Bushiroad Inc. (株式会社ブシロード, Kabushiki-gaisha Bushirōdo) is a Japanese entertainment company, producer of collectible card games and trading cards, publisher of mobile apps and games, promotional items and many other venues, which was founded in 2007 by Takaaki Kidani and is headquartered in Tokyo.
[3] On January 29, 2012, Bushiroad announced that it had fully acquired New Japan Pro-Wrestling, a major professional wrestling promotion, for ¥500 million.
[8] It also created the media franchise Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight in 2017, which consists of a musical and an anime television series.
The three companies previously announced a partnership in the same year for the creation of different anime, and one of the reasons for the deal was due to that partnership and a day later Bushiroad announced that it had acquired 8.2% of Sanzigen with Ultra Super Pictures owning 75.4% of Sanzigen and studio president Hiroaki Matsuura owning 16.4% of the company.
The company also has large number of stores offering its products in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, India, Italy, Turkey, Qatar, Philippines, Spain, Portugal, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, Panama, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, South Africa, and Hong Kong.
Those are original crossmedia projects of the company that are made available on different media like manga, anime, games and live events.
Created in 2015, it has an anime, manga, a mobile game and bands made up by the voice actors of the characters which perform in live events with instruments and also launch music albums and singles.
Beginning in 2017, it has a unit with voice actors for musicals, an anime, manga, a radio program and a mobile game.