Pierrot is a lesser known anime company.
Pierrot ( [ pjɛʁo ] ) is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell ` Arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne ; the name is a hypocorism of Pierre ( Peter ) , via the suffix - ot #French . Pierrot (company) . Studio Pierrot is renowned for several worldwide popular anime series , such as Naruto , Bleach , Yu Yu Hakusho , Tokyo Ghoul , Beelzebub , Great Teacher Onizuka and several others . Yu Yu Hakusho and Saiyuki , two of the company 's anime series , won the Animage Anime Grand Prix Award in 1994 and 1995 , and 2000 , respectively .