Shogakukan and Shueisha announced that they had bought out two big enterprise companies that handled sales of animated cartoon DVD of Japan etc. in Europe on the 28th.

Group businesses that have already mediated the copyright of the cartoon in the locale and two companies that buy out it are consolidated, and the publication of the cartoon and animated cartoon DVD production are started in France and Germany. It enters an inside where Japanese market is unable to move upward by the falling birthrate etc. and animated cartoon popular, high European market and it aims at the earnings enlargement.

Having bought out it doesn’t make the price forehead etc. public in an animated cartoon virtual company (Berlin) in the KAZE Co. (Paris) in France and Germany. It is made to consolidate in the beginning of September as group businesses of the copyright mediation and the Bizmediayorroppa Co. (Paris).
The name of the company and the site after integration are undecided.

The KAZE Co. etc. work on the publication of the cartoon and the translation and the DVD production and sales of TV animation, etc. in the sphere of French and the sphere of the soliloquy in Europe, and the top line is 2.3 billion yen in total. DVD such as “NANA” of “Great detective Conan” of Shogakukan and Shueisha is sold.