Bandai Namco Pictures

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Bandai Namco Pictures Inc.
Native name
 株式会社バンダイナムコピクチャーズ
Kabushiki gaisha Bandai Namuko Pikuchāzu
Subsidiary
Industry Anime
Founded April 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04)
Headquarters Nerima, Tokyo
Key people
  • Masayuki Ozaki
  • (president)
  • Hiroyuki Sato
  • (director)
Products Anime, films, DVDs
Revenue ¥10 million
Owner Bandai Namco Holdings
Number of employees
 130 (December 2021)
Parent Bandai Namco Filmworks
Website www.bn-pictures.co.jp
Footnotes / references
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Bandai Namco Pictures Inc.[lower-alpha 1], also known as BN Pictures, is a Japanese animation studio and production company. It is a spinoff of Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly known as Sunrise), a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. The company was formed as a part of the medium-term management plan of Bandai Namco Holdings on restructuring itself. All the anime intellectual property and production divisions of Sunrise that aims at children and family were transferred to Bandai Namco Pictures. The company began its operations in April 2015.

History

File:Bandai Namco Pictures logo.svg
The previous logo was used until 2022; although it’s still used in commercials, credits, and the official channel on YouTube.

On February 12, 2015, Bandai Namco Holdings announced plans to restructure itself through the usage of a three-year medium-management plan.[1] The company sought to focus its resources on creating new intellectual properties (IPs) and marketable characters, and required faster planning and development time to satisfy these demands.[1][2] Bandai Namco executives also believed it was necessary for its IP Creation content area to strengthen ties with its Toy and Hobby area, as it would lead to both strong relationships between the two divisions and allow for future product collaborations.[2]

As part of its efforts to fulfill these obligations, Bandai Namco Pictures was established in April 2015 in Nerima, Tokyo.[2][3] Headed by Masayuki Ozaki, the representative director of animation studio Sunrise, the company was to lead its parent's "Strengthen IP Creation Output" project and focus on the creation of new characters and franchises, specifically those targeted towards children and families.[1][3] Bandai Namco Pictures would also work together with the Toy and Hobby division of Bandai Namco Holdings to strengthen the linkage between the two areas of the latter company.[1][2][3] Pictures absorbed Sunrise's production departments relating to children-oriented IPs, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunrise and part of Bandai Namco's IP Creation department.[4][5]

The company's first project was Aikatsu!, an anime based on the Bandai trading card arcade game of the same name which had been produced by Sunrise until that point.[3] In addition to working on pre-established franchises, Bandai Namco Pictures would produce several original projects, such as the stop-motion animation series Milpom!.[6] Pictures focused primarily on series and characters targeted towards children and families, though some, such as Tiger & Bunny and the Gintama series, were aimed at older audiences. The company regularly collaborates with other subsidiaries within Bandai Namco Holdings; in 2016, it partnered with Bandai Namco Entertainment to produce Dream Festival!, a multimedia franchise centered around video games and original net animations.

In August 2018, Bandai Namco Pictures opened a division in Osaka, the Bandai Namco Pictures Osaka Studio, for the purpose of digitally transferring animation to decrease production times.[7] The company hoped the success and productivity from the Osaka Studio could allow for additional offices to be opened in Japan and eventually overseas.[7] A year later in October, Pictures absorbed Studio Dub, an animation subcontractor established by former Sunrise animators. The acquisition renamed the company Bandai Namco Pictures Iwaki, though it continues using the name Studio Dub for its projects.

Works

Television series

Title Director(s) First run
start date		 First run
end date		 Eps. Ref.
Battle Spirits: Burning Soul Kunihisa Sugishima April 1, 2015 March 30, 2016 51 [8]
Aikatsu! Ryuichi Kimura April 2, 2015[lower-alpha 2] March 31, 2016 52[lower-alpha 3] [3]
Tribe Cool Crew Masaya Fujimori April 5, 2015[lower-alpha 2] October 4, 2015 26[lower-alpha 3] [9]
Gintama° Chizuru Miyawaki April 8, 2015 March 30, 2016 51 [10]
Brave Beats Yūta Murano October 6, 2015 March 27, 2016 22
Battle Spirits: Double Drive Kunihisa Sugishima April 6, 2016 March 29, 2017 51 [8]
Aikatsu Stars! Teruo Satō April 7, 2016 March 29, 2018 100 [11]
Heybot! Shinji Ishihira September 18, 2016 September 24, 2017 50 [8]
Gintama. Chizuru Miyawaki January 8, 2017 March 26, 2017 13 [8]
Gintama. Porori-hen Chizuru Miyawaki October 1, 2017 December 24, 2017 13 [8]
Gintama. Shirogane no Tamashii-hen Chizuru Miyawaki January 7, 2018 October 7, 2018 26 [10]
Aikatsu Friends! Shishō Igarashi April 5, 2018 September 26, 2019 76 [12]
B-PROJECT～Zecchō＊Emotion～ Makoto Moriwaki January 11, 2019 March 29, 2019 12 [10]
Aikatsu on Parade! Shishō Igarashi October 5, 2019 March 28, 2020 25 [13]
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Makoto Moriwaki October 5, 2019 March 7, 2020 23 [14]
Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori Takahide Ogata April 5, 2020 November 8, 2020 25 [15]
Saikyō Kamizmode Mitsutoshi Satō October 9, 2020 April 9, 2021 26 [16]
Aikatsu Planet! Ryuichi Kimura January 10, 2021 June 27, 2021 25 [17]
Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori 2nd Season Takahide Ogata April 2, 2021 October 22, 2021 25 [18]
Cestvs: The Roman Fighter[lower-alpha 4]
  • Toshifumi Kawase (chief)
  • Kazuya Monma
 April 15, 2021 June 24, 2021 11 [19]
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 2 Makoto Moriwaki April 17, 2021 September 11, 2021 21 [20]
Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story Takayuki Inagaki April 6, 2022 June 29, 2022 13 [21]
Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori 3rd Season Takahide Ogata April 6, 2022 TBA TBA [22]
Raven of the Inner Palace Chizuru Miyawaki October 1, 2022 TBA TBA [23]
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 3 Makoto Moriwaki October 8, 2022 TBA TBA [24]
Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story Season 2 Takayuki Inagaki January 2023 TBA TBA [25]
Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari Ryuichi Kimura TBA TBA TBA [26]

Films

OVA/ONAs

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: 株式会社バンダイナムコピクチャーズ Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Bandai Namuko Pikuchāzu?
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 First episode under BN Pictures
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Total number of episodes under BN Pictures
  4. ↑ BN Pictures is producing the series and is responsible for the 2D animation work, whereas Logic&Magic is responsible for the 3D animation work.

References

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