online store for the United States market for Animate North AMERICA, Ltd., established in Jan 2013. The online store was closed on 2016-02-29, and re-opened on 2018-07-14. Group companies Movic Co. Ltd. (株式会社ムービック) Movic Promote Service(株式会社ムービックプロモートサービス) Marine ENTERTAINMENT Inc. (株式会社マリン・エンタテインメント) coade (株式会社コアデ): The company name was derived from its own slogan 'Code Anime Design'. Frontier Works Inc. (株式会社フロンティアワークス) ANIBRO Ltd. (株式会社アニブロ): On January 23, 2008, Animate's rival company, Broccoli, announced that they collaborated with Animate and made a new company "AniBro", with Animate holds 70% of the company, while Broccoli holds 30%. The president of the company will be the CEO of Animate, although he will continue to manage Animate along with AniBro. AniBro plans to expand using the AniBro brand to many places in Japan. SHOSEN (株式会社書泉): Became part of animate Ltd. on 2011-06-29. Former subsidiaries Wanwan plus (ワンワンプラス): Established in 2004, and was later closed. Chikyuu ya (ちきゅーや): Operated by animate since 2008, and was later closed in 2014-12-22. coade (株式会社コアデ) Rakuten branch: Established in 2010-12-01, and was later closed in 2013. Marketing is Animate's mascot character, affectionately known as the . He is depicted as a wild anime character with spiky hair and rippling muscles, clad with the Animate uniform, going to extreme measures to promote Animate's goods. An original video animation based on the character was produced by Gainax and released in 2002. Another OVA was released in 2010. An animation project which crosses over Anime Tencho with the Touhou Project was produced by ufotable and aired on November 20, 2010, at the Animate Ichioshi Bishojo Anime Matsuri to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Animate's mascot character. Meito has also made various appearances in other media, such as the Lucky Star anime series and video games such as Disgaea 4 and Touch My Katamari. Meito is voiced by Tomokazu Seki in his anime appearances, and is voiced by Lex Lang in the English dub of Lucky Star. References External links Animate Group Homepage Animate Official Homepage Animate USA Official Webpage Animate Thai Official Webpage Tianmao Official Webpage USA Animate Online Shop Animate International Online Shop ACOS Online Shop Japan Manga Alliance CO., LTD. homepage Animate-GyaO Corporation homepage Anime companies Retail companies based in Tokyo Video game retailers Mass media in Tokyo Retail companies established in 1983 1983 establishments in Japan