osamu Koshinaka (also a part of ARMS)
• Yasuyuki Ogoshi (also a part of ARMS)

Directors

• Keizō Kusakawa (1991~2002)

Animators

• Maya "Rin Shin" Suzuki (1991~1996; moved to ARMS; has been working with Signpost since ARMS' dissolution)

External links

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