Reanimedia is an

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distributor in

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and the

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, working in cooperation with Reanimedia Japan. The company was founded in 2007. The main declared objective of the company is to distribute Russian editions of notable anime titles that approach Japanese standards of image quality, packaging and additional materials. The company also works as a publisher and supports local anime festivals, clubs of interest and other anime-related events.

History

Reanimedia was founded in mid-2007 as a successor of XL Media On October 22, 2007, Reanimedia announced that it was planning to acquire XL Media. Consolidation between the two companies was expected to finish by February 2008. However, on May 6, 2008, Reanimedia announced that the agreement had been cancelled due to "irreconcilable differences" between the firms. XL Media employees who had previously joined Reanimedia continued working for their new employer. XL Media was acquired by a third party and continued working with new employees. The dubbing studio, which was originally created in October 2005 to perform dubbing of

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'' and later performed a number of dubbing works for XL Media (''see'' List of works for XL Media, ''below''), became a part of Reanimedia in 2007. At the beginning of 2008, Reanimedia released its first products: ''

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'' and '' Five centimeters per second''. On June 1, 2009, Reanimedia opened its own

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Employees

Staff * Artem Tolstobrov — CEO * Stepan Shashkin — general producer * Oleg Shevchenko — CFO * Andrey Petrov — director of development * Aleksandr Filchenko — dubbing director * Valery Korneev — art director * Lidiya Kulikova — editor in chief Dubbing actors Information about the dubbing actors can be found at Reanimedia's site. Translators

List of works

List of anime licenses

List of book licenses

List of works for XL Media

The dubbing studio, which has been a part of Reanimedia since 2007, was originally created in October 2005 to perform dubbing of

'' for XL Media. In 2005–2007, the studio was working for XL Media and performed dubbing of the following titles:

List of works in cooperation

Cinema Prestige

:Reanimedia performed dubbing of the following titles: :

Istari comics

:The following manga was produced in cooperation with Reanimedia: :

Mega-Anime

:Reanimedia undertakes preparation for publication (including dubbing and mastering) of several works licensed by

Mega-Anime Mega-Anime is a Russian distributor of anime content from Japan. It was founded in 2005. It was founded by Megaliner Entertainment. The company competes with MC Entertainment, fellow Russian anime distributor. The company distributes anime in f ...

: :

Russian Cinema Council (RUSCICO)

:Reanimedia performs dubbing of the following anime titles: :

XL Media

:Reanimedia undertook preparation for publication (including dubbing and mastering) of the following work licensed by XL Media: :

Crowd funding projects

On May 10, 2011, Reanimedia started a

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project ''People's License''. The purpose of the project was to license

Makoto Shinkai , known as , is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, author, and manga artist. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) ' ...

's anime ''

Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below , also known as ''Journey to Agartha'', is a 2011 Japanese anime film created and directed by Makoto Shinkai, following his previous work ''5 Centimeters per Second''. This film is described as a "lively" animated film with adventure, action, an ...

(Hoshi o Ou Kodomo)'' which was released in Japan on May 7, 2011. On May 24, 2011, Reanimedia reported that the project was successful, and Reanimedia began preparations for signing a license agreement. The movie was successfully licensed by September 28, 2011, demonstrated in theaters since November, 2011 and released on DVD in 2012. The participants of ''People's License'' were offered a limited DVD edition of the movie. List of the crowd funding projects of Reanimedia:

References

External links

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