Editing Bandai Visual (section)

{{short description|Defunct Japanese anime and distribution company}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Bandai Visual Co., Ltd.
| logo = File:Bandai Visual corporate logo.svg
| logo_size = 150px
| logo_alt = The words "BANDAI VISUAL" in white letters against a red ellipse.
| image = File:Shinagawa seaside park tower rakuten tower 2009.JPG
| image_caption = Bandai Visual's former headquarters in [[Shinagawa]], Tokyo
| image_alt = A tall glass building.
| native_name = 株式会社バンダイビジュアル
| native_name_lang = ja
| romanized_name = [[Kabushiki gaisha]] Bandai Bijuaru
| former_name = {{ubl|AE Planning|<small>(1983–1989)</small>|Bandai Media|<small>(1988–1992)</small>}}
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1983|8|23}}
| successor = [[Bandai Namco Music Live]]
| defunct = {{End date|2018}} (as a company)
| fate = Merged with [[Lantis (company)|Lantis]]
| location = [[Ebisu, Shibuya]], [[Tokyo]], Japan
| num_employees = 167
| key_people = {{ubl|Kazumi Kawashiro|([[President (corporate title)|president]] and [[CEO]])}}
| industry = [[Anime]]
| parent = {{ubl|[[Bandai]]|<small>(1983–2008)</small>|[[Bandai Namco Holdings]]|<small>(2008–2018)</small>}}
| subsid = {{ubl|[[Actas]]|Bandai Entertainment|Beez Entertainment|Emotion|[[Lantis (company)|Lantis]]}}
| homepage = {{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20170925160712/https://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/|bandaivisual.co.jp/}}
}}
{{Nihongo foot|'''Bandai Visual Co., Ltd.'''|株式会社バンダイビジュアル|[[Kabushiki gaisha]] Bandai Bijuaru|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} was a Japanese [[anime]], [[film production]], and distribution company, established by [[Bandai]] and a subsidiary of [[Bandai Namco Holdings]]. They focused mainly in international distribution of anime properties in North America.<ref name="bandaivisualcorporate">{{cite web|url=https://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/e/ir/FY06%202Q.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051126021839/http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/e/ir/FY06%202Q.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 26, 2005 |title=Bandai Visual |access-date=March 7, 2007  }}</ref><ref name="namcobandaiofficialsite">{{cite web|url=https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/en/about/group/index.html|title=NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. – Group Companies|access-date=March 7, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307203726/http://www.bandainamco.co.jp/en/about/group/index.html|archive-date=March 7, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="bandaivisual-bandaichannel">{{cite web|url=https://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/e/ir/press_2006/epress060627-2.html|title=IR information : Press release Third Medium-Term Plan|access-date=March 7, 2007|archive-date=September 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165340/http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/e/ir/press_2006/epress060627-2.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Most of the anime and films that have been distributed and licensed by Bandai Visual have been released under the Emotion label. After the reorganization of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual headed the group's Visual and Music Content [[Strategic Business Unit]]. Its subsidiaries included the Emotion Music Company, Ltd. (whose logos also include the [[Moai]] from Easter Island), and [[Lantis (company)|Lantis]] music publishing labels. Until 2012, it was involved in the production and distribution of several [[anime]] titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]], an alternate anime studio subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In September 2017, Bandai Visual acquired the anime studio [[Actas]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bandai Visual Acquires ''Girls & Panzer'' Anime Studio Actas|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-04/bandai-visual-acquires-girls-and-panzer-anime-studio-actas/.120909|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=September 5, 2017}}</ref>

In February 2018, it was announced Bandai Visual would be merged with Lantis into a new branch of BNH, called [[Bandai Namco Arts]]. The reorganizing took effect as of April 1, 2018. Bandai Visual remains only as a label of the new company.<ref name="New Bandai Visual"/>