Company:Bushiroad

Short description: Japanese video game publisher and card game company

Bushiroad Inc.

Logo since 2017
Headquarters in Tokyo in 2009
Native name	株式会社ブシロード
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Bushirōdo
Type	Public
Traded as	TYO: 7803
ISIN	JP3829930001
Industry	Video games Media and Entertainment Collectible card games Magazines
Founded	May 18, 2007 (2007-05-18)
Founder	Takaaki Kidani
Headquarters	Sumitomo Nakanosakaue Bldg 1-38-1 Chuo, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Takaaki Kidani (CEO & President)
Products	Television Production Digital media Publishing Music Animated feature films Live event promotion
Services	Licensing
Revenue	¥48.799 billion (2023)
Operating income	¥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%) J1 League (from 2024 season onwards as their official top partners) WE League (from 2024–25 season onwards as the title partner) JFA (as the Major Partner) 2023 AFC Asian Cup (as the Official Regional Partner)
Website	bushiroad.com

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.

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.

Logo (2007–2017)

Overview

In the beginning of the company was an associated in six distinct subgroups that later merged into one entity. The two most important companies that extended the company's global market were in subsidiary which was created on November 12, 2010, to expand the company to market overseas for Collectible card games. On May 18, 2012, Bushiroad set up a subsidiary called Bushiroad USA Inc., which is located in Los Angeles, California to help them demand and increased interest in the company in those markets. The company also has large number of stores offering its products in Australia , Canada , China , France , Germany , United Kingdom , Colombia, Brazil , Argentina , Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, India , Italy, Turkey, Qatar, Philippines , Spain , Portugal, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa , Panama, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, South Africa , and Hong Kong.

• Bushiroad Creative, Inc.

On February 27, 2015, Bushiroad formed a subsidiary to help the company with the trading sales. In May 2016 Bushiroad change the name of Alcard Co., Ltd. to Bushiroad Creative and is currently headed by Kosuke Narita and they moved their headquarters from Warabi, Saitama to Nakano, Tokyo. The company also helps the main company with Merchandising sales.

• Bushiroad Move, Inc.

Formerly known as Bushiroad Media, Bushiroad Move specializes in internet radio production and also manages the voice acting agency, HiBiKi, along with HiBiKi Radio Station, which is dedicated to promoting Bushiroad's anime, games, and voice talents.

• Bushiroad Music, Inc.

Operates a music business and handles activities such as the planning, production and sales of music contents. Bushiroad Music is also highly involved in the production of live events.

• Bushiroad Music Publishing Inc.

Bushiroad Music Publishing is a wing of the Bushiroad Music tasked with handling the copyright, development, and publishing of musical works.

• New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co., Ltd.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) is a professional wrestling promotion that was acquired on January 31, 2012, by Bushiroad and is the largest and oldest wrestling promotion in Japan. In 2019, NJPW formed an American subsidiary of the company called New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America.

• Bushiroad Fight Co., Ltd.

Bushiroad Fight was a company of Bushiroad Group founded in 2016 that owns several sports companies that includes World Wonder Ring Stardom and Knock Out. Since Knock Out's closure, Bushiroad Fight became the trading name for World Wonder Ring Stardom.

• Bushiroad International Pte., Inc.

Bushiroad International Pte Ltd was established in Singapore on November 12, 2011, in order to expand the overseas market for Bushiroad card games. The company was formerly known as Bushiroad South East Asia Pte Ltd before the present name was adopted in August 2017. As the official top partners of the J1 League from 2024 season onwards, the production of the 'Bushiroad×J.League' feed was by the company at the same season for to be exclusively covered in Southeast Asia, MENA (except Israel), Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Latin America by OneFootball via several partners.

• Bushiroad USA, Inc.

Bushiroad USA Inc. was established in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 2012, to better cater to the growing demand and interest in Bushiroad products from both players and retailers in the USA.

• Bushiroad Works, Inc.

Bushiroad Works, Inc. was established to create and publish original IP through manga and novel format.

Bushiroad Well-Be

Bushiroad Well-Be

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Theater
Genre	Fitness
Founded	October 7, 2004
Founder	Takashi Oba
Headquarters	Hokkaido , Japan
Key people	Takashi Oba (Representative Director)
Services	licensing
Number of employees	256 (2022)
Parent	Bushiroad
Subsidiaries	Thearter Company HIKOSEN
Website	https://bushiroad-wellbe.com/

Bushiroad Well-Be is a subsidiary of Bushiroad that owns fitness clubs and theaters and was founded in 2004.

Bushiroad would acquire 14.5% of the shares in 2019 and then later on October 1, 2019, for the purpose of forming a tie-up with the companies' subsidiary theater company Thearter Company HIKOSEN. Furthermore, on February 3, 2020, Bushiroad would acquire all shares of the company made a wholly owned subsidiary.

Games and products

Multimedia franchises

Those are original crossmedia projects of the company that are made available on different media like manga, anime, games and live events.

• Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

Beginning in 2010, it has a voice actor unit for live performances, an anime, light novel, manga and games.

• BanG Dream!

Created in 2015, it has an anime, manga, a mobile game and bands made up by the voice actors of the characters which perform in live events with instruments and also launch music albums and singles. A male-centric version titled From Argonavis launched in 2018.

• Revue Starlight

Beginning in 2017, it has a unit with voice actors for musicals, an anime, manga, a radio program and a mobile game.

• D4DJ

Beginning in 2019, it has an anime, a game, and live DJ performances.

Collectible card games

• AlicexCross
• Cardfight!! Vanguard
• ChaosTCG
• Dragoborne -Rise to Supremacy-
• Five Qross
• Future Card Buddyfight
• Jewelpet Trading Card Game
• King of Pro-Wrestling
• Rebirth for you
• Luck & Logic
• Monster Collection
• Shadowverse: Evolve
• Victory Spark
• Weekly Shonen Sunday V.S. Weekly Shonen Magazine
• Weiß Schwarz

Published video games

Published games through their Bushimo social smartphone gaming service:

• BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
• Case Closed Runner: Race to the Truth
• Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called! Flaming Kasukabe Runner!
• Chaos Online
• Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
• Tap Logic ～TAP! Luck ＆ Logic～
• Senki Zesshō Symphogear XD Unlimited
• The Prince of Tennis Rising Beat
• Click! Kaitou Teikoku
• Bound Monsters
• Ren'ai Replay
• Kindan Shoukan! Summon Monster
• Love Live! School Idol Festival
• Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars
• KamiKari: Demons x Trigger
• Dragon Strike
• Kemono Friends Pavilion
• Cardcaptor Sakura Happiness Memories
• Cardfight!! Online (cancelled project)
• Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight: Re LIVE
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Sakuretsu!! Chorogon Breath

Acquisitions

• Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road
• New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Acquired from Yuke's)
• World Wonder Ring Stardom (Acquired from Rossy Ogawa)
• Sanzigen (8.2%)
• Kinema Citrus (31.8%)
• Sopratico (Acquired from Takashi Oba)
• Frontwing (50.625%)
• Hololive Production (as the official partner, shared with Bandai)
• Tokyo MX (10.06%)
• J1 League (from 2024 season onwards as their official top partners)
• Você Sabia Anime FM (as their 50:50 joint venture with Grupo Bandeirantes)
• Rádio Japão (as their 50:50 joint venture with Grupo Bandeirantes)
• Star FM (50%)
• WE League (from 2024–25 season onwards as the title partner)
• 2023 AFC Asian Cup (as the Official Regional Partner)
• JFA (as the Major Partner)

See also

• Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood