List of anime companies

This is a list of anime industry companies involved in the production or distribution of anime.

Japan-based companies

Animation studios

• A-1 Pictures
• AIC (Anime International Company)
• Arms Corporation
• Artland
• Asahi Production
• Asread
• A.P.P.P. (Another Push Pin Planning Company)
• Bee Train
• Bones
• Brain's Base
• Bridge
• C2C
• Daume
• David Production
• Doga Kobo
• Eiken
• Gainax
• Gallop
• Gonzo
• Group TAC
• Hal Film Maker (name changed to TYO Animations)
• Imagin (studio)
• Japan Vistec
• J.C.Staff
• Khara
• Kyoto Animation
• Lerche
• Madhouse
• Magic Bus
• Manglobe
• Mook Animation
• Mushi Production
• Nippon Animation
• Nomad
• OLM
• Ordet
• P.A.Works
• Pierrot
• Polygon Pictures
• Production I.G
• Radix Ace Entertainment
• Satelight
• Seven Arcs
• Shaft
• Studio 4°C
• Studio Comet
• Studio Deen
• Studio Donguri
• Studio Dub
• Studio Egg
• Studio Fantasia
• Studio Ghibli
• Studio Hibari
• Studio Junio
• Studio Nue
• Studio Orphee
• Studio Wombat
• Sunrise
• SynergySP
• Tatsunoko Production
• Telecom Animation Film
• Tezuka Productions
• TMS Entertainment - formerly known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha
• TNK
• Toei Animation
• Topcraft
• Triangle Staff
• Trigger
• TYO Animations
• Ufotable
• White Fox
• Wit Studio
• Xebec
• Zexcs

Producers

• Animax
• Aniplex (Sony Music Entertainment Japan's anime distribution unit)
• Avex
• Bandai Visual
• BROCCOLI
• Dentsu
• Geneon Universal Entertainment (Formerly Pioneer LDC)
• Genco
• Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
• Japan Home Video (JHV)
• Kadokawa Shoten
• King Records (Starchild label)
• KSS
• Nihon Ad Systems
• Pony Canyon
• Square Enix
• Soft On Demand (SOD)
• Toho
• VAP
• Victor Entertainment
• Viz Media

Non-Japanese companies

Distributors

North America & other regions

• AnimEigo (U.S.)
• Anime Midstream (U.S.)
• Aniplex of America (U.S., American subsidiary of Aniplex owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan)
• Crunchyroll (U.S.) (distributor)
• Discotek Media (U.S.)
• Disney (U.S.)
• Hulu (U.S.) (distributor)
  • Miramax Films (U.S., previously owned by Disney until 2010 when it was acquired by Filmyard Holdings)
• Funimation Entertainment (U.S.)
• Manga Entertainment (UK, U.S.: bought by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2005)
• Media Blasters (U.S.)
• Netflix (U.S.)
• NIS America (U.S., American subsidiary of Nippon Ichi Software software company)
• Ponycan USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Pony Canyon)
• Sentai Filmworks (U.S.)
• Right Stuf Inc. (U.S., main distribution subdivision rebranded "Nozomi Entertainment" in 2007 with "Lucky Penny" following along)
• Saban Brands (U.S.)
• Sony Pictures Television International/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (U.S., American subsidiary of Sony)
• Viz Media (U.S., owned jointly by Shogakukan and Shueisha, of Japan, but it is run independently)

Europe exclusive

• 101 Films (United Kingdom)
• Anime Limited (United Kingdom, France)
• Black Box (France, Belgium, Switzerland)
• Dybex (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany*)
• Dynit (Italia, Switzerland)
• Kana Home Video (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland)
• Kazé (France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom)
• Manga Entertainment UK (the main branch of "Manga Entertainment")
• MVM Films (UK)
• StudioCanal UK (UK)
• Animaze (Germany)
• FilmConfect (Germany)
• KSM Film (Germany)
• Nipponart (Germany)
• Peppermint Anime (Germany)
• Universum Film GmbH (Germany)

Australia

• Universal Sony Home Pictures Australia
• Hanabee (Australia)
• Madman Entertainment (Australia: Madman overwhelmingly dominates the Australian anime market, for many years through the 2000s controlling approximately 90% of all sales)
• Siren Visual (Australia)

Defunct

• 4Kids Productions (US) (subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment Specializing in dubbing anime, shut down in 2012 due to continued lack of profitability).
• ADV Films (U.S., U.K.) (shut down in 2009, selling off its assets and intellectual properties to four other Houston-based companies, such as Section 23 (see above)).
• AN Entertainment (U.S., division of AnimeNation, no new releases since 2007. Retail operations of parent company ceased in 2014.)
• Anime Sols (U.S.)
• Bandai Entertainment (U.S., owned by Namco Bandai)
  • Bandai Visual USA (U.S., previously a subsidiary of Bandai Visual Japan and not affiliated with Bandai Entertainment, now folded into Bandai Entertainment)
• Beez Entertainment (EU, owned by Bandai)
• Central Park Media (de facto defunct since mid-2007 when new DVD releases ceased, even though they continued to license their titles for TV and VOD, they entered a state of limbo. Officially declared bankruptcy and assets liquidated in mid-2009. Several of their titles have been acquired by other anime distributing companies prior to and following Central Park Media's bankruptcy and liquidation, such as ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Funimation Entertainment, Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment, etc.)
  • US Manga Corps (U.S., part of Central Park Media)
• Family Home Entertainment (U.S., renamed Artisan Entertainment) in the 1990s, then acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003).
• Geneon Entertainment (U.S. branch "Geneon USA" (formerly "Pioneer Entertainment") defunct September 2007. Parent Japanese company ceased in-house distribution of its own titles, many of which have been re-licensed by Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Parent company "Geneon Entertainment" then sold off its own ownership to NBCUniversal subsidiary UPI, which then merged Geneon with its own "Universal Pictures Japan" division on February 1, 2009, renaming the new company "Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan").
• Go Fish Pictures (U.S. subsidiary of DreamWorks)
• Illumitoon Entertainment (U.S., de facto defunct since late-2007 when new DVD releases were cancelled.)
• Kadokawa Pictures USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Kadokawa Pictures)
• Manga Distribution (France, Belgium, Switzerland. Was fined with Déclic Images (another French editor) 4.8 million euros in 2009 for selling DVDs of Grendizer while they didn't have the rights).
• Saban Entertainment (U.S., acquisitions either went to The Walt Disney Company or just expired, succeeded by Saban Brands)
• Streamline Pictures (U.S., Canada: stopped producing new anime releases in 1996, folding into Orion Pictures, which in turn folded into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer one year later, in 1997. The Streamline brand name officially went defunct in 2002).
• Synch-Point (U.S., A subsidiary of Broccoli (company), defunct when parent company Broccoli International USA shut down their operations in 2007)
• Urban Vision (U.S.)
• U.S. Renditions (U.S., A subsidiary of Books Nippan, defunct mid-1990s)
• Tokyopop (U.S.)

Producers

• Sav! The World Productions (Fr, producer of Oban Star-Racers with Bandai Visual and HAL Film Maker)
• Harmony Gold USA (U.S., produced the seminal Robotech series in 1985; stopped releasing new anime in the late 1980s and virtually dormant in the 1990s, the company technically still exists and issues re-releases)

External links

• Searchable database of Japanese anime companies