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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Entertainment |
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| Founded | 2005; 21 years ago (2005) |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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| Website | discotekmedia |
Discotek Media is an American entertainment company based inAltamonte Springs, Florida, focused ondistribution and licensing Japaneseanime, films, and television series.[1]
Formed in 2005,[1] Discotek primarily focuses on licensing retro titles from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, a lot of them "license rescued" from other companies such asFunimation,Viz Media,ADV Films,Bandai Entertainment,Geneon,Manga Entertainment, etc. Their licenses include most of theLupin the Third franchise, the first two seasons and six films ofDigimon,Fist of the North Star,Sonic X,Hajime no Ippo,Urusei Yatsura,Galaxy Express 999,Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo,Monster and the 1997Berserk series, as well as OVAs such asGiant Robo andGunbuster and films such asMemories andProject A-ko. The company has also acquired several more recent titles and has collaborated with streaming serviceCrunchyroll on several releases, includingKonoSuba,Kemono Friends, and5 Centimeters per Second.
Discotek is notable for being a major adopter of theSD Blu-ray format, using it to release anime that do not have HD masters available.[2] The company has utilized unusual methods to find Englishdubs for which the masters have been lost. Such techniques include using aBetamax copy ofNutcracker Fantasy in order to remaster the international cut of the film,[3] and reaching out to the fan community to locate the English dub of the third season ofMedabots.[4]
Discotek commissioned their first original English-language dub for the April 2016 release ofLupin III: Jigen's Gravestone.[5] In 2022, the company announced a new sub-label for live-action films,Nihon Nights, and another fortokusatsu television series and films,Toku Time.[6][7] The former began with the Blu-ray release ofUzumaki,[6] and the latter began with the release ofSpace Sheriff Gavan.
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