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anime theatrical and direct marketing and production see list of titles parent starz distribution website www.manga.com manga entertainment is a producer licensee and distributor of japanese animation in the united states and united kingdom . it also co produces several anime series including ghost in the shell street fighter alpha the animation highlander the search for vengeance and eon kid 2 usually through financial contributions toward production costs . it was established in 1991 by andy frain who was the managing director of island world communications ; a subsidiary at the time of chris blackwell and john heyman s island world group . it is a division of starz distribution which is a unit of starz inc. . it has also played a part in dubbing anime when it is not sub licensing a production that has already been licensed by another company e.g. akira licensed and redubbed by geneon in 2001 bounty dog and lupin iii bye bye liberty crisis . it is also the designated home video distributor for the pok mon franchise in the uk including some of the movies among them pok mon the first movie . 3 they have licensing and distribution deals with funimation sentai filmworks and viz media in the uk however unlike previous licensing agreements they do not bring titles from funimation sentai and viz to australia under their brand as manga s australian distributor madman entertainment has the licenses from these companies . manga entertainment especially manga uk has had a special relationship with madman entertainment since madman s founding in 1996 . manga is credited by many as the major force behind turning anime into mainstream entertainment in australia during the 1990s and early 2000s . manga s latest dvd & blu ray masters are encoded and provided by madman entertainment because of madman s extremely large and modern dvd & blu ray authoring division . despite its name the company s principal business is the distribution of anime rather than manga although they have published some manga such as crying freeman 4 in the united kingdom under the manga books imprint . contents 1 divisions 1.1 manga entertainment in australia 2 manga entertainment uk 3 us broadcast on xbox tv 4 references 5 external links divisions edit manga entertainment in australia edit manga entertainment s original logo and initial imprint . manga entertainment expanded into australia in late 1993 when manga s main headquarters were still based in london . although initially manga s titles were to be released in australia by polygram who owned island and manga they decided to sub license their properties to siren entertainment . in late 1996 manga entertainment uk gave the sub distribution license to the newly founded madman entertainment who in turn were distributed by siren . this meant that both siren and madman has equal rights to manga s properties . in 1997 polygram australia gained the rights to some of manga s more recent additions to its catalogue . this included lupin the 3rd properties except the castle of cagliostro and violence jack . violence jack evil town was banned in australia even when polygram submitted the uk cut to the australian government for classification . the other two ovas in the series submitted were the uncut dubbed versions that were released in the usa by critical mass however due to evil town s banning polygram scrapped the release of violence jack in australia . polygram already had the uk cut of evil town in circulation despite its banning . in late 1996 madman entertainment was founded by former employees of siren . they were given exclusive sub license rights to manga uk s catalogue including part 4 of macross plus which was released in 1997 . despite this madman did not take on some titles e.g. rg veda and shadow skill and let polygram australia distribute them . siren decided to license street fighter ii v from manga usa in 1997 and released the series without input from madman as madman also had an exclusive licensing deal with adv films who had licensed street fighter ii v in the uk and re dubbed it . this property was taken over by madman in 1999 . in this same time period manga entertainment had licensed voltron exclusively for the australian market and was released by siren instead of polygram australia . in 1998 after manga was purchased by former island ceo chris blackwell madman entertainment was given the rights to the entire manga catalogue from manga s uk and usa subsidiaries except street fighter ii v which was still licensed by siren . in 1999 siren relinquished its licensing deal with manga uk and its separate deal for sfii v from manga usa as madman had become big enough for siren to make same amount of profit distributing for them as it was when it was the sole distributor of manga products in australia . in 2001 siren entertainment restructured itself and split the company into 2 separate entities siren visual and the av channel . madman s founders who were former employees of the company and owned shares of siren decided to take the av channel and turn it into madman s distribution arm which was absorbed into madman in 2008 . madman entertainment in the mid 2000s decided to align itself with manga usa but since the dawn of blu ray and manga usa turning into an online and television distributor of anime madman has re aligned itself with manga uk . both companies funded and co produced the pal region dub of ghost in the shell 2 innocence and co produce dvds and blu rays . madman provides manga uk with pal dvd and some blu ray masters due to madman s larger and more sophisticated authoring division . manga and madman co license properties such as the rebuild of evangelion movies full metal alchemist brotherhood & the ghost in the shell franchise amongst others . manga entertainment uk edit see also manga force the ultimate collection in january 2007 the company s united kingdom division began releasing a fortnightly magazine aimed at promoting both the company itself through the use of some of its more revered titles . issue one for example used ghost in the shell . the magazine had published 102 issues . us broadcast on xbox tv edit it was announced early in october 2011 that microsoft formed partnerships with over 50 content providers worldwide including manga entertainment . this feature was to be available at no extra cost to us subscribers after the new xbox dashboard update due sometime december 2011 . references edit about us . manga entertainment . retrieved on february 5 2009 . manga entertainment announces international partnership for iron kid . anime news network . september 8 2005 . retrieved november 5 2007 . manga entertainment brings pok mon to the uk on blu ray . blu ray.com . retrieved july 29 2016 . shirow masamune 1995 1985 . appleseed volume one the promethean challenge . trans . studio proteus uk ed . . london manga publishing . isbn 1 900097 01 x. external links edit official website sevakis justin september 14 2015 . what ever happened to manga entertainment . answerman column . anime news network . retrieved september 15 2015 . a brief history to date of manga entertainment . sevakis justin september 16 2015 . what ever happened to manga entertainment part two uk edition . answerman column . anime news network . retrieved september 17 2015 . a brief history to date of manga uk . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title manga entertainment & oldid 743512641 categories anime companiescompanies based in los angelescompanies established in 1991dubbing filmmaking former liberty media subsidiariesstarz entertainment group1991 establishments in californiahidden categories articles needing additional references from december 2009all articles needing additional referenceswikipedia introduction cleanup from september 2009all pages needing cleanuparticles covered by wikiproject wikify from september 2009all articles covered by wikiproject wikify navigation menu personal tools not logged 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