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Eiko Tanaka
Eiko Tanaka
	Tanaka in 2019
Born	Japan
Occupations	anime producer; project developer; Studio executive;
Employers	Nippon Animation; Studio 4°C;
Notable work	Memories (1995); The Animatrix (2003); Mind Game (2004); Tekkon Kinkreet (2006);
Website	Eiko Tanaka on IMDb.com

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Eiko Tanaka (田中栄子, Tanaka Eiko) is a Japanese anime entrepreneur, the co-founder and current chief executive officer of Studio 4°C and producer of the studio. She is also the CEO of a producing company called Beyond C.^[1]^[2]

Tanaka was one of the supporters of Studio Ghibli at its inception as a line producer.^[3]

At Studio 4°C, Tanaka charts the path from scenario to completion of the work and determines the image of the work, including casting, staffing and setting, while at Beyond C., she is mainly responsible for planning and production, as well as fundraising and production management.^[4]

Starting with the 1995 film Memories, Tanaka has produced a diverse range of video works for Studio 4°C, including films, short movies, music videos, TV commercials and footage for games.^[2] The film Mind Game, which was first directed by Masaaki Yuasa, and. the film Tekkonkinkreet, based on the popular comic book by Taiyō Matsumoto and completed after 13 years of planning, received high acclaim from all quarters. Mind Game won the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival.^[2] In 2002, she co-produced The Animatrix with Warner Bros.^[2]

Tanaka has established Studio 4°C's reputation as an elite creative group, unique among Japanese animation studios, by continuing to emphasise the individuality of its creators and working with them to create cutting-edge visual expressions.^[2]

Having experienced very harsh conditions at a time when there was not a single female production assistant besides her, Tanaka has strived to improve the working environment on the production floor so that both men and women can work comfortably.^[1]^[5]

Career

Tanaka studied Japanese language teaching methods at university. After graduation, she intended to become a Japanese language teacher abroad, but gave up the idea after a motorbike accident.^[4]^[5]

Tanaka once worked for an advertising agency, but her boss at the time moved to the animation industry and she herself joined Nippon Animation as a result. However, she had a falling out with her boss shortly after joining the company and was shunted off to the production department from the planning department.^[4]^[5]

When Nippon Animation was assigned to work on three TV series simultaneously, Tanaka single-handedly held three positions in the production department: line producer, production manager and production assistant.^[4]^[5]

Tanaka worked with Studio Ghibli as a line producer on My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service.^[1]^[5] She meets Kōji Morimoto, the animation director for Akira, and Yoshiharu Sato, the animation director for My Neighbor Totoro, at the Ghibli production site, and they ask her to set up a studio for them.^[3]^[6] So she founded Studio 4°C with them in 1988 as a place for a group of creators.^[1]^[2]^[7] She became the producer and Studio 4°C was started with everyone paying rent together.^[6] The first studio was in an ordinary one-story private house where she had lived just before.^[8] She was still working for Nippon Animation at this time.^[9]

Studio 4°C temporarily broke up around 1993. This was because the members of Studio 4°C each took their own jobs, and individual and group work gradually became blurred and difficult to manage. Studio 4°C as a corporate organisation then moved to a studio in Kichijoji, where it produced the film Memories by Katsuhiro Otomo, in which Koji Morimoto and others participated. Yoshiharu Sato and Ei Inoue chose to go to Nippon Animation. The original studio was rented by Yoshinori Kanada and his associates and named Studio Nonmalt.^[10]

Studio 4°C then became a limited company in 1999 and a joint-stock company in 2007.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "STUDIO4°C田中社長がアニメの世界を紹介「アニメ創りの世界へようこそ!」 AnimeJapan 2016レポート". anime!anime! (in Japanese). IID, Inc. 9 April 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Oguro, Yuichiro (25 December 2006). "STUDIO4℃・田中栄子インタビュー (1)". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b "タニグチリウイチの「今のアニメを知るために」：第11回先鋭に王道を乗せジブリ沈黙の時代に存在感示すアニメスタジオSTUDIO4℃". IGN Japan (in Japanese). SANKEI DIGITAL INC. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "「映画えんとつ町のプペル」を制作したSTUDIO4℃の田中栄子プロデューサーにインタビュー". GIGAZINE (in Japanese). OSA. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "アニメ制作の舞台裏を元ジブリの女性社長が語る STUDIO4℃流人材育成とは?". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). 24 October 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b "スタジオ4℃ははこうして出来た!!". BEYOND CITY (in Japanese). Studio 4°C. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Suzuki, Takashi (18 September 2017). "夢の世界を、自由自在に描く──TVアニメ「18if」、森本晃司インタビュー (3)". Akiba Soken (in Japanese). Kakaku.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Katabuchi, Sunao (1 November 2010). "β運動の岸辺で第54回空に重なる花火". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Katabuchi, Sunao (18 October 2010). "β運動の岸辺で第52回真面目に働いてれば、あとに何かは残ってるもの". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Katabuchi, Sunao (15 November 2010). "β運動の岸辺で第56回色々と再出発". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.

External links

Eiko Tanaka at IMDb
Eiko Tanaka at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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[animeanime27978-1] "STUDIO4°C田中社長がアニメの世界を紹介「アニメ創りの世界へようこそ!」 AnimeJapan 2016レポート". anime!anime! (in Japanese). IID, Inc. 9 April 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[animestyle061225-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Oguro, Yuichiro (25 December 2006). "STUDIO4℃・田中栄子インタビュー (1)". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[ign52846-3] "タニグチリウイチの「今のアニメを知るために」：第11回先鋭に王道を乗せジブリ沈黙の時代に存在感示すアニメスタジオSTUDIO4℃". IGN Japan (in Japanese). SANKEI DIGITAL INC. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[eiko-tanaka-interview-4] "「映画えんとつ町のプペル」を制作したSTUDIO4℃の田中栄子プロデューサーにインタビュー". GIGAZINE (in Japanese). OSA. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[abema719176-5] "アニメ制作の舞台裏を元ジブリの女性社長が語る STUDIO4℃流人材育成とは?". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). 24 October 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[beyond-c-6] "スタジオ4℃ははこうして出来た!!". BEYOND CITY (in Japanese). Studio 4°C. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[7] Suzuki, Takashi (18 September 2017). "夢の世界を、自由自在に描く──TVアニメ「18if」、森本晃司インタビュー (3)". Akiba Soken (in Japanese). Kakaku.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[8] Katabuchi, Sunao (1 November 2010). "β運動の岸辺で第54回空に重なる花火". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[9] Katabuchi, Sunao (18 October 2010). "β運動の岸辺で第52回真面目に働いてれば、あとに何かは残ってるもの". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[katabuchi056-10] Katabuchi, Sunao (15 November 2010). "β運動の岸辺で第56回色々と再出発". WEB Anime Style (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.

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+{{nihongo|'''Eiko Tanaka'''|田中 栄子|Tanaka Eiko}} is a Japanese [[anime]] [[entrepreneur]], the co-founder and current [[chief executive officer]] of [[Studio 4°C]] and producer of the studio. She is also the CEO of a producing company called Beyond C.<ref name="animeanime27978">{{cite web|url= https://animeanime.jp/article/2016/04/09/27978.html|title=STUDIO4°C田中社長がアニメの世界を紹介 「アニメ創りの世界へようこそ!」 AnimeJapan 2016レポート|language= ja|date= 9 April 2016|accessdate=6 December 2023 |website=anime!anime!|publisher= IID, Inc.}}</ref><ref name="animestyle061225">{{cite web |url=http://www.style.fm/as/13_special/mini_061225.shtml |author= |title=STUDIO4℃・田中栄子インタビュー (1)|trans-title= |last=Oguro |first=Yuichiro |date=25 December 2006|website= WEB Anime Style|publisher= |language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
-Eiko Tanaka was an animation producer on ''[[Tekkon Kinkreet|TEKKON KINKREET]]''<ref name=Ping>{{cite news | last =Chiemi |author2=translated by Natsumi Yamane | title =Making Taiyo Matsumoto’s "Tekkon Kinkreet" into anime | publisher =PingMag | date =2006-11-22 | url =http://pingmag.jp/2006/11/22/making-taiyo-matsumoto-tekkon-kinkreet-into-anime/ | accessdate =2007-04-27}}</ref>  and  ''[[Mind Game (film)|MIND GAME]]'', both STUDIO4°C films.<ref name=IMDb>{{cite web | title =Eiko Tanaka | work =The Internet Movie Database | publisher =IMDb.com | year =2007 | url =https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1259616/ | accessdate =2007-04-27}}</ref> She was also a producer on ''[[The Animatrix]]''  project.<ref name=IMDb/> Tanaka previously worked with [[Studio Ghibli]] as a line producer on ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'' and ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]''.<ref name=Ping/>
+Tanaka was one of the supporters of [[Studio Ghibli]] at its inception as a [[line producer]].<ref name="ign52846">{{cite web |url=https://times.abema.tv/articles/-/719176 |author= |title=タニグチリウイチの「今のアニメを知るために」：第11回 先鋭に王道を乗せジブリ沈黙の時代に存在感示すアニメスタジオSTUDIO4℃|trans-title= |last= |first= |date=28 June 2021|website= [[IGN|IGN Japan]]|publisher=[[Fujisankei Communications Group|SANKEI DIGITAL INC.]] |language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+At Studio 4°C, Tanaka charts the path from [[scenario]] to completion of the work and determines the image of the work, including casting, staffing and setting, while at Beyond C., she is mainly responsible for planning and production, as well as fundraising and production management.<ref name="eiko-tanaka-interview">{{cite web |url=https://gigazine.net/news/20210102-poupelle-of-chimney-town-eiko-tanaka-interview/ |author= |title= 「映画 えんとつ町のプペル」を制作したSTUDIO4℃の田中栄子プロデューサーにインタビュー |trans-title= |last= |first= |date=2 January 2021|website=GIGAZINE |publisher=OSA |language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+Starting with the 1995 film ''[[Memories (1995 film)|Memories]]'', Tanaka has produced a diverse range of video works for Studio 4°C, including [[Film|films]], [[short movies]], [[Music video|music videos]], [[TV commercials]] and [[footage]] for games.<ref name="animestyle061225"/>
+The film ''[[Mind Game (film)|Mind Game]]'', which was first directed by [[Masaaki Yuasa]], and. the film ''[[Tekkonkinkreet]]'', based on the popular comic book by [[Taiyō Matsumoto]] and completed after 13 years of planning, received high acclaim from all quarters. ''Mind Game'' won the Grand Prize at the [[Japan Media Arts Festival]].<ref name="animestyle061225"/>
+In 2002, she co-produced ''[[The Animatrix]]'' with [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros]].<ref name="animestyle061225"/>
+Tanaka has established Studio 4°C's reputation as an elite creative group, unique among Japanese animation studios, by continuing to emphasise the individuality of its creators and working with them to create cutting-edge visual expressions.<ref name="animestyle061225"/>
+Having experienced very harsh conditions at a time when there was not a single female [[production assistant]] besides her, Tanaka has strived to improve the working environment on the production floor so that both men and women can work comfortably.<ref name="animeanime27978"/><ref name="abema719176">{{cite web |url=https://times.abema.tv/articles/-/719176 |author= |title=アニメ制作の舞台裏を元ジブリの女性社長が語る STUDIO4℃流人材育成とは?|trans-title= |last= |first= |date=24 October 2019|website= WEB Anime Style|publisher= |language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+== Career ==
+Tanaka studied [[Japanese language]] teaching methods at university. After graduation, she intended to become a Japanese language teacher abroad, but gave up the idea after a [[motorbike]] accident.<ref name="eiko-tanaka-interview"/><ref name="abema719176"/>
+Tanaka once worked for an [[advertising agency]], but her boss at the time moved to the [[animation industry]] and she herself joined [[Nippon Animation]] as a result. However, she had a falling out with her boss shortly after joining the company and was shunted off to the production department from the planning department.<ref name="eiko-tanaka-interview"/><ref name="abema719176"/>
+When Nippon Animation was assigned to work on three TV series simultaneously, Tanaka single-handedly held three positions in the production department: line producer, [[production manager]] and production assistant.<ref name="eiko-tanaka-interview"/><ref name="abema719176"/>
+Tanaka worked with [[Studio Ghibli]] as a line producer on ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'' and ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]''.<ref name="animeanime27978"/><ref name="abema719176"/>
+She meets [[Kōji Morimoto]], the [[animation director]] for ''[[Akira (1988 film)|Akira]]'', and Yoshiharu Sato, the animation director for ''My Neighbor Totoro'', at the Ghibli production site, and they ask her to set up a studio for them.<ref name="ign52846"/><ref name="beyond-c">{{cite web |url= http://beyondcity.studio4c.co.jp/survival/story.html |author= |title=スタジオ4℃ははこうして出来た!!|trans-title= |last= |first= |date=|website= BEYOND CITY |publisher=[[ Studio 4°C]] |language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+So she founded Studio 4°C with them in 1988 as a place for a group of creators.<ref name="animeanime27978"/><ref name="animestyle061225"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://akiba-souken.com/article/31459/?page=3 |author= |title=夢の世界を、自由自在に描く──TVアニメ「18if」、森本晃司インタビュー (3) |trans-title= |last=Suzuki |first=Takashi |date=18 September 2017|website=Akiba Soken |publisher=[[Kakaku.com]] |language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+She became the producer and Studio 4°C was started with everyone paying rent together.<ref name="beyond-c"/>
+The first studio was in an ordinary one-story private house where she had lived just before.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.style.fm/as/05_column/katabuchi/katabuchi_054.shtml |author= |title=β運動の岸辺で 第54回 空に重なる花火|trans-title= |last=Katabuchi |first=Sunao |date=1 November 2010|website=WEB Anime Style|publisher=|language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+She was still working for Nippon Animation at this time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.style.fm/as/05_column/katabuchi/katabuchi_052.shtml |author= |title=β運動の岸辺で 第52回 真面目に働いてれば、あとに何かは残ってるもの |trans-title= |last=Katabuchi |first=Sunao |date=18 October 2010|website=WEB Anime Style|publisher=|language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+Studio 4°C temporarily broke up around 1993. This was because the members of Studio 4°C each took their own jobs, and individual and group work gradually became blurred and difficult to manage. Studio 4°C as a corporate organisation then moved to a studio in Kichijoji, where it produced the film Memories by Katsuhiro Otomo, in which Koji Morimoto and others participated. Yoshiharu Sato and Ei Inoue chose to go to Nippon Animation. The original studio was rented by [[Yoshinori Kanada]] and his associates and named Studio Nonmalt.<ref name="katabuchi056">{{cite web |url=http://www.style.fm/as/05_column/katabuchi/katabuchi_056.shtml |author= |title=β運動の岸辺で 第56回 色々と再出発 |trans-title= |last=Katabuchi |first=Sunao |date=15 November 2010|website=WEB Anime Style|publisher=|language=ja |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
+Studio 4°C then became a [[limited company]] in 1999 and a [[Joint-stock company|joint-stock company]] in 2007.
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v t e Studio 4°C
Films	Memories (1995) Spriggan (1998) Gondora (1998) Dimension Loop (2001) Princess Arete (2001) Comedy (2002) Mind Game (2004) Tekkonkinkreet (2006) Tamala's "Wild Party" (2007) Genius Party (2007) Genius Party Beyond (2008) First Squad: The Moment of Truth (2009) My Last Day (2011) Medusa's Revenge (2012) Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I – The Egg of the King (2012) Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II – The Battle for Doldrey (2012) Drive Your Heart (2013) Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III – The Advent (2013) Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013) Tuzuki: Love Assassin (2014) Turnover (2015) Kanjo ga Kanji wo Suki na Riyū (2015) Harmony (2015) Red Ash: Gearworld (2017) Mutafukaz (2017) Children of the Sea (2019) Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020) Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021)
Television series	Piroppo (2001) Tweeny Witches (2004) Kimagure Robot (2004) Transformers: Animated (2008) ThunderCats (2011) Chiisana Hana no Uta (2013) Phoenix: Eden17 (2023)
OVAs	Noiseman Sound Insect (1997) Eternal Family (1997) Uraroji Diamond (2000) Digital Juice (2001) Sweat Punch (2001–2002) Amazing Nuts! (2006) Hijikata Toshizō: Shiro no Kiseki (2004) Tweeny Witches: The Adventures (2007) Detroit Metal City (2008) Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind (2009) Kuro no Sumika: Chronus (2014)
Animated segments	The Animatrix (2003, 4 segments) AniKuri15* (2007–2008, 5 segments) Batman: Gotham Knight (2008, 2 segments) Halo Legends (2010, 2 segments)
Video games	Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (2001) Summon Night 3 (2003) Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed (2004) Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (2004) Rogue Galaxy (2005) Lunar Knights (2006) Jeanne D'Arc (2006) Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (2006) Street Fighter IV (2008) .hack//Link (2010) Catherine (2011) Hard Corps: Uprising (2011) Asura's Wrath (2012) Toukiden: The Age of Demons (2013) Metal Max 4: Gekkō no Diva (2013) Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (2015) Guardian's Violation (2015) Doodle Champion Island Games (2021)
People	Kōji Morimoto Eiko Tanaka Michael Arias
Category

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Germany
People	Deutsche Biographie