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Bandai Visual

Bandai Visual Co., Ltd.
Native name
株式会社バンダイビジュアル
Kabushiki gaisha Bandai Bijuaru
Formerly
  • AE Planning
  • (1983–1989)
  • Bandai Media
  • (1988–1992)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryAnime
FoundedAugust 23, 1983 (1983-08-23)
Defunct2018 (2018) (as a company)
FateMerged with Lantis
SuccessorBandai Namco Arts
HeadquartersEbisu, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
  • Kazumi Kawashiro
  • (president and CEO)
Number of employees
167
Parent
Subsidiaries
  • Actas
  • Bandai Entertainment
  • Beez Entertainment
  • Emotion
  • Lantis
Websitebandaivisual.co.jp/

Bandai Visual Co., Ltd.[a] was a Japanese anime, film production, and distribution company, established by Bandai and a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. They focused mainly in international distribution of anime properties in North America.[1][2][3]

Most of the anime and films that have been distributed and licensed by Bandai Visual have been released under the Emotion label. After the reorganization of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual headed the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries included the Emotion Music Company, Ltd. (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis music publishing labels. Until 2012, it was involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, an alternate anime studio subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In September 2017, Bandai Visual acquired the anime studio Actas.[4]

In February 2018, it was announced Bandai Visual would be merged with Lantis into a new branch of BNH, called Bandai Namco Arts. The reorganizing took effect as of April 1, 2018. Bandai Visual remains only as a label of the new company.[5]


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  1. ^ "Bandai Visual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2005. Retrieved March 7, 2007.
  2. ^ "NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. – Group Companies". Archived from the original on March 7, 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2007.
  3. ^ "IR information : Press release Third Medium-Term Plan". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2007.
  4. ^ "Bandai Visual Acquires Girls & Panzer Anime Studio Actas". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference New Bandai Visual was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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