U.S. Renditions

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U.S. Renditions was a Special Projects Division of Books Nippan (which was the American branch of Nippon Shuppan Hanbai). The division was originally started in February 1987 to develop products for the then fledgling Anerican anime market. The founding members of the division were Kevin Seymour, David Keith Riddick, Sho Nagata and Satoshi Komatsu. Robert Napton later joined the division and became a key figure in its productions. After producing two music projects for the Robotech Television series. They produced the very first subtitled direct-to-home anime video for the American anime market which was the subtitled version of Gunbuster but also released such subtitled hits as Dangaioh, Appleseed, and Black Magic M-66, and even began dubbing anime in 1992, the year their release of Dangaioh was completed. Their first dubbing projects included Macross II and Fight! Iczer-One. These video projects were a joint venture with L.A. Hero which was headed by Ken Iyadomi. The division also worked with U.S. Manga Corps (A division of Central Park Media). When Books Nippan ceased operations in the mid-1990s, the divsion was dissolved. Kevin Seymour went on to become a successful anime english voice director. Robert Napton became the director of Bandai U.S.A.'s Manga division. Although some of their releases have seen re-release through Bandai U.S.A. and Manga Entertainment. Some of their titles such as the original uncut subtitled version of Dangaioh and the 17 dubbed episodes of The Super Dimension Century Orguss, were never re-released and have remained out of print on home video.