Sunrise Inc. (株式会社サンライズ Kabushiki-gaisha Sanraizu?) is a Japanese anime studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Its former name was Nippon Sunrise, and prior to that, Sunrise Studios.
Among Japan's largest and most famous studios, Sunrise is renowned for several critically-lauded and popular original anime series, such as Gundam, Armored Trooper Votoms, Vision of Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, Planetes, My-HiME, My-Otome, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, as well as its numerous adaptations of popular manga and light novels such as Dirty Pair, City Hunter, InuYasha, Yakitate!! Japan, Gintama and several others.