Indigo Entertainment

Background : Started in 1990 by Nina Indigo, Indigo Entertainment specializes in distributing dubbed anime to various companies and networks. Recently, the company gained extreme popularity when it released the TV movie Shadow the Hedgehog - The Disappearing Light. The company also recently released the entire anime collection of Celebrity Home Entertainment to 4Kids TV.

1st Logo

(1990-1995)

Indigo Entertainment 1990

Logo: On a black background, we see the blue word INDIGO flip in from the bottom of the screen. It then rotates upward, then ENTERTAINMENT, in a cursive font, writes itself on. Then the logo freeze-frames.

Cheesy Factor: The "flipping" looks really ridiculous. Also, the freeze-frame is too crappy. But then again, this WAS 1990.

Music: None, or the ending theme plays over it. But on some reruns of Nakasho on Teletoon, the jingle of Kinto Pictures plays.

Availability: Extremely rare. The only places it's seen today are on Teletoon reruns of Yosho Sakuna's Nakasho. Otherwise, 4Kids or Sony Pictures TV logos plaster it.

Scare Factor: Low.

2nd Logo

(1995-2000)

Indigo Entertainment 1995 Indigo Entertainment 1993Indigo Entertainment 1998

Logo: On a blue-black gradient background, the 3D word INDIGO rotates from the bottom of the screen to face us. When it does, the red word ENTERTAINMENT writes itself below. Sometimes DISTRIBUTED BY would fade in above.

Variants:

Sometimes IN ASSOCIATION WITH will be chyroned in above. This was when this logo appeared after the 4Kids logo.

On some shows, a split screen shot of the logo and the 4Kids logo has been seen.

Music: A light new-age fanfare complete with a synth choir and bell chimes.

Availability: Uncommon, but available on most shows from this era. Starting in 1996, Indigo Entertainment has stopped plastering old logos. Instead, they add 4Kids or Sony Pictures TV logos after the old logo.

Scare Factor: None. This is clean and tidy.

3rd Logo

(2000- )

Indigo Entertainment 2005

Logo: On a blue - black gradient background, the word INDIGO, in gold, flies in from the bottom of the screen, then tilts upward. The word ENTERTAINMENT, in light blue, writes itself below the word INDIGO. After the word writes itself, a star twinkles at the end of ENTERTAINMENT.

Variations:

Sometimes there is in in-credit logo. This was seen on Shadow the Hedgehog - The Disappearing Light and CatTrigger Animation's The Cat of Mischief.

When anime from Indigo Entertainment was sold to some network stations, they featured a freeze frame of this logo.

On Japanese prints of ToRi The Eyrie, Kavis, and the old Salt and Pepper cartoons from the 1920's, this logo appears in with a purple and black gradient background after a distributed by screen.

Music: A 5 note techno theme with two pings in the middle.

Availability: On many anime from this period on. Seen on Usaki Nojoya, Borana, The Sparing of Ellie Tyler, Nova of Light, Luminescence, the Cat of Mischief series, and Shadow the Hedgehog-The Disappearing Light.

Scare Factor: None.