is a Japanese anime production enterprise, founded on March 3, 1997. Presided over by Tarō Maki, its headquarters is located in

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, Minato, Tokyo. It has produced numerous anime series such as '' Honey and Clover'', '' Nodame Cantabile'', '' Elfen Lied'', '' Kino's Journey'', ''

Accel World is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by HiMA. The series began publication in ASCII Media Works' ''Dengeki Bunko'' imprint from February 2009 and is licensed in North America by Yen Press. Two manga ...

'', '' Sword Art Online'', '' Genshiken'' and '' Toradora''. It has also co-produced original creations like Yasuomi Umetsu's ''

Wizard Barristers is an anime television series produced by Arms and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu. The series is a legal drama set in a world where ordinary humans co-exist with magic users, and magic users are represented in law by a subset of defense attorney ( ...

'' and did project collaborations like in ''

Hero Tales is a Japanese manga series written by Huang Jin Zhou (a unit composed of Hiromu Arakawa, Genco, and Studio Flag) and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''Gangan Powered'' and later moved to ''Monthly Shōnen Gan ...

'' ''(with Hiromu Arakawa and Studio Flag)'' and in Xebec's ''

Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi , also known as ''RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne'', is a six-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Xebec and Genco. The anime was produced to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the AT-X network, which it originally aired on. Fun ...

''.

Productions

Genco produced most of

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' non-

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titles and A.C.G.T's animation projects. It also works with

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in some of its productions.

References

External links

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Official site
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