About the studio
This one has a corporate identity with more costume changes than most anime characters. Founded October 16, 1990 as Amuse Video, the company has operated under five different names: Amuse Pictures, Toshiba Entertainment, Showgate, and finally Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures since 2015. *Somewhere there's a very tired person in charge of updating the letterhead.* Based in Minato, Tokyo, and a subsidiary of ad agency Hakuhodo (part of Hakuhodo DY Holdings), the company finances and distributes anime and film, frequently sitting on production committees for titles like Eureka Seven and Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. If you've seen this company credited under an older name like Showgate on an anime from the 2000s or early 2010s, that's not a separate company, it's the same one mid rebrand. Thirty five years in, its business hasn't changed much, only what's printed on the business card.