Illumitoon Entertainment

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Illumitoon Entertainment
Type Private [1]
Genre Anime [1]
Founded2006 [2]
FounderStephanie Giotes, Richard Ray, and Barry Watson [1]
Defunct2007;16 years ago (2007)
FateDefunct
Headquarters
Fort Worth, Texas
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United States [1]
Key people
Barry Watson President/CEO [1]

Illumitoon Entertainment was a production company based in Fort Worth, Texas that specialized in anime. It was founded in January 2006 by former Funimation executives Stephanie Giotes, Richard Ray, and Barry Watson. [1] [2] Illumitoon's goal was to have its shows aired on television and offer unedited dual language DVDs. [3] [4]

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History

Illumitoon shared facilities with CRM Productions in Fort Worth, Texas and Westlake Entertainment was used for distribution. [1] [5] The company's first anime license was Beet the Vandel Buster and Beet the Vandel Buster Excellion. [6] They also licensed AM Driver, B't X, and BT'X Neo. [7] [8] Illumitoon joined with Westlake for the licensing of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. [9] [10] Several Illumitoon releases had production issues including music being changed, the use of dubtitles (subtitles created from the dub script), and inoperable discs. [3] [4] [11] [12] [13] Replacements with translated subtitles were offered for the first DVDs of Beet, Bobo, and B't X that were later found to be DVD-Rs. [4] [14] [15] AM Driver and B't X were licensed by The Anime Network for VOD, but only 14 episodes of each series had a complete dub. [4] [16] [17] After Westlake ceased distribution of their titles, future releases from Illumitoon were cancelled in late 2007. [4] [18]

Post Illumitoon

AM Driver was never released on DVD and all series remained incomplete until S'more Entertainment relicensed Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. [4] [19] This release also experienced issues due to the lack of subtitles. [3] [4] B't X was relicensed in 2016 by Anime Midstream. [20] [21]

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