Manga Entertainment

Logo descriptions by betamax52, gohan56782 and JacintaB19

Logo captures by FanCentralNetwork, movierelatedlogos, Shadeed A. Kelly, LogosForTheWin and JacintaB19

Background : Manga Entertainment was established in 1991 by Andy Frain, the managing director of Island World Communications, then a subsidiary of Chris Blackwell and John Heyman's Island World Group. Their first release was Akira, which had been acquired from ICA Projects. They soon expanded into Australia and North America, the latter where they started with a mix of their own British titles and acquisitions from the then-recently defunct U.S. Renditions (the first of which, Appleseed and Macross Plus Part 1, were released on February 28, 1995). After PolyGram, which acquired Island World Group in December 1994,went defunct in 1998, Blackwell repurchased the company and incorporated it into his new venture, Palm Pictures. Manga was sold to IDT Entertainment in 2004, then to Liberty Media/Starz in 2006, Manga later became a sub label of Anchor Bay Entertainment (now part of Lionsgate since 2016), and Manga UK is it's own separate company after Anchor Bay Entertainment UK split up and re-branded as Platform Entertainment. The American branch stopped licensing new titles in 2011, after their release of Redline. In 2017, Manga Entertainment US and Anchor Bay were merged into Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

=== 1st Logo (1995) ===

Logo : On a white background, the Manga print logo fades in as it spins twice. When it settles, "MANGA ENTERTAINMENT, INC." fades in below.

FX/SFX : The rotation animation.

Music/Sounds : None.

Availability : Very rare. Seen on Black Magic M-66 and Orguss 02.

Editor's Note : To be honest, the logo animation looks incredibly simple and even cheap ironically reminiscent as if it were videotaped on a home video camera... It's that bad.

=== 2nd Logo (1995) ===

Logo : On a black background, the Manga print logo fades in as it tilts up. When it settles, "MANGA ENTERTAINMENT, INC." fades in below.

FX/SFX : The tilting animation.

Music/Sounds : A nice dreamy, Japanese-sounding synth flute tune, while a man shouts out "MANGAAAA!!" and echoes.

Availability : Very rare. Seen on The Wings of Honneamise and possibly on old VHS copies of Violence Jack.

Editor's Note : It may also surprise those expecting to see the next logo.

===3rd Logo (1995-2011)===

Logo : On a gray background, the Manga logo is seen, but it animates like a neon sign. It flashes for a few seconds and when it stops, it changes to another fashion, shines once.

Variant : There is a 20th Anniversary variant used for its first year. At the start, the words "Celebrating 20 Years of Anime" are underneath the logo, before flashing to the Starz byline.

Byline :
 * From 2011-2015, the byline "A Starz Company" appeared below.
 * In 2016, the logo was bylineless, after the split of Anchor Bay Entertainment UK from Starz and it’s rebranding into Platform Entertainment.
 * From 2017, with the purchase of Platform Entertainment by Kliderscope Film Distribution, Manga became independent, and so the bottom of the logo now reads "Manga Entertainment UK Limited" in a white font.

FX/SFX : The neon flashing.

Music/Sounds : A whooshing sound, neon flashing light sounds, a lightning effect and a switch plug out at the end.

Availability : Appears exclusively in the United Kingdom. It appears on newer Manga DVDs, including the British remastered releases of Dragon Ball Z and newer UK Pokemon DVD's. It might have appeared on the last remaining Manga US releases, but this is unknown.

Editor's Note : None.