AnimEigo Announces Episode 19 of Documentary Series - The Anime Business
Toshifumi Yoshida recalls a 30+ year career producing anime for renowned brands such as Viz Media, Bandai and The Pokémon Company
Los Angeles, CA - Anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD have released the latest episode of The Anime Business on YouTube featuring an interview with prolific anime producer Toshifumi Yoshida, whose credits include the English-language versions hundreds of titles including Ranma ½, InuYasha, Gurren Lagann, and Pokémon.
The Anime Business Episode 19: Toshifumi Yoshida is available on the official AnimEigo YouTube Channel.
Yoshida's career spans nearly the entire storied history of anime in North America. He was born in Japan but grew up in the United States where his love of anime and manga led to a 30+ year odyssey that connected him with scores of the most beloved and successful anime properties ever produced.
Being fluent in Japanese and having regular access to manga and Shonen Jump issues his parents brought him from Japan gave Yoshida some enviable advantages and positioned him to enter the fledgling U.S. anime industry during a critical time in the 90s. After a stint as an editor at Animag magazine while finishing college in San Francisco, Yoshida met Viz Media founder Seiji Horibuchi, who hired him as a producer for the company's newly founded anime division.
Yoshida spent 12 years producing some of VIZ's most beloved anime releases including Ranma ½, Maison Ikkoku, InuYasha, and Pokémon. Ranma ½ fans will delight in Yoshida's recollection of the production of a notorious English dub for the Tendo Family Christmas Scramble OVA.
As anime's popularity exploded throughout the 2000s Yoshida was at the forefront at every stage. His resume is filled with groundbreaking titles, but he recalls these memories with the perception of a professional who is still an ardent fan.
After departing from Viz Media, he went on to produce memorable titles for Bandai such as Gurren Lagann and Eureka Seven. Yoshida is currently a Senior Producer for The Pokémon Company International, where he produces English versions of the Pokémon TV series and movies and other languages across Europe and Latin America as well as new original content.
The Anime Business is a first-of-its-kind series featuring a wide range of entrepreneurs and visionaries that helped to pioneer and shape the North American anime and manga industries. It is produced and hosted by industry veteran and MediaOCD founder and AnimEigo CEO Justin Sevakis. Episodes 1-17 of The Anime Business and bonus clips are also now available to stream on the AnimeEigo YouTube channel. All episodes of The Anime Business are available in English. Japanese subtitles are also available via a special grant from the Kleckner Foundation.
About AnimEigo:
AnimEigo is a division of MediaOCD and was founded in 1989 as one the first distributors to focus on anime and an array of acclaimed Japanese live-action films in the United States and Canada. Over the last 35 years, AnimEigo consistently broadened the market for Japanese content by cultivating audiences for new genres of film.
Renowned for high quality translations, subtitles, and dubbing, AnimEigo has released a wide variety of classic anime titles. For more information, please visit: MediaOCD.com.
Los Angeles, CA - Anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD have released the latest episode of The Anime Business on YouTube featuring an interview with prolific anime producer Toshifumi Yoshida, whose credits include the English-language versions hundreds of titles including Ranma ½, InuYasha, Gurren Lagann, and Pokémon.
The Anime Business Episode 19: Toshifumi Yoshida is available on the official AnimEigo YouTube Channel.
Yoshida's career spans nearly the entire storied history of anime in North America. He was born in Japan but grew up in the United States where his love of anime and manga led to a 30+ year odyssey that connected him with scores of the most beloved and successful anime properties ever produced.
Being fluent in Japanese and having regular access to manga and Shonen Jump issues his parents brought him from Japan gave Yoshida some enviable advantages and positioned him to enter the fledgling U.S. anime industry during a critical time in the 90s. After a stint as an editor at Animag magazine while finishing college in San Francisco, Yoshida met Viz Media founder Seiji Horibuchi, who hired him as a producer for the company's newly founded anime division.
Yoshida spent 12 years producing some of VIZ's most beloved anime releases including Ranma ½, Maison Ikkoku, InuYasha, and Pokémon. Ranma ½ fans will delight in Yoshida's recollection of the production of a notorious English dub for the Tendo Family Christmas Scramble OVA.
As anime's popularity exploded throughout the 2000s Yoshida was at the forefront at every stage. His resume is filled with groundbreaking titles, but he recalls these memories with the perception of a professional who is still an ardent fan.
After departing from Viz Media, he went on to produce memorable titles for Bandai such as Gurren Lagann and Eureka Seven. Yoshida is currently a Senior Producer for The Pokémon Company International, where he produces English versions of the Pokémon TV series and movies and other languages across Europe and Latin America as well as new original content.
The Anime Business is a first-of-its-kind series featuring a wide range of entrepreneurs and visionaries that helped to pioneer and shape the North American anime and manga industries. It is produced and hosted by industry veteran and MediaOCD founder and AnimEigo CEO Justin Sevakis. Episodes 1-17 of The Anime Business and bonus clips are also now available to stream on the AnimeEigo YouTube channel. All episodes of The Anime Business are available in English. Japanese subtitles are also available via a special grant from the Kleckner Foundation.
About AnimEigo:
AnimEigo is a division of MediaOCD and was founded in 1989 as one the first distributors to focus on anime and an array of acclaimed Japanese live-action films in the United States and Canada. Over the last 35 years, AnimEigo consistently broadened the market for Japanese content by cultivating audiences for new genres of film.
Renowned for high quality translations, subtitles, and dubbing, AnimEigo has released a wide variety of classic anime titles. For more information, please visit: MediaOCD.com.
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