Pony Canyon is a Japanese anime and music producing company.
Established as a subsidiary of the Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc., the core company of the Fujisankei Communications Group, to pioneer the production and sales of car stereo music tapes in 1966. Canyon Records Inc. was founded in 1970 in accordance with the growing tape market for record shops. In 1987, Pony and Canyon Records merged to form a new company, PONY CANYON INC. Currently, PONY CANYON INC. dedicates itself to the development and nurture of varied types of entertainment software including production, manufacture, and distribution of diverse packaged software, as well as digital distribution services focusing on entertainment. One of the biggest producers/distributors of Blu-rays and DVDs in Japan, PONY CANYON has been involved in the production and Japanese releases of many hit anime titles including Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, K-On!, Free! and so on.
In 2015, they launched their U.S. division, Ponycan USA, to bring some of the titles it worked on to America (kind of similar to how Aniplex does with Aniplex USA).
Anime the company was involved with:
Distributed via Ponycan USA
- Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun
- Cutie Honey Universe
- Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! (Home video rights. Streaming rights shared with Funimation) (Sub-only release).
- Days
- Denki-Gai (sub-only release)
- Etotama
- Garakowa: Restore The World (sub-only import)
- The Girl In Twilight
- Hinomaru Zumou
- Kuromukuro (Home video rights. Streams as a "Netflix Original" with an English dub paid for by them)
- Lance N' Masques
- The Lost Village
- Magic-kyun! Renaissance
- Release the Spyce
- Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (sub-only, English dub was produced at a later date)
- Sanrio Boys
- Sound! Euphonium (sub-only)
- Tsurune
- Welcome to the Ballroom
- Yuki Yuna is a Hero (First title released in North America, also first (and so far, only) dubbed series).
Music artists associated with Pony Canyon
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- A.B.C-Z
- Aaron Yan
- Ai Maeda
- aiko
- Alyssa Milano
- Ami Wajima
- Arashi
- Asriel
- Aya Ueto
- Ayana Taketatsu
- B1A4
- Babyraids
- Bananarama
- Beatcats
- Berryz Koubou
- Blood Stain Child
- BY-SEXUAL
- CHERRYBLOSSOM
- Cinema Staff
- COMA-CHI
- Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
- Crayon Pop
- Cute
- D-51
- Defspiral
- Dream Catcher
- Ensemble Planeta
- Fahrenheit
- Fishmans
- FLAME
- FUNKIST
- HALO
- Hanako Oku
- Happatai
- Hiro Shimono
- Idoling!!!
- Jamil
- Jang Keun-suk
- Jun Fukuyama
- Kana Hanazawa
- Kaori Ishihara
- Kato Kazuki
- Kim Jeong-Hoon (John Hoon)
- Kim Samuel
- KitarÅ
- Kokia
- Kreva
- Kym Campbell
- Lead
- Leaf Squad
- LM.C
- Maaya Uchida
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Mao Abe
- Marc van Roon
- MC Sniper
- Milky Bunny
- Miki Matsubara
- Mikuni Shimokawa
- Nature
- Official Hige Dandism
- Original Love
- Paradise Lost
- Park Yong-ha
- Paul Mauriat
- The Pillows
- Ricki Lee
- Roger Joseph Manning, Jr.
- Romeo
- Rumdarjun
- Show Lo
- Smileage
- Sam Roberts
- Segawa Ayaka
- Sexy Zone
- Smiley*2G
- she
- Shizuka Kudo
- Sound Horizon
- SS501
- SuG
- Suzuko Mimori
- Taegoon
- Team H
- TiA
- Tsukiko Amano
- Van Ness Wu
- Watari Roka Hashiritai
- Weather Girls
- W-inds.
- The Wild Magnolias
- World Order
- Yasuharu Takanashi
- Yōko Hikasa
- Yu Yamada
- Yuki Saito
- Yukiko Okada
- Yurika Kubo
- Zeebra
