Lantis (company)

Lantis Company, Limited
株式会社ランティス

Type	Music publisher
Industry	Japanese music
Founded	November 26, 1999
Headquarters	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Revenue	420,500,000 yen
Owner	Bandai Namco Holdings
Parent	Bandai Visual
Website	lantis.co.jp

Lantis Company, Limited (株式会社ランティス Kabushiki-gaisha Rantisu) is a Japanese company that specializes as a music publisher label for Japanese musicians, anime soundtracks and video game soundtracks. It was established on November 26, 1999, and in May 2006, it was bought by, and became a subsidiary of, Bandai Visual.^[1] It is now a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings.

Sublabels

Lantis is composed of four labels:

• Lantis (main label, formerly distributed by King Records, currently self-distributed)
• Glory Heaven (distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Japan)
• Kiramune (self-distributed)
• Mellow Head (distributed by NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, defunct)

Artists

Lantis

• 2HEARTS
• AiRI
• Ai Shimizu
• AIKATSU☆STARS!
• Aira Yūki
• Aki Hata
• Aki Misato
• ALI PROJECT (transferred from Mellow Head, also work on other recording labels)
• Annabel
• BLOOD STAIN CHILD
• Ceui
• Choucho
• CooRie
• Dai-ni Bun'gei-bu
• Daisuke Hirakawa
• Daisuke Ono
• DEARDROPS
• Eufonius
• Faylan
• Fhána
• G.Addict
• GRANRODEO
• Hekiru Shiina
• Hiromi Satō
• Hironobu Kageyama
• Hiroshi Kitadani
• Hyadain
• Ika Musume
• JAM Project
• Kanae Itō
• Kenichi Suzumura
• Kenshō Ono
• Larval Stage Planning
• LAZY
• Mai Nakahara
• marble
• Masaaki Endoh
• Masami Okui
• Masumi Itō
• Natsuko Aso
• Megu Sakuragawa
• Megumi Ogata
• milktub
• Minami Kuribayashi
• Minori Chihara
• Minoru Shiraishi
• Mitsuo Iwata
• Miyuki Hashimoto
• nano.RIPE
• Natsuko Aso
• Nomico
• OLDCODEX
• Oranges & Lemons
• OUTER-TRIBE
• Rin
• Rita
• R.O.N (also under the name "STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION")
• Ryoko Shintani
• Sakura Nogawa
• Saori Atsumi
• Sayaka Sasaki
• SCREEN mode
• Sena
• Shizuka Itō
• Shō Hayami
• Shōjobyō
• Showtaro Morikubo
• Snow*
• Sphere
• STAR☆ANIS
• StylipS
• Suara
• Shuuhei Kita
• SV TRIBE
• Takashi Utsunomiya (also under the name "U_WAVE")
• Takuma Terashima
• Tatsuhisa Suzuki
• Tetsuya Kakihara
• Toshiyuki Morikawa
• TRUE
• Ui Miyazaki
• ULTRA-PRISM
• Wild San-nin Musume
• Yousei Teikoku
• Yozuca*
• Yūmao
• Yūki Kaji
• Yuko Goto
• YURIA
• ZAQ
• μ's
• Fo'xTails

Kiramune

• CONNECT (consisting Mitsuo Iwata and Kenichi Suzumura)
• Miyu Irino
• Hiroshi Kamiya
• KAmiYU (consisting Irino and Kamiya)
• Daisuke Namikawa
• Tetsuya Kakihara
• Nobuhiko Okamoto
• Trignal (consisting Takuya Eguchi, Ryōhei Kimura, and Tsubasa Yonaga)
• Hiroyuki Yoshino

GloryHeaven

• Rie Kugimiya
• Crustacea
• Sphere
• Mamiko Noto

Mellow Head

• kukui
• Ai Shimizu
• NANA
• meg rock
• Riryka

Past artists

• UNDER17 (disbanded on December 2004)
• SKE48 (moved into Nippon Crown, later moved to Avex Trax)
• Eri Kitamura (moved into Starchild Records on May 9, 2009)
• Clover (activities ended on 2007)
• Riyu Kosaka
• Sae
• KOTOKO (performed opening themes for "Onegai Teacher" and "Onegai Twins")
• Saeko Chiba (quit on 2005)
• Sakura Nogawa (moved on 2007)
• Aya Hirano (moved to Universal Sigma on February 13, 2012)
• Milky Holmes (moved into Hibiki Music on 2013)
• Mix★JUICE (disbanded on January 2004)
• MOSAIC.WAV
• Ui Miyazaki (moved into FOXROT through 5pb.)
• Little Non (disbanded on February 28, 2011)
• Yuka Saotome
• Sea☆A (disbanded on June 30, 2013)
• Rey (disbanded on August 31, 2013)

References

1. "History of Bandai Visual". Retrieved 2007-04-02.

External links

• Lantis.jp, official website (Japanese)
• Lantis on Facebook
• Lantis on Twitter
• Lantis's channel on YouTube
• Kiramune