Japanese animation studio

Triangle Staff Corp. (Japanese: 有限会社トライアングルスタッフ, Hepburn: Yūgen-gaisha Toraianguru Sutaffu) was a Japanese animation studio established in 1987 from former Madhouse staff, producing series such as Macross Plus, Serial Experiments Lain, and NieA_7. The studio ceased operations in 2000, when they were set to do the animation production on WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3.

History

Triangle Staff was established in 1987 from Yoshimi Asari (Japanese: 浅利義美) in Ogikubo, Tokyo. The company initially produced OVA, and later began producing anime television series in collaboration with TV Tokyo.

In 1998, the company released Serial Experiments Lain, receiving the Excellent Award from the animation division of the Japan Media Arts Festival (Japanese: 文化庁メディア芸術祭アニメーション部門).

In March 1999, Katsumi Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口克巳), an animator from the company, established his own animation studio PALM (Japanese: パルム). Later in December 2000, the animators Masajiro Yasube (Japanese: 安部正次郎) and Takeshi Baba (Japanese: 馬場健) established A.C.G.T, a subsidiary of OB Planning Co., Ltd.

The company ceased all operations in December 2000, and the reason and the exact time of defunction remains unknown. After the discontinuation, the name of the company was still shown on the copyright trademark and the staff list embedded in the produced animation.

The company was still producing WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 at the time it went defunct. The production was later taken over by Madhouse and was released in theaters on March 30, 2002 (though Triangle Staff's involvement would be acknowledged in the film's end credits).

Works

Television series

Original video animations

Films