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AKOM Production Ltd.
(주)애이콤프로덕션
Industry	Animation
Founded	1985
Founder	Nelson Shin
Headquarters	Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Website	www.akomkorea.com

AKOM Production, Ltd. (Animation Korea Movie; Korean: 애이콤 프로덕션) is a South Korean animation studio in Songpa-gu, Seoul that has provided much work since its conception in 1985 by Nelson Shin. It is most notable for the overseas animation of more than 200 episodes of The Simpsons, a total which continues to increase.^[1] In 2007, the studio produced a portion of the overseas animation for The Simpsons Movie.

Other well-known series that AKOM has been involved in including X-Men, The Tick, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Batman: The Animated Series, The Transformers, the first 11 seasons of PBS's Arthur, and five of The Land Before Time films.

Animation production

Animaniacs (Seasons 1–4 and Back In Style)
Arthur (Seasons 1–11)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series (first season only)
A Bunch of Munsch
Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
C Bear and Jamal
Conan the Adventurer (first season only)
Crash Bandicoot (cancelled advertisement and cutscene)
Defenders of the Earth
Dilbert
Dino Riders (episodes 3–13)
Dooly the Little Dinosaur (opening, Season 1 episode 1, 2^[2])
Dr. Rabbit's World Tour (educational film)
Dragon Flyz
Earthworm Jim
Exosquad
G.I. Joe Extreme (Season 1)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (Opening Titles)
Gargoyles
Huntik: Secrets & Seekers
Invasion America
Jackie Bison Show
Jem
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies (Seasons 4-8)
Kelly's Dream Club
The Land Before Time (Films II–VI)
Little Clowns of Happytown
The Little Lulu Show (Season 3)
Little Wizards
Marsupilami
McGee and Me!
Mission Hill
Mosaic (Opening Titles)
My Little Pony
My Little Pony Tales
The Oblongs
Peter Pan and the Pirates
Pinky and the Brain
Problem Child
The Real Ghostbusters ("Slimer Come Home", "When Halloween was Forever", "Station Identification", "Fright at the Opera")
Red Planet (uncredited)
Rescue Heroes
Road Rovers
Rude Dog and the Dweebs
Savage Dragon
Sesame Street ("Monster in the Mirror" celebrity version only, Simpsons cameo)
Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles
Silver Surfer
The Simpsons (including the movie, the ride, and the video game's animated cutscenes)
Skeleton Warriors
Spiral Zone (15 Episodes)
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Taz-Mania
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ("Grybyx", uncredited)
The Tick
Toad Patrol
The Transformers (3 episodes of Season 2, 14 episodes of Season 3, all of Season 4)
Ultimate Book of Spells
Wheel Squad
Wunschpunsch
X-Men (Seasons 1–5, except for the final six episodes and the 'Out of the Past' two-parter, and an early broadcast version of "No Mutant Is An Island")

TV series

Title	Year	Client	Notes
Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series	1987	Marvel Productions
Robocop: The Animated Series	1988	Marvel Productions
Tiny Toon Adventures	1990–1992	Warner Bros. Animation	24 half-hour episodes: Cinemaniacs!, Furrball Follies, Life in the 90's, Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night, The Wacko World of Sports, Sawdust and Toonsil, A Quack in the Quarks, Animaniacs!, Psychic Fun-Omenom Day, Whale's Tales, Weirdest Story Ever Told, The Acme Home Shopping Show, Playtime Toons, Pledge Week, Elephant Issues, Toon Physics, Hog-Wild Hamton, A Cat's Eye View, Toons from the Crypt, Sports Shorts, Sepulveda Boulevard, Grandma's Dead, Fox Trot and Washingtoon
Batman: The Animated Series	1992–1993	Warner Bros. Animation	13 half-hour episodes: "Christmas with the Joker", "The Last Laugh", "Be a Clown", "The Cat and the Claw: Part 2", "Prophecy of Doom", "Feat of Clay: Part 1", "Mad as a Hatter", "Cat Scratch Fever", "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne", "Joker's Wild", "Moon of the Wolf", "What Is Reality?" and "The Mechanic". (AKOM was eventually fired due to its inconsistent animation in many episodes such as "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Moon of the Wolf".^[3])

Feature films

Title	Year	Client	Notes
My Little Pony: The Movie	1986	Marvel Productions Sunbow Productions	with Toei Animation
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure	1994	Universal Cartoon Studios
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving	1995
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists	1996

Short films

Title	Year	Client
2012	The Longest Daycare	Gracie Films
2020	Playdate with Destiny
2021	The Force Awakens from Its Nap
	The Good, the Bart, and the Loki
	Plusaversary
2022	When Billie Met Lisa
	Welcome to the Club
	The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad"
2023	Rogue Not Quite One

References

^ "'The Simpsons' rides on the Seoul train". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
^ 아기공룡둘리 오프닝 노래 : 오승원 ( STEREO 1.2절) [Dooly the Little Dinosaur Opening Song: Oh Seung-won (STEREO Section 1.2)] (in Korean). 오승원 김지호 (published 7 October 1987). 26 February 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^ Kindred, Christopher (June 1993). "Batman: The Animated Series - Cat Scratch Fever". Animato!. Ventrella. Retrieved February 4, 2018.