Toei Animation, 1948

Toei Animation was founded in 1948 and created the first colour anime film in 1958, 'Hakujaden' ('The tale of the White Serpent') directed by Taiji Yabushita and Kazuhiko Okabe. It has a Disney influence which modern anime had at that time. Between 1958 and the 1960s Toei continued creating Disney like films until eventually taking on three of the most well known anime series; Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon (1992 written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi) and One Piece (1999 written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda). Toei have even had directors and animators like Hayao Miyazaki in the past, bring out their ideas for production.

One Piece opening 1: