Anime Pictures

Background: Anime Pictures was a company made in the 1970s for making and distributing anime products. It had a television unit calledAnime Television and it did producequite a lot of anime products.

1st logo

(1975-1980)

Logo: On a black background, we see the words "Anime Pictures" in a white font. The logo fades out after 10 seconds.

Variants: Sometimes, the background would be coloured.

On Warner Bros co-produced movies, the words would be set on the Warner Bros clouds.

Sometimes, copyright would appear under the logo.

FX/SFX: None

Music/Sounds: None

Availability: Rare. This was only used for 5 years. Most movies that had this logo plastered it with the new ones. Some movies retain it.

Scare Factor: None, the logo is boring

2nd logo

(1980-1993)

Logo: On a colour changing background, we see the word "Anime" coming in from the left. Then, the word "Pictures comes in from under the right. It makes it stand out as "Anime Pictures". The colours are Red, Blue, Green, Brown and Purple.

Variants: In its early days, the words “Presents” in script would appear under the logo.

Sometimes, the colours would be different. There were a few colour variants too.

Sometimes, the logo would be still.

FX/SFX: All the animation in the logo!

Music/Sounds: A wacky fanfare with a horn and classical instruments. At the end, someone would say “Anime Pictures” in a Japanese-like voice. In later days, the voice was omitted.

Availability: Uncommon. It appeared on a lot of products Anime Pictures did but it is starting to be plastered with the newer ones. Still retained on DVD and VHS releases though.

Scare Factor: Minimal. The fanfare might get to some, but it is pretty much harmless

3rd logo

(1993-present)

Logo: We just see a certain anime picture with the words "Anime Pictures".

Variants: A lot of movies had different variants of this logo. The anime picture would be different for a lot of films

FX/SFX: None

Music/Sounds: Either none or the opening of the movie

Availability: Very common. A lot of anime movies had this logo. Custom variants were used for a lot of anime movies. This logo can be seen on Anime DVDs and VHS tapes, because it is never plastered over. It sometimes plasters the previous logos though.

Scare Factor: None

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