STUDIOARCANE

Arcane Global Media, Inc. (stylized as STUDIOARCANE™, formerly an LLC until 2003) is a Japanese-American worldwide-served media company with interests in film, television, and animation. They have been involved in the planning, production, animation and distribution of many TV shows, feature and made-for-TV films, and OVAs and ONAs such as Lisa's Final Brawl, M.U.R.D.E.R, Tension, Flicker: The Animation, Kat's Guide to Get Away with Murder, Strawberry Seafoam, Amulet and others, while also being active in the children's industry through ownership of the Trident Kids, BOOM! and Refresh networks, the family media companies StudioArcane Family Entertainment and 9ate7 Productions, and shows such as The Snow Butterflies, and TV adaptations of Six Minutes and Becoming Mother Nature (both from GenZMedia), The studio is based in Hachioji/Tokyo and New York/Philadelphia/Durham (NC) and was founded in 1993. Arcane began as an animation studio, providing creative services for larger companies until it secured enough funds for original productions.

Although the company mostly specializes in and is known for animation, live-action has been a part of its roster since the early days, and with shows like Six Minutes, Becoming Mother Nature, Shadow's Rise and Luminious, the company continues to venture into L-A.

In 2015, Arcane purchased fellow animation studio and children's media company 9ate7. In 2017, Arcane acquired the assets of the Colossal Media Group after that company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 2019, Arcane acquired a majority stake in Fran Studios, which owns the production company Carolina Film, and 2021 brought the acquisition of Callaway Arts & Entertainment.

Their logo was changed in 2021.

History
In 1993, STUDIOARCANE was launched by Val Ellis, Brook Cooke, Blake Simpson, Obara Masaaki, and Sasaki Hideko, after departing from Bailey Animation Services a year earlier.

In 1999, Arcane got a full budget for original productions after spending 6 years providing services for other studios. Their first show with this budget with Whitewater, which originally aired on CBS.

A year later, Canadian animation studio Nelvana sent a letter to Arcane asking them to pitch a Webtoon adaptation. Arcane responded with an adaptation of the webtoon Strawberry Seafoam, a co-production between Arcane, Nelvana, CBS Productions and Teletoon Canada, Inc.

On October 6, 2004, Blocky-Flower executives announced that they were leaving Arcane and relaunching an independent B-F. The Blocky-Flower trademarks remained with Shantae Animation Europe when that company was spun off before the EW! Studios purchase and Arcane merge, and SAE transferred the license to the name to the new company.

In March 2009, Arcane founded StudioArcane Family Entertainment, an independent producer & distributor of family media. The label planned 5 shows with budgets of $100,000 each. The first release was ''Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!'', a series with a budget of about US$1 million. In March 2016, following waning ratings, Arcane shuttered the label and moved its operations to the main studio, only to have it return in April 2019.

In 2010, Arcane founded ArcaneAlternative, an alternative production label. Their first release was the movie The Radio on March 7th, 2011. Their most recent work under this label to gain notability would be Living with the Midoriyas.

In 2015, 9ate7 Productions announced it will merge with Arcane for $250 million. The deal was approved near the end of the year, on December 27th, 2015, an completed on January 4th, 2016.

On February 4, 2017, Colossal Media Group announced in a statement that it would declare bankruptcy. However, they later confirmed that CMG is set to sell some of its assets to other companies, Arcane among them. On February 28th, they officially collapsed, shutting down all of their studios in the process.