Eiko Tanaka

is a Japanese anime entrepreneur, the co-founder and current chief executive officer of and producer of the studio. She is also the CEO of a producing company called Beyond C.

Tanaka was one of the supporters of Studio Ghibli at its inception as a line producer.

At , Tanaka charts the path from scenario to completion of the work and determines the image of the work, including casting, staffing and setting, while at Beyond C., she is mainly responsible for planning and production, as well as fundraising and production management.

Starting with the 1995 film Memories, Tanaka has produced a diverse range of video works for , including films, short movies, music videos, TV commercials and footage for games.

Career Tanaka studied Japanese language teaching methods at university. After graduation, she intended to become a Japanese language teacher abroad, but gave up the idea after a motorbike accident. So she founded with them in 1988 as a place for a group of creators. She became the producer and was started with everyone paying rent together. She was still working for Nippon Animation at this time.

temporarily broke up around 1993. This was because the members of each took their own jobs, and individual and group work gradually became blurred and difficult to manage. as a corporate organisation then moved to a studio in Kichijoji, where it produced the film Memories by Katsuhiro Otomo, in which Koji Morimoto and others participated. Yoshiharu Sato and Ei Inoue chose to go to Nippon Animation. The original studio was rented by Yoshinori Kanada and his associates and named Studio Nonmalt.

then became a limited company in 1999 and a joint-stock company in 2007.