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Anime companies
- Anime LimitedIn 2020, Anime Limited became the first company outside Japan to release Evangelion on Blu-ray.
- Manga EntertainmentManga Entertainment, founded in London in 1991, was mostly about anime, not manga.
- Crunchyroll Store AustraliaTwo anime importers started Madman Entertainment in 1996 as a mail-order business. It later became Crunchyroll Pty. Ltd.
- Mainichi Broadcasting SystemMainichi Broadcasting opened its tower at 11:07:09 to match its channel and radio numbers.
- Nippon TelevisionJapan's first TV commercial aired upside-down by mistake. It was for a Seikosha clock on Nippon Television in 1953.
- A.D. VisionA.D. Vision began when a man watched My Neighbor Totoro. It convinced a game importer to sell anime in America.
- Sentai FilmworksAnime distributor Sentai Filmworks raised $2,370,910 for Kyoto Animation after a 2019 arson attack.
- AnimeNationAn anime store's reader Q&A column outlived the store itself. AnimeNation's online shop closed in 2014.
- TV AsahiTV Asahi began as a channel required by law to be half educational. It later became home to Kamen Rider.
- Media BlastersA tax document in Japan showed Media Blasters as out of business. It cost the company Rurouni Kenshin and Berserk.
- Koei TecmoTecmo turned down a takeover bid and agreed to merge with Koei the same day. The Square Enix offer came in 2008.
- GKIDSGKIDS won its first Best Animated Feature Oscar with The Boy and the Heron.
- TV TokyoTV Tokyo lost 1.38 billion yen in its first year on the air. It began in 1964 as Tokyo Channel 12.
- Kadokawa ShotenKadokawa Shoten, the publisher behind Cowboy Bebop manga, lost its company status in 2013.
- Viz MediaViz Media slipped manga into art books and called them graphic novels so bookstores would carry them.
- HakusenshaHakusensha began in 1973 as a Shueisha company built around one magazine for young women.
- Central Park MediaUrotsukidoji became the first animated film to receive an NC-17 rating. Central Park Media released it in 1992.
- DentsuHow does one company, Dentsu, come to handle roughly 28 percent of Japan's national advertising budget?
- Pony CanyonThe Asian financial crisis of 1997 closed four of Pony Canyon's five overseas branches.
- Streamline PicturesStreamline Pictures released Akira in a Washington, D.C. theater on Christmas Day 1989.
- NBCUniversal Entertainment JapanNBCUniversal Entertainment Japan does not distribute Universal Pictures films in Japanese theaters.
- Urban VisionUrban Vision opened in Los Angeles in July 1996 to bring anime to mainstream America.
- VAP, Inc.When the band Omega Tribe broke up in 1985, VAP signed its singer as a solo act. Sugiyama Kiyotaka stayed until 1990.