Satelight (株式会社サテライト) is a Japanese animation studio. Aside from several stand-alone projects, the studio is well known for producing the Aquarion and Symphogear franchises, as well as later installments of the Macross franchise. The company’s Representative Director is Satou Michiaki. Noted anime director and creator Kawamori Shouji is a Special Adviser at the studio. The name Satelight consists of S for Sapporo, A for Animate, T for Technology and E for Entertainment.

The studio was founded in late 1995, in Sapporo, Hokkaidou, their first project being Bit the Cupid, the world’s first fully digitally-animated television series. In 1996, the studio’s next project was producing the CG animation for Group TAC’s Iihatoubu Gensou: Kenji no Haru. It soon established a production studio in 1998 in Suginami, Tokyo. The studio soon produced their first television series, Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna, in 2001. In 2006, the studio changed its headquarters from Sapporo to Tokyo.
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