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Founder
  
Eric P. Sherman

Type of business
  
Private

Founded
  
1993

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Industry
  
Voice recording, TV production

Key people
  
Eric P. Sherman (President and CEO) Kaeko Sakamoto (Vice President and Casting Director) Jonathan Sherman (Vice President of New Business Development) Mami Okada (Head of Production / Associate Casting Director) Patrick Rodman (Chief Engineer) Radu Ion (Film Editor) Cory Johnson (Technical Director) Alissa Teige (Creative Director)

Website
  
www.bangzoomentertainment.com

Headquarters
  
Burbank, California, United States

Profiles

Bang Zoom! Entertainment is an audio post-production studio with its headquarters in Burbank, California in Greater Los Angeles. It has worked on several anime, video games, feature films, original animation, and directly-to-DVD projects. It is best known as a dubbing company, providing English voice-over work for Japanese anime for companies, notably for Bandai Entertainment, Geneon Entertainment, ADV Films, Funimation, Aniplex of America, Viz Media, Manga Entertainment, Media Blasters, Central Park Media, Sentai Filmworks, NIS America and Pony Canyon.

Contents

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Adventures in Voice Acting

Bang Zoom! Entertainment released a series of interviews with "close to 100 [voice] actors, producers, and casting directors" on DVD, titled Adventures in Voice Acting: Anime, Games and Animation. Many of the interviews took place on set and in their respective studios. The trailer announced many of the voice actors that would appear on the DVD, including Steven Blum, Wendee Lee, Tom Kenny and many others. In 2009, Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter also did voice acting for fun from the Bang Zoom studio on NBC's Tonight Show visiting their studio and providing satirical alternate dubs for Ghost in the Shell and Blood: The Last Vampire. In 2013, O'Brien and Richter, now on TBS returned again to provide satirical dubs for Return of the Pearl Princess.

Animation

  • Bottersnikes and Gumbles
  • Giselle Bundchen and the Green Team
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Lego Friends
  • Lost in Oz
  • Martha and Friends
  • Rick and Morty
  • Secret Millionaires Club
  • Transformers: Combiner Wars
  • Anime

  • 5 Centimeters Per Second (Crunchyroll/Bandai Entertainment)
  • Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie 2 - The Sealed Card (Geneon)
  • Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (2010 film) (Sentai Filmworks)
  • Giovanni's Island (Production I.G)
  • Gundress (Media Blasters)
  • Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix/Sony Pictures)
  • Kite Liberator (Cinedigm)
  • Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone (TMS Entertainment/Discotek Media)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (Bandai Entertainment)
  • Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Production I.G/Funimation)
  • Redline (Manga Entertainment)
  • Resident Evil: Damnation (Capcom/Sony Pictures)
  • Sakura Wars: The Movie (Geneon)
  • Stand by Me Doraemon (Fujiko Productions/Viz Media)
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie (Aniplex of America)
  • Tekken: Blood Vengeance (Bandai Entertainment)
  • The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Bandai Entertainment)
  • The Laws of the Universe - Part 0 (Eleven Arts)
  • Animation

  • Beyond Beyond
  • Dive Olly Dive and the Pirate Treasure
  • Lalaloopsy Girls: Welcome to L.A.L.A. Prep School
  • Stan Lee's Mighty 7
  • Twinkle Toes: Lights Up New York
  • Video games

  • .hack//G.U. Vol.2//Reminisce (Bandai/Bandai Namco Games)
  • .hack//G.U. Vol.3//Redemption (Bandai/Bandai Namco Games)
  • Ace Combat Infinity (Bandai Namco Games)
  • Age of Elements (Atari)
  • Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel (NIS America)
  • Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk (Tecmo Koei)
  • Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky (Tecmo Koei)
  • Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea (Temco Koei)
  • Crimson Dragon (Microsoft Studios)
  • D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (Microsoft Studios)
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (NIS America)
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (NIS America)
  • Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (NIS America)
  • Digimon All-Star Rumble (Bandai Namco Games)
  • Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (Atlus USA)
  • Earth Defense Force 2025 (D3 Publisher)
  • Earthworm Jim (Sega)
  • Eureka Seven vol.1: New Wave (Bandai/Bandai Namco Games)
  • Eureka Seven vol. 2: The New Vision (Bandai/Bandai Namco Games)
  • Fairy Fencer F (NIS America)
  • Gods Eater Burst (D3 Publisher)
  • Growlanser Generations (Working Designs)
  • Hyperdimension Neptunia series (NIS America)
  • IGPX (Bandai/Bandai Namco Games)
  • Inazuma Eleven (Level-5)
  • Killer Instinct (Microsoft Studios)
  • King's Quest (Sierra Entertainment)
  • League of Legends (Riot Games)
  • LittleBigPlanet Karting (Sony Computer Entertainment)
  • Magna Carta 2 (Bandai Namco Games)
  • Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom (Bandai Namco Games)
  • Mugen Souls Z (NIS America)
  • Oreca Battle (Konami)
  • Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (Bandai Namco Games)
  • Power Rangers Super Megaforce (Bandai Namco Games)
  • Rocket Knight (localization only) (Konami)
  • Rune Factory Frontier (XSEED Games/Marvelous USA)
  • Rune Factory 4 (XSEED Games/Marvelous USA)
  • Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (NIS America)
  • Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (Bandai/Bandai Namco Games)
  • Section 8 (SouthPeak Games)
  • Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Sony Computer Entertainment)
  • Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (Blizzard Entertainment)
  • Stargate SG-1: Unleashed (MGM Interactive)
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Activision)
  • The Unfinished Swan (Sony Computer Entertainment)
  • The Witch and the Hundred Knight (NIS America)
  • Time and Eternity (NIS America)
  • Trinity Universe (NIS America)
  • X-Men (Konami)
  • Live-action dubbing

  • Alive (Media Blasters)
  • Apokalips X (Action Slate Releasing)
  • Bio Zombie (Media Blasters)
  • Chingu 2 (CJ Entertainment)
  • Danger Dolls (Action Slate Releasing)
  • Death Kappa (Media Blasters)
  • Dead Sushi (Action Slate Releasing)
  • Death Trance (Media Blasters)
  • Fists of Legend (CJ Entertainment)
  • Flu (CJ Entertainment)
  • The Ladies' Phone Club (Central Park Media)
  • Little Sister (Miramax)
  • Masquerade (CJ Entertainment)
  • The Mysterians (Media Blasters)
  • The Neighbor No. 13 (Media Blasters)
  • One Missed Call (Media Blasters)
  • Reborn from Hell series (Media Blasters)
  • Sky High (Media Blasters)
  • Sumo Vixens (Central Park Media)
  • Terminatrix (Central Park Media)
  • Tokyo Decameron (Central Park Media)
  • Tokyo Mafia series (Central Park Media)
  • Tokyo Zombie (Manga Entertainment)
  • The Tower (CJ Entertainment)
  • Versus (Media Blasters)
  • Weather Woman (Central Park Media)
  • Yohan: The Child Wanderer
  • Zeiram 2 (Media Blasters)
  • Zero Woman (Media Blasters)
  • Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers (Central Park Media)
  • Recent years

    On April 26, 2010, Bang Zoom! Entertainment CEO Eric P. Sherman sent an open letter to anime fans via blog GoAnimeTV. In the letter, he stated that the company will most likely stop producing English dubs of anime titles in 2011 if the industry does not start showing improvement. He cited the fansubbing and unlicensed copying of anime content as the primary reason for Geneon Entertainment USA, Urban Vision, Central Park Media and ADV Films closing their doors, as well as the January 2009 layoffs at Bandai Entertainment. Sherman also emphasized in the article that "anime is going to die" if fans do not start buying more content from the studios that license shows for distribution.

    References

    Bang Zoom! Entertainment Wikipedia