This is a list of anime industry companies involved in the production or distribution of anime.
Japan-based companies
Animation studios There are over 500 animation studios in Japan. Below are those notable enough to have an article. A.C.G.T A.P.P.P. (defunct)
A-1 Pictures
Actas Ajiado Anime International Company (AIC) Arms Corporation (defunct) Artland Artmic (defunct) Arvo Animation Ashi Productions Asahi Production Asread Atelier Pontdarc AXsiZ Aniplex Bandai Namco Filmworks Bandai Namco Pictures Bee Train Bibury Animation Studios Blue Lynx Bones Brain's Base Bridge Bug Films C2C Chaos Project Cloud Hearts CoMix Wave Films Connect (defunct, absorbed by Silver Link and then dissolved) Creators in Pack C-Station CygamesPictures Daume David Production Diomedéa DLE Doga Kobo Drive ENGI EMT Squared Eight Bit Eiken Ekachi Epilka Encourage Films Ezóla Fanworks Feel Felix Film Gaina Gainax (defunct) Gallop Geno Studio Geek Toys GEMBA GoHands Gonzo Graphinica Grizzly Group TAC (defunct) 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 Nexus Nippon Animation Nomad NUT Oh! Production OLM Okuruto Noboru Orange Ordet P.A. Works Palm Studio (defunct) Passione Pierrot Pine Jam 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 Seven Seven Arcs Sony, through Aniplex A-1 Pictures CloverWorks Spectrum Animation (defunct) Signal.MD Silver Link Square Enix Image Studio Division Studio 3Hz 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 into Bandai Namco Filmworks in 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 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) Zexcs Zero-G
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 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)
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.) Discotek Media (U.S.) Disney (U.S.) Hulu (U.S.) Eleven Arts (U.S., movies only) Hasbro Entertainment (U.S., includes properties acquired by parent Hasbro from its purchase of Saban Brands) Fakku (U.S.) GKIDS (U.S.) 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 of Pony Canyon) Shout! Factory (U.S.) Sony (International) Aniplex of America (U.S., American subsidiary of Aniplex owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (U.S.) Sony Pictures Television (U.S.) Crunchyroll (International) Viz Media (U.S., owned jointly by Shogakukan and Shueisha of Japan, run independently) Warner Bros. Discovery (U.S.) Warner Bros. Television (U.S.)
Universal Television (U.S.)
South America Editorial Ivrea (Argentina) JBC (Brazil) Panini Group (Brazil and Argentina)
Europe Anime Limited (United Kingdom, France and Ireland) Dybex (France, Belgium, Netherlands) Dynit (Italy, Switzerland) MVM Films (UK) Naban Animé (France, Belgium, Switzerland) Universum Film GmbH (Germany) Sony (International), through Crunchyroll Crunchyroll EMEA (France, Germany, Switzerland) Crunchyroll UK and Ireland (United Kingdom) StudioCanal UK (UK) Universal Pictures (UK, Ireland) Yamato Video (Italy)
Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia Animation International (Hong Kong) Aniplus (South Korea, Singapore) Bilibili (China) Medialink (Hong Kong) Metal seinen (Pakistan) Muse Communication (Taiwan) Odex (Singapore) KC Global Media Entertainment LLC (Singapore)
Australia and New Zealand Sony (International), through Crunchyroll Crunchyroll Store Australia
Sugoi Co
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.) 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) Software Sculptors (U.S., part of Central Park Media) Family Home Entertainment (U.S., renamed Artisan Entertainment) in the 1990s, then acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003) Funimation (U.S., acquired by Sony in 2017 and merged with Crunchyroll in 2024) Frontier Enterprises (Japan, Dubbed anime into English from 1964 to 2000) 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) Hanabee Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand) Illumitoon Entertainment (U.S., de facto defunct since late-2007 when new DVD releases were cancelled) Kadokawa Pictures USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Kadokawa Pictures) Kazé (Europe acquired by Crunchyroll) Magna Home Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand) Manga Entertainment (UK, U.S.: Established as L.A. Hero in 1990, brought by Island World Communications in late 1994 and renamed Manga Entertainment in 1995, bought by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2005, later bought by Lionsgate in 2016) Manga Entertainment UK (the main branch of "Manga Entertainment") Miramax (U.S., previously owned by Disney until 2010 when it was acquired by Filmyard Holdings) NuTech Digital (U.S.) :it:Panini Video (Germany and Italy) Ponimu (Indonesia) Right Stuf Inc. Saban Brands (U.S., shuttered in 2018 after selling entertainment properties to Hasbro) Saban Entertainment (U.S., acquisitions either went to The Walt Disney Company or just expired, succeeded by Saban Brands) Shinca Entertainment (U.S.) :it:Shin Vision (Italy) Streamline Pictures (U.S., Canada; stopped producing new anime releases in 1996. 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) Tokyopop (U.S.) (still exists but no longer produces, distributes or licenses anime) U.S. Renditions (U.S., a subsidiary of Books Nippan, defunct mid-1990s) Urban Vision (U.S.)
Producers Harmony Gold USA (U.S.) Nelvana (Canada) Sav! The World Productions (FRA) World Events Productions (U.S.)
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