List of anime companies

This is alist ofanime industrycompaniesinvolved in the production or distribution ofanime.

Japan-based companies

Animation studios

There are over 500 animation studios in Japan.Below are those notable enough to have an article.

• 3Hz
• A.C.G.T
• A.P.P.P.
• Actas
• Ajia-do Animation Works
• Anime International Company(AIC)
• Arms Corporation(defunct)
• Artland
• Artmic(defunct)
• Arvo Animation
• Nippon Rois Cartoon (Regional Service Division for Japan from Indonesia)
• Ashi Productions
• Asahi Production
• Asread
• AXsiZ
• Bandai Namco Filmworks
• Bandai Namco Pictures
• Bee Train
• Bibury Animation Studios
• Blue Lynx
• Bones
• Brain's Base
• Bridge (studio)
• C2C
• Chaos Project
• Cloud Hearts
• CoMix Wave Films
• Connect (studio)(defunct, absorbed bySilver Linkand then dissolved)
• Creators in Pack
• C-Station
• CygamesPictures
• Daume
• David Production
• Diomedéa
• DLE
• Doga Kobo
• ENGI
• EMT Squared
• Eight Bit
• Eiken
• Ekachi Epilka
• EMT Squared
• Encourage Films
• Ezo'la
• Fanworks
• Feel
• Felix Film
• Gaina (company)
• Gainax(defunct)
• Gallop
• Geno Studio
• Geek Toys
• GEMBA (studio)
• GoHands
• Gonzo
• Graphinica
• Grizzly (studio)
• Group TAC(defunct)
• Yumeta Company(formerly known as TYO Animations.)
  • Hal Film Maker(defunct/absorbed into Yumeta Company after merger of previous Yumeta and Hal into TYO Animations.)
• Hoods Entertainment
• Imagin
• J.C.Staff
• Khara
• Kinema Citrus
• Kitayama Eiga Seisakujo(defunct)
• Kitty Films(defunct)
• Kokusai Eiga-sha(defunct)
• Kyoto Animation
• Lapin Track
• Larx Entertainment
• Lay-duce
• Lerche
• Liden Films
• Madhouse
• Magic Bus
• Maho Film
• Manglobe(defunct)
• Marza Animation Planet
• MAPPA
• Millepensee
• Mook Animation
• Mushi Production
• NAZ (studio)
• Nexus
• Nippon Animation
• Nomad
• NUT (studio)
• Oh! Production
• OLM
• Orange
• Ordet
• P.A. Works
• Palm Studio(defunct)
• Passione
• Pierrot
• Pine Jam
• Phoenix Entertainment
• Platinum Vision
• Polygon Pictures
• Production I.G
• Production IMS(defunct)
• Project No.9
• Radix Ace Entertainment(defunct)
• Remic
• Revoroot
• Robot Communications
• Satelight
• Sanzigen
• Science SARU
• Shaft
• Shin-Ei Animation
• Shirogumi
• Shuka (studio)
• Seven
• Seven Arcs
• Sony,throughAniplex
  • A-1 Pictures
  • CloverWorks
• Spectrum Animation(defunct)
• Signal.MD
• Silver Link
• Square Enix Image Studio Division
• Studio 4°C
• Studio A-Cat
• Studio Bind
• Studio Blanc
• Studio Chizu
• Studio Colorido
• Studio Comet
• Studio Deen
• Studio Fantasia(defunct)
• Studio Ghibli
• Studio Gokumi
• Studio Hibari
• Studio Kai
• Studio Nue
• Studio Orphee
• Studio Ponoc
• Studio Puyukai
• Studio VOLN
• Sunrise(defunct/absorbed intoBandai Namco Filmworksin 2022.)
• SynergySP
• Tatsunoko Production
• Tear Studio(defunct)
• Tezuka Productions
• TMS Entertainment(formerly Tokyo Movie Shinsha)
  • Telecom Animation Film
• Tengu Kobou
• TNK
• Tsuchida Production(defunct)
• Toei Animation
• Topcraft(defunct)
• Typhoon Graphics
• Triangle Staff(defunct)
• Troyca
• Trigger
• Ufotable
• White Fox
• Wit Studio
• Xebec(defunct, mostly sold to Sunrise)
• Yaoyorozu(defunct)
• Yokohama Animation Laboratory
• Zexcs
• Zero-G
• Studio Ponoc

Producers

• Animax
• Avex
• Bandai Visual
• BROCCOLI
• Bushiroad
• Dentsu
• Genco
• Geneon Universal Entertainment(Geneon USA, formerly Pioneer LDC, now NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan)
• Good Smile Company
• Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
• J-List
• Japan Home Video
• Kadokawa Shoten
• King Records / Starchild
• Konami
• KSS
• Mag Garden
• NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
• Warner Bros. Japan
• Nihon Ad Systems
• Nintendo
• Pony Canyon
• Remow
• Shinca Entertainment
• Soft On Demand
• Sony
  • Sony Music Entertainment Japan
    • Aniplex
• Sotsu
• Square Enix
• Shochiku
• The Pokémon Company(Nintendo owns 32%.)
• Toho
• VAP
• Victor Entertainment
• Youmex(defunct)
• Nippon Rois Cartoon (Regional Service Division for Japan from Indonesia)

Non-Japanese companies

Distributors

North America and other regions

• Amazon Inc.(International)
  • Prime Video(International)
• AMC Networks
  • Sentai Filmworks(U.S.)
  • HIDIVE(U.S.)
• Animation International
• AnimEigo(U.S.)
• Anime Matsuri(U.S.)
• Digital Media Rights (U.S.)
  • RetroCrush (U.S.)
• Discotek Media(U.S.)
• Disney(U.S.)
  • Hulu(U.S.)
• Eleven Arts(U.S., movies only)
• Hasbro Entertainment(U.S., includes properties acquired by parentHasbrofrom its purchase ofSaban Brands)
• Fakku(U.S.)
• GKIDS(U.S., movies only)
• Konami Cross Media NY(U.S.) (formerly known as 4Kids Productions and 4K Media Inc.; 4Kids Productions shut down in 2012 by 4Kids Entertainment, acquired by Konami and rebranded as 4K Media from 2012 to 2019).
• Media Blasters(U.S.)
• Netflix(International)
• NIS America(U.S., American subsidiary of Nippon Ichi Software )
• Ponycan USA(U.S., American subsidiary ofPony Canyon)
• Remow LATAM
  • Anime Onegai (Mexico, Brasil)
• Shout! Factory(U.S.)
• Sony(International)
  • Aniplex of America(U.S., American subsidiary ofAniplexowned bySony Music Entertainment Japan)
    • Crunchyroll(International)
      • Sony Pictures Home Entertainment(U.S.)
        • Sony Pictures Television(U.S.)
• US Manga Corps
• Viz Media(U.S., owned jointly byShogakukanandShueishaof Japan, run independently)
• Warner Bros. Discovery(U.S.)
  • Warner Bros. Television(U.S.)

Africa

• Misr International Films(MIF) (Egypt)

South America

• Editorial Ivrea(Argentina)
• JBC(Brazil)
• Panini Group(Brazil and Argentina)

Europe

• Animation Digital Network (France, Germany)
• Anime Limited(United Kingdom, France and Ireland)
• Dynit(Italy, Switzerland)
• Digital Soul Entertainment (Greece)
• Jonu Media (Spain)
• MVM Films(UK)
• Universum Film GmbH(Germany)
• Selecta Visión (Spain)
  • AnimeBox
• Sony(International), throughCrunchyroll
  • Crunchyroll EMEA(France, Germany, Switzerland)
    • Crunchyroll UK and Ireland(United Kingdom)
• StudioCanal UK(UK)
• Universal Pictures(UK, Ireland)

Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia

• Animation International(Hong Kong)
• Aniplus(South Korea, Singapore)
• Bilibili(China)
• CBI Pictures (Indonesia)
• PT ROIS CARTOON STUDIO (Indonesia)
• JY Animation (China)
• Medialink(Hong Kong)
• Metal seinen(Pakistan)
• Mighty Media (Taiwan)
• Muse Communication(Taiwan)
• Odex(Singapore)
• KC Global Media Entertainment LLC(Singapore)
• POPS Worldwide (Vietnam)
• Tagger (Vietnam)
• T&M Media (Taiwan)
• Telesuccess Productions (Philippines)

Australia

• Hanabee Entertainment
• Sony(International), throughCrunchyroll
  • Crunchyroll Store 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 asSection23 Films)
• AN Entertainment(U.S., division ofAnimeNation,no new releases since 2007. Retail operations of parent company ceased in 2014.)
• Bandai Entertainment(U.S., owned byBandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Bandai Visual USA(U.S., previously a subsidiary of Bandai Visual Japan and not affiliated with Bandai Entertainment, now folded into Bandai Entertainment)
• Beez Entertainment(EU, owned by Bandai)
• Central Park Media(de factodefunct since mid-2007 when new DVD releases ceased; although 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 ofCentral Park Media)
  • Anime 18 (U.S., part ofCentral Park Media)
  • Software Sculptors(U.S., part ofCentral Park Media)
• Family Home Entertainment(U.S., renamedArtisan Entertainment) in the 1990s, then acquired byLions Gate Entertainmentin 2003)
• Funimation(U.S.)
• Frontier Enterprises(Japan)
• 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 Funimationand Sentai Filmworks. Parent company "Geneon Entertainment" then sold off its own ownership toNBCUniversalsubsidiary UPI, which then merged Geneon with its own "Universal Pictures Japan" division on February 1, 2009, renaming the new company "Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan" ).
• Go Fish Pictures(U.S. subsidiary ofDreamWorks)
• Illumitoon Entertainment(U.S.,de factodefunct since late-2007 when new DVD releases were cancelled)
• Kadokawa Pictures USA(U.S., American subsidiary ofKadokawa Pictures)
• Kazé(Europe acquired byCrunchyroll)
• Magna Home Entertainment(Australia)
• Manga Entertainment(UK, U.S.: Established as L.A. Hero in 1990, brought byIsland World Communicationsin late 1994 and renamed Manga Entertainment in 1995, bought byAnchor Bay Entertainmentin 2005, later bought byLionsgatein 2016)
• Manga Entertainment UK(the main branch of "Manga Entertainment" )
• Miramax(U.S., previously owned byDisneyuntil 2010 when it was acquired byFilmyard Holdings)
• NuTech Digital(U.S.)
• Ponimu (Indonesia)
• Right Stuf Inc.
• Saban Brands(U.S., shuttered in 2018 after selling entertainment properties toHasbro)
• Saban Entertainment(U.S., acquisitions either went toThe Walt Disney Companyor just expired, succeeded bySaban Brands)
• Shinca Entertainment(U.S.)
• Siren Visual (Australia)
• Streamline Pictures(U.S.,Canada;stopped producing new anime releases in 1996, folding intoOrion Pictures,which in turn folded intoMetro-Goldwyn-Mayerone year later, in 1997. The Streamline brand name officially went defunct in 2002.)
• Synch-Point(U.S., a subsidiary ofBroccoli,defunct when parent company Broccoli International USA shut down their operations in 2007)
• Tokyopop(U.S.) (still exists but no longer produces, distributes or licenses anime)
• U.S. Renditions(U.S., a subsidiary ofBooks Nippan,defunct mid-1990s)
• Urban Vision(U.S.)

Producers

• Harmony Gold USA(U.S.)
• Nelvana(Canada)
• PT ROIS CARTOON STUDIO(Indonesia)
• Sav! The World Productions(FRA)
• World Events Productions(U.S.)