Kabushiki gaisha (: ) (Defunct) |
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Industry | Anime, Music, Video games |
Fate | Merged with AQ Interactive and Liveware |
Successor | Marvelous |
Founded | June 25, 1997 |
Defunct | October 1, 2011 |
Headquarters | Headquarter: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan Digital Contents company: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan Marvelous Entertainment USA, Inc.: Torrance, California, United States |
Area served
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Japan, North America |
Key people
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Haruki Nakayama: Chairman & CEO |
Products | Mushishi, Megazone 23 |
Services | Video games, Anime, CDs, DVDs |
Number of employees
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184(consolidated), 120(parent company only) (as of 2008-12-31) |
Subsidiaries |
Artland |
Website | http://www.mmv.co.jp/ (Japan) |
Haruki Nakayama: Chairman & CEO
Yoshiaki Matsumoto: Managing Director, Audio & Visual
Toshinori Aoki: Managing Director, Digital Contents
Yasuhiro Wada: Director, Digital Contents
Artland
Delfi Sound Inc.
Rising Star Games
Marvelous Entertainment Inc. (株式会社 マーベラスエンターテイメント Kabushiki-gaisha Māberasu Entāteimento?) (MMV) is a multinational corporation that produces animation, music, video games, television series. MMV is most widely known for its involvement in the Story of Seasons series.
The MMV abbreviation, found in the company logo, stands for Marvelous Media Vibration, which originally stood for Marvelous Music Vibration.
Locally MMV is involved in a number of forms of entertainment, this includes the production of anime and music done by two MMV subsidiaries Artland and Delfi Sound. Artland is an animation studio that has produced a number of popular anime series including the award-winning Mushishi and the hit shōnen Katekyō Hitman Reborn!. Delfi Sound is a recording studio that has been involved in the production of a number of albums, radio dramas, and soundtracks since its establishment in 2005. MMV has also produced a number of live television series, movies, and musical theatre productions like the highly popular Prince of Tennis musical, Tenimyu.