About the studio
Here's the thing about Showgate: it's the same company as Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, just captured at an earlier point in its corporate life. Under the Showgate name from 2007 to 2015, this company traces all the way back to October 16, 1990, when it launched as Amuse Video, before passing through Amuse Pictures and Toshiba Entertainment on its way to becoming Showgate and eventually its current name. *Same company, different jacket depending on the decade.* Based in Minato, Tokyo, its work under the Showgate banner included anime like Eureka Seven and Shakugan no Shana II, financed and distributed as part of various production committees. If you're seeing Showgate credited on an older anime and Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures on a newer one, that's not two companies, it's one company's paper trail across three and a half decades of rebranding.