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World Events Productions is an American-based animation and distribution company in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for releasing the anime titles ''Voltron, Defender of the Universe'' and ''Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs'', as well as producing the original animated series ''Denver, the Last Dinosaur''. ==History== Founded in 1980 by Ted Koplar, son of St. Louis businessman and KPLR-TV founder Harold Koplar, World Events Productions started out as a "current events" program on the TV station titled ''World Events''. In 1983, while attending a science fiction convention, Ted Koplar discovered the anime series ''Beast King GoLion'' and saw a potential in distributing it on U.S. television. WEP licensed the series from Toei Animation and released it in 1984 in an edited and English-dubbed form as ''Voltron''. The show was met with high ratings nationwide. After airing all episodes of ''GoLion'', WEP adapted ''Armored Fleet Dairugger XV'' into the second season of ''Voltron''. Unfortunately, the second season lacked the ratings of the first season, as viewers were more used to the ''GoLion'' team. In response, WEP commissioned Toei Animation to produce 20 more episodes of the ''GoLion''-based ''Voltron''. In 1987, WEP licensed ''Star Musketeer Bismark'' from Studio Pierrot and released it as ''Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs''. The series was rewritten with several episodes rearranged or omitted; in addition, six new episodes were animated for the U.S. version. Despite lacking the popularity of ''Voltron'', ''Saber Rider'' has received a cult fan following throughout the years; most prominently in Germany.〔(Saber Rider Official German Website )〕 After years of licensing and broadcasting anime, WEP ventured to original animated works. In 1988, the company released ''Denver, the Last Dinosaur'', which was met with positive feedback from parents' groups and was recommended by the National Education Association. ''Vytor: The Starfire Champion'' was released in 1989. Despite being an International Film and Video Festival and a New York Festival Award winner,〔(WEP - About Us )〕 the show's run on television was short-lived. In 1998, WEP revisited the ''Voltron'' franchise with an all-new TV series. ''Voltron: The Third Dimension'' was the 3-D animated sequel to the original series, featuring some of the original voice cast plus actors Clancy Brown and Tim Curry. Despite winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing, the series received mixed responses from critics and fans of the original series. In 2008, World Events licensed the original ''GoLion'' and ''Dairugger XV'' in the U.S. In 2010, WEP licensed rights for the ''Voltron'' franchise to Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics). WEP, Kickstart Productions and Classic Media released an all-new animated ''Voltron'' series titled ''Voltron Force'' in June 2011. The series takes place sometime after events in the original series and currently airs on the Nicktoons network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Events Productions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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