Illumitoon Entertainment was a production company based in
Fort Worth, Texas that specialized in
anime. It was founded in January 2006 by former
Funimation executives Stephanie Giotes, Richard Ray, and
Barry Watson.
[ Illumitoon's goal was to have its shows aired on television and offer unedited dual language DVDs.][
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History
Illumitoon shared facilities with CRM Productions in Fort Worth, Texas and Westlake Entertainment
Westlake may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Westlake, Canberra, a ghost town suburb of Canberra
* Westlake, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
New Zealand
*Westlake, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland
**Westlake Girls High School
**Westlake Boys H ...
was used for distribution.[ The company's first anime license was ]Beet the Vandel Buster
is a Japanese manga series written by Riku Sanjo and illustrated by Koji Inada. It takes place in a fantasy world where humans have been suffering from the attacks of the demon-like Vandels. Humans can fight back by becoming a Vandel Buste ...
and Beet the Vandel Buster Excellion.[ They also licensed ]AM Driver
''AM Driver'', known in Japan as , is an anime series produced by Studio Deen, TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems. It is directed by Yūji Yamaguchi, with Satoshi Namiki handling series composition, Eiji Suganuma designing the characters and Kazu ...
, B't X
and stylized as B'T X, is a manga series, written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It was serialized in '' Shōnen Ace'' from 1994 to 2000. The series is set in a fictional universe where science has progressed to the creation of mech ...
, and BT'X Neo.[ Illumitoon joined with Westlake for the licensing of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.][ Several Illumitoon releases had production issues including music being changed, the use of dubtitles (subtitles created from the dub script), and inoperable discs.][ Replacements with translated subtitles were offered for the first DVDs of Beet, Bobo, and B't X that were later found to be DVD-Rs.][ AM Driver and B't X were licensed by ]The Anime Network
Anime Network is an American video on demand (VOD) network dedicated to anime owned by AMC Networks.
History
The network was launched in North America in late 2002 and is marketed to multi system operators (MSOs) as both a free and subscrip ...
for VOD, but only 14 episodes of each series had a complete dub.[ After Westlake ceased distribution of their titles, future releases from Illumitoon were cancelled in late 2007.][
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Post Illumitoon
AM Driver was never released on DVD and all series remained incomplete until S'more Entertainment relicensed Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.[ This release also experienced issues due to the lack of subtitles.][ B't X was relicensed in 2016 by ]Anime Midstream
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
.[
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See also
* Funimation
* Westlake Entertainment
Westlake may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Westlake, Canberra, a ghost town suburb of Canberra
* Westlake, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
New Zealand
*Westlake, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland
**Westlake Girls High School
**Westlake Boys H ...
References
Further reading
* Newtype USA January 2007 - Vol. 6 No. 1 "Bobobo-bo on DVD". p. 21
External links
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Anime companies
Companies based in Fort Worth, Texas
Mass media companies established in 2006
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