Toei Animation Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 東映アニメーション株式会社, Hepburn: Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha; ) is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It was originally founded on January 23, 1948, as Nihon Dōga by Kenzō Masaoka and Sanae Yamamoto.
A biker-gang OVA following Eguchi Yousuke, leader of a high-school motorcycle gang who moonlights in the school's handicrafts club, and the misfits who ride with him.
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CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE81%291 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Toei Animation begins broadcasting Dragon Ball Z, the sequel series to Dragon Ball following an adult Goku, his son Gohan, and the Z Fighters against escalating threats like Frieza, Cell, and Majin Buu.
The TV special Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks tells the tragedy of an alternate future where the androids have all but wiped out humanity, following a grown Trunks as he trains under a dying Gohan before traveling back in time.
5F Nakano Central Park East, 4-10-1, Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, JapanToei Animation
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE84%101 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Slam Dunk begins its TV run, a basketball comedy-drama following delinquent freshman Hanamichi Sakuragi as he falls for a classmate and, through her, discovers the sport.
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CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE87%1,178 episodes so farBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Toei Animation's TV adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece begins airing, following Monkey D. Luffy as he sets out to find the treasure One Piece and become King of the Pirates.
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CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE77%13 episodesRelease date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing (AniList listed no main studio for this OVA, so the studio credit was confirmed directly on MAL).
Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter - Sanctuary premieres, a Toei Animation OVA adapting Masami Kurumada's manga as Hades' resurrected Gold Saints move against Athena and the surviving Bronze Saints.
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ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE7.7/10MyAnimeList's[1] listing for this recap special gives only the year 2003 for its air date, with no exact day.
A two-episode recap special that revisits the Hades Sanctuary story from the vantage of the revived Gold Saints, trimming the Bronze Saints' scenes to focus on Shura, Camus and Saga as Athena's strongest defenders confront Hades' resurrected army. Animated by Toei Animation as part of the long-running Saint Seiya OVA cycle, it repackages existing Sanctuary-arc footage into a condensed retelling rather than new story content.
Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho premieres, a 13-episode OVA continuing the Ojamajo Doremi magical-girl franchise with a more mature, romance-tinged coda for the five witch apprentices.
The second OVA arc of Saint Seiya's Hades storyline begins release, continuing the surviving Bronze and Gold Saints' descent into the underworld to confront Hades himself.
One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.
Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna, a newly animated television special retelling the Arlong Park arc and Nami’s backstory.
Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend, a one-off special that re-animates the Going Merry ship's final voyages and the Straw Hat Crew's farewell to it.
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE39 episodesHappened as dated, per the pin description: "'Sailor Moon Crystal' Trailer Arrives To Fanfare. To the excitement of fans across the glo…"
To the excitement of fans across the globe, the long-awaited (and briefly-delayed) "Sailor Moon Crystal" finally has a final air date as well as a brand new trailer. A reboot of the beloved 1992 Japanese animated TV show, "Sailor Moon Crystal" is set to air in Japan on July 5 and will be simulcast worldwide. The trailer shows the "Sailor Moon" protagonist, teenager Usagi Tsukino, getting ready for school before transforming into superhero Sailor Moon and introducing her fellow Sailor Scouts.
Toei Animation airs the One Piece 3D2Y TV special, an original non-canon story bridging the manga's two-year time skip as Luffy trains under Silvers Rayleigh on Rusukaina Island while protecting Boa Hancock from a new adversary.
One Piece: Episode of Sabo is a TV special retelling the childhood bond between Luffy, Ace, and Sabo before folding in Sabo's reappearance during the Dressrosa arc, animated by Toei Animation.
The TV special One Piece: Episode of East Blue reanimates the story's earliest chapters for the manga's 20th anniversary, retelling how Luffy assembled his first four crewmates on the way to the Grand Line.
Toei Animation's feature film The First Slam Dunk opens in Japan, a big-screen return for Takehiko Inoue's basketball manga told from point guard Ryouta Miyagi's perspective.
One Piece Fan Letter premieres, a one-off Toei Animation special adapting a chapter of the One Piece novel Mugiwara Stories to mark the 25th anniversary of the One Piece anime, set as the Straw Hats reunite on the Sabaody Archipelago.
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CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE70%49 episodes plannedBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
The newest mainline entry in the Digimon franchise, Beatbreak imagines a world running on e-Pulse — human thoughts and emotions harvested to power AI devices called Sapotama. When Digimon start materializing out of these devices and feeding on the e-Pulse that powers them, protagonist Tomoro Tenma joins Glowing Dawn, a task force investigating the rogue creatures and the system's darker workings. Animated by Toei Animation, it positions itself as a narrative descendant of the original 1999 Digimon Adventure while building its own emotion-driven premise.
5F Nakano Central Park East, 4-10-1, Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, JapanToei Animation
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE76%51 episodes plannedBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Star Detective Precure! begins broadcast, the 23rd entry in Toei's long-running magical-girl franchise, following student Anna Akechi after a mysterious pendant flings her back nearly three decades to team up with an aspiring detective and transform into a Precure.
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SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEThe October 11, 2026 Fuji TV premiere was announced on the official Dragon Ball site, as reported by MyAnimeList[1][2] and listed on the title's MAL page.
Toei Animation's Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an enhanced re-edit of Dragon Ball Super with redrawn scenes and new cuts, retelling the story from the God of Destruction's awakening onward.
