Sugishobou (Japan)

Sugishobou Co. Ltd. (杉書房) was a media distribution company in Japan. They licensed and distributed textbooks, history books, and videos about metaphysical topics and paranormal phenomena. The company was formed in 1986 and went defunct in 2006.

1st logo (1999)
Logo: The logo sequence lasts 9 seconds. It opens by fading in from black, soon showing three triangles - red, green, and purple - rotating over a starry sky. Soon, two triangles - yellow and blue - fly in from the foreground and land on the other triangles. The triangles flash blue, coming together as a solid shape, the Sugishobou emblem, with "SUGISHOBOU" appearing under it with another blue flash. The background becomes solid blue, and then the sequence fades to black.

FX: The logo is made of basic CGI shapes and lighting effects. The simple imagery is very evocative of late 1990s computer graphics.

Music/Sounds: The logo is scored to an echoing, ambient synth track, meant to accentuate the starry sky and Sugishobou's alternative content. Soft synth notes play as the triangles move and as "SUGISHOBOU" appears.

Availability: Rare. Sugishobou only released exactly 17 films, and copies have become hard-to-find in the decades since.