Animate
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Industry | Retail |
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Founded | 1983 |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Area served |
Japan Taiwan Hongkong Thailand |
Slogan | Your Favorite Place for Your Pleasure and Dream. |
Website | Official website |

Animate Ltd. (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ã‚¢ãƒ‹ãƒ¡ã‚¤ãƒˆ Kabushiki gaisha Animeito) is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, games, and manga in Japan. The first and headquarters store of Animate opened in 1983 and is located in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan.
Retail stores
Currently, there are 117 Animate stores in Japan, two in Taiwan (Taipei and Taichung), one in Hong Kong, and one in Bangkok, Thailand.[1]
Former stores
- Sakaihigashi Station, Osaka
- Ximending, Taiwan store
- Los Angeles, California (closed in 2003).
Subsidiaries
- animate film (アニメイトフィルム)
- Libre Publishing (ãƒªãƒ–ãƒ¬å‡ºç‰ˆæ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾): Originally part of BiBLOS Co.,Ltd (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ãƒ“ブãƒã‚¹ï¼‰. Following the bankruptcy of Biblos on 2006-04-05 caused by the chain bankruptcy started by its parent company Hekitensha (碧天舎),[2] animate, MOVIC, Frontier Works Inc. funded the company allowing BiBLOS Co.,Ltd to continue operation. On 2006-05-01, the company was renamed to Libre Publishing and became a subsidiary of animate Ltd.[3] However, the company was still registered as established on 2000-12-28.
Group companies
- Movic Co. Ltd. (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ãƒ ービック)
- Movic Promote Service(æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ãƒ ービックプãƒãƒ¢ãƒ¼ãƒˆã‚µãƒ¼ãƒ“ス)
- Marine ENTERTAINMENT Inc. (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ãƒžãƒªãƒ³ãƒ»ã‚¨ãƒ³ã‚¿ãƒ†ã‚¤ãƒ³ãƒ¡ãƒ³ãƒˆ)
- coade (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ã‚³ã‚¢ãƒ‡): The company name was derived from its own slogan 'Code Anime Design'.
- Frontier Works Inc. (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ãƒ•ãƒãƒ³ãƒ†ã‚£ã‚¢ãƒ¯ãƒ¼ã‚¯ã‚¹)
- ANIBRO Ltd. (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ã‚¢ãƒ‹ãƒ–ãƒ): On January 23, 2008, Animate's rival company, Broccoli, announced that they collaborated with Animate and made a new company "AniBro", with Animate holds 70% of the company, while Broccoli holds 30%. The president of the company will be the CEO of Animate, although he will continue to manage Animate along with AniBro. AniBro plans to expand using the AniBro brand to many places in Japan.[4]
- SHOSEN (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾æ›¸æ³‰): Became part of animate Ltd. on 2011-06-29.[5]
Marketing
Meito Anisawa (兄沢 命斗 Anisawa Meito) is Animate's mascot character, affectionately known as the Anime TenchŠ(アニメ店長). He is depicted as a wild anime character with spiky hair and rippling muscles, clad with the Animate uniform, going to extreme measures to promote Animate's goods. An original video animation based on the character was produced by Gainax and released in 2002. Another OVA was released in 2010. An animation project which crosses over Anime Tencho with the Touhou Project was produced by ufotable and aired on November 20, 2010 at the Animate Ichioshi Bishojo Anime Matsuri to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Animate's mascot character.[6] Meito has also made various appearances in other media, such as the Lucky Star anime series and video games such as Disgaea 4 and Touch My Katamari.[7] Meito is voiced by Tomokazu Seki in his anime appearances, and is voiced by Lex Lang in the English dub of Lucky Star.
References
- ↑ "アニメイト全国店舗一覧 - アニメイト".
- ↑ CPM license dispute
- ↑ Demars, Anne (2008). "Les éditeurs de boys love". In Brient, Hervé. Homosexualité et manga : le yaoi. Manga: 10000 images (in French). Editions H. pp. 12–16. ISBN 978-2-9531781-0-4.
- ↑ æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ã‚¢ãƒ‹ãƒ¡ã‚¤ãƒˆã¨ã®è³‡æœ¬ãƒ»æ¥å‹™ææºåŠã³åˆå¼ä¼šç¤¾è¨ç«‹ã«é–¢ã™ã‚‹ãŠçŸ¥ã‚‰ã› (PDF) (in Japanese). Broccoli. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ↑ "書泉ã€åå—屋ã€ç§‹è‘‰åŽŸã¯ ã†ã¤ã‚ã†".
- ↑ Anime Tenchou x Touhou, Railgun Promos Streamed (Updated)
- ↑ Anime TenchŠMakes Cameo in Touch My Katamari Game
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Animate. |
- Animate Group Homepage (Japanese)
- Animate Official Homepage (Japanese)
- Animate USA Official Webpage
- Animate Thai Official Webpage