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)
• Artland
• Ashi Productions
• A.P.P.P. (Another Push Pin Planning Company)
• Bee Train
• Bones
• Daiei Co., Ltd.
• Daume
• David Production
• Dogakobo
• Eiken
• Gainax
• Gonzo
• Group TAC
• Hal Film Maker
• Imagin (studio)
• Japan Vistec
• J.C.Staff
• Kyoto Animation
• Madhouse
• Magic Bus
• Manglobe
• Mushi Productions
• Nippon Animation
• Ordet
• Oriental Light and Magic (OLM)
• P.A. Works
• Polygon Pictures
• Production I.G
• Radix
• Satelight
• Seven Arcs
• Shaft
• Studio 4°C
• Studio Comet
• Studio Deen
• Studio Donguri
• Studio Dub
• Studio Egg
• Studio Fantasia
• Studio Gallop
• Studio Ghibli
• Studio Hibari
• Studio Junio
• Studio Mook
• Studio Nue
• Studio Orphee
• Studio Pierrot
• Studio Wombat
• Sunrise
• SynergySP
• Tatsunoko Production
• Telecom Animation Film
• Tezuka Productions
• TNK (studio)
• Toei Animation
• Tokyo Movie Shinsha - also known as TMS Entertainment
• Topcraft
• Triangle Staff
• Ufotable
• White Fox
• XEBEC
• Zexcs

Producers

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

Non-Japanese companies

Distributors

North America & other regions

• AnimEigo (U.S.)
• Aniplex of America (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)
• Crunchyroll (U.S.) (distributor)
• Disney (U.S.)
  • Miramax Films (U.S., previously owned by Disney until 2010 when it was acquired by Filmyard Holdings)
• Funimation Entertainment (U.S.)
• 4Kids Entertainment (U.S.)
• Manga Entertainment (UK, U.S.: bought by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2005)
• Media Blasters (U.S.)
• NIS America (U.S., American subsidiary of Nippon Ichi Software software company)
• Section 23 (U.S.) (the successor company to ADV films, which split into several companies in 2009. "Section 23" handles distribution, "Sentai Filmworks" handles license acquisition, "Aesir Holdings" inherited ADV's old library of titles, "Seraphim Studios" handles new English dubs, and "Valkyrie Media Productions" handles The Anime Network).
• The Right Stuf International (U.S., main distribution subdivision rebranded "Nozomi Entertainment" in 2007)
• Viz Media (U.S., owned jointly by Shogakukan and Shueisha, of Japan, but it is run independently)

Europe exclusive

• Manga Entertainment UK (the main branch of "Manga Entertainment")
• Beez Entertainment (EU, owned by Bandai)
• MVM Films (UK)
• Optimum Releasing (UK)

Australia

Australia is not part of the normal global anime release system. Major worldwide anime distributors, such as for example ADV or FUNimation, usually hold the release rights to everywhere except for Japan itself, and Australia

• AkaHana (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

• 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)).
• 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 NBC Universal 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").
• 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)
• 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)