Tenryu Animation

Tenryu Animation (天龍アニメーション) is an Akitian anime studio and production enterprise. It is the oldest animation studio in Akitsu.

It is the second largest and second most famous Akitian anime studio. Though it has found much success within Akitsu, it has largely been overshadowed by Japanese anime studio's outside of Akitsu, primarily due to it's lack of expansion into non-Japanese speaking nations. This lack of expansion was partly as a result of their own strict standards, refusing to accept deals with companies that produced dub's that were seen by the company as sub-par. However, in recent times it has been seeking to start airing elsewhere, including in Japan and other nations.

Most of it's more famous works are recent, owing to it's recent launching of an ad-supported internet streaming option for people to view it's content from.

History
Tenryu Animation was founded in January 24rd, 1954 by Yuki Fuyukawa and a group of her friends. The anime industry had existed in Akitsu prior to that, but had never gained in much prominence. However, this started to change when Tenryu Animation released their first animated film, the Tale of the Ishibiya. It became their first successful animated film, and is credited with giving the Akitian anime industry the push it needed to start rising. Since then they continued to make anime films that were successful in Akitsu.

Tenryu Animation first dabbled in foreign released with their 1983 filmSong of the Sky, a film about a pilot within the Akitian air force in a fictional World War 3 scenario in which Akitsu is invaded by the China. The film was meant to convey a warning about the possible destruction that modern warfare can bring, trying to paint all people (regardless of their side) as casualties of war. The rights to release the film was given to New World Pictures for a release in the United States. However, after the company heavily edited Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind they considered scrapping the deal and revoking the rights to the film from New World Studio's. New World Studio's however assured Tenryu that they would be happy with the outcome of the film.

What came out instead was something that horrified the producers of the film. The original theme of the film was completely abandoned, with the Chinese being altered into aggressive villains. The American VHS cover featured characters that weren't even present in the film. A total of 34 minutes and 53 seconds was cut from the film in the American release.

The animators at Tenryu were appalled that their work would be treated in such a way and Tenryu Animation then practically halted all licensing to foreign studios. The only exceptions to this were to several Japanese anime studio's, but these licensing agreements were few and far between. This policy started changing in the early 2000's, but a concerted effort to increase their audience to outside of Akitsu only started in 2013 when they started their ad-supported online streaming service on their website.