Aniplex
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat | Chiyoda , Tokyo |
| Number of employees | 80 |
| Branch | Media company |
| Website | www.aniplex.co.jp |
KK Aniplex ( Japanese 株式会社 ア ニ プ レ ッ ク ス , Anipurekkusu Kabushiki kaisha , English Aniplex Inc. ) produces and sells animes and related products such as music and merchandising.
The company was founded in September 1995 as a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan under the name KK SPE Music Publishing ( 株式会社 SPE ・ ミ ュ ー ジ ッ ク パ ブ リ ッ シ ン グ ). In January 1997 the name was changed to KK SPE Visualworks ( 株式会社 SPE ・ ビ ジ ュ ア ル ワ ー ク ス ) and after the complete takeover by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in January 2001 to KK SME Visualworks ( 株式会社 SME ・ ビ ジ ュ ア ル ワ ー ク ス ) and finally to in April 2003 KK Aniplex .
The first anime production was the series Rurouni Kenshin , which aired from January 1996, and the first film Rurōni Kenshin - Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Ishin Shishi e no Requiem from December 1997.
100% subsidiaries are the animation studio A-1 Pictures , the mobile phone software developer Banchō Seisakujo and the US distributor Aniplex of America Inc.
Productions (selection)
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Alice Academy
- Blood +
- Kamichu!
- Coo Lagann
- Soul eater
- the Garden of sinners Movie 1 - Thanatos.
- Bons no Xam'd
- Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
- Read or Die
- Sound of the Sky
- Angel Beats!
- Vividred operation
- Sword Art Online
- Guilty Crown
- Fate / Zero
- Kill la kill
- Mardock scramble
- Charlotte
- The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- List of anime productions in Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
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↑ a b c Corporate Info. Aniplex, accessed April 17, 2013 (Japanese). Corporate history. Aniplex, accessed April 17, 2013 .