Cloverway Inc. (abbreviated as CWi, also branded as Cloverway)[3] was a media licensing agency based in Long Beach, California which specialized in Japanese animation and manga licensing, and they were best known for being the representative office of Toei Animation for the Americas, mostly distributing Toei properties for syndication and home video.
and local companies both in the U.S. market (Viz Communications,[4] Tokyopop,[5] Pioneer Entertainment,[6] ADV Films, and Bandai Entertainment) and the Latin American market (Televisa, TV Azteca, Cisneros, Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, PlayTV), for film distribution or manga publishing of their contents in the continent, to various TV channels in each country, regionally and pan-regionally as well as arranging publishing deals with several manga publishers in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Generally, Cloverway commissioned dubbing for the Spanish versions to the company Intertrack [es] (until its closure in 2005, later on to Optimedia Productions in 2006) in Mexico, and the Brazilian versions to Álamo [pt] (with exceptions like Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho and Mirmo) in São Paulo Brazil, while some other works were dubbed into Spanish through Cloverway's arrangements with Televisa's owned Audiomaster 3000 [es] in Mexico.
Other Cloverway's arrangements were made with International Telefilms Inc. for first-run syndication broadcasting in Chile (ETC TV and CHV) and Spanish dubbing recorded by Technoworks/HispanoAmérica Doblajes [es] in Santiago.
At the middle of 2006, Cloverway licensed an Anime Free-TV programming block titled "Otacraze"[20] to Brazilian broadcaster PlayTV[21] who begun airing the block in March 2007, including the series Ranma ½, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, and Love Hina.