Whois & Analysis for funimation.com

Funimation is an American entertainment, anime, and foreign licensing company based in Flower Mound, Texas.

The studio is one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America alongside Viz Media, Sentai Filmworks and Aniplex of America.

Their most popular property is Toei Animation's action-adventure series Dragon Ball Z, which had a successful run on Cartoon Network's Toonami block from 1998 to 2003, and has been re-released on DVD and Blu-ray several times since.

It was founded on May 9, 1994 by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy as FUNimation Productions, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company.

Funimation was sold to Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005 and the company was renamed FUNimation Entertainment.

In April 2011, Navarre sold Funimation to a group of investors including Fukunaga for $24 million.

Around the same time, the company's trademark ball, star and blue bar were dropped from its logo and the company was renamed to simply Funimation.

In May 2013, Funimation consolidated its divisions under its new holding company Group 1200 Media.

Funimation is a portmanteau of the English words "fun" and "animation".

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima.

It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2, 2006, with the individual chapters collected and published into 60 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha as of March 17, 2017.

The story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel, a teenage who is a member of the popular wizards' guild Fairy Tail, as he searches for the dragon Igneel.

is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi.

It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2014, and 12 volumes have been collected in tankōbon format.

The series has been licensed for English-language release by Viz Media, and began serialization in their weekly digital manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump on February 9, 2015.

The story follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without superpowers in a world where they are the norm, but who still dreams of becoming a superhero himself, and is scouted by the world's greatest hero who shares his powers with Izuku after recognizing his value and enrolls him in a high school for heroes in training.

The manga was adapted into an anime television series; the first season aired from April 3 to June 26, 2016, and a second season premiered on April 1, 2017.

is a fantasy, alternate history Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano.

The manga started serialization in Shōnen Gahosha's magazine, Young King Ours, on April 30, 2009.

It centers on various historical figures summoned to an unknown world where their skills and techniques are needed by magicians in order to save their world from total destruction.

A television anime adaptation aired between October 7, 2016 and December 23, 2016.

A second season of the anime series has been announced.

is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation.

The word is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese, where this term references all animation.

Outside Japan, anime is used to refer specifically to animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastical themes.

Arguably, the culturally abstract approach to the word's meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan.

For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product.

Some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism.