Studio Tick Tock

Studio Tick Tock Co., Ltd. (株式会社スタジオティックトック) was a Japanese-language American animation studio which produced direct-to-video films and rarely television series. It was founded on October 6, 1984 by Osamu Nomura, Chieko Oka and Tetsuya Murakami, Japanese-American anime producers who immigrated to the United States, and was headquartered in,.

Instead of using professional talent, Nomura, Oka and Murakami were forced to rely on whatever native Japanese speakers they could find in Virginia. Businessmen, students, musicians, anyone, regardless of animating experience were eligible to animate in Studio Tick Tock films. Even so, Nomura, Oka and Murakami would hold auditions, making sure to hire the best people available, and trained them thoroughly before animation sessions.

It gained notoriety for its direct-to-video films, which have and several scenes having animation frame rates as low as two frames per second. Studio Tick Tock went into liquidation on July 27, 1995.

Theatrical films

 * Space Knights (1988)

Television series

 * The Life of the Househusband (1985)

Planners

 * Yukiko Okada
 * Sayuri Kodama

Producers

 * Osamu Nomura
 * Chieko Oka
 * Tetsuya Murakami

Screenwriters

 * Ai Matsumae
 * Susumu Yamaguchi
 * Hajime Fumoto
 * Noriyuki Fujii
 * Shizuo Wakabayashi

Storyboard Artists

 * Tamiko Takagi
 * Takahiro Arimoto
 * Naoki Nishioka
 * Noriyuki Fujii

Character Designers/Animation Directors

 * Yōji Kinjō
 * Tatsuo Fujikawa
 * Tetsu Nomura
 * Yoshiko Tokunaga
 * Sayuri Saitō
 * Susumu Hamasaki

Art Directors

 * Mariko Ōhara
 * Asami Matsuzaki
 * Junichi Tsuchiya

Directors of Photography

 * Mitsuru Suzuki
 * Kazuhiko Yanagi
 * Toshio Taguchi

Key Animators

 * Yōji Kinjō
 * Naoko Doi
 * Sayuri Saitō
 * Masayo Miura
 * Susumu Hamasaki

Inbetweeners

 * Takashi Nakamoto
 * Seiichi Matsuzaki
 * Harumi Yoshioka
 * Susumu Sugita
 * Shōichi Sugita
 * Kotono Sasaki

Color Coordinators

 * Kazumi Doi
 * Kazue Fukui
 * Hiromichi Matsumoto

Cel Painters

 * Naoko Nishihara
 * Kayoko Kuwabara
 * Hisako Gori
 * Hanako Nagao
 * Michihiro Ōmori (checker)
 * Hiroko Seki (checker)
 * Kiyoshi Yoshida (checker)

Background Artists

 * Yuriko Tashiro
 * Teruhiko Ichikawa
 * Takahiro Hatakeyama
 * Saburō Andō
 * Ashito Idei

Photographers/Camera Operators

 * Isamu Matsuzaki
 * Sukehiro Wakamatsu
 * Daiki Hamaguchi
 * Takae Ōnishi
 * Norihiko Suzuki
 * Toshiaki Takasu

Editors

 * Yoshinori Itō
 * Masayoshi Kawasaki
 * Hirohide Kabata
 * Katsunori Akagawa

Actors and Actresses

 * Kotone Suzuki
 * Akio Hori
 * Katsuyuki Nomura
 * Hiroyuki Morine
 * Hiroaki Umeda
 * Akihiko Takeuchi
 * Kazuhiro Gōda
 * Makiko Kobayashi
 * Yoshiko Arai
 * Toshiko Kamata

Sound Directors

 * Jun Fukuda
 * Keiji Murata
 * Akihiko Oda

Sound Mixers

 * Sadao Yoshino
 * Kanako Kadoguchi

Recording Engineers

 * Yasushi Muraoka
 * Kiyoshi Murano

Production Managers

 * Yasuyuki Kageyama
 * Ichika Kamata