List of anime companies

Animation studios

A-1 Pictures

A.P.P.P. (Another Push Pin Planning Company)

AIC (Anime International Company)

Arms Corporation

Artland

Asahi Production

Asread

Bee Train

Bones

Brain's Base

C2C

Daume

David Production

Doga Kobo

DLE

Eiken

Funimation

Gainax

Gallop

Gonzo

Group TAC

Hal Film Maker (name changed to TYO Animations)

Imagin

J.C.Staff

Japan Vistec

Khara

Kyoto Animation

Lerche

Madhouse

Magic Bus

Mook Animation

Mushi Production

Nippon Animation

Nomad

OLM

Ordet

P.A.Works

Pierrot

Polygon Pictures

Production I.G

Radix Ace Entertainment

Satelight

Seven Arcs

Shaft

Studio 4°C

Studio Comet

Studio Deen

Studio Donguri

Studio Dub

Studio Egg

Studio Fantasia

Studio Ghibli

Studio Hibari

Studio Junio

Studio Nue

Studio Orphee

Studio Wombat

Sunrise

SynergySP

Tatsunoko Production

Telecom Animation Film

Tezuka Productions

TMS Entertainment - formerly known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha

TNK

Toei Animation

Topcraft

Triangle Staff

Trigger

TYO Animations

Ufotable

White Fox

Wit Studio

Xebec

Zexcs

Producers

Animax

Aniplex (Sony Music Entertainment Japan's anime distribution unit)

Avex

Bandai Visual

BROCCOLI

Dentsu

Geneon Universal Entertainment (formerly Pioneer LDC)

Genco

Hakuhodo DY Media Partners

Japan Home Video (JHV)

Kadokawa Shoten

King Records (Starchild label)

KSS

Nihon Ad Systems

Pony Canyon

Soft On Demand (SOD)

Square Enix

Toho

VAP

Victor Entertainment

Viz Media

4DG

North America & other regions

4K Media (U.S.) (subsidiary of Konami, specializing in dubbing anime, shut down in 2012 due to continued lack of profitability by 4Kids Entertainment, the previous parent company, rebranded as 4K Media the following year by Konami after it acquired the production office).

Adult Source Media (U.S.)

Anime Midstream (U.S.)

AnimEigo (U.S.)

Aniplex of America (U.S., American subsidiary of Aniplex owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan)

Crunchyroll (U.S.)

Discotek Media (U.S.)

Disney (U.S.)

Funimation (U.S.)

Hulu (U.S.) (distributor)

Miramax (U.S., previously owned by Disney until 2010 when it was acquired by Filmyard Holdings)

Manga Entertainment (UK, U.S.: bought by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2005, later bought by Lionsgate in 2016)

Media Blasters (U.S.)

Netflix (U.S.)

NIS America (U.S., American subsidiary of Nippon Ichi Software software company)

Ponycan USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Pony Canyon)

Right Stuf Inc. (U.S., main distribution subdivision rebranded "Nozomi Entertainment" in 2007 with "Lucky Penny" following along)

Saban Brands (U.S.)

Sentai Filmworks (U.S.)

Sony Pictures Television International/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (U.S., American subsidiary of Sony)

Viz Media (U.S., owned jointly by Shogakukan and Shueisha, of Japan, but it is run independently)

Europe-exclusive

101 Films (United Kingdom)

Animatsu Entertainment (United Kingdom)

Animaze (Germany)

Anime Limited (United Kingdom, France)

Black Box (France, Belgium, Switzerland)

Dybex (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany*)

Dynit (Italy, Switzerland)

FilmConfect (Germany)

Kana Home Video (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland)

Kazé (France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom)

KSM Film (Germany)

Lucky Red (Italy, Switzerland)

Manga Entertainment UK (the main branch of "Manga Entertainment")

MVM Films (UK)

Nipponart (Germany)

Peppermint Anime (Germany)

Universum Film GmbH (Germany)

StudioCanal UK (UK)

Universal Pictures (UK, Ireland)

Yamato Video (Italy)

Australia

Hanabee (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)

Universal Sony Home Pictures 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 as Section23 Films)

AN Entertainment (U.S., division of AnimeNation, no new releases since 2007. Retail operations of parent company ceased in 2014.)

Anime Sols (U.S.)

Bandai Entertainment (U.S., owned by Bandai 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 facto defunct 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 of Central Park Media)

Crimson Star Media (U.S.)

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 and Sentai Filmworks. Parent company "Geneon Entertainment" then sold off its own ownership to NBCUniversal 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").

Go Fish Pictures (U.S. subsidiary of DreamWorks)

Illumitoon Entertainment (U.S., de facto defunct since late-2007 when new DVD releases were cancelled)

JBC (Brazil)

Kadokawa Pictures USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Kadokawa Pictures)

Manga Distribution (France, Belgium, Switzerland; was fined with Déclic Images (another French editor) 4.8 million euros in 2009 for selling DVDs of Grendizer while they didn't have the rights)

Manglobe (As of 2015, filed for Bankruptcy)

NuTech Digital (U.S.)

Saban Entertainment (U.S., acquisitions either went to The Walt Disney Company or just expired, succeeded by Saban Brands)

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.)

Synch-Point (U.S., a subsidiary of Broccoli, defunct when parent company Broccoli International USA shut down their operations in 2007)

U.S. Renditions (U.S., a subsidiary of Books Nippan, defunct mid-1990s)

Urban Vision (U.S.)

Tokyopop (U.S.)

YoO (Brazil)

Producers

Harmony Gold USA (U.S., produced the seminal Robotech series in 1985; stopped releasing new anime in the late 1980s and virtually dormant in the 1990s, the company technically still exists and issues re-releases)

Sav! The World Productions (Fr, producer of Oban Star-Racers with Bandai Visual and HAL Film Maker)