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Aniplex operates globally but has two regional headquarters: Aniplex America based in Santa Monica, California, US, while Aniplex China is based in Shanghai. It co-owns Crunchyroll, LLC with its sister company, Sony Pictures, which operates a direct-to-consumer (DTC) anime streaming service with 120 million registered users as of 2022. [5]
Aniplex of America, or Aniplex USA, is an anime distributor based in Santa Monica, California that serves as the American distribution enterprise of Aniplex, an entertainment company owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, where its goal is to reinforce the parent company's licensing business in the North American market.
Four anime productions have changed the studio credited from A-1 Pictures to CloverWorks after the rebranding. They are Slow Start, Darling in the Franxx, Persona 5: The Animation and Ace Attorney Season 2. Slow Start changed the credited studio after the original run ended, while Darling in the Franxx changed the credited studio during production.
[102] Writing for Anime News Network, James Beckett highlighted the 19th episode by noting it was "a thrilling showstopper of an episode, showing off ufotable's considerable skills as producers of nearly unrivaled action spectacle." [103] The anime series has been considered as one of the best anime of the 2010s.
Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, California Aniplex's headquarters in Rokubanchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Sony Group Corporation has owned several animation studios since the company's founding on May 7, 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo.
Cartoon Network (Warner Bros. Discovery) Friends: 1994 $2.5 billion: TV syndication – $1.5 billion [464] TV advertising – $1 billion [dz] Box office – $89,007 [466] Television series David Crane Marta Kauffman: Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions Warner Bros. (Warner Bros. Discovery) Sailor Moon: 1991 $2.5 billion: Merchandise sales – $2. ...
The studio was established by SMEJ's animation production division, Aniplex, on May 9, 2005, to animate its anime series and productions. [4] [5] In 2006, it co-produced the original production Zenmai Zamurai, and in October of the same year, established a studio in Asagaya.
Aniplex, a Sony business unit best known as a major producer and distributor of anime films and series including the hit “Demon Slayer,” is to acquire Japanese IP development and talent ...