X Card

X Card is a Japanese animated television franchise created by Ige Eizo and Goto Toki (XCard Production, XCP). It started in 1994 as a Sunday morning anime on TVK. TVK's run ended in 1998, when Tokyo MX took over broadcasting duties for the show until 2015. The show started airing in 2016 on NHK General TV and ended it's NHK run the year after. SurgeAnime currently has the rights to the show, and has started production on the next season using it's in house animation. It has been stated that it will be a reboot of the original 1994-2002 series.

Shows

 * X Card: 2015 (1994-1996, 52 episodes (13 in 1994, 13 in 1995, 26 in 1996)
 * X Card: Fastforward (1997-1998, 26 episodes)
 * X-Card III (1998-2002, 201 episodes)
 * X-Card IV: 2047 (2003, 25 episodes)
 * X-Card X (2004, 30 episodes)
 * X-Card V-Tokyo Nights (2005-2007, 62 episodes)
 * X-Card VI (2007-2009, 56 episodes)
 * X-Card VII (2009-2012, 140 episodes)
 * X-Card VIII (2013, 26 episodes)
 * X-Card XX-Twentieth Anniversary (2014, 48 episodes)
 * X-Card IX (2015, 13 episodes)
 * X-Card X-10th Season (2016-2017, 74 episodes)
 * X Card 2018 (2018, weekday release)

Production
Ige Eizo and Goto Toki drew most of the species designs that were on the card up until 2005, when they hired a group of people to assist them in production. As on January 15, 2018, Eizo wrote 400 episodes, Toki wrote 240 episodes, and the rest were written by the studio staff. All episodes were directed by Toki.