Creator / AKOM

"How hard is it to draw the letter "O"?"

AKOM (short for Animation KOrea Movie Productions) is a Seoul based South Korean animation studio formed in 1985 by Nelson Shin, a former animator at De Patie Freleng Enterprises and creator of the Lightsaber effects in Star Wars, as well as producer of the original Transformers TV Series and director of the show's (first) full-length toy commercial.

Nelson Shin also operates KOAA Films; for simplicity's sake, its output has been noted in this article as well.

The studio is also responsible for publishing a South Korean magazine called "Animatoon" since 1995. You can probably tell from the title what the magazine's about.

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Shows and films worked on by AKOM: (series by KOAA Films marked with an *)

• Adventures in Oz World
• The Adventures of Corduroy the Bear
• Aliens - Produced unused animation sequences for several toy commercials in the 90s.
• Animaniacs (62 shorts)^List"Goodfeathers: The Beginning", "Operation: Lollipop", "Cat on a Hot Steel Beam", "Hurray For Slappy", "Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov", "Nothing But the Tooth", "Four Scores and Seven Migraines Ago", "Davy Omelette", "The Boids", "Opportunity Knox", "Wings Take Heart", "You Risk Your Life", "I Got Yer Can", "Mesozoic Mindy", "The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly", "Moon Over Minerva", "Skullhead Boneyhands", "Puttin' on the Blitz", "Astro-Buttons", "Noah's Lark", "The Big Kiss", "Katie Ka-Boo", "Dough Dough Boys", "Boot Camping", "White Gloves", "Raging Bird", "Holly Woodchuck", "The World Can Wait", "Kiki's Kitten", "Icebreakers", "Jingle Boo", "Girlfeathers", "Kung Boo", "A Gift of Gold", "Spike", "The Chicken Who Loved Me", "Super Buttons", "Katie Ka-Boom: The Driving Lesson", "Witch One", "Mermaid Mindy", "We're No Pigeons", "Whistle Stop Mindy", "Miami Mama-Mia", "Pigeon on the Roof", "Bad Mood Bobby", "Bingo", "This Pun For Hire", "Star Truck", "Multiplication", "The Presidents Song", "Don't Tread on Us", "Dot's Entertainment", "The Girl With the Googily Goop", "Hello Nurse", "Jokahontas", "A Very Very Very Very Special Show", "Anchors A-Warners", "Papers For Papa", "Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner", "No Time For Love", "Mindy in Wonderland", "Back in Style" (3 bumpers)^List"The Slapper", "The Planets Song", "Spike"
• Arthur (seasons 1-11)
  • Arthur's Perfect Christmas
  • Arthur, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
  • Postcards from Buster - (season 1 only)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (season 1 only, series done in-house for season 2)
• Batman: The Animated Series (13 episodes)^List"Feat of Clay, Part 1", "The Cat and The Claw, Part 2", "Be a Clown", "The Last Laugh", "Prophecy of Doom", "Mad as a Hatter", "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne", "Cat Scratch Fever", "Moon of the Wolf", "Christmas with The Joker", "Joker's Wild", "What is Reality", "The Mechanic". Fired after the episode "Cat Scratch Fever" was animated.
• The Brothers Flub
• Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!
• A Bunch of Munsch (2 episodes)^List"Mortimer/Something Good", "Angela's Airplane/The Fire Station" (with Hanho Heung-Up and Gordon Stanfield Animation)
• C Bear and Jamal
• City Hunters (alternating with Sunmin Animation)
• Conan the Adventurer (alternating with KK C&D Asia)
  • Conan and the Young Warriors (1 episode)^List"The Hand of Fate"
• Dilbert (4 episodes)^List "The Dupey", "The Security Guard", "The Off-Site Meeting", "Company Picnic"
• Dino-Riders - Hired for the remainder of the show's run after the first two episodes, replacing Hanho Heung-Up and Mihahn.
• Dooly the Little Dinosaur (with Hanho for season 1)
• Dr. Rabbit's World Tour
• Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz
• Dragon Flyz
• Earthworm Jim
• Empress Chung* (with SEK Studio)
• Exo Squad - Replaced Sunrise after the initial stages of planning.
• Flash Gordon (1996) (with Sei Young)
• Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series
• Gargoyles (6 episodes)^List"Ransom", "Broadway Goes Hollywood", "The Dying of The Light", "Genesis Undone", "... For it May Come True", "To Serve Mankind"
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (uncredited^Listat least 1 episode - "Primordial Plot" , also did animation for most of the comic commercials^note Replaced in 1988 by TMS Entertainment) & G.I. Joe Extreme (Season 1 only)
  • Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles
• Huntik: Secrets & Seekers (uncredited)
• Invasion America
• The Jackie Bison Show pilot
• Jem (6 episodes)^List "Music Is Magic", "The Presidential Dilemma", "The Middle of Nowhere", "Journey to Shangri-La", "Video Wars", "Homeland, Heartland" dumped onto them by Sunbow Entertainment after Toei Animation grew too expensive.
• Kelly's Dream Club*
• Kid 'n' Play (uncredited)
• The Land Before Time
  • The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
  • The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
  • The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
  • The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (with Galaxy World, Heart of Texas, Funbag Animation and Inventaria, S.L.)
  • The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (with Galaxy World and Inventaria; CGI provided by Sony Pictures Imageworks)
• Little Clowns of Happytown
• The Little Lulu Show (season 3 only)
• Little Orphan Annie's Very Animated Christmas
• Littlest Pet Shop (1995) (with Wang Film Productions, Heewon and KK C&D)
• Little Wizards
• The Magician (with Toutenkartoon)
• Magic Sport
• Marsupilami* (2000 series)
• McGee and Me! - All of season 1; StarToons did the three season 2 episodes.
• Mission Hill (7 episodes)^List"Pilot (or The Douchebag Aspect)", "Kevin's Problem", "Andy and Kevin Make a Friend", "Kevin vs. the SAT", "Kevin Finds Love", "Stories of Hope and Forgiveness" (uncredited), "Happy Birthday, Kevin"
• Moon Dreamers
• Monsters and Pirates (season 1 only)
• Mosaic - Opening titles only, main feature handled by Mook DLE.
• Muppet Babies (1984) - From Season four to the series' end, replacing Toei Animation.
• My Little Pony - G1, The Movie (With Toei Animation^note and photography with Studio Cosmos) and Tales only.
• My Scene: Jammin' in Jamaica
• The Oblongs (7 episodes)^List"Misfit Love", "Narcoleptic Scottie", "Milo, Interrupted", "Bucketheads", "Heroine Addict", "Flush, Flush, Sweet Helga", "Please Be Genital"
• Peter Pan & the Pirates - Amongst other companies, 9 episodes^List"Pirate Shadows", "All Hallows Eve" (with Pacific Rim Animation), "Tootles and The Dragon" (with Pacific Rim), "The Girl Who Lives in The Moon", "The Ruby", "The Lost Memories of Peter Pan", "Dr. Livingstone and Captain Hook" (With Pacific Rim), "Curly's Laugh", "Hole in The Wall".
• Pinky and the Brain (22 episodes)^List"Of Mouse and Man", "TV or Not TV", "Snowball", "Around the World in 80 Narfs", "Fly", "Ambulatory Abe/The Mouse of La Mancha", "The Third Mouse/The Visit", "Collect 'Em All/Pinkasso", "Brain's Song", "Two Mice and a Baby", "Brinky", "Leave it to Beavers", "Where the Deer and the Mouselope Play", "Say What, Earth?", "Brain Storm", "The Pinky Protocol", "Brainy Jack"
• Problem Child (season 2 only, replacing D'Ocon and various supporting Spain studios)
• Road Rovers (4 episodes)^List"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie", "The Dog Who Knew Too Much", "Still a Few Bugs in the System", "Take Me to Your Leader"
• Rescue Heroes (seasons 2-3, with Mercury Filmworks, Boomstone Animation and Side Show Entertainment)
• RoboCop: The Animated Series
• Rude Dog and the Dweebs
• The Savage Dragon (TV series, with APPP)
• Silver Surfer: The Animated Series
• The Simpsons - The company's most notable work, with over 400 episodes.^ListAll of seasons 1 & 2, plus "Stark Raving Dad", "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", "When Flanders Failed", "Bart the Murderer", "Like Father, Like Clown", "Saturdays of Thunder", "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk", "Radio Bart", "Lisa the Greek", "Separate Vocations", "Dog of Death", "Colonel Homer", "The Otto Show", "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?", "Lisa the Beauty Queen", "Treehouse of Horror III", "The New Kid on the Block", "Marge vs. the Monorail", "Brother From the Same Planet", "Duffless", "The Front", "Whacking Day", "Marge in Chains", "Cape Feare", "Rosebud", "Marge on the Lam", "Bart's Inner Child", "The Last Temptation of Homer", "Homer the Vigilante", "Bart Gets Famous", "Deep Space Homer", "Bart Gets an Elephant", "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", "Secrets of a Successful Marriage", "Bart of Darkness", "Another Simpsons Clip Show" (with Rough Draft Studios), "Sideshow Bob Roberts", "Bart's Girlfriend", "Homer Badman", "Fear of Flying", "And Maggie Makes Three", "Bart's Comet", "Bart vs. Australia", "Lisa's Wedding", "The PTA Disbands", "Lemon of Troy", "Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 1" (uncredited; incorrectly credited as Anivision), "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", "Lisa the Vegetarian", "King-Size Homer", "Marge Be Not Proud", "Two Bad Neighbors", "Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield", "Lisa the Iconoclast", "The Day the Violence Died", "Bart on the Road", "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"", "Homerpalooza", "You Only Move Twice", "The Homer They Fall", "Burns, Baby Burns", "Lisa's Date With Density", "Hurricane Neddy", "The Springfield Files", "Homer's Phobia", "My Sister, My Sitter", "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", "Grade School Confidential", "The Old Man and the Lisa", "Homer's Enemy", "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", "The Principal and the Pauper", "Lisa's Sax", "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (uncredited; incorrectly credited as Rough Draft), "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", "Realty Bites", "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace", "All Singing, All Dancing", "Das Bus", "The Trouble With Trillions", "King of the Hill", "Lost Our Lisa", "Lard of the Dance", "Bart the Mother", "When You Dish Upon a Star" (uncredited; incorrectly credited as Rough Draft), "D'Oh-in' in the Wind", "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"", "Viva Ned Flanders", "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday", "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"", "Make Room For Lisa", "Simpsons Bible Stories" (uncredited; incorrectly credited as Rough Draft), "The Old Man and the "C" Student", "They Saved Lisa's Brain", "30 Minutes Over Tokyo", "Beyond Blunderdome", "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder", "Little Big Mom", "Faith Off", "The Mansion Family", "Pygmoelian", "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses", "Kill the Alligator and Run", "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", "Treehouse of Horror XI" (uncredited; incorrectly credited as Rough Draft), "A Tale of Two Springfields", "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", "Skinner's Sense of Snow", "HOMR" (with Chiodo Bros Productions), "Worst Episode Ever", "Day of the Jackanapes", "New Kids on the Blecch", "Bye Bye Nerdie", "Trilogy of Error", "Children of a Lesser Clod", "The Parent Rap", "Homer the Moe", "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", "She of Little Faith", "Half-Decent Proposal", "The Bart Wants What it Wants", "Tales From the Public Domain", "Gump Roast", "The Sweetest Apu", "The Frying Game", "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade", "Special Edna", "The Strong Arms of the Ma", "Pray Anything", "A Star is Born Again", "C.E. D'oh", "Three Gays of the Condo", "Old Yeller Belly", "The Bart of War", "My Mother the Carjacker", "The President Wore Pearls", "The Regina Monologues", "Tis the Fifteenth Season" (with Chiodo Bros.), "Margical History Tour", "Co-Dependent's Day", "My Big Fat Geek Wedding", "Catch 'Em If You Can", "Fraudcast News", "Treehouse of Horror XV", "All's Fair in Oven War", "Midnight Rx", "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", "There's Something About Marrying", "On a Clear Day, I Can't See My Sister", "Goo Goo Gai Pan", "The Seven-Beer Snitch", "Future Drama", "Don't Fear the Roofer", "Thank God It's Doomsday", "Bonfire of the Manatees", "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", "Marge's Son Poisoning", "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas", "Simpsons Christmas Stories", "Homer's Paternity Coot", "My Fair Laddy", "Bart Has Two Mommies", "Million Dollar Abie", "The Wettest Stories Ever Told", "Regarding Margie", "The Mook, the Chef, The Wife, and Her Homer", "Treehouse of Horror XVII", "GI (Annoyed Grunt)", "Moe'N'A Lisa", "Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2", "The Wife Aquatic", "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times", "Springfield Up", "Yokel Chords", "Crook and Ladder", "You Kent Always Say What You Want", "Midnight Towboy", "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Treehouse of Horror XVIII", "Funeral For a Fiend", "Love, Springfieldian Style", "Dial 'N' For Nerder", "Papa Don't Leach", "All About Lisa", "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes", "Lost Verizon", "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words", "Mypods and Broomsticks", "The Burns and the Bees", "How the Test Was Won", "Gone Maggie Gone", "In the Name of the Grandfather", "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", "Father Knows Worst", "Four Great Women and a Manicure", "Coming to Homerica", "Homer the Whopper", "Treehouse of Horror XX", "The Devil Wears Nada", "Thursdays With Abie", "The Color Yellow", "Stealing First Base", "The Squirt and the Whale", "MoneyBart", "Treehouse of Horror XXI", "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life", "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?", "Flaming Moe", "The Blue and the Gray", "500 Keys", "The Falcon and the D'ohman", "The Food Wife", "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution", "Holidays of Future Passed", "The D'oh'cial Network", "The Daughter Also Rises", "How I Wet Your Mother", "Them, Robot", "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again", "Lisa Goes Gaga", "Adventures in Baby-Getting", "Gone Abie Gone", "A Tree Grows in Springfield", "The Day the Earth Stood Cool", "Homer Goes to Prep School", "Changing of the Guardian", "Gorgeous Grampa", "Dark Knight Court", "Whiskey Business", "The Fabulous Faker Boy" (main episode; Couch Gag by Stoopid Buddy Studios), "The Saga of Carl", "Dangers on a Train", "YOLO", "Labor Pains", "The Kid is All Right", "Yellow Subterfuge", "Specs and the City", "Diggs", "The War of Art", "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (main episode; couch gag by Rough Draft), "Luca$", "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting", "Pay Pal", "The Yellow Badge of Cowardage", "Clown in the Dumps", "Opposites A-Frack", "Covercraft", "Bart's New Friend", "The Musk Who Fell to Earth", "The Princess Guide", "Waiting For Duffman", The Kids Are All Fight", "BULL-E", "Every Man's Dream", "Halloween of Horror", "Lisa With an S", "Barthood", "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles", "Gal of Constant Sorrow", "Lisa the Veterinarian", "The Burns Cage", "Fland Canyon", "To Courier With Love", "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus", "Friends and Family", "Treehouse of Horror XXVII", "There Will Be Buds", "The Nightmare After Krustmas", "Pork and Burns", "The Great Phatsby" (half of it; other half by Rough Draft), "The Cad and the Hat" (with Stoopid Buddy), "22 for 30", "The Caper Chase", "Moho House", "Springfield Splendor", "Whistler's Father", "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII", "The Old Blue Mayor Ain't What She Used to Be", "Gone Boy", "Frink Gets Testy", "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage", "Fears of a Clown", "King Leer", "Left Behind", "Flanders' Ladder", "Treehouse of Horror XXIX", "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", "From Russia Without Love", "Krusty the Clown", "Mad About the Toy", "The Girl on the Bus", "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy", "D'oh Canada", "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion", "Go Big or Go Homer", "Treehouse of Horror XXX", "Gorillas on the Mist", "Marge the Lumberjill, Todd, Todd, "Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?", "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson", "Bart the Bad Guy", "Highway to Well", "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby", "Warrin' Priests Part 1", "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds", "The Way of the Dog", "Now Museum, Now You Don't", "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (with Xentrix Studios), "Three Dreams Denied", "The Road to Cincinnati", "The Dad-Feelings Limited", "Wad Goals", "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?", "Uncut Femmes", "Panic on the Streets of Springfield", "The Last Barfighter", "Bart's in Jail", "Treehouse of Horror XXXII", "Lisa's Belly", "A Serious Flanders (part 2)", "Mothers and Other Strangers", "Pixelated and Afraid", "Boyz N The Highlands", "Bart the Cool Kid", "The Sound of Bleeding Gums", "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun", "Poorhouse Rock", "Habeas Tortoise", "The King of Nice", "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (with DR Movie and Chiodo Bros.), "Step Brother from the Same Planet", "When Nelson Met Lisa", "Top Goon", "The Many Saints of Springfield", "Bartless", "Pin Gal", "Write Off This Episode", "The Very Hungry Caterpillars", "Homer's Crossing", "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream", "McMansion & Wife", "Iron Marge", "Ae Bonny Romance", "Murder, She Boat", "Clan of the Cave Mom", "Night of the Living Wage", "Cremains of the Day"
  • The Simpsons Movie (with Rough Draft and SEK)
  • The Simpsons Game
  • Simpsons Shorts:
    • The Longest Daycare
    • Playdate with Destiny
    • The Force Awakens From Its Nap
    • The Good, the Bart, and the Loki
    • The Simpsons in Plusaversary
    • When Lisa Met Billie
    • Welcome to the Club
    • The Simpsons meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad"
    • Maggie Simpson in "Rogue Not Quite One"
  • Super Bowl Pregame 1999 (unconfirmed, as there are no credits, but it looks like their work)
  • Various Butterfinger commercials, uncredited
• Skeleton Warriors
• Sky Dancers (with SEM Animation)
• Something From Nothing (animated special)
• Space Cats
• Spiral Zone (15 episodes, others by Visual 80 and an uncredited Mook DLE. Also split camera duty with Trans Arts)
• The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
• Taz-Mania (35 episodes)^List"Like Father, Like Son/Frights of Passage", "War & Pieces/Airbourne Airhead", "A Devil of a Job", "Battling Bushrats/Devil in the Deep Blue Sea", "Woeful Wolf", "Mishap in the Mist/Toothache Taz", "Bewitched Bob", "Pup Goes the Wendal/I'm OK You're Taz", "Mall Wrecked/A Dingo's Guide to Magic", "Boys Just Wanna Have Fun/Unhappy Together", "The Outer Taz-Manian Zone/Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty Part II", "Tazmania's Funniest Home Videos/Bottle Cap Blues", "Heartbreak Taz/Just Be Cuz", "Sidekicked/Gone with the Windbag", "The Return of the Road to Taz-Mania Strikes Back", "Taz Like Dingo", "Not a Shadow of a Doubt/Nursemaid Taz", "Bird Brained Beast/Ready, Willing, Unable", "Food for Thought/Gone to Pieces", "A Midsummer Night's Scream/Astro Taz", "Tazmanian Lullaby/Deer Taz/A Bonus Taz Moment", "Kee Wee Cornered/But, Is It Taz?", "Mutton for Nothing/Dr. Wendal and Mr. Taz", "Merit Badgered", "No Time For Christmas", "The Not So Gladiators/One Ring Taz", "Of Bushrats and Hugh", "Retakes Not Included/Pledge Dredge", "The Taz Story Primer/Ask Taz", "It's a Taz's Life/Gee Bull!", "Yet Another Road to Tasmania", "Devil Indemnity", "Platypi on Film", "Doubting Dingo/Subcommander Taz", "The Origin of the Beginning of the Incredible Taz-Man"
• Teen Days
• The Tick
• The Tale of the Great Bunny
• Tiny Toon Adventures (23 episodes)^List "A Quack in the Quarks", "Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night", "Furrball Follies", "Sawdust and Toonsil" (incorrectly credited as by Wang), "Life in the '90s", "Cinemaniacs", "The Wacko World of Sports" (with ink and paint by Fil-Cartoons), "Animaniacs!", "Whale's Tales", "The ACME Home Shopping Show" (incorrectly credited as by Kennedy Cartoons), "The Weirdest Stories Ever Told", "Pledge Week", "Elephant Issues", "Hog Wild Hamton", "Playtime Toons", "Toon Physics", "Sepulveda Boulevard", "Fox Trot", "Washingtoon", "Grandma's Dead", "Sport Shorts", "A Cat's Eye View"
• Toad Patrol (season 1 only; replaced by UTV Toons)
• The Transformers - The company's first (known) work^List19 known episodes: "The Five Faces Of Darkness" (All parts, part 2 with Sam Young), "Dark Awakening", "Forever is a Long Time Coming" (with Sam Young), "Starscream's Ghost" (with an unknown studio), "Thief in the Night", "Ghost in the Machine" (with Sam Young), "Carnage in C-Minor" (with Sam Young), "The Big Broadcast of 2006", "The Quintesson Journal" (with Sam Young), "Only Human" (with an unknown studio), "Grimlock's New Brain", "The Face of the Nijika" (with Sam Young), The Rebirth (all parts) . Done uncredited, series with Toei.
• Ultimate Book of Spells
• Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad (with Koko Enterprises)
• Winx Club
  • Pop Pixie (uncredited)
• Wunschpunsch (with Nightstorm Media)
• X-Men: The Animated Series - seasons 1-4, and the first five episodes of season 5^note assisted by SEM Animation, Jin Art and Ji-Reh Animation, some season 3 episodes and later episodes done by Philippine Animation Studio Inc. and Hong Ying.

Unconfirmed:

• Crash Bandicoot (1996): This unused intro sequence, traditionally animated. It was mentioned by Crash producer David Siller that it was sent to Universal Cartoon Studios, who at the time was heavily using AKOM.^note About 1/4 of the shows and movies in the above list- Earthworm Jim, Exosquad, Problem Child, Savage Dragon, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, and Vor-Tech, not to mention all those Land Before Time sequels- were all Universal productions. The art style and animation also harkens to the studio's work on Earthworm Jim.
• Forbidden Bridge commercial: As with all commercials, no credits are listed, but the animation certainly looks like their style.
• The Magic Pudding: AKOM lists having worked on the film on its website, but they aren't listed in the credits and no crew members are listed. Crew members from Fil-Cartoons are listed, however.
• The Real Ghostbusters: The show is mentioned on their page on Wikipedia, with the episodes "Slimer Come Home" & "When Halloween was Forever" in Season 1 and "Station Identification" & "Fright at the Opera" from Season 2 attributed to the studio.

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Tropes associated with AKOM:

• Animated Adaptation: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Earthworm Jim, RoboCop, Savage Dragon, the list goes on.
• Animation Bump: Occasionally (including select instances in Batman, Transformers, and Tiny Toon Adventures). Word of God has pointed out that they did the good animation in Spiral Zone. Also appears in The Simpsons Movie for obvious reasons.
  • Many fans of Arthur consider the company's animation to be of acceptable quality as well, slight errors aside.
• Animesque: Teen Days.
• The Dark Age of Comic Books: What their animation style for G.I. Joe Extreme and Exosquad resembles.
  • X-Men would slip into a similar style once in a while as part of that show's inconsistent animation quality.
• Butt-Monkey: Considered one for the Transformers fandom due to their poor animation. Sam Young Animation's work only exacerbates the issues.
• Deranged Animation: Their season 1 Tiny Toons episodes were quite rubbery and wacky, though they got a bit more conservative starting in the second season when Dev Ramsaran replaced Warren Marshall as overseas supervisor.
  • The Simpsons has its moments as well, especially when the animation was produced at Klasky-Csupo instead of Film Roman and eventually Fox Television Animation.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: AKOM was one of the busiest studios of the late '80s through the '90s (in 1996, for example, they worked on fifteen different series throughout the year ^{Those being}The Simpsons, The Tick, Casper, X-Men, Vor-Tech, Sky Dancers, Dragon Flyz, Savage Dragon, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Road Rovers, Gargoyles: Goliath Chronicles, Earthworm Jim, Flash Gordon, and Arthur), but the 2000s were not kind to the studio (and they lost one of their major properties, Arthur, to Animation Service (HK)), and the '10s have been even worse. It's now gotten to the point that The Simpsons is, for the most part, the only American series they're working on anymore (and even there, roughly half of each season is done at Rough Draft).
• Lazy Artist: Aside from some exceptions like The Simpsons ^note Simpsons Archive claimed they were the best overseas studio, citing their work as "clean, slick, and professional.", they are a pretty awful poster child of this trope.
  • The studio (along with Sunrise) was fired from Batman as a result of their general incompetence. As this article says about the episode "Prophecy of Doom":
    Series director Frank Paur: "How hard is it to animate circles?"
  • Paur adds in the same article that "Mad as a Hatter" was AKOM's best episode, but still needed to perform "close to a hundred retakes", and Bruce Timm says "Feat of Clay, Part 1" was animated by AKOM's C-Team, and "nearly completely redone two or three times before we could actually air it without cringing".
    • While the first part of "The Cat and the Claw" wasn't all that hot, the second part (given to AKOM) was a mess, according to Bruce Timm.
      Timm: The whole end sequence was geared around the explosions, and they were some of the worst you'll ever see. We retook all of them two or three times. They were still awful, but we ran out of time and had to air them.
  • Even The Simpsons was not immune, despite being considered the best studio by some. Thanks to a combination of Klasky-Csupo (the first domestic studio to work on the show) still animating in the looser, more cartoony Tracey Ullman Show style and AKOM not getting the unique animation feel of the show (not helped by most of their past work at the time being rather amateurish even for 1980s standards), "Some Enchanted Evening" almost cancelled the series before it even began; James L. Brooks famously said of it, "This is shit." It's estimated that about 70% of the episode had to be re-animated (and headed by David Silverman's team), with only a few scenes from original director Kent Butterworth surviving to air.
    • On a similar note, the commentary notes that "When Flanders Failed" came back with "a thousand mistakes in it and was just a complete and utter mess." Some parts had to be re-animated in America.
  • Related to the "Some Enchanted Evening" example above, the X-Men pilot "Night of the Sentinels" had similar issues regarding its animation. Their refusal to fix these two episodes almost forced a contract severing between them and Marvel (their longstanding partner at that time) by Fox, Wizard Magazine even noting that one industry insider suggested their motto be "Akom... Quality Is Our Only Compromise." Like "Evening", the two episodes were fixed for reruns and later releases. The rest of the series, despite its stiffness and inconsistent character designs, would never dip to the same levels the pilot did.
  • Then, there's The Transformers. While it's hard to explain what extreme AKOM's episodes go to without Walls of Text^*Only the Season 1 episodes animated by Ashi Productions and Nakamura Productions, and both Mihan and Sei Young's work in Season 2, rival their episodes in terms of horrible quality control, what is easy to explain are some of the more common errors in their episodes, such as the wrong character model being used (they had a habit of using Grimlock's rounded robot mode head and giving Optimus and Soundwave white backpacks for instance), layers done wrong so that a character will disappear "behind" something that's actually behind him, three shots with a group of characters will have three different versions of the roster, including an Autobot with Decepticons or vice-versa. And it wasn't just aesthetically displeasing^*which is saying something given the quality of the original series was usually pretty terrible, but could really become plot-altering^exampleA very infamous example◊ from "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1" has Galvatron's character model among a crowd of cheering Decepticons as Cyclonus and Astrotrain rescue Galvatron from a lava pool. Also, a lot of Palette Swap characters exist in this series and they get switched around a lot more with AKOM; if Starscream does something and Starscream responds to it, which Starscream is really supposed to be his blue repaint Thundercracker? and could easily become unintentional instances of Deranged Animation on full display. All of this is exasperated by the fact that this was their first animation work upon foundation.
  • It was inevitable for Exosquad- the highly-detailed designs of the E-frames and various other tech in the show pretty much assured this would happen.
  • While the character designs that AKOM used for Tiny Toon Adventures were nice, the animation itself could vary wildly. Some of the worst offenders in the series were "A Quack in the Quarks" and "Wacko World of Sports".
  • These problems would also carry over to Animaniacs. AKOM episodes have a similar art-style to episodes animated by Wang Film Productions (which had generally high-quality animation) at first glance. However, in practice, AKOM is much less fluid and has a tendency to make wacky expressions borderline Accidental Nightmare Fuel. Their animation quality then deteriorated further, and they were fired in the final season, while Wang (which was also beginning to decline in animation quality at this point) got to stay until the show ended.
    • A strange inversion happened during production of "Back in Style," which called for deliberately Limited Animation, since the plot revolved around the Warners being shipped off to various other studios during The Dark Age of Animation. AKOM had to go through multiple retakes because the animation wasn't limited enough.
• Limited Animation: Not to the extent of Filmation, but still present. Of course the founder first worked at such a company.
  • Averted to some extent on Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs, which utilized full animation.
• Signature Style: In many of the shows they animated on, AKOM liked to draw the characters with shadows that shifted when they moved.
  • Most explosions animated by them ^note as seen in Transformers, X-Men, Bucky O'Hare and early episodes of The Simpsons, tended to be nothing but giant plumes of oranges or greys (or in some cases, both) animated by painting directly onto the cel. This was largely phased out by the mid-90s.

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