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Sunshine Corporation (サンシャイン・コーポレーション Sanshain Kōporēshon?) is a Japanese animation studio used for outsourcing. This studio was involved in the production of some of the Detective Conan anime episodes.

Biography

Sunshine Corporation is the first outsourcing firm that got involved of the Detective Conan anime production; its origin can be dated back to 1996, with episode 5 The Shinkansen's Bomb Case, the firm was credited under the segment "production cooperation" in the ending credits. After that, there were no notation within the ending credits with regards to the firm; nonetheless, the firm did not just quit the anime production - but instead, continued to get involved in the anime. There was a massive key animation group belonged to Sunshine Corporation which regularly contributed to some Detective Conan episodes. The reason that the company name was not under "production cooperation" was due to the fact that those animation directors responsible for these supposedly Sunshine Corporation episodes were of freelance and with no affiliate. As such, the company name was not seen in the ending credit for many years.

This circumstance was then overturned in 2002: episode 271, The Secret Rushed Omission. Where the animator Akiko Kawashima, who was directly affiliated with Sunshine Corporation, started to serve as animation director; thereafter, her role as animation director became fixed and regular. Incidentally, before this change, many freelance animation directors were appointed to partner the key animation group of Sunshine Corporation, this entailed Masayuki Hiraoka, Takehiro Hamatsu, Keiichi Ishida, Masaki Kudo, Mitsuru Soma etc.

Many aniamtors from this firm possess a fairly refined art style - a lot of frames drawn by them were gorgeous and alluring. This was also not an exception for Kawashima's animation direction: numerous smooth techniques utilised and magnificent art style seen within those episodes (characters with big eyes were not an uncommon phenomenon either). After Masato Sato became the anime director, the firm's name was then officially credited under "production cooperation" again, starting with The Similar Princesses. Despite some unsteady frames during this transition period when the anime character design had changed to Mari Tominaga, Kawashima was still able to adapt and resume her proficiency upon animation direction - the Full Moon arc from episode 345 could serve as an example.

After episode 432, Kawashima stepped down from the animation director role in Detective Conan. As a result, another animator named Ayako Tauchi had taken the relative position. Tauchi had manifested some capabilities of drawing the characters in a slightly different way as Kawashima. Finally, Sunshine Corporation quit the Detective Conan production in 2006, after episode 449.

Related staff

Participation in Detective Conan

Number of episodes outsourced: 16 (16 episodes)

Other notable works

Anime

References

  1. Official Website (Japanese)
  2. Atwiki (Japanese)
  3. Anime News Network
  4. Bangumi (Chinese)
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