Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd. (Japanese: シンエイ動画株式会社, Hepburn: Shin'ei Douga Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese animation studio owned by TV Asahi. Founded in Tokyo in 1976, it is the successor to A Production, a previous animation venture by its founder, Daikichirō Kusube, who was previously an animator for Toei Animation. Shin-Ei is known for being the animation studio behind two of the anime television series: Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan, which still run on Japanese TV since 1979 and 1992 respectively. In April 2017, SynergySP became a subsidiary of the company.[2]