Bushiroad
Bushiroad Inc. (株式会社ブシロード, Kabushiki-gaisha Bushirōdo) is a Japanese entertainment company, producer of collectible card games and trading cards, publisher of mobile apps and games, promotional items and many other venues, which was founded in 2007 by Takaaki Kidani and is headquartered in Tokyo. Bushiroad created and owns various media franchises such as Tantei Opera Milky Holmes. Since 2019, Bushiroad is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has traded on the TSE since its launch on July 24, 2019.
Logo since 2017 | |
Headquarters in Tokyo in 2009 | |
Native name | 株式会社ブシロード |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki-gaisha Bushirōdo |
| Company type | Public |
Traded as | TYO: 7803 |
| ISIN | JP3829930001 |
| Industry | Video games Media and Entertainment Collectible card games Magazines |
| Founded | May 18, 2007 |
| Founder | Takaaki Kidani |
| Headquarters | Sumitomo Nakanosakaue Bldg 1-38-1 Chuo, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | Television Production Digital media Publishing Music Animated feature films Live event promotion |
| Services | Licensing |
| Revenue | ¥48.799 billion (2023) |
| ¥3,385 million (FY 2023) | |
Net income | ¥4,503 million (FY 2023) |
| Total assets | ¥46.335 billion (FY 2023) |
| Total equity | ¥22,399 million (FY 2023) |
| Owners | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (33.73%) Takaaki Kidani (17.41%) Nakano Sakagami Co., Ltd (16.65%) GREE, Inc. (4.96%) |
Number of employees | 590 (2023) |
| Subsidiaries | Bushiroad Creative Bushiroad Move Bushiroad Music Bushiroad Music Publishing Bushiroad USA, Inc. Bushiroad International Pte., Inc. Frontwing (50.625%) Argonavis (As of February 2022) New Japan Pro-Wrestling Bushiroad Fight Bushiroad Well-Be Bushiroad Works New Japan Pro-wrestling of America, Inc. Sanzigen (8.2%) Kinema Citrus (31.8%) Tokyo MX (10.06%) |
| Website | bushiroad |
On January 29, 2012, Bushiroad announced that it had fully acquired New Japan Pro-Wrestling, a major professional wrestling promotion, for ¥500 million. In October 2019, Bushiroad acquired World Wonder Ring Stardom, a joshi puroresu promotion.
At the 2012 Tokyo Game Show, Bushiroad announced Bushimo, a new social gaming platform for smartphones, which was released in Winter 2012.
In March 2013, Bushiroad announced the revival of the media franchise Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road, with an anime television series that aired on December 31, 2013, as a collaboration between Bushiroad, Bandai Visual, Nitroplus, and Kinema Citrus.
Bushiroad introduced a monthly magazine in September 2013 titled Monthly Bushiroad (月刊ブシロード, Gekkan Bushirōdo). It features manga serializations of their various trading card games and other franchises.
Bushiroad created the media franchise BanG Dream! in January 2015, which consists of a musical group, several manga series, and an anime television series. It also created the media franchise Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight in 2017, which consists of a musical and an anime television series.
On December 12, 2019, Bushiroad and Kadokawa each acquired 31.8% of Kinema Citrus. The three companies previously announced a partnership in the same year for the creation of different anime, and one of the reasons for the deal was due to that partnership and a day later Bushiroad announced that it had acquired 8.2% of Sanzigen with Ultra Super Pictures owning 75.4% of Sanzigen and studio president Hiroaki Matsuura owning 16.4% of the company. On March 16, 2021, Bushiroad acquired a 50.625% controlling stake in video game company Frontwing.