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TMS Entertainment Begins DVD Production
Date: 9/23/2005
TMS Entertainment, the company best known for it's Lupin III animation, formally announced plans to produce and distribute DVD and video media in-house as a newly formed business. The move comes as TMS, founded in 1964, seeks more independence as a studio that has been involved in planning, property production and sales as well as importing and exporting animated works. Until this point outside companies had contracted for DVD production rights on various licenses. TMS aims at sales of one billion Yen and a release of a scheduled of five works by March of next year. The first product from the initiative, Monkey Punch - Mankatsu, is already in stores across Japan. Retailing at 25,000 Yen, the Box Set includes 7 discs.
Source: Anime News Service