Section23 Films (الولايات المتحدة) (the successor company to ADV films, which split into several companies in 2009. "Section 23" handles distribution, "Sentai Filmworks" and "Maiden Japan" handles license acquisition, "AEsir Holdings" inherited ADV's old library of titles, "Seraphim Studios" handles new English dubs, and "Valkyrie Media Productions" handles the الرسوم المتحركة).
Right Stuf Inc. (الولايات المتحدة, main distribution subdivision rebranded "Nozomi Entertainment" in 2007 with "Lucky Penny" following along)
مادمان إنترتنمنت (أستراليا: Madman overwhelmingly dominates the Australian anime market, for many years through the 2000s controlling approximately 90% of all sales)
قائمة شركات الأنمي (أستراليا)
شركات منحلة
4Kids Productions (US) (subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment Specializing in dubbing anime, shut down in 2012 due to continued lack of profitability).
ADV Films (الولايات المتحدة، المملكة المتحدة) (shut down in 2009, selling off its assets and intellectual properties to four other Houston-based companies, such as Section 23 (see above)).
بانداي البصرية المحدودة (U.S., previously a subsidiary of Bandai Visual Japan and not affiliated with Bandai Entertainment, now folded into Bandai Entertainment[5])
Central Park Media (de facto defunct since mid-2007 when new DVD releases ceased, even though they continued to license their titles for TV and VOD, they entered a state of limbo.[6] Officially declared bankruptcy and assets liquidated in mid-2009.[7] Several of their titles have been acquired by other anime distributing companies prior to and following Central Park Media's bankruptcy and liquidation, such as ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Funimation Entertainment, Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment, etc.)
Geneon Entertainment (U.S. branch "Geneon USA" (formerly "Pioneer Entertainment") defunct September 2007. Parent Japanese company ceased in-house distribution of its own titles, many of which have been re-licensed by Funimation[8][9] and Sentai Filmworks. Parent company "Geneon Entertainment" then sold off its own ownership to إن بي سي العالمية subsidiary UPI, which then merged Geneon with its own "Universal Pictures Japan" division on February 1, 2009, renaming the new company "Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan").[10][11]
Manga Distribution (France, Belgium, Switzerland. Was fined with Déclic Images (another French editor) 4.8 million euros in 2009 for selling DVDs of Grendizer while they didn't have the rights).
Streamline Pictures (U.S., كندا: stopped producing new anime releases in 1996, folding into أوريون بيكشرز, which in turn folded into مترو غولدوين ماير one year later, in 1997. The Streamline brand name officially went defunct in 2002).
Synch-Point (U.S., A subsidiary of Broccoli (company), defunct when parent company Broccoli International USA shut down their operations in 2007)
Harmony Gold USA (U.S., produced the seminal Robotech series in 1985; stopped releasing new anime in the late 1980s and virtually dormant in the 1990s, the company technically still exists and issues re-releases)
