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Bones (株式会社 ボンズ, Kabushiki Kaisha Bonzu) is a Japanese animation 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 adaptations (2003 and Brotherhood in 2009) of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga along with Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto and Gosick. Its headquarters is located in Igusa, Suginami, Tokyo.
Bones started as an offshoot of Studio 2 of Sunrise, which created Cowboy Bebop. Among the Studio 2 members that founded Bones included director Shinichirō Watanabe. Bones have collaborated with Sunrise on occasion including animating Cowboy Bebop The Movie.
Notable works[]
Anime series[]
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- Hiwou War Chronicles (NHK BS2, 24 October 2000 - 1 May 2001)
- Angelic Layer (TV Tokyo, 1 April - 30 September 2001)
- RahXephon (Fuji TV, 21 January - 10 September 2002)
- Wolf's Rain (Fuji TV, 6 January - 29 July 2003)
- Scrapped Princess (WOWOW, 8 April - 7 October 2003)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (Mainichi Broadcasting System—TBS, 4 October 2003 - 2 October 2004)
- Kenran Butohsai - The Mars Daybreak (TV Tokyo, 1 April - 23 September 2004)
- Kurau Phantom Memory (TV Asahi, 24 June - 15 December 2004)
- Eureka Seven (Mainichi Broadcasting System-TBS, 26 April 2005 - 5 April 2006)
- Ouran High School Host Club (Nippon TV, 4 April - 27 September 2006)
- Jyu-Oh-Sei (Fuji TV, 13 April - 22 June 2006)
- Ghost Slayers Ayashi (Mainichi Broadcasting System—TBS, 7 October 2006 - 31 March 2007)
- Darker than Black: The Black Contractor (Mainichi Broadcasting System—TBS, 5 April - 28 September 2007)
- Skull Man (Fuji TV, 28 April - October 21, 2007)
- Soul Eater (TV Tokyo, 7 April 2008 - 30 March 2009)
- The Daughter of 20 Faces (Fuji TV, 12 April - 27 September 2008, co-production with Telecom Animation Film)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Mainichi Broadcasting System—TBS, 5 April 2009 - 4 July 2010)
- Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Fuji TV, 9 July 2009 – 17 September 2009, co-production with Kinema Citrus)
- Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (Mainichi Broadcasting System-TBS, 8 October 2009 - 25 December 2009)
- Heroman (TV Tokyo, 1 April 2010 - 23 September 2010)
- STAR DRIVER (Mainichi Broadcasting System-TBS, 3 October 2010 - 4 April 2011)
- Gosick (TV Tokyo, 7 January 2011 - 2 July 2011)
- No. 6 (Fuji TV, 8 July 2011 - 15 September 2011)
- Un-Go (Fuji TV, 13 October 2011 – 22 December 2011)
- Space Dandy (2014)
- Captain Earth (2014)
- Chaika The Coffin Princess (2014)
- Blood Blockade Battlefront (2014)
- Snow White with the Red Hair (2015)
- Noragami Aragoto (Season 2; 2015)
- Snow White with the Red Hair 2 (Season 2; 2016)
- Concrete Revolutio (2015)
- Bungo Stray Dogs (2016)
- My Hero Academia (2016)
- Show By Rock!! Short!! (shorts, 2016)
- Concrete Revolutio ~ Superhuman Fantasy ~ THE LAST SONG (2016)
- Mob Psycho 100 (2016)
- Show By Rock!! # (Season 2; 2016)
- Bungo Stray Dogs (Season 2; 2016)
- My Hero Academia (Season 2; 2017)
- Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (2017)
- My Hero Academia (Season 3; 2018)
- Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan (2018)
- Mob Psycho 100 II (Season 2; 2019)
- Carole & Tuesday (2019)
- Bungo Stray Dogs (Season 3; 2019)
- My Hero Academia (Season 4; 2019)
- SK8 the Infinity (2021)
- Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (shorts, 2021)
- My Hero Academia (Season 5; 2021)
- Godzilla Singular Point (2021)
- The Case Study of Vanitas (2021)
- The Case Study of Vanitas Part 2 (2022)
- My Hero Academia (Season 6; 2022)
- Mob Psycho 100 III (Season 3; 2022)
- Bungo Stray Dogs (Season 4; 2023)
- Bungo Stray Dogs (Season 5; 2023)
- Metallic Rouge (2024)
Web anime (ONA)[]
- Xam'd: Lost Memories (PlayStation Network, 16 July 2008 - 3 February 2009)
OVAs[]
- Prototype (part of Halo Legends; 2010)
- Darker than Black Specials (4 ep; 27 January 2010 - 21 July 2010)
Anime movies[]
- Escaflowne (June 2000 co-production with Sunrise)
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (1 September 2001, co-production with Sunrise)
- Welcome to Pia Carrot! Sayaka's Love Story (Overall production: I-Move, production assistance, released October 19, 2002)
- RahXephon Tagen Hensōkyoku (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; U.S. title: Eureka 7: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers (animation production handled by Kinema Citrus; 25 April 2009 in Japan and 24 September 2009 in the United States)
- Towanoquon: Chapter 1: Fleeting Petals (18 June 2011)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2 July 2011)
- Towanoquon: Chapter 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos (16 July 2011)
- Towanoquon: Chapter 3: The Complicity of Dreams (13 August 2011)
- Towanoquon: Chapter 4: The Roaring Anxiety (10 September 2011)
- Towanoquon: Chapter 5: The Return of the Invincible (5 November 2011)
- Towanoquon: Chapter 6: Eternal Quon (26 November 2011)
Games[]
- Rahxephon Blue Sky Fantasy (Bandai, 7 August 2003)
- Eureka Seven vol. 1: New Wave]] (Bandai, 27 October 2005)
- Eureka Seven vol. 2: The New Vision]] (Bandai, 11 May 2006)
External links[]
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Other info
- News
- Crunchyroll News - Crunchyroll Celebrates 25 Years of Anime Studio BONES with 4-Part Documentary by Joseph Luster Feb 12, 2024 8:15 AM PST
- Anime News Network - Crunchyroll Expo 2022: Behind the Scenes at Bones by Lynzee Loveridge, Aug 6th 2022
- Anime News Network - Looking Back on 20 Years of Studio Bones by Kim Morrissy, Dec 12th 2018