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company located in

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, Japan.

Company information

TMA, founded in October 1990, has offices located within Tokyo's

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ward. The studio specializes in videos generally in the

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genre but they are especially noted for making porn-parodies based on famous

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and

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series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. TMA has been one of the pioneer companies in exploring new media for adult videos. In 2005, they were one of the first studios, along with Glay'z and h.m.p., to produce adult material for the UMD format used on the

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with their August 12, 2005 release of three videos including , coded TPS-001. Two years later in 2007, when

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format was still in competition with the rival

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format, with some technical assistance from Sony, TMA was one of the first Japanese AV companies to release videos in the

format. In a July 2007 article, Yoshimasa Nozu, a producer at TMA said the company planned to release at least one Blu-ray disc per month for the rest of the year. The studio produces about 16 new videos per month and in September 2011, the

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's commercial website DMM listed over 1250 DVD titles available under the TMA company name.

AV Grand Prix

TMA was one of the companies which submitted videos for the 2008

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competition. Their entry, , labeled AVGP-020, was a

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genre work starring Miyu Hoshino, Ryo Kiyohara, Reina Mizuki and Nana Mizuki. TMA also entered the 2009 AV Grand Prix contest with a video, , labeled AVGP-131, which featured non-Japanese actresses.

Labels

In addition to TMA, the company has used the following labels for its videos: * Expotion * Mizuiro * TMA Works

Actresses

Some of the actresses who have appeared in TMA videos: *

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* Yuria Kato * Marina Matsushima * Momoka Nishina * Anna Ohura *

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* Riko Tachibana * Tsubomi

Series

Video series produced by TMA include: * Molester Bus () * Swimsuit Lovers ()

Notes

Sources

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