Pierrot (company)

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Pierrot Co., Ltd.

Pierrot headquarters in Mitaka, Tokyo
Native name	株式会社ぴえろ
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Piero
Formerly	Studio Pierrot Co., Ltd. (1979–2002)
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Media and entertainment
Founded	May 1979; 45 years ago (1979-05)
Founder	Yuji Nunokawa Hisayuki Toriumi Mitsuo Kaminashi [ja] Masami Annou [ja]
Headquarters	Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Kazumichi Ueda[a] Kiero Itsumi[b] Michiyuki Honma[c]
Products	Anime, film, television, OVA, video games
Number of employees	158 (as of November 2019)
Divisions	Studio Pierrot[1] Pierrot Films[1][2]
Subsidiaries	Studio Signpost
Website	en.pierrot.jp

Pierrot Co., Ltd. (株式会社ぴえろ, Kabushiki-gaisha Piero), previously known as Studio Pierrot Co., Ltd.^[d] until 2002, is a Japanese animation studio established in May 1979 by Yuji Nunokawa, previously an animator and director for Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters are located in Mitaka, Tokyo.^[3] Pierrot is renowned for several worldwide popular anime series, such as Naruto, Bleach, Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo Underground, Yu Yu Hakusho, Black Clover, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Ghost Stories, Great Teacher Onizuka, and Gensomaden Saiyuki.

The company's logo is the face of a clown. "Piero" is a Japanese loanword for clown, adopted from the classical character of Pierrot.

Yu Yu Hakusho and Saiyuki, two of the company's anime series, won the Animage Anime Grand Prix Award in 1994 and 1995, and 2000, respectively.

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