AnimeWorks

Credits

Descriptions by
Thisisanswer and Lyfe

Captures by
Henrynguye5

Editions by
Henrynguye5

Video captures courtesy of
Charles Loftus, FanCentralNetwork, LogosForTheWin and TLMA

Background

AnimeWorks is a division of Media Blasters that distributes anime.

1st Logo (1997-2000)

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Visuals: A wood stage is seen with a red curtain above it. The curtain opens, revealing a black background and a blue oval with yellow outline and the words "Anime Works" on it. Next to the oval is an anime schoolgirl with dark red hair, dressed in yellow and blue with cat ears and a cat tail. The camera pans closer to the logo.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Applause and a funky synth tune.

Availability: Seen on many Media Blasters and AnimeWorks releases around that time. ^[Examples?]

2nd Logo (2000-2005)

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Visuals: The screen fades to the same Milky Way background from the Media Blasters logo of the time, but in cerulean and yellow. A lens flare appears seconds later, as the main light progressively grows in size. Several silhouetted monoliths float and zoom out, which after becoming lightened reveal to be the words "Anime Works" stacked vertically. Meanwhile, a glowing figure forms to the left of the words, overlapping the growing light (which at this point has gained the shape of a gear) and causing a flash that turns the rest of the screen purple. The flash reveals the shape to be an anime schoolgirl similar to that of the previous logo, but completely redrawn to have better detailing and eliminating the cat features, while the text gains a blue outline and a shadow and the light becomes a rotating gear, which then shines. The logo and space background fade out slowly, becoming blackness with a yellow glow around the gear before it fades out completely.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Same as the Media Blasters logo of the time, but with different corresponding sound effects.

Availability: Found on several Media Blasters releases of the time, after the Media Blasters logo. Strangely appears on their DVDs of Invader Zim, despite not being anime.

3rd Logo (2005-)

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Visuals: The word "Anime", in the same font and style as before, slides in from the right on a blue background. The camera then goes down a little to see the word "Works", while the blue background zooms out to reveal it is the gear from the previous logo. The entire logo then zooms out and while the words place themselves on the gear, the gear becomes white with an orange shadow outline that then "rotates". The white gear shape then zooms in and expands as the words bounce and zoom in rapidly, fading out in the process.

Variant: On the 2008 US release of Samurai Deeper Kyo for GBA, a still version is seen, accompanied with "game shop" below.

Technique: 2D digital animation.

Audio: A radio tuning sound, alongside some whooshes, a sound resembling a door being closed as the words place themselves in the gear, a note rising as if the logo was gaining energy, a static TV-like sound and finally a sound effect in-between an energy-gaining sound (which is actually a stock sound effect called "SPACE - FADE OUT, ELECTRONIC" by Sound Ideas) and a whoosh.

Availability: Found on newer AnimeWorks releases. ^[Examples?]