, also known by the shorthand form , is a Japanese

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publishing company Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, news ...

founded on October 1, 1966. The company publishes mainly physical home media on compact discs, including music, films and TV shows and

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s. It is affiliated with the Japanese media group

Fujisankei Communications Group , abbreviated FCG, is a keiretsu in Japan. In 1991, it was the fourth-largest media company in the world and the largest one in Japan. In the same year, the company's yearly revenue was $5 billion. Many of its affiliates are owned by Fuji Media ...

. Pony Canyon is a major leader in the music industry in Japan, with its artists regularly at the top of the Japanese charts. Pony Canyon is also responsible for releasing taped concerts from its artists as well as many

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productions and several film productions. Pony Canyon is headquartered in Tokyo with offices in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

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and

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. It employs approximately 360 people. Pony Canyon also owns the recording label Flight Master.

History

On October 1, 1966, Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. opened a new record label division, called as Nippon Broadcasting System Service, Inc., in order to produce and market music from Japanese artists. The division formally changed its name in 1970 to Pony Inc. in order to match the brand names it had been using previously. These were "PONYPak" for 8-track cassettes from 1967, and "PONY" for cassettes from 1968. On August 1, 1970, another Japanese record label, Canyon Records Inc. was founded. Like Pony Inc., Canyon Records was part of the

. Canyon Records was financially backed at 60% by Pony Inc. and at 40% by Pony's parent company Nippon Broadcasting System. In 1982, Pony ventured into interactive content by producing personal computer game software under the name "Ponyca". In 1984, the company entered license agreements with major overseas companies,

MGM/UA Home Video MGM/UA may refer to: *Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, American film and television production and distribution company **United Artists, American film and television studio, now a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * MGM/UA Home Video, the home video arm of Met ...

, Vestron Video International,

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and BBC Video (the company also entered license agreements with major overseas companies, RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video in 1986), and in 1985, they established offices in New York and London. In 1986, Pony signed licensing agreements with A&M Records and in 1989 with

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to handle both companies' Japanese CD releases. On October 21, 1987, Pony Inc. and Canyon Records merged their operations to form Pony Canyon Inc.Company Profile
- Pony Canyon's official site In 1990, Pony Canyon branched out, and opened five subsidiaries outside Japan, one of them is a subsidiary in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

called Skin which was managed by Jimmy Wee and signed local English language performers such as Gwailo, Art Fazil, Chris Vadham, The Lizards' Convention, Humpback Oak and Radio Active. In addition to Singapore, Pony Canyon has also had a subsidiary in Taiwan, and a joint venture in Hong Kong and South Korea, named as Golden Pony and SAMPONY, respectively. Four of five subsidiaries were closed in 1997 due to Asian financial crisis, leaving the Malaysian subsidiary as the only subsidiary to remain in operation. However, the Hong Kong and Korean operations were reestablished as a wholly owned subsidiary, although the Korean operation had a 16% stake of local partner. In 2003, the Hong Kong and Taiwan branch of Pony Canyon, both affected by the financial crisis, were acquired by Forward Music. In 2018, Pony Canyon reestablished its branch in Taiwan. As a video game producer, Pony Canyon brought the '' Ultima'' series from Origin Systems and the '' Advanced Dungeons and Dragons'' series from Strategic Simulations to Nintendo's Family Computer. Between 1986 and 1990, they produced remakes of the first four ''Ultima'' titles for the MSX2 and NES platforms. These remakes differed from the original versions, with rewritten game code and all-new graphics. Pony Canyon's video game library was generally released in North America by FCI. Pony Canyon has not released any video games since ''Virtual View: Nemoto Harumi'' for the PlayStation 2 in July 2003. The company has occasionally been involved in film production. For example, they were a co-production company for the 1996 Indian erotic film '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love''. Following a merger with Nippon Broadcasting System, Fuji Television Network, Inc. became the major shareholder of Pony Canyon in 2006. The following year, Fuji Television made Pony Canyon its wholly owned subsidiary. Fuji Television was subsequently renamed Fuji Media Holdings in 2008. Despite associations with Fuji Television, not all of Pony Canyon's TV show and movie library has been broadcast on Fuji Television. Some of Pony Canyon's non-Fuji TV catalog includes ''

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'' movies. In September 2014, Pony Canyon opened a North American anime distribution label, Ponycan USA, which aims to license their titles for streaming and home video in US and Canada. Their home video releases will be distributed exclusively by Right Stuf Inc.

Music artists

Below is a selected list of musical artists signed under the Pony Canyon label in the past and present. * +Plus (2009–2011) *

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* Leaf Squad * Little Black Dress (2021–present) *

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Composers

* Yasuharu Takanashi ('' Fairy Tail, First series only'')

Video games

Below is a selected list of video games either developed or published by the Pony Canyon label. * ''Attack Animal Gakuen'' * '' Back to the Future'' * ''

Bubble Ghost ''Bubble Ghost'' is an action video game originally created by Christophe Andréani for the Atari ST and published by ERE Informatique in 1987. The player controls a ghost who guides a floating bubble by blowing on it. Gameplay The objective is ...

'' * '' Dr. Chaos'' * ''Final Justice'' * ''Fruit Panic'' * ''Hacker'' * ''

Hydlide is an action role-playing game developed and published by T&E Soft. It was originally released for the NEC PC-6001 and PC-8801 computers in 1984, in Japan only; ports for the MSX, MSX2, FM-7 and NEC PC-9801 were released the following year. ...

'' * ''Jungle Wars 2 – Kodai Mahou Ateimos no Nazo'' * ''Kabuki-chou Reach Mahjong: Toupuusen'' * ''Koi wa Kakehiki'' * '' Lunar Pool'' * ''Malaya's Treasure'' * '' Onita Atsushi FMW'' * ''

Onyanko Town Micronics (マイクロニクス Maikuronikusu) was a Japanese video game developer in 1980s and 1990s. It mostly ported arcade games to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Like many video game developers, Micronics didn't credit itself in its games ...

'' * '' Out Run'' * ''

Penguin Land ''Penguin Land'', known as in Japan, is a 1987 puzzle-platform game published and developed by Sega for the Master System. It is the second game in the ''Doki Doki Penguin Land'' series. The player controls a penguin to guide an egg around po ...

'' * ''

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'' * ''Pit Fall'' * ''The Police Story'' * ''

Shiroi Ringu he ''Shiroi Ringu he'', full title , is a professional wrestling video game for the Super Famicom that was released on December 27, 1995. Popular female Japanese professional wrestlers like Shinobu Kandori and Noriyo Tateno appear in this game. Ga ...

'' * ''Shogi'' * '' Sokoban'' * ''

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'' * '' Tasmania Story'' * ''TanTan Tanuki'' * '' Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness'' * '' Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress'' * '' Ultima III: Exodus'' * '' Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar'' * ''

Zanac is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Compile and published in Japan by Pony Canyon and in North America by FCI. It was released for the MSX computer, the Family Computer Disk System, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and for the Virtu ...

Anime

Below is a list of

series licensed for streaming and home video release in North America by Pony Canyon's Ponycan USA label. * ''

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'' * '' Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!'' (Seasons 1 & 2) * ''

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'' * ''

Denkigai no Honya-san , also known by the abbreviation , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Asato Mizu. It depicts slice of life stories about a group of characters who work in a fictional ''doujin'' shop called , a reference to the real-life ''d ...

'' * ''

Etotama is a Japanese anime television series produced by Encourage Films and Shirogumi, which aired from April 9 to June 25, 2015. A manga adaptation began serialization from December 2013 in ASCII Media Works's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Dengek ...

'' * '' Garakowa: Restore the World'' * '' Kuromukuro'' (

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Original) * ''

Lance N' Masques is a Japanese light novel series written by Hideaki Koyasu with illustrations by Shino. Pony Canyon has published the series in nine volumes from 2013 to 2018 under their Poni Can imprint. An anime television series adaptation by Studio Goku ...

'' * '' The Lost Village'' * '' Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers'' * '' Sanrio Boys'' * ''

Sound! Euphonium is a Japanese novel series written by Ayano Takeda. The story is set in Uji, Kyoto and focuses on the Kitauji High School Music Club, whose concert band is steadily improving thanks to the newly appointed adviser's strict instruction ...

'' (Seasons 1 & 2) * ''

Welcome to the Ballroom is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomo Takeuchi. It tells the prototypical story of an aimless Japanese youth named Tatara Fujita, who, after a chance encounter, is plunged into the world of competitive dancing. An anime ...

'' * ''

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History

Music artists

Composers

Video games

Anime

See also

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