Discotek Media

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Discotek Media is an American entertainment company based in Altamonte Springs, Florida, focused on distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series.^[1]

Key Information

Company type	Private
Industry	Entertainment
Genre	Anime asian films
Founded	2005; 20 years ago (2005)
Headquarters	Altamonte Springs, Florida , U.S.
Area served	United States Canada
Services	Licensing Publishing Streaming
Website	discotekmedia.com
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Formed in 2005,^[1] Discotek primarily focuses on licensing retro titles from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, a lot of them "license rescued" from other companies such as Funimation, Viz Media, ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Geneon, Manga Entertainment, etc. Their licenses include most of the Lupin the Third franchise, the first two seasons and six films of Digimon, Fist of the North Star, Sonic X, Hajime no Ippo, Urusei Yatsura, Galaxy Express 999, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Monster and the 1997 Berserk series, as well as OVAs such as Giant Robo and Gunbuster and films such as Memories and Project A-ko. The company has also acquired several more recent titles and has collaborated with streaming service Crunchyroll on several releases, including KonoSuba, Kemono Friends, and 5 Centimeters per Second.

Discotek is notable for being a major adopter of the SD Blu-ray format, using it to release anime that do not have HD masters available.^[2] The company has utilized unusual methods to find English dubs for which the masters have been lost. Such techniques include using a Betamax copy of Nutcracker Fantasy in order to remaster the international cut of the film,^[3] and reaching out to the fan community to locate the English dub of the third season of Medabots.^[4]

Discotek commissioned their first original English-language dub for the April 2016 release of Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone.^[5] In 2022, the company announced a new sub-label for live-action films, Nihon Nights, and another for tokusatsu television series and films, Toku Time.^[6][7] The former began with the Blu-ray release of Uzumaki,^[6] and the latter began with the release of Space Sheriff Gavan.

• Official website
• Discotek Media at Anime News Network's encyclopedia