P.A. Works

P.A. Works, Inc.

Head office
Native name	株式会社ピーエーワークス
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Pī Ē Wākusu
Formerly	P.A. Works Corporation (2000–2002)
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Japanese animation
Founded	November 10, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-11-10)
Founder	Kenji Horikawa
Headquarters	Nanto, Toyama, Japan
Key people	Kenji Horikawa (founder and president) Nobuhiro Kikuchi (representative director)
Number of employees	98 (as of April 2017)
Website	www.pa-works.jp/en/

P.A. Works, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社ピーエーワークス, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Pī Ē Wākusu, short for Progressive Animation Works) is a Japanese animation studio founded on November 10, 2000, in Nanto, Toyama. The company's founder and president Kenji Horikawa once worked for Tatsunoko Production, Production I.G, and Bee Train Production, 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, where drawings and digital photography take place, and production and direction in the studio. 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.^[1] 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.^[2]