AnimEigo
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| Private | |
| Industry | Entertainment (Anime) |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Wilmington, North Carolina, United States |
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Key people
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Robert Woodhead Roe R. Adams, III Natsumi Ueki Janice Hindle |
| Products | Anime, Samurai cinema |
| Website | AnimEigo |
Coordinates: 34°12′56″N 77°56′40″W / 34.2156°N 77.9444°W
AnimEigo is an American entertainment company that licenses and distributes anime, samurai films and Japanese cinema.
The company was founded in 1988 in Ithaca, New York by Robert Woodhead and Roe R. Adams, III. It is now based in Wilmington, North Carolina, and run by Natsumi Ueki, Robert's wife.
AnimEigo was one of the original companies in the U.S. dedicated to licensing anime, after Streamline, and are considered pioneers in the industry, and helped give anime a noticeable following in the US along with Streamline, Central Park Media, U.S. Renditions, Pioneer Entertainment, and ADV Films. They are the last remaining "original" anime licensing company still in business, however, they have been letting more and more of their anime licenses expire without licensing any new titles in years, leaving some to speculate that AnimEigo is dropping out of the US anime industry.
Their name is a portmanteau of "anime" and "eigo" (英語), the Japanese word for the English language. The UK affiliate was called Anime Projects, releasing many of AnimEigo's titles in the U.K.
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