Humble Beginings Kyoto Animation Head Office Kyoto Animation is a name you have most likely heard more than once if you keep up to date with the ins and outs of the anime fandom, they are an animation studio based in Kyoto that were founded all the way back in 1981. They began by doing in-between animation work  for shows such as Cowboy Bebop, Turn A Gundam and the Doraemon movies, they even did some workÂ