Manga UK
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Entertainment (Anime) |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters |
London, England, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Key people
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Andy Frain, Chris Blackwell, Marvin Gleicher, Laurence Guinness, Mike Preece, Kaoru Mfaume, Jerome Mazandarani |
| Products | Anime theatrical and direct marketing and production, see list of titles |
| Parent |
Lionsgate Home Entertainment (Lionsgate through their media operating unit Starz Distribution) |
| Website | www.manga.com |
Manga Entertainment is a producer, licensee, and distributor of Japanese animation in the Unites States and but mostly in the United Kingdom, owned by Lions Gate Entertainment. It also co-produces several anime series, including Ghost in the Shell, Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Eon Kid, usually through financial contributions toward production costs.
It was established in 1991 following the acquisition of the UK rights to Akira, by Laurence Guinness, who was the Head of Acquisition and Development at Island World Communications. Andy Frain, was the Managing Director of Island World Communications; a loss making subsidiary at the time of Chris Blackwell and John Heyman's Island World Group. In June 1994 Marvin Gleicher established Manga Entertainment Inc, the North American division with Chris Blackwell. In 1995, Marvin Gleicher replaced Frain and took over all worldwide operations until its sale in 2005.
Manga has also played a part in dubbing anime, when it is not sub-licensing a production that has already been licensed by another company (e.g., Akira, licensed and redubbed by Geneon in 2001, Bounty Dog, and Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis). It is also the designated home video distributor for the Pokémon franchise in the UK, including some of the movies (among them Pokémon: The First Movie).
They have licensing and distribution deals with Funimation, Sentai Filmworks and Viz Media in the UK, however unlike previous licensing agreements they do not bring titles from Funimation, Sentai, and Viz to Australia under their brand as Manga's Australian distributor, Madman Entertainment has the licenses from these companies.
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