Bushiroad

Bushiroad Inc. (ブシロード, Bushirōdo) is a Japanese producer of collectible card games and trading cards, which was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo. It also created and owns the media franchise Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, and published two Milky Holmes visual novels for the PlayStation Portable, developed by Artdink.

On January 29, 2012, Bushiroad announced that it had fully acquired New Japan Pro Wrestling, a major professional wrestling promotion.^[1]

At the 2012 Tokyo Game Show, Bushiroad announced Bushimo, a new social gaming platform for smartphones, which was released in Winter 2012.

In March 2013, Bushiroad announced the revival of the media franchise Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road, with a television anime scheduled to air on December 31, 2013 as a collaboration between Bushiroad, Bandai Visual, Nitroplus, and Kinema Citrus.^[2]

Bushiroad introduced a monthly magazine in September 2013 titled Monthly Bushiroad (月刊ブシロード, Gekkan Bushirōdo). It features manga serializations of their various trading card games and other franchises.

Games and products

Collectible card games

• AlicexCross
• Cardfight!! Vanguard
• ChaosTCG
• Five Qross
• Future Card Buddyfight
• Jewelpet Trading Card Game
• King of Pro-Wrestling
• Monster Collection
• Victory Spark
• Weekly Shonen Sunday V.S. Weekly Shonen Magazine
• Weiß Schwarz

Video games

• Chaos Online
• Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
• Click! Kaitou Teikoku
• Bound Monsters
• Ren'ai Replay
• Kindan Shoukan! Summon Monster
• Love Live! School Idol Festival
• KamiKari: Demons x Trigger
• Dragon Strike

Acquired products

• My Little Pony (Re-acquired from new rival company, Takara Tomy, Property of Hasbro)
• Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road
• New Japan Pro Wrestling (Acquired from Yuke's)

References

External links

• Official site (Japanese)
• Official English site
• Bushiroad English blog