formerly Bandai Namco Arts, is a Japanese company formed by the merger of
Bandai Visual and its subsidiary
Lantis by its owner
Bandai Namco Holdings
also known as the Bandai Namco Group and generally Bandai Namco, is a Japanese multinational holding company, production enterprise and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, formed from the merger of Bandai and Namco on S ...
in February 2018. The company is responsible for the same area of its predecessors, which those being anime production and distribution and music production and distribution.
History
In February 2018, Bandai Namco Holdings announced that Lantis and its parent company Bandai Visual would merge to turn into a company called Bandai Namco Arts on April 1, 2018, doing the same business as the past two companies but being more related to each other as one entire company.
In October 2021, Bandai Namco Holdings announced the reorganization of the group. Sunrise will handle the newly combined visual business company, which will consist of Sunrise, Bandai Namco Arts' video contents, and Bandai Namco Rights Marketing. Bandai Namco Arts will focus on the music and live events company, which will consist of Bandai Namco Arts' music contents, Bandai Namco Live Creative, and Sunrise Music.
Labels
Video Label (now from
Bandai Namco Filmworks
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* ''Bandai Visual'' - Movies for children, live-action films and dramas
* ''Emotion'' - Anime and Tokusatsu
Music Label
* ''Lantis'' - Main label
* ''Kiramune'' - Male voice actor label
* ''GloryHeaven'' - Label related to
Sony Music Solutions
* Sunrise Music Label - Label related to
Sunrise and
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
* ''Purple One Star'' - Label established in collaboration with bluesofa
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Mass media companies established in 2018
Anime companies
Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Entertainment companies of Japan
Film distributors of Japan
Bandai Namco Holdings subsidiaries