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73-402: The fair was previously called Hong Kong Comics Festival (香港漫畫節). In 2004 the convention was sponsored by Animax Hong Kong , and was called the 2004 Animax Summer FUNtasy. Since 2006, Hong Kong Comics Festival had been renamed as Ani-Com Hong Kong (香港動漫節) and was held with Hong Kong Game Fair (香港電玩展) together. Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong (ACGHK, traditional Chinese : 香港動漫電玩節 )

146-502: A mink breeding farm and began its fur business in 1962, and merged with Shine Mink in 1974 to form the Mink Division. In 1989, Kyokuichi Shine Industries was acquired by Watchman Group, a mass retail group of watches and home appliances, and changed its business format to entertainment business. In 1964, Yutaka Fujioka, a former staff of the puppet theater company Hitomi-za ( 人形劇団ひとみ座 , Ningyō Gekidan Hitomi-za ) , established

219-520: A 24/7 channel. The programs that aired on the block were Planetes , The Vision of Escaflowne , .hack//SIGN , and Noein . The block hasn't aired since 2009, likely to avoid competition with MTV , who also aired anime and was more widely available. On May 14, 2007, Sony announced Animax would be launching in Germany from early June 2007, becoming the country's first ever television network solely dedicated to anime programming. Animax launched in

292-530: A Tokyo branch office and launched its animation production division, Tokyo Movie Division. The name of the company was credited as Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie in the anime works produced at that time, however international prints used the TMS-Kyokuichi name. In 1996 the Los Angeles studio was established. On January 1, 2000, Kyokuichi changed its name to TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. The name Tokyo Movie remained as

365-431: A UK version of Animax as a SVOD service. SPT also announced a multi-year volume deal with Viz Media to secure exclusive content for the service. The SVOD service launched online on October 24, 2013, with three simulcast series and over twenty archive series including many titles which originally debuted on Kaze's Anime On Demand service. Some content has also appeared on Sony Movie Channel 's Late Night Anime block, with

438-492: A US$ 4.8 billion acquisition of legendary Hollywood studio MGM , to bring at least three of Sony's television networks across the region. On June 13, 2007, Sony Pictures Television International officially announced that Animax would be launching its mobile television service, Animax Mobile, in Canada from July 2007, on Bell Digital 's mobile phone service. This was Animax Mobile's third major expansion, after initially launching

511-573: A VOD service in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, before it was replaced by Crunchyroll on September 30, 2022. In Poland , Animax was a daily block on AXN Spin HD (which is an offshoot of AXN Poland) airing on late mornings, the afternoon, and sometimes late at night. Programs that have aired on the block included Dragon Ball GT , Naruto , Vampire Knight , Kilari , Deltora Quest , D.gray-man , Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos ,

584-515: A day or two before. The convention also features shows, cosplay , and dance/gaming competitions. The annual Hong Kong Game Fair is held in conjunction with the comics festival. Companies such as Microsoft 's Xbox have large kiosks and displays in the show. In the Samsung Game Girl competition, 11 girls compete for the "Game Girl" title; winners end up entering entertainment or modeling , becoming famous in an extremely short time. Because

657-476: A few exceptions such as Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) and Superman vs. The Elite (2012). While it still produces feature films, these films are primarily spinoffs from existing anime properties, which include the likes of Anpanman and Detective Conan . In 1946, Asahi Glove Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ( アサヒ手袋製造株式会社 , Asahi Tebukuro Seizō Kabushiki-gaisha ) was founded in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and

730-449: A local version of Lifetime . Animax has sponsored several anime-based events across North America , including hosting an anime festival, in association with other anime distributive enterprises such as Bandai Entertainment and Viz Media , across Sony's San Francisco -based entertainment shopping complex Metreon in October 2001, during which it aired numerous of its anime titles across

803-575: A nickname for the work they are involved in, such as Studio 1, 3xCube, Trois Studios, Rogue Studio, and Double Eagle. Each studio has its own production and management staff, including producers and production assistants. As for animators, each studio contracts them on a work-by-work basis. However, head creators sometimes have exclusive contracts and are given their own desks within the company to work on. In addition to its own studios, TMS has wholly-owned animation studios such as Telecom Animation Film , TMS Jinni's and Toon Additional Pictures. Throughout

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876-554: A series of hits, including Obake no Q-Tarō , Star of the Giants , and Attack No. 1 . Thanks to them, Tokyo Movie became independent from Kokusai Hōei in 1971, and Fujioka returned as president. The studio continued to produce a string of hits thereafter, including Tensai Bakabon , Lupin the 3rd Part I , Aim for the Ace! , and Gamba no Bouken . Fujioka invested in Madhouse when it

949-780: Is a Japanese animation satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. Launched on July 1, 1998, Animax is the first 24-hour network in the world dedicated to anime. Animax is part of AK Entertainment, owned by Nojima, and is headquartered in New Pier Takeshiba North Tower in Minato, Tokyo , Japan . The channel was originally co-founded by Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan , with its shareholders including studios Sunrise , Toei Animation , TMS Entertainment , and production company Nihon Ad Systems . Animax previously operated separate TV channels for Asia (four separate feeds for South East Asia,

1022-513: Is dedicated to anime , and it has been acknowledged as the largest 24-hour anime-only network in the world. The channel's programming has ranged from television series, to films and original video animations . It has also aired imported foreign cartoons that have been dubbed into Japanese. Its viewer reach has been quoted as spanning over 89 million homes. across 62 countries and 17 languages. The channel has co-produced and exclusively premiered several original anime series, including Ghost in

1095-722: Is one of the oldest and most renowned animation studios in Japan, known for its numerous anime franchises such as Detective Conan , Lupin the Third , and Anpanman . TMS Entertainment is the animation business company of the Sega Group and a well-established animation studio with its origins in Tokyo Movie. Originally established in 1946 as a textile manufacturer, the company entered animation when they merged with animation studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha to start an animation production business, known as

1168-659: Is the merging of Ani-Com Hong Kong (香港動漫節) and Hong Kong Game Fair (香港電玩展) since 2008. ACGHK is a material-entertainment fair and book fair focusing on animations, manhua (Chinese comics) and games in Hong Kong. It is held annually at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre usually around August. Other than comics, the convention also sells products related to comics, anime, and video games; these sales are hugely profitable as most of them are limited-edition products that attract teenagers to start queuing up overnight or even

1241-566: The Slayers series, and Soul Eater . Plans to launch a full Animax network in Poland were scrapped due to financial reasons. Animax launched as a two-hour programming block on the Sci Fi Channel Australia (which was co-owned by Animax's parent Sony Pictures Entertainment ) from November 5, 2008, playing on Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings. It launched with the series Ghost in

1314-556: The Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie division or TMS-Kyokuichi . Tokyo Movie Shinsha was one of the five major studios in the early days of Japanese animation, producing and/or animating a string of popular works from the 1960s to the 1970s, including Obake no Q-Tarō , Star of the Giants , Moomin , Attack No. 1 , Tensai Bakabon , Lupin the 3rd Part I , Aim for the Ace! , and Gamba no Bouken . TMS has studios 1 through 7 under its production headquarters, each with

1387-567: The Philippines , Hong Kong and Taiwan ), South Asia and South Korea ; in addition to either owning, or licensing its brand to, several television networks, programming blocks, and VOD platforms around the world. As of 2020, most of these services have either been sold off to third-parties or closed altogether. Established on May 20, 1998, by Sony , Animax Broadcast Japan Inc. ( 株式会社アニマックスブロードキャスト・ジャパン(Hiragana) , Kabushiki-gaisha Animakkusu Burōdokyasuto Japan ) launched in Japan on July 1,

1460-543: The 1980s and the 1990s, TMS and its subsidiaries, Telecom Animation Film and South Korea-based Seoul Movie, animated for various companies, including DiC , Walt Disney Television Animation , Warner Bros. Animation , Marvel Films Animation , Studio Ghibli , Madhouse , Production I.G , Sunrise , Bones , ShoPro , Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment among others, Since the early 2000s, TMS itself has no longer supplied animation services to Western studios due to increasingly demanding costs, although there have been

1533-516: The 1984 rate) ran out before the animation work began, and the project was suspended in August 1984. In June 1988, TMS dissolved its own production division, Tokyo Movie and absorbed it, Tokyo Movie would continue as a TMS subsidiary until 1993. Fujioka resumed production after securing an additional investment of 1 billion yen (6.9 million dollars at the 1987 rate) from Lake in 1987 and terminated his contract with Kurtz and took full responsibility for

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1606-571: The Japanese-Italian co-production TV series Sherlock Hound in 1981 at the request of RAI , the Italian national public broadcasting company. The series was directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Telecom Animation Film. However, the collaboration was dissolved after six episodes were produced, and the remaining 20 episodes were subsequently financed by Japanese companies. Kyosuke Mikuriya took over as director, and with Telecom leaving to focus on

1679-469: The Sega Group in 1992 through a business alliance with Sega and Sega Toys . In the same year, Tokyo Movie Shinsha became a subsidiary of Sega through a stock acquisition. On November 1, 1995, Sega absorbed Tokyo Movie Shinsha into Kyokuichi, with Kyokuichi as the surviving company. In conjunction with this merger, Kyokuichi made Telecom Animation Film and TMS Photo, which were subsidiaries of Tokyo Movie Shinsha, its own subsidiaries. Kyokuichi established

1752-947: The Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Marvel Anime . Other Animax originals include Ultra Maniac , Astro Boy , Hungry Heart: Wild Striker , and Aishiteruze Baby '. Asian versions of Animax, featuring its programming within separate networks and feeds in their respective regions and languages, were rolled out beginning in 2004. The first one was launched in Taiwan and the Philippines on January 1, 2004, and in Hong Kong on January 12, 2004. A week later, Animax launched in Southeast Asia on January 19, 2004, featuring its programming within feeds in English audio, as well as Japanese audio, with English subtitling, and other languages in

1825-566: The Shell: Stand Alone Complex , Cowboy Bebop , Black Lagoon and Blood+ . This was Animax's latest English-language venture, following their networks in Southeast Asia, South Asia and South Africa. As of 2016, the block no longer airs. Animax programming has also been available since June 12, 2007, through its mobile television service, Animax Mobile, available on 3 mobile 's 3G network. Its initial programming on launch consisted of four full-length anime series, Blood+ , R.O.D

1898-523: The Spanish feed rebranded and eliminated all of its western programming in favor for anime, although the programming consisted on continuous reruns of four anime, later reduced to two. On December 31, 2013, the Spanish feed was also removed due to its low ratings. Animax in Italy began as a nighttime 1-hour programming block on sister channel AXN Italy on January 12, 2008, indicating that it will eventually launch as

1971-623: The TV , Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo and Last Exile . As of 2016 Animax Mobile has been discontinued. In August 2007, it was announced that Animax would be launching across several countries in Africa , including South Africa , Namibia , Zimbabwe , Botswana , Zambia , Mozambique and Lesotho , on the DStv satellite service and in Nigeria on HiTV, from March 19, 2009. On 31 October 2010, Animax

2044-475: The U.S. release), and production costs eventually rose to 5.5 billion yen (43.3 million dollars at the 1992 rate). The main staff changed constantly, and later left behind a vast number of ideas, designs, and sketches submitted by various creators, scenarios by Bradley, Columbus, most of which were never used, and others, and pilots in three versions: Sadao Tsukioka's version, Yoshifumi Kondō and Kazuhide Tomonaga 's version, and Osamu Desaki's version. It

2117-521: The U.S. under the guise of training. While the Japanese staff members were greatly inspired by the two during their training, when the two saw the sketches drawn by Miyazaki, they said there was nothing they could teach them. Young American animators who had heard rumors of the Nemo production also came to Kineto TMS to sell themselves, including John Lasseter and Brad Bird , who reportedly met Miyazaki there for

2190-550: The UK since 2007, Sony Entertainment Television , is now available there on Sky following Sony's acquisition of channel slots 157 and 190, which were previously owned by Film 24 and Open Access 3 , respectively, not only making it now possible that Sony can launch Animax in the UK but also marking Sony Pictures Television 's entry into both the British and Irish markets. On October 15, 2013, Sony Pictures Television announced it will launch

2263-513: The US in animation, such as the relationship between Miyazaki and the Nine Old Men. The composition of members at Telecom Animation Film for animated feature films directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata also served as a stepping stone for the transfer of Toei Animation's feature film production techniques to Studio Ghibli . Kyokuichi Co., Ltd. opened its first amusement arcade in 1991, and joined

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2336-616: The United Kingdom, with Sony Pictures Television International senior-vice president of international networks Ross Hair being quoted by Brand Republic's Media Week as stating that Sony was preparing to launch Animax in the United Kingdom initially as a video on demand service alongside other Sony television networks, with Sony also looking at launching Animax across the free digital television service Freeview subject to new frequencies and slot being available. As of April 2011, one of Sony's 3 channels that they were planning to launch in

2409-615: The United States was appointed film producer . Kurtz recommended Ray Bradbury as the screenwriter, and the project got underway. When the Japanese production team was handed the first draft of Bradbury's screenplay, they wondered if it was too philosophical to be entertaining. Miyazaki presented various ideas for the script to Kurtz, but he never adopted them. Kurtz was executive producing Return to Oz for Disney at this time and spent most of his time in London and New York , visiting

2482-429: The animation studio Tokyo Movie Co., Ltd. with investment from Tokyo Broadcasting System . Inspired by the broadcast of the first domestically produced animated TV series Astro Boy on Fuji Television the previous year, TBS encouraged Fujioka, who was working at Tokyo Ningyo Cinema ( 東京人形シネマ , Tōkyō Ningyō Shinema ) , the film production division of Hitomi-za, which had produced puppet theater programs for

2555-457: The annual Animax Summer Fest ( アニマックスサマーフェス , Animakkusu Samāfesu ) , a live concert during which renowned Japanese bands, artists and voice actors perform, and is often held at Zepp Tokyo . They've also held another annual Anime song concert event called Animax Musix . Animax previously operated a mobile television service, which was announced in February 2007, and launched through

2628-620: The art of full animation. In the early 1980s, Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS) began working on international co-productions by big-name directors with the goal of expanding overseas. TMS partnered with the French (later American) company DiC as an overseas subcontractor to produce animation for the company in 1980. Two Japanese-French co-productions, Ulysses 31 in 1981, directed by Tadao Nagahama, and Lupin VIII in 1982, directed by Rintaro , were produced in cooperation with DIC. TMS began production of

2701-478: The centre, including special Gundam , The Making of Metropolis , and Love Hina screenings. The noted international business newspaper Financial Times , reported, in September 2004, of Sony planning and being "keen" to launch Animax across the United States and North America, after Sony had signed an agreement with the largest cable company in the United States, Comcast , with whom it had co-partnered in

2774-524: The channel changed its focus, targeting a more broad young adult audience and adding more American television series. At the same time, it dropped support of its forums on its website and, in September 2013, closed them entirely. On June 9, 2009, RCS & RDS (Digi), the largest Romanian cable operator dropped the channel due to high costs of broadcasting. On March 31, 2014, the channel was closed down and replaced by C8 . Meanwhile, in Romania, Sony's AXN Spin

2847-1020: The channel's website referencing Animax. Starting from March 2014, the Late Night Anime block has since been rebranded to Animax. An app for PlayStation 4 was released in October 2014. On March 5, 2015, Scuzz launched Animax Movie Nights , a weekly block that aired anime movies on Thursday nights for the next month. On October 15, 2018, the service closed down, with subscribers being directed to Funimation 's streaming service. In September 2006, Sony Pictures Television International bought A+ (Anime+) television channel and rebranded it as Animax in July 2007 The channel aired from 8 pm to 2 am on same frequency as Minimax and broadcast anime in Japanese with Romanian subtitles and also with Romanian dubbing in Romania , with Hungarian dubbing in Hungary and with Czech dubbing for

2920-568: The country from June 5, 2007, on Unity Media's digital subscription television service in the regions of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse and other regions. Among the first anime series premiering on Animax Germany were .hack//Sign , Dragon Ball , Earth Girl Arjuna , Eureka Seven , Gundam SEED , Oh My Goddess! , One Piece , Record of Lodoss War , School Rumble , The Candidate for Goddess , X and numerous others. The channel later launched into Austria and Switzerland. Animax closed on July 7, 2016, but would continue as

2993-898: The end of March 2013, the Animax branding was dropped. In April 2007, Animax launched across several countries in Europe , including Hungary , Romania , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , with Sony announcing plans to launch in the United Kingdom , Germany , Italy , Spain , Portugal , France , Poland (put on hiatus) and other major countries in the continent, with discussions at an advanced stage. The launch marked Animax's first major expansion into Europe. The network then soon launched in Germany in May 2007, Spain and Portugal in 2008. In October 2007, further details emerged on Animax's launch details in

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3066-752: The exhibition is extremely crowded, large corporations purchase accident insurance and hire extra security for their top models. In 2010 the convention took place on July 30–August 3 at the HKCEC. The convention will also take place in Guangzhou , China, from October 2–6, during China's weeklong National Day of the People's Republic of China holiday. https://web.archive.org/web/20100820204138/http://www.ani-com.hk/pdf2010/exhibitors.pdf Animax (TV network) Animax Broadcast Japan Inc. ( Japanese : アニマックス , Hepburn : Animakkusu ) , stylized as ANIMAX in all caps ,

3139-548: The film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland . The initial production budget was reported to be about 3.6 billion yen (16 million dollars at the exchange rate in 1981). Under Fujioka's grand order to produce a world-class animation film, creators from Japan and abroad were assembled. Many prominent figures were involved in the production, including Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Osamu Dezaki, Yasuo Ōtsuka, Ray Bradbury , Jean Giraud (Mobius), and Chris Columbus . However,

3212-404: The film Nemo , TMS outsourced the animation to the fledgling studio Gallop . Osamu Dezaki directed the largest number of animated co-productions, including Mighty Orbots , Bionic Six , and Sweet Sea . In the spring of 1981, Fujioka received an investment from Lake, a consumer finance company , and established Kineto TMS, a U.S. incorporated company, to begin full-scale production of

3285-498: The film rights to Little Nemo . However, due to difficulties in raising funds and securing staff, production was slow to begin, so Telecom produced TV series and movies under Ōtsuka, including Lupin the 3rd Part II . Ōtsuka approached Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, with Miyazaki directing the second Lupin the 3rd film, The Castle of Cagliostro , and Takahata directing Jarinko Chie . Fujioka frequently invited Hollywood film professionals to screen The two films to promote

3358-448: The film, becoming executive producer himself. The film was completed in 1988 and released in Japan in July 1989, and received mixed reviews, it ended up grossing around 900 million yen (7 million dollars at the 1988 rate) at the box office. It was released in the United States in 1992 in 2,300 theaters and sold 4 million videos, but the production costs were not recouped. The film took about seven years to complete (it took 10 years for

3431-467: The first time. Bird brought in his own film and unofficially drew several image boards. Fujioka succeeded in meeting George Lucas and asked him to be the American producer, but he declined, saying he was busy with the new Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, and instead recommended Gary Kurtz , who was also a producer on Star Wars . Fujioka from Japan was appointed line producer , and Kurtz from

3504-408: The founder of the company, was demoted to director and head of the production department, and Rokuzo Abe of Kokusai Hōei was appointed as the new president. In 1965, Fujioka established A Production to rebuild the production system, and Tokyo Movie formed a business alliance with A Production as an actual animation production company. Fujioka approached Daikichirō Kusube, who had left Toei Doga and

3577-584: The mobile phone company MOBAHO! from April 2007. On December 18, 2023, Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan announced that will sell their stakes in both Animax and sister channel Kids Station to electronic store chain Nojima . The deal was finalized on April 1, 2024. Sony would first establish a new company called "AK Media", which would take over all shares in Animax and Kids Station from their previous owners. Nojima's AK Entertainment subsidiary would then acquire AK Media from Sony. It's been speculated that Animax

3650-611: The mobile television service in Japan from April 2007 and Australia from June 12, 2007. On January 17, 2012, the streaming service Crackle , added Animax to their lineup for the North America region, marking the network's first launch in the United States. Its programming has included for the first time several of Animax's English language dubs, including that of shows that had yet been adapted into English and had only aired in Southeast Asia and South Asia prior, such as Nodame Cantabile , Yōkai Ningen Bem and several others. By

3723-544: The most of them in the Czech Republic and Slovakia . Among the most popular series were: Naruto , Bleach , Fullmetal Alchemist , InuYasha , Death Note , D.Gray-man , Blood+ , Kaleido Star , Hell Girl , Kilari , Dragon Ball GT , Kirarin Revolution , Love Com , Vampire Knight , MegaMan NT Warrior , Trigun , Slayers , Yu-Gi-Oh! , Digimon , Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo , Nana , Kiddy Grade . On June 1, 2009,

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3796-480: The name of the animation production division and as the brand name for animation production. In 2003, the company completely withdrew from the textile business. Since then, animation production and amusement arcade operations were the two mainstays of its business. In 2003, American brokerage group Merrill Lynch became the second-largest shareholder in TMS Entertainment after acquiring a 7.54 percent stake in

3869-631: The premiere of a new adult-oriented programming block named Lollipop . Likewise, on March 18, 2008, it was announced that the mobile service Animax Mobile, available on Japan and Australia, was to be launched as well in Mexico and eventually in other Latin American countries. Animax Latin America would eventually incorporate live-action programming and was later relaunched as Sony Spin on May 1, 2011, with anime programming retained until March 2012. Sony Spin would be discontinued on July 1, 2014, and replaced with

3942-526: The production capabilities of Telecom and Japanese animation industry, which at the time was underrated in the United States. These films attracted attention, especially among young animators, including John Lasseter . The event also drew an unexpected response, with Telecom receiving requests to produce a TV series from countries outside the U.S., including Italy . In the U.S., the studio took on subcontracting work for production companies such as Disney, Warner Bros. , and Filmation , and became proficient in

4015-484: The production ran into difficulties due to various crosscurrents between Japan and the U.S. Miyazaki and Takahata, who were originally slated to direct the film, dropped out of the project, and the staff was replaced one by one in the following years. In 1982, Fujioka secured the cooperation of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston from Disney's Nine Old Men . In the summer of that year, at their invitation, Miyazaki, Takahata, Ōtsuka, and other Japanese staff members visited

4088-593: The region, becoming the company's first English-language network. On July 5, 2004, Animax India was launched across India and neighboring countries featuring its programming in English. On April 29, 2006, Animax started its operations in South Korea, broadcasting separately from Seoul. Animax Asia aired their first ever simulcast , Tears to Tiara , on the same time as the Japanese broadcast. They would also premiere Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood series, within

4161-860: The same week as Japan. In January 2020, Sony sold the South Korean and Southeast Asian Animax channels to former Sony Pictures Television executives Andy Kaplan and George Chien, who have since formed KC Global Media. Animax ceased transmissions in Laos , 16 March 2021. One year later, Astro shut the channel down on 1 January 2022 in Malaysia . Animax was launched in Latin America on July 31, 2005, replacing Locomotion after Sony's purchase from Hearst Corporation and Corus Entertainment , in January 2005. Animax Latin America would rebrand in August 2007, coinciding with

4234-896: The same year, across the SKY PerfecTV! satellite television platform. Headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and presided by Masao Takiyama , Animax's shareholders and founders include Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan , Sunrise , Toei Animation , TMS Entertainment , and NAS. Its founders also include noted anime producer and production designer Yoshirō Kataoka . The network began broadcasting in high definition from October 2009. Animax also exhibits affiliations with anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka 's Tezuka Productions company, Pierrot , Nippon Animation , and numerous others. Other noted Japanese celebrities and personalities to have appeared on Animax with their own programs include actress Natsuki Katō , among numerous others. The network's narrators are

4307-566: The site of Nemo in Los Angeles only once a month, and then for just a couple of hours in the afternoon. Due to conflicts with Kurtz, Miyazaki resigned from Telecom in November 1982, and Takahata in March 1983. Kurtz's dictatorship continued, and the project went astray. The directors changed one after another, and the team went all to bits. The production budget of 4.5 billion yen (19 million dollars at

4380-446: The station, to establish a studio. The studio's first production was an animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Big X . However, because all the staff came from puppet theater backgrounds and were unfamiliar with animation, the studio suffered a huge loss and fell into financial crisis. In order to restore management, the studio received capital participation from the TV production company Kokusai Hōei (formerly Shintoho ). Fujioka,

4453-555: The studio. Merrill Lynch purchased the stake purely for investment purposes and had no intention of acquiring control of the firm's management. In 2005, Sega Sammy Holdings acquired a 50.2% stake in TMS Entertainment, making it a subsidiary. In 2006, the Tokyo branch was reorganized as the Tokyo headquarters and merged with the Head Office in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. The headquarters then moved to Shinjuku, Tokyo . The Los Angeles studio

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4526-685: The trade name was soon changed to Kyokuichi Knitting & Weaving Co., Ltd. ( 旭一編織株式会社 , Kyokuichi Amiori Kabushiki-gaisha ) . The company changed its name to Kyokuichi Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社キョクイチ , Kabushiki-gaisha Kyokuichi ) in 1947, and then to Kyokuichi Shine Industries Co., Ltd. ( 旭一シャイン工業株式会社 , Kyokuichi Shain Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha ) in 1957, and was listed on the Nagoya Stock Exchange. The company established Shine Mink Co., Ltd. in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1961, opened

4599-563: The voice actors Yukari Tamura and Kōsuke Okano ; and from October 2007, Sayuri Yahagi . Beyond the channel, Animax has hosted and organized several anime-based competitions across Japan, such as the Animax Taishō scriptwriting competition and the Animax Anison Grand Prix ; an anime song music competition judged by a panel of noted anime figures Several other Animax-branded events and concerts across Japan have included

4672-433: Was an unprecedented project in the history of Japanese animation, but it ended in failure, and Fujioka took responsibility for it, relinquished all rights related to Tokyo Movie, and retired from the industry. Although Fujioka's ambitions ended in failure, Nemo left a great legacy, laying the foundation for the subsequent expansion of Japanese animation into the American market and also pioneering exchanges between Japan and

4745-434: Was considered a genius, as a lecturer for the first year, and Yasuo Ōtsuka the following year. In June 1976, Tokyo Movie spun off its sales division to establish Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd. , , and the original Tokyo Movie was absorbed into it. Kusube and A Production terminated its business alliance with Tokyo Movie, changed its name to Shin-Ei Animation , and began its own path. In the summer of 1978, Fujioka acquired

4818-402: Was founded in 1972. In 1975, Tokyo Movie established Telecom Animation Film to train animators who could draw full animations. Feeling the limitations of the Japanese animation business, Fujioka dreamed of expanding to the United States and making full animation films that could compete with Disney . However, since limited animation , which had been adopted and developed by Osamu Tezuka,

4891-901: Was launched on 1 March 2013 on Romtelecom 's digital lineup, a few months after both Minimax and Animax were dropped from that platform. Until 2015, AXN Spin broadcast Naruto , Dragon Ball GT , Dragon Ball Z Kai , Kinniku Banzuke , Kirarin Revolution and Hello Kitty . Animax began as a programming block in Spain and Portugal in the channel AXN . Shows broadcast on the block include InuYasha , Outlaw Star , Trigun , Orphen , Excel Saga and Samurai Champloo . Later shows include Corrector Yui , The Law of Ueki , Detective Conan , Lupin III and Kochikame . These shows were shown in Portugal and Spain from October 2007 until September 2008, airing weekends from 13:00 to 16:00. The full channel

4964-438: Was removed from DSTV, due to a lack of viewers. The channel had engaged in channel drift with the introduction of reality shows to its line-up. It would be replaced by in February 2011 with Sony MAX . TMS Entertainment TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社トムス・エンタテインメント , Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu Entateinmento ) , formerly known as Kyokuichi is a Japanese animation studio owned by Sega Corporation . TMS

5037-518: Was reorganized as TMS ENTERTAINMENT, USA, INC. In February 2007, TMS Entertainment announced the completion of its fourth Tokyo studio (Building D) in Nakano, Tokyo . The company stated that Shinjuku would thereafter serve as the base for its corporate division and Nakano as the base for its production division. In 2008, the company withdrew from the amusement arcade business and concentrated its business on animation production. In 2010, TMS Entertainment

5110-425: Was sold in-order for Sony to focus on its US-based, global, anime entertainment and streaming companies – Funimation (which was acquired in 2017) and Crunchyroll (which was acquired in 2021) – which have since been merged into Crunchyroll LLC and operate as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment Japan 's Aniplex . In May 2024, AK Media would be absorbed into AK Entertainment. Animax's programming

5183-601: Was subsequently launched on April 12, 2008, on the Movistar TV and Digital+ platforms in Spain and Meo and Clix in Portugal. Among the series broadcast across Animax's networks in Spain and Portugal were Nana , Black Lagoon , Love Hina , Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle , Chobits , Devil May Cry . As of 2011, the Portuguese feed was removed due to low ratings and was replaced by AXN Black , an offshoot of AXN. In 2013,

5256-698: Was the mainstream in Japan, he planned to establish a new animation studio that would handle full animation and use it as a base to produce joint Japanese-US animated films. Fujioka chose the legendary American cartoon Little Nemo as the basis for his animated film, and began acquiring the film rights in 1977. Telecom received over 1,000 applications for its employee recruitment, and Fujioka hired 43 people with no animation production experience. Rather than hiring animators with limited animation production experience, Fujioka chose to hire inexperienced amateurs and train them to become first-class animators who could draw full animations. Telecom invited Sadao Tsukioka, who

5329-602: Was working as a freelancer , and by making him the representative of A Production, he succeeded in inviting talented Toei creators such as Tsutomu Shibayama , Yoshio Kabashima, and Keisuke Morishita. Fujioka also welcomed Isao Takahata , Hayao Miyazaki , Yasuo Ōtsuka , and Yōichi Kotabe , who had been forced out of Toei for overspending on The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun . Early directors, such as Tadao Nagahama and Masaaki Ōsumi , were all from puppet theater companies with no animation experience, but they produced

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