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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
• Gainax
• Gonzo
• Group TAC
• Imagin (studio)
• J.C.Staff
• Kyoto Animation
• Madhouse
• Magic Bus
• Manglobe
• Mushi Productions
• Nippon Animation
• Oriental Light and Magic (OLM)
• P.A. Works
• Polygon Pictures
• Production I.G
• Satelight
• Shaft
• Studio 4°C
• 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
• Tatsunoko Production
• Telecom Animation Film
• Tezuka Productions
• TNK (studio)
• Toei Animation
• Tokyo Movie Shinsha - also known as TMS Entertainment
• Topcraft
• XEBEC
• ufotable

Producers

• Animax
• Aniplex (Sony's anime distribution unit)
• Avex
• Bandai Visual
• BROCCOLI
• Dentsu
• Geneon 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

• ADV Films (U.S., U.K.)
• AnimEigo (U.S.)
• Bandai Entertainment (U.S., owned by Namco Bandai^[1])
  • Bandai Visual USA (U.S., previously a subsidiary of Bandai Visual Japan and not affiliated with Bandai Entertainment, now folded into Bandai Entertainment^[2])
• Disney (U.S.)
  • Miramax Films (U.S., owned by Disney)
• Funimation Entertainment (U.S.)
• 4Kids Entertainment (U.S.)
• Manga Entertainment (UK, U.S.: bought by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2005, which was itself later bought by Sony in fall 2007)
• Media Blasters (U.S.)
• The Right Stuf International (U.S., main distribution subdivision rebranded "Nozomi Entertainment" in 2007)
• Tokyopop (U.S.)
• Viz Media (U.S., owned jointly by Shogakukan and Shueisha, of Japan, but it is run independently)

Europe exclusive

• 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

• Central Park Media (de facto defunct since mid-2006 when plans to eventually declare bankruptcy were announced and new releases ceased, entering a state of limbo for three years.^[3] Officially declared bankruptcy and assets liquidated in mid-2009 ^[4]).
  • 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.^[5][6] 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").^[7][8]
• 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).
• U.S. Renditions (U.S., A subsidiary of Books Nippan, defunct mid-1990'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 1980's and virtually dormant in the 1990's, the company technically still exists and issues re-releases)

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