Actas
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Native name
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株式会社アクタス |
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Romanized name
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Kabushiki gaisha Akutasu |
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Kabushiki gaisha Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Japanese animation |
| Founded | July 6, 1998 |
| Headquarters | Suginami, Tokyo, Japan |
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Key people
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Shunpei Maruyama (President) |
| Parent | Bandai Visual |
| Website | www |
Actas Inc. (株式会社アクタス Kabushiki gaisha Akutasu) is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1998. It is currently a subsidiary of Bandai Visual, which in turn is an animation subsidiary to Bandai Namco Holdings.
Actas was founded on July 6, 1998 by Hiroshi Katō and Jūtarō Ōba, who previously worked for Tatsunoko Production and Ashi Productions.
In 2000, Kōsuke Fujishima's manga éX-Driver became the first anime production by the studio with éX-Driver The Movie, the first anime film. The first TV series was Pachislo Kizoku Gin in 2001, where Actas appeared as a producer and not as an animation studio, so the first TV series, where the studio was responsible for the animations, appeared with Transformers: Armada in 2002.
Following Katō's death in 2009, Shunpei Maruyama was named the new company president. The studio also had a subsidiary animation studio Karaku, but Actas merged it with the main company in July 2017.
In September 2017, Bandai Visual has announced that it had acquired Actas .
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