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    Manga Entertainment (AKA Manga UK, formerly known as Manga Video) is a controversial, yet influential, anime distribution/production company. Despite the name, the company mainly distributes anime rather than Manga. The company was originally founded in the United Kingdom in 1991 before expanding into the United States market in 1994.

    Manga, like many other companies at the time, chose to concentrate on dubbed versions of its licences instead of subtitling. However, instead of bowdlerizing for mass appeal, Manga embraced the racier and gory aspects of anime. And their dubs gained a reputation to match, thanks to several infamously gratuitous examples of Cluster F Bombs being dropped (in order to get an "18" adults-only rating). Manga Entertainment wasn't above the occasional Macekre, either.

    Despite this, Manga Entertainment did well, and was flush with investor cash -- which was used to co-produce ambitious projects like the original Ghost in the Shell movie.

    Confusing matters, Manga Entertainment UK advertised its anime releases as "manga videos", and the term apparently took hold for a while.

    Manga Entertainment UK also licences releases from other companies to release them in the UK market. For example, Manga UK has a licensing agreement with Viz Media that allows them to distribute popular titles such as Bleach, Naruto and Death Note. Manga UK is also the current British distributor for FUNimation titles. Many of their earlier releases were licensed from Streamline Pictures, e.g. Akira and the Fist of the North Star movie (the anime one).

    They have a close relationship with Bandai Entertainment, with whom they've collaborated numerous times.

    The two-hour Ani-Monday block on Syfy currently consists mostly of Manga Entertainment titles, both recent and old. It moved to Tuesdays in January 2011 before it was unceremoniously canceled in that July.

    Manga Entertainment is owned by Starz Media, part of John Malone's cable empire.

    The series Manga Entertainment released include:

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