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Funimation
Funimation (stylized as FUNimation) is an American entertainment anime 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. Perhaps 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. Funimation began 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Navarre Sells Anime Studio FUNimation )〕 In May 2013, Funimation consolidates its divisions under its new holding company Group 1200 Media. Funimation is a portmanteau of the English words "fun" and "animation".
==History==
The company was founded on May 9, 1994 by Japanese-born businessman Gen Fukunaga. Fukunaga's uncle was one of the producers for the popular anime series ''Dragon Ball''; he approached Gen about bringing the series over to America. He proposed that if Fukunaga could start a production company and raise enough money, Toei Animation would license the rights to the show. Fukunaga met with co-worker Daniel Cocanougher whose family owned a feed mill in Decatur, Texas and convinced Cocanougher's family to sell their business and serve as an investor for his company. The company was originally formed in Silicon Valley, California as Funimation Productions in 1994, but eventually relocated to Flower Mound, Texas, located near Fort Worth. They initially collaborated with other companies on ''Dragon Ball'', such as BLT Productions, Saban Entertainment and Pioneer. By 1998, after two failed attempts to bring the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise to a U.S. audience, it finally found success on Cartoon Network's action-oriented programming block Toonami, and the ''Dragon Ball'' phenomenon quickly grew in the United States as it had elsewhere. This led Funimation to begin licensing other anime to the U.S.
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