Bandai
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- This article is about the Japanese toy manufacturer. For the town in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, see Bandai, Fukushima.
Bandai is a Japanese toy making company. It is the world's third largest producer of toys.
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History
Bandai was founded in 1950. Some of the early tin plate toys are highly collectible; the pictured model will sell for around US$150.
Since the 1980s, Bandai has become a leading toy company in Japan, and to this day, has the main toy licenses in Japan to popular properties including Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, the Super Sentai Series (which they took part in creating), Gundam and many others.
Subsidaries
Bandai has many subsidiaries. Further detail:
Bandai Visual (Emotion)
Bandai Visual (Emotion), produces (sometimes in conjunction with the Sunrise animation studio, also a Bandai subsidiary) and distributes many popular anime and tokusatsu titles. These titles include Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Escaflowne, the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and Witch Hunter Robin. The company logo is the Moai, a statue found on Easter Island.
Bandai America
Bandai America is the American distribution arm of Bandai that makes toy products for the U.S. market, distributes Bandai games, and distributes many of Bandai Visual's anime titles (in addition to animes licensed from other animation studios, such as .hack//SIGN) in the United States through its Bandai Entertainment arm headquartered in Cypress, California and in Canada through Bandai Entertainment Canada, which is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario.
Bandai Games
Bandai Games produces and distributes video games based on Bandai properties including Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front and Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo. Bandai Games most recently opened a United States office.
Carddass
Carddass is the subsidiary in Bandai that released Trading Card Games of many Bandai franchises, such as Gundam War for Gundam metaseries and Gash Bell (Zetch Bell) TCG.
Anime produced by Bandai Visual (selection)
- .hack
- 3x3 Eyes
- Agent Aika
- Angel Sanctuary
- Appleseed (1988 OVA)
- Arjuna
- The Big O
- Candidate for Goddess
- Cardcaptor Sakura (movies)
- CLAMP School
- Cowboy Bebop
- Cybaster
- DearS
- Devilman (OVA)
- DNA²
- Dominion: Tank Police
- Eat-Man '98
- Edens Bowy
- e'X-Driver (movie)
- Fancy Lala
- Fushigi Yuugi (OVA)
- Gasaraki
- Ghost in the Shell and related
- Gundam and related
- Gunslinger Girl
- Harlock Saga OVA
- I'm Gonna Be An Angel!
- Jin-Roh
- Macross
- Madara
- Magic User's Club
- Memories
- Metropolis
- Midori Days
- Nightwalker
- Onegai Teacher
- Onegai Twins
- Patlabor (movies)
- Pilot Candidate
- Record of Lodoss War (TV series)
- Saber Marionette
- Saint Seiya Tenkai-hen Jousho: Overture (Saint Seiya 5th movie)
- Shin Getter Robo
- Slayers Special (OVA)
- Slayers Perfect (movie)
- Sousei no Aquarion
- Spriggan
- Starship Troopers
- Steamboy
- Super Robot Wars: Original Generation
- Top wo Nerae! and related
- Wings of Honneamise
- Uta-Kata
- Vision of Escaflowne
- Witch Hunter Robin
- Wolf's Rain
- X
- You're Under Arrest
Tokusatsu movies produced by Bandai
- G-Saviour
- Jushin Thunder Liger: Fist of Thunder
- Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost
- Kamen Rider J
- Kamen Rider ZO
- Mechanical Violator Hakaider
- Ultraman vs. Kamen Rider
