is a Japanese

animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals o ...

founded on November 10, 2000 in

Nanto, Toyama is a city in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It is in a mountainous area in the south-west corner of the prefecture just north of Gifu Prefecture. It is home to the Gokayama UNESCO World Heritage site. , the city had an estimated population of 51,669 ...

. The company's president and founder

Kenji Horikawa is the founder and President of P.A. Works Studio and the Operations Director for Bee Train Productions Inc. He was also formerly an employee with Production I.G and Tatsunoko Productions. In 2000 he founded P.A. Works and currently produces ...

once worked for

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, Production I.G and

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, before forming P.A. Works Corporation. The studio changed its name to P.A. Works in 2002. The main office is located in

Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...

, where drawings and digital photography take place, and production and direction in the office. The company is also involved with video games, as well as collaborating in the past with Production I.G and Bee Train for anime. In January 2008, P.A. Works produced '' True Tears'', their first anime series as the main animation studio involved in the production process. On April 20, 2018, P.A. Works announced a new e-book label named P.A. Books, with the first release being a novel adaptation of their first anime, ''True Tears''.

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Video game animated sequences

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Others

*Anime project tourism Toyama: Animation part **''Longing for a Tear Bringing Sky "Lovers in Tateyama"'' **''Longing for a Tear Bringing Sea "A Friendship on the Beach"'' **''Longing for a Tear Bringing Cuisine "Grandpa in Gokayama"''

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