Bandai Visual USA  

Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. was a Japanese animation, film production, and distribution company that focused on international distribution of anime properties in North America. They were established by Bandai and were a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. Most of their distributed and licensed anime have been released under the Emotion label. After the 2006 reorganization of Bandai Namco Holdings, they headed the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit and had subsidiaries such as Emotion Music Company, Ltd. and Lantis music publishing labels. They were involved in producing and distributing several anime titles until 2012, including those they produced themselves and those produced by Sunrise, an alternate anime studio subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In September 2017, they acquired Actas, an anime studio. In February 2018, it was announced that they would merge with Lantis into a new branch of BNH called Bandai Namco Arts. This took effect as of April 1, 2018, with Bandai Visual remaining only as a label of the new company.