Animate Ltd. is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime,video games and manga in Japan. The first and flagship store of Animate was opened in 1983 in Ikebukuro,a district in Tokyo,Japan.
Manhua are Chinese-language comics produced in Greater China. Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China throughout its history.
Artland Inc. is a Japanese animation studio. It has produced numerous noted anime series,including the award-winning Mushishi and epic Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It is also well known for producing the anime adaptation of KatekyōHitman Reborn!.
Feel,Inc. is a Japanese animation studio founded in 2002. The studio is a subsidiary of Fun-Media,a Holdings company,who also owns animation studios Assez Finaud Fabric and Zexcs,which are also located in the same building as Feel.
Polygon Pictures,Inc. is a Japanese 3DCG animation studio.
Seven Arcs Co.,Ltd. is a Japanese anime production company and former studio,established on May 31,2002,by former Pierrot staff. The studio made its first animated television series,Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha,in 2004. Since then,the company has produced a number of other animated television series and movies.
Bilibili,nicknamed B Site,is a video-sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit,view,and add overlaid commentary on videos. Bilibili hosts videos on various themes,including anime,music,dance,science and technology,movies,drama,fashion,and video games,but it is also known for its extensive kuso-style parodies by subcultural content creators. Since the mid-2010s,Bilibili began to expand to a broader audience from its original niche market that focused on animation,comics,and games (ACG),and it has become a major Chinese over-the-top streaming platform serving videos on demand such as documentaries,variety shows,and other original programming. Bilibili is known for its scrolling danmu commenting system. Bilibili also provides a live streaming service where the audience can interact with streamers. Bilibili also offers games,mostly ACG-themed mobile games,such as the Chinese version of Fate/Grand Order. In the third quarter of 2022,the number of average monthly active users reached about 332.6 million,including 28.5 million paying users.
Trigger Inc.,also known as Studio Trigger,is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ōtsuka in 2011. It has produced anime works including Kill la Kill (2013),Little Witch Academia,Promare (2019),BNA:Brand New Animal (2020),and Cyberpunk:Edgerunners (2022),as well as the animated continuations of Gridman The Hyper Agent,SSSS.Gridman (2018),SSSS.Dynazenon (2021) and Gridman Universe (2023)
Larx Entertainment Co.,Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio founded in June 2006 as a subsidiary of Studio Hibari. It is based in Nerima,Tokyo.
A Centaur's Life,known in Japan as Centaur's Worries,is a Japanese slice of life comedy manga series by Kei Murayama. The series has been serialized in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū magazine since February 2011,and is published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation by Haoliners Animation League aired in Japan from July to September 2017. The anime is licensed by Crunchyroll.
TMS Entertainment Co.,Ltd.,formerly known as the Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co.,Ltd.,also known as Tokyo Movie or Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie,is a Japanese animation studio established on October 22,1946.
Signal.MD Inc. is a Japanese animation studio founded in October 2014 by Production I.G holding company IG Port.
Cheating Craft (チーティングクラフト) is a Japanese/Chinese anime television series animated by BLADE and produced by Emon. It is based on Gemini Xin Luo's novel Zuobi Yishu. The anime series premiered on October 5,2016 as a short anime and ran alongside To Be Hero.
To Be Hero (凸变英雄) is a Chinese-Japanese animated comedy television series produced by Emon and animated by Studio LAN and supervised by Shinichi Watanabe. The show premiered in October 2016,on Tokyo MX in Japan,and on video sharing website bilibili in China.
Science Saru,Inc.,stylized as Science SARU,is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Kichijōji,Tokyo. Established on February 4,2013 by producer Eunyoung Choi and director Masaaki Yuasa,the studio has produced four feature films and five animated series,as well as co-productions,a compilation film,and episodes of series for other studios. Science Saru's first animation was the "Food Chain" episode of the American animated series Adventure Time (2014);its most recent projects are the animated feature film Inu-Oh (2021),two short films for the animated anthology project Star Wars:Visions (2021),and the animated series The Heike Story (2021),Yurei Deco (2022),and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023).
Eunyoung Choi (Korean: 최은영) is a South Korean studio executive,producer,director and animator. She is the President and CEO of Science Saru,a Japanese animation studio which she co-founded with Masaaki Yuasa in 2013,and has served as producer of the company's works. In 2020,following the announcement that Yuasa would step down from an executive role at Science Saru,Choi assumed responsibility for the management of the studio. In 2021,she directed a short animated film entitled Akakiri for the short film anthology Star Wars:Visions.
Teach Me,Hokusai! is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Naoto Iwakiri. The original name of this manga is Yume wo Kanaeru Bakusho! Nihon Bijutsu Manga Oshiete Hokusai! but,it has been serialized in cakes website as Oshiete Hokusai! from August 9,2016,to February 7,2017,and has been collected in single tankōbon volume. This single volume manga was published by Sunmark Publishing on June 30,2017. A short original net animation (ONA) series adaptation by CoMix Wave Films premiered from March 7,2021,to March 14,2021.
A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized is a Japanese light novel series written by Kaisei Enomoto and illustrated by Shugao. It was serialized online between June 2017 and June 2020 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Kadokawa Shoten,who have published three volumes from February 2018 to October 2019 under their Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Kōichi Muro was serialized in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Gangan Joker from January 2018 to November 2019. It was collected in five tankōbon volumes. An original net (ONA) anime adaptation by Studio LAN aired in Chinese on Bilibili from July to October 2022,with the Japanese dub airing on television from January to March 2023. A second season has been announced.
