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MyAnimeList Launches Digital Manga Store
MyAnimeList, LLC, the company which operates the anime and manga catalog website of the same name, has announced that it is launching an English-language digital manga store in partnership with North American manga publishers VIZ Media and Kodansha Comics. The MyAnimeList Manga...
8 years ago
Bandai Namco Reorganizes Bandai Visual, Lantis, Sunrise Units
Bandai Namco Holdings, a major developer of entertainment products and services, announced a major reorganization of several subsidiaries related to its toys, amusement, audiovisual, and animation businesses on Friday. The announcement was made along with the publication of compa...
8 years ago
Kansai-Based Studio Wanpack to Close Following Founder's Death
Studio Wanpack, an Osaka-based anime studio known as a long-time subcontractor to major anime studios, announced early Thursday morning that it will be dissolving the business on February 28, 2018. The announcement follows the death of studio founder Kouji Yamada on January 2. Fo...
8 years ago
Nissan Motor Replaces Toshiba as 'Sazae-san' Main Sponsor After 49 Years
Sazae-san, the longest running animated television series in the world, will gain new broadcast sponsors in April following the exit of Toshiba Corporation, which has sponsored the series for almost 49 years. Toshiba was the sole sponsor of the series since from 1969 until 1999...
8 years ago
Netflix Announces Anime Partnership with Production I.G and Bones
Global streaming content provider Netflix is making a push to deepen its business relationships with anime production companies in Japan. On Wednesday, Netflix announced a continuing partnership with anime studios Production I.G and Bones in a press release. Netflix's partnershi...
8 years ago
Amazon Ends Anime Strike Curated Streaming Service
Internet retailer Amazon terminated its curated streaming service Anime Strike on Friday just one year after its launch. Anime Strike provided Amazon Prime customers in the United States with access to more than one thousand anime episodes and movies for a $4.99 monthly subscrip...
8 years ago
Bibury Animation Studios Leads 'Grisaia: Phantom Trigger' TV Anime Production
Bibury Animation Studios, a joint venture anime production studio established in May, has revealed that it will lead the production of Grisaia: Phantom Trigger, a television anime series based on the visual novel series of the same name. The studio, which is named after a village...
9 years ago
International Streaming Service DAISUKI Ends Service in October
Streaming content distributor DAISUKI announced on Tuesday that it will terminate its international anime streaming service by October 31, 2017. DAISUKI, which began its service in 2013, is owned and operated by Anime Consortium Japan and was acquired by Bandai Namco Holdings in...
9 years ago
Sony Pictures Television Acquires Majority Stake in Funimation
Sony Pictures Television, a California-based television production and distribution studio, announced on Monday that it will acquire a 95-percent stake in shares of North American anime distributor Funimation. Gen Fukunaga, the Texas-based company's founder and chief executive, w...
9 years ago
Dwango and Khara Form CG Animation Joint Venture Project Studio Q
Entertainment content management company Dwango, animation studio Khara, and the Aso College Group announced on Wednesday that they have established an animation and CG production company named Project Studio Q. Based in the city of Fukuoka in western Japan, Project Studio Q aims...
9 years ago
