Hoods Entertainment

Hoods Entertainment Inc. (Japanese: フッズエンタテインメント株式会社, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Fuzzu Entateinmento) is a Japanese animation studio that was established in February 2009.

Hoods Entertainment Inc.

Native name	フッズエンタテインメント株式会社
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Fuzzu Entateimento
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Japanese animation
Founded	February 2009
Founder	Masaru Nagai
Successor	Staple Entertainment
Headquarters	Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Masaru Nagai (CEO)
Products	Aki Sora The Qwaser of Stigmata Mysterious Girlfriend X Drifters
Number of employees	4 (as of 2017)[1]
Website	www.hoods.co.jp

History

The studio was founded in 2009 by former Gonzo producer Masaru Nagai, who acts as the company's representative director.

The studio has not been credited in an anime since 2021 which indicates that the studio may be inactive or defunct. Shinya Ueda, an animation producer with the studio from 2014 to 2020, left and took former Hoods staff members (such as production manager and director Ryou Nakamura) to his new studio Staple Entertainment. However, freelance animator Kiyoshi Tateishi, a common collaborator of Hoods Entertainment, lists on his Facebook page his freelancing work experience as "Hoods Entertainment (Staple Entertainment)" after working on Staple Entertainment's first production (Vermeil in Gold);^[2][3] furthermore, Staple Entertainment's studio address is the same as Hoods Entertainment's headquarters, indicating that Hoods Entertainment may be defunct with Staple Entertainment taking over.^[4]

Works

Television series

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.	Refs.
2010	The Qwaser of Stigmata	Hiraku Kaneko	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	24
2011	The Qwaser of Stigmata II	Hiraku Kaneko	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	12
	Manyū Hiken-chō	Hiraku Kaneko		Manga	12
2012	Mysterious Girlfriend X	Ayumu Watanabe	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	12
2013	Fantasista Doll[a]	Hisashi Saitou	Kazuhiko Ikeguchi Yuuji Hori Masaru Nagai[a]	Original work	12
	BlazBlue Alter Memory (co-producued with teamKG)	Hideki Tachibana	Masaru Nagai Takao Asaga	Video game	12
2014	If Her Flag Breaks	Ayumu Watanabe		Light novel	12
	A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd (co-animated with Felix Film)	Team Nico[b]	Shinya Ueda Tomohito Naka	Light novel	12
2016	Drifters (as Hoods Drifters Studio)	Kenichi Suzuki	Shinya Ueda	Manga	12
2018–2019	Märchen Mädchen	Hisashi Saitou (chief) Shigeru Ueda Takuo Kimura (11–12)	Masaru Nagai Masanobu Arakawa (7–10)	Light novel	12
	Real Girl	Takashi Naoya	Shinya Ueda	Manga	24
2019	Val × Love	Takashi Naoya	Shinya Ueda	Manga	12
2021	Gekidol	Shigeru Ueda	Masaru Nagai	Multi-media project	12

OVA/ONAs

Year	Title	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.	Refs.
2009	Aki Sora	Takeo Takahashi	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	1
2010	Aki Sora ~Yume no Naka~	Takeo Takahashi	Masaru Nagai	Manga	2
	The Qwaser of Stigmata: Portrait of the Empress	Hiraku Kaneko	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	1
2012	Mysterious Girlfriend X	Ayumu Watanabe	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	1
	Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (episodes 1–2)	Shingo Natsume (1) Erkin Kawabata (2)	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	2
2013	Kagaku Na Yatsura	Hiraku Kaneko	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	1
	Rescue Me!	Keiichiro Kawaguchi	Producer: Masaru Nagai	Manga	1
	Ark IX	Keiichiro Kawaguchi	Masaru Nagai	Manga	1
2013–2014	Vanquished Queens	Shin Itagaki	Masaru Nagai Kazuaki Morijiri	Multi-media project	4
2014	If Her Flag Breaks	Ayumu Watanabe		Light novel	1
2014–2015	A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd (co-animated with Felix Film)	Team Nico[b]		Light novel	6
2015	Senran Kagura: Estival Versus- Shōjo-tachi no Sentaku	Shigeru Ueda	Masaru Nagai	Video game	1
2015–2016	Hantsu × Trash	Hisashi Saitou	Masaru Nagai	Manga	3
2016	Drifters: Special Edition (as Hoods Drifters Studio)	Kenichi Suzuki	Shinya Ueda	Manga	1
2017–2018	Drifters (as Hoods Drifters Studio)	Kenichi Suzuki (1–2) Hitomi Ezoe (3)	Shinya Ueda	Manga	3
2021	Alice in Deadly School	Shigeyasu Yamauchi		Multi-media project	1

Notable staff

Representative staff

• Masaru Nagai (founder and president)

Animation producers

• Shinya Ueda (2014~2020, founder of Staple Entertainment)

Notes

1. Project generalization (プロジェクト統括) by Amber Film Works and Juumonji. Hoods Entertainment's Masaru Nagai served as "production producer" (制作プロデューサー), while Amber Film Works and Juumonji presidents Kazuhiko Ikeguchi and Yuuji Hori (respectively) are credited as "animation producers" (アニメーションプロデューサー).
2. A team consisting of directors Kaori Hayashi, Tomomi Kamiya, Kenichi Konishi, Yuu Nobuta, and Mami Sodeyama