Kero Studio

Kero Studio Co., Ltd. (株式会社ケロスタジオ) is a Japanese animation studio and video game developer based on Minato, Tokyo. The studio mainly participates in the production of animated series and films and the development of video games.

Its anime works consist of experimental and surrealism.

History
The studio was founded on April 6, 1983 by animator Masaaki Iwane at the age of 17. Its first anime work was Labyrinth.

Staff

 * Masaaki Iwane (character designer, animation director, key animator)
 * Shūhei Yasuda (character designer, animation director)
 * Masahiro Takeda (animation director, key animator) (left in 1994)
 * Kazuo Morine (storyboard artist)
 * Natsuko Furusawa (storyboard artist)
 * Faith Robinson (storyboard artist)
 * Sophia Wilson (storyboard artist)
 * Seiji Kuramoto (storyboard artist)
 * Shinobu Arita (assistant director)
 * Goro Naito (assistant director; producer)
 * Kiyohisa Kitagawa (producer)
 * Yasuhiro Sakamoto (producer)
 * Masako Kamata (producer)
 * Toshikazu Wada (key animator)
 * Eiko Tokunaga (key animator)
 * Chiyoko Nakayama (key animator)
 * Kanako Matsunaga (key animator)
 * Shuichi Matsuyama (key animator)
 * Toshiki Tsuruoka (key animator)
 * Toshihiko Noguchi (key animator)
 * Naoko Igarashi (key animator)
 * Kimie Egawa (key animator)
 * Aiko Tano (animation checker)
 * Sebastian Sharp (animation checker)
 * Joseph Porter (animation checker)
 * Tsutomu Matsuda (animation checker; inbetweener)
 * Melissa Woods (inbetweener)
 * Lauren Woods (inbetweener)
 * Naomi Watabe (inbetweener)
 * Naomi Matsuda (inbetweener)
 * Osamu Natsukawa (color coordinator)
 * Kazuko Okubo (color coordinator)
 * Aiko Kageyama (color coordinator)
 * Hidehiko Kuroko (color coordinator)
 * Toshiharu Kabeya (art director; background artist)
 * Yuzo Okamoto (background artist)
 * Kayoko Kamino (background artist)
 * Tatsuya Soga (background artist)
 * Hidetsugu Araya (background artist)
 * Shigeru Fukuhara (background artist)
 * Takeshi Arai (background artist)
 * Toyokazu Kawano (background artist)
 * Masahiko Horikoshi (photographer)
 * Naomi Mendez (photographer)
 * Jotaro Natsukawa (photographer)
 * Kyosuke Kamiya (photographer)
 * Naonobu Ito (photographer)
 * Shinji Akagi (photographer)
 * Masayuki Shimada (photographer)
 * Ryo Shoji (painter)
 * Akinori Mouri (painter)
 * Kenji Hasegawa (painter)
 * Ryusuke Koyama (painter)
 * Toshikazu Nakajima (painter)
 * Yoshitaka Himura (painter)
 * Sidney Burtt (production manager)
 * Mamiko Yokoyama (production manager)
 * Harvey Burtt (production coordinator)
 * Tomohiro Nishimura (production coordinator)

Filmography

 * Labyrinth (1983)
 * History of Japan (2012)
 * History of the Entire World (2013)