The company was first established in 1972 as Kitty Music Corporation under Hidenori Taga, producing TV drama soundtracks.

By 1979, the company began to branch off into live action with the films Almost Transparent Blue and Lady Oscar (a live-action adaptation of the manga The Rose of Versailles).

[5] Unfortunately, the company had suffered financial troubles from early on, which started to come to a head towards the end of the Ranma TV series in 1992.

Hidenori Taga had in fact helped finance Kitty's film division by spending money from their music branch, and that year was forced to step down due to an unknown scandal,[citation needed] while Shigekazu Ochiai transferred to Pao House Studios (he died in 1999).

Kitty continued to produce less well-known shows such as Ping Pong Club (1995), but their output shrank to almost nothing by the end of the 20th century.