Private company

White Fox

Logo: © WHITE FOX, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Japanese animation studio

White Fox Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社WHITE FOX, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Howaito Fokkusu), is a Japanese animation studio founded in April 2007 by Gaku Iwasa. The studio's most successful productions include adaptations of Steins;Gate, Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, and Akame ga Kill!.2 It is part of AlphaPolis.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Apr 2007Founded1
  • Industryanime industry1
  • HeadquartersSuginami1
  • Websitewww.w-fox.co.jp
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1
White Fox
Photo: Akonnchiroll, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

White Fox Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社WHITE FOX, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Howaito Fokkusu), is a Japanese animation studio founded in April 2007 by Gaku Iwasa. The studio's most successful productions include adaptations of Steins;Gate, Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, and Akame ga Kill!.2

Corporate structure

White Fox is part of a group headed by AlphaPolis. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • AlphaPolis Tokyo
    • White Fox Suginami
    • AlphaLight Bunko Owned · Japan
    • Regina Books Owned · Japan

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What White Fox reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The studio was founded in April 2007 by Gaku Iwasa and other former staff members of OLM's Team Iwasa, which Iwasa lead. Their first production was the anime series Tears to Tiara. Since then, White Fox has animated shows such as Steins;Gate and Re:Zero and Akame ga Kill!.

On July 31, 2025, it was announced that the studio was acquired by Japanese publishing company AlphaPolis.

From Wikipedia’s article on White Fox, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • anime

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Apr 2007Founded Founded1

Sources

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