Curated category
Anime companies
- Anime LimitedAnime Limited announced in 2020 that it had become the first company outside Japan to release the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise on Blu-ray.
- Manga EntertainmentManga Entertainment was founded in London in 1991 with a name that turned out to be slightly misleading. The company's core business was anime, not manga…
- Crunchyroll Store AustraliaTim Anderson and Paul Wiegard established Madman Entertainment in 1996 as a mail order business. They targeted the Australian market with imported anime…
- Mainichi Broadcasting SystemMainichi Broadcasting System, known on air as MBS, opened its new office tower at 11:07:09 in the morning on the 4th of April 2014.
- Nippon TelevisionNippon Television went on the air on the 28th of August 1953, and the very first TV commercial it broadcast aired upside-down by mistake.
- A.D. VisionA.D. Vision opened for business on the 17th of August 1992, founded by three people who had no formal entertainment industry credentials.
- Sentai FilmworksSentai Filmworks traces its roots to a single moment: a Houston man named John Ledford watching My Neighbor Totoro at his friend's suggestion.
- AnimeNationAnimeNation started in 1995 in Clearwater, Florida, at a moment when anime was still a niche passion in the United States, known mainly to devoted fans who…
- TV AsahiTV Asahi broadcasts from a sleek building in Roppongi, Tokyo, designed by architect Fumihiko Maki, a structure that would have seemed impossible to the…
- Media BlastersMedia Blasters was founded in New York City in 1997 by John Sirabella, a man who had already built and sold one company before deciding to start again from…
- Koei TecmoKoei Tecmo is one of Japan's most storied video game holding companies, born from a merger that almost did not happen. In August 2008, a rival corporation…
- GKIDSGKIDS, Inc. walked into the Academy Awards in 2010 with a French film about two princes on a quest, and the animation world has never quite looked at New…
- TV TokyoTV Tokyo broadcasts today from the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo, as the flagship of the TX Network.
- Kadokawa ShotenKadokawa Shoten no longer exists as its own company. On the 1st of October 2013, it became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation.
- Viz MediaViz Media commands nearly a quarter of the graphic novel market in the United States, yet the company traces back to a single man from Tokushima Prefecture…
- HakusenshaHakusensha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and it was born out of one of Japan's most powerful media empires.
- Central Park MediaCentral Park Media Corporation got its name from a corner. The company's offices sat at 250 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, right on the edge of…
- DentsuDentsu, Japan's largest advertising agency, holds a grip on its home market so complete that it handles roughly 28 percent of the entire national advertising…
- Pony CanyonPony Canyon's catalogue includes a 1996 Indian erotic film called Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, credited among the company's co-productions.
- Streamline PicturesStreamline Pictures opened its doors in Los Angeles in late 1988 with a mission that most American entertainment executives would have called a long shot.
- NBCUniversal Entertainment JapanNBCUniversal Entertainment Japan sits at an unusual crossroads: it is a Japanese anime powerhouse owned by an American telecommunications giant…
- Urban VisionUrban Vision Entertainment Inc. set up shop in Los Angeles in July 1996 with a single, specific ambition: bring Japanese animation into the American…
- VAP, Inc.VAP, Inc. stands for Video and Audio Project, a name that quietly tells you everything about what this Japanese entertainment company set out to do.