Bandai Visual Co., Ltd (バンダイビジュアル株式会社, Bandai Bijuaru Kabushiki Gaisha?), is a Japanese anime, film production and distribution enterprise, established by Bandai Co., Ltd. and a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc.,[1][2][3] which is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.[4] Since the reorganisation of Namco Bandai Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual now heads the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries include the Emotion Music Co. Ltd, (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis Co., Ltd music publishing labels.
It is involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, a subsidiary of Bandai.
Bandai Visual is part of Namco Bandai Holdings, which holds a majority of the voting shares of the company (93.63% as of December 18, 2007).[5][6] Namco Bandai announced on November 8, 2007 that it plans to buy the voting shares it doesn't own between that date and December 10, 2007 and turn the company into a wholly owned subsidiary.[7][8] On December 18, 2007, Bandai Namco announced that it owned 93.63%[9] of Bandai Visual's shares since the end of November.[7] The remaining shares were delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on February 15, 2008 after Namco Bandai acquired the remaining 10% of the shares.
Bandai Visual also has its own U.S. subsidiary, Bandai Visual USA Inc., which was established in 2005 to distribute and market Bandai Visual's productions in North America. Bandai Visual's anime and manga productions are also distributed in North America by Bandai Entertainment and in Europe by Beez Entertainment.
Bandai Visual subsidiaries
- C.Moon
- Bandai Home Video
- Bandai Video Network
- Bandai Visual USA
- Emotion
- Emotion Digital Software
- Half-Moon
- Lantis
Bandai Visual productions
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