A.D. Vision Holdings, Inc. was an American multimedia entertainment distributor headquartered in Houston, Texas, and founded in 1992 by video game fan John Ledford and anime fans Matt Greenfield and David Williams. The company specialized in home video production and distribution, theatrical film distribution, merchandising, original productions, magazine and comic book publishing. They also ran Anime Network, a television channel devoted to airing the company's titles. Some of their titles were Neon Genesis Evangelion, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, RahXephon, Full Metal Panic, Azumanga Daioh, Elfen Lied, Gantz, Red Garden, and Le Chevalier D'Eon.
Matthew Brian Greenfield is an American producer, scriptwriter, director and voice actor. He produces English-language versions of Japanese anime, including Neon Genesis Evangelion, and was the co-founder of A.D. Vision.
Tiffany Lynn Grant is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her English-dubbing work for anime films and television series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu.
Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd., often abbreviated KyoAni, is a Japanese animation studio and light novel publisher located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture. It was founded in 1985 by husband and wife Hideaki and Yoko Hatta, who remain its president and vice-president respectively.
Cynthia Martinez is an American voice actress who works for ADV Films and Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks. Her first roles were that of Lina Inverse in the Slayers films and OVAs and as Hermes in the original anime adaptation of Kino's Journey. Besides these, she is also known for the lead roles of Mayu from Elfen Lied, Illyasviel von Einzbern from the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya series, Tami Nishimikado from Hanayamata, Sora Naegino from Kaleido Star, and Mikako Nagamine from Makoto Shinkai's Voices of a Distant Star. She was announced as a guest of honor for the Ani-Jam convention in 2013.
Bang Zoom! Entertainment is an audio post-production studio with its headquarters in Burbank, California, in Greater Los Angeles. It has worked on anime, video games, television series, feature films, and original animation projects.
Studiopolis, Inc. is an American post-production studio located in Studio City, Los Angeles. It specializes in voiceover recording and dubbing for cartoon, anime, and video game projects. They were formerly known as Screenmusic Studios and then Studio E Productions until 2005. The studio is owned by Jamie Simone. It has another studio located in Burbank, California.
Leraldo Anzaldua is an American voice actor, ADR director, scriptwriter and stunt coordinator. He has an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Houston. In anime, he is known for providing the English voice of Yuta Togashi from the Chunibyo series, Ken Washio in Gatchaman, and Zed in Kiba.
David Matranga is an American voice actor who works primarily for English dubbed anime. Matranga is best known as the voice of Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia, Hideki Hinata from Angel Beats, Genjo Sanzo from Saiyuki, Orphen from Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Bertholdt Hoover from the popular Attack on Titan series, Tomoya Okazaki from the emotional Clannad series, Takumi Usui from Maid Sama, Ghost from the Halo Legends movie, Briareos from the Appleseed series, Yu Himura from the EF series, God Serena from Fairy Tail, and most recently, Ken Masters in Street Fighter 6.
Marguerite Kathryn Flecknoe is an American voice actress, radio personality, television host and producer.
Sentai Filmworks, LLC is an American entertainment company. Located in Houston, the company specializes in the dubbing and distribution of Japanese animation and Asian cinema. Its post-production arm is Sentai Studios.
SXION 23 LLC, doing business as Section23 Films, is an American multimedia distributor based in Houston, Texas specializing in releasing anime and Japanese films. Established in 2009, Section23 is one of five successors to ADV Films; alongside Sentai Filmworks, Switchblade Pictures, Maiden Japan, and AEsir Holdings. The company is named after a Texas tax code.
Shannon Emerick is an American voice actress who voices a number of English language localizations of Japanese anime shows with ADV Films, Seraphim Digital and Sentai Filmworks. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Theater Studies and English. In anime, she is known as the voice of Charlotte Dunois from the Infinite Stratos series, Kei Kishimoto from Gantz and Riki Naoe from the Little Busters! series. Outside of voice acting, she is a stage actress in the Houston area. She won the Best Actress award from Houston Press for her theater work twice in 2006 and 2011, respectively.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, also known as Chū-2 for short, is a Japanese light novel series written by Torako, with illustrations provided by Nozomi Ōsaka. The work won an honorable mention in the Kyoto Animation Award competition in 2010, leading the company to assume its publication starting in June 2011. The series follows a high school boy named Yūta Togashi, who tries to discard his embarrassing past grandiose delusions, until he meets a girl named Rikka Takanashi, who exhibits her own signs of chūnibyō syndrome. As their relationship progresses, Yūta and Rikka form a club called the Far East Magical Napping Society Summer Thereof with classmates Shinka Nibutani, Kumin Tsuyuri, and Sanae Dekomori, who each have their own unique delusional behaviors.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, also known as Chū-2 for short, is a Japanese anime television series based on Torako's light novel of the same name and produced by Kyoto Animation. The series aired in Japan from October 4 to December 19, 2012 with the second season aired on television from January 8, 2014, to March 26, 2014, and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The first episode of a second set of Lite episodes was released on December 26, 2013 and a second series of shorts called Heated Table Series: Kotatsu accompanied each BD/DVD release, starting on March 19, 2014. In North America, this series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks and is streaming on its HIDIVE platform.
Margaret Allison "Meg" McDonald is an American voice actress. Some of her major roles in anime are Rikka Takanashi from the Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions series, Miho Nishizumi in Girls und Panzer, Saika Totsuka in the My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected series, Mei Sagara in Nakaimo - My Sister Is Among Them!, Haruka Saigusa in Little Busters!, Harumi Taniguchi in Citrus and Tamako Kitashirakawa in Tamako Market.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me is a 2018 Japanese anime romantic comedy film directed by Tatsuya Ishihara and based on Torako's light novel series Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions. It premiered in Japan on January 6, 2018, and has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks and Madman Entertainment.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, known in Japan as Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai, is an anime television series based on Torako's light novel and produced by Kyoto Animation. The series follows a high school boy named Yūta Togashi, who tries to discard his embarrassing past grandiose delusions, until he meets a girl named Rikka Takanashi, who exhibits her own signs of chūnibyō syndrome. As their relationship progresses, they form a club called the Far East Magical Napping Society Summer Thereof, alongside Shinka Nibutani, Kumin Tsuyuri, and Sanae Dekomori, who each have their own unique delusional behaviors.
