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===Background===
===Background===
King Records Co., Ltd. is a Japanese record label company that was founded in 1931 as a division of a publishing company Kodansha.
'''King Records Co., Ltd.''' is a Japanese record company founded in January 1931 as a division of the Japanese publisher Kodansha. It initially began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, and it later became part of the Otowa Group. King Records is one of Japan's largest record companies which is owned by a multinational entity, and its headquarters are in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
=== (2006? -) ===


===1st Logo (1996-2000s)===
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File:King Records (2007).jpg|The early version cames from Orchestral Fantasia music video.
File:King Records (Late 1990s?).jpg
File:King Records (2008, 2020).png|From Nana Mizuki's official YouTube version of COSMIC LOVE music video.
File:King Records (2008).png|From DISCOTHEQUE music video.
File:King Records (2010).png|From PHANTOM MINDS music video.
File:King Records (2011).png|From POP MASTER music video.
File:King Records (2012).jpg|From Synchrogazer music video.
File:King Records (2013, superimposed, variant).png|An superimposed version (transparent variant) cames from Vitalization music video.
File:King Records (2014).png|An CinemaScope version from Kindan no Resistance music video.
File:King Records (2014, variant).jpg|A scary red version from Apassionato music video.
File:King Records (2015, superimposed).png|An superimposed version taken from Angel Blossom music video.
File:King Records (2016).png|An CinemaScope/cyan-tinted version from Zettaiteki Koufukuron music video.
File:King Records (B&W).jpg|A black and white version from Suiren music video.
File:King Records (2018).png|From WHAT YOU WANT music video.
File:King Records (VHS, Scope).png|alt=Can't translate a song name.|A VCR/scope version
File:King Records (2019).png|alt=This song is not from Nana Mizuki's.|From Catch the Rainbow! music video.
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'''Visuals:''' On a moving space background, there's the name "KING RECORDS" in a crystal Friz Quadrata font zooming out and setting from left to right, letter by letter. After the letters finished zooming, a comet comes from the right and draws a silver line. Then, the background turns black as the text becomes white and the line gets divided in three parts colored respectively in red, green and blue.


'''Technique:''' CGI.
'''Logo:''' We see the text "KING RECORDS" with a tri-colored (red, blue, green) line on a black background.


'''Variants:'''
'''Audio:''' Unknown


'''Availability:''' Found on VHS and DVD releases distributed by this company, such as concerts of ''TWO-MIX''.
* A superimposed version exists.

*Sometimes it's in full screen.
===2nd Logo (January 2006-)===
*Sometimes it's a smaller.
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*An early version has a slightly darker.
File:King Records (1994 - present) (Nana Mizuki's SUPER GENERATION Version).jpg|From SUPER GENERATION music clip.
*A CinemaScope/Ultra Panavision 70 version has been spotted.
File:King Records (2007).jpg|From Orchestral Fantasia music clip.
* A red version has been spotted on Nana Mizuki's Apassionato music video.
File:King Records Studio (1994 -) (Astrogation).jpg|From Astrogation music clip.
*A black and white version has been spotted.
File:King Records (2008, 2020).png|From Nana Mizuki's official YouTube version of COSMIC LOVE music clip.
*One music video has a bigger King Records logo and a VCR effect.
File:King Records (2008).png|From DISCOTHEQUE music clip.
*The Kindan no Resistance music video had the text in light brown-yellow.
File:King Records (2010).png|From PHANTOM MINDS music clip.
*The Vitalization music video had the transparent King Records logo glitching out in a circled-stylized background with red-orange lasers, then the Nana Mizuki screen shuts off.
File:King Records (2011).png|From POP MASTER music clip.
*A rare variant that "KING RECORDS" has been replaced with "Bellwood Records" in a Times New Roman-like font.
File:King Records (2012).jpg|From Synchrogazer music clip.
File:King Records (2014).png|An scope version from Forbidden Resistance music clip.
File:King Records (2016).png|An scope version from Theory of Absolute Happiness music clip.
File:King Records (2018).png|From WHAT YOU WANT music clip.
File:King Records (2019).png|alt=This song is not from Nana Mizuki's.|From Inori Minase's Catch the Rainbow! music video.
File:Thank god for Nana Mizuki's FIRE SCREAM.png|From FIRE SCREAM music clip.
File:King Records (1994 - present) (Nana Mizuki's Red Breeze Version).jpg|From Red Breeze special performance clip.
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<center>'''Variants'''</center>
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File:King Records (2013, superimposed, variant).png|Vitalization variant
File:King Records (2014, variant).jpg|Apassionato variant
File:King Records (2015, superimposed).png|Angel Blossom superimposed variant
File:King Records (B&W).jpg|Smart Love variant
File:King Records (VHS, Scope).png|alt=Can't translate a song name.|A VCR/scope variant
File:King Records Studio (1994 -) (Get up! Shout! variant).png|alt=Yeah, it is currently appearance, until Red Breeze.|Get up! Shout! variant
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'''Visuals:''' There is the text "KING RECORDS" with a tri-colored (red, blue, green) line on a black background.

'''Variants:'''
*A superimposed version exists.
*Sometimes it's in full screen (4:3).
*Sometimes it's a smaller or larger size.
*A scope version has been spotted.
*A color-tinted might prefer some music videos. Cyan in Theory of Absolute Happiness, and brown in Forbidden Resistance.
*A variant that "KING RECORDS" has been replaced with "Bellwood Records" in a Times New Roman-like font.
*A in-credit version also exists.
*A in-credit version also exists.


'''Music Video Variants''':
'''FX/SFX:''' None.
*"Orchestral Fantasia" has a slightly darker, smaller, and stretched out.
*"Vitalization" has the transparent King Records logo glitching out in a circled-stylized background with red-orange lasers, then Nana Mizuki's face screen shuts off.
*"Apassionato" has the logo in red.
*"Smart Love" (Suiren) had the logo in black and white.
*One music video has a bigger King Records logo and a VCR/VHS effect.
*"Get up! Shout!" has the print logo appearing on a background via a glitch-like transition. After a few seconds the logo and background glitch out.

'''Technique:''' Fading effects.

'''Audio:''' None or the closing theme.

'''Audio Variants:'''
*Nana Mizuki's NEVER SURRENDER has raining and dripping sound effects, with the wind ambience on the background.
*Similarly, Inori Minase's Catch the Rainbow! has winding-like sound effect.

'''Availability:'''
*Seen on many music videos of some King Records artists, such as Nana Mizuki, Mamoru Miyano, Inori Minase, and etc.
*This logo is omitted on some music videos, mostly from AKB48.
*The logo made its surprise appearance on the Nana Mizuki's official YouTube version of COSMIC LOVE.
*Inori Minase's official YouTube version of "Starry Wish" and "Ready Steady GO!" music videos had no logo.

===3rd Logo (Early 2010s- )===
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File:King Records (Early 2010s).jpg
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'''Visuals:''' Over a black background is the silvery letters "KING RECORDS" flip in and zoom out, as red, blue, and green stripes streak in and fly underneath, forming the familiar tri-colored line in their logo. The company name flashes and turns to white.


'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
'''Technique:''' CGI animation.


'''Audio:''' Several whooshes, then a synth note.
'''Availability:''' Uncommon.
*Appeared on the end of some music videos starting in 2007 with Nana Mizuki's Orchestral Fantasia.
*A CinemaScope/Ultra Panavision 70 version has appeared on the music video versions of Nana Mizuki's BRIGHT STREAM, Kindan no Resistance, WHAT YOU WANT (first song from her 37th single WONDER QUEST EP), Destiny's Prelude, and Inori Minase's Catch the Rainbow!
*This logo is omitted on both music video versions of Nana Mizuki's Pray and SUPER☆MAN, and most AKB48 single songs.
*The COSMIC LOVE music video however, had the logo in Nana Mizuki's official YouTube channel.


'''Availability:''' Can be seen at the start of some [[Funimation]] series, such as ''Endro!'' and ''Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist'', among others. It might plaster the [[Starchild|Starchild]] logo.
'''Editor's Note:''' This logo is similar to the last Perfini logo from 1989 and SF Studios from 1930 to 1932 and 1939 to 1995.


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Latest revision as of 11:47, 2 August 2024


Background

King Records Co., Ltd. is a Japanese record company founded in January 1931 as a division of the Japanese publisher Kodansha. It initially began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, and it later became part of the Otowa Group. King Records is one of Japan's largest record companies which is owned by a multinational entity, and its headquarters are in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

1st Logo (1996-2000s)

Visuals: On a moving space background, there's the name "KING RECORDS" in a crystal Friz Quadrata font zooming out and setting from left to right, letter by letter. After the letters finished zooming, a comet comes from the right and draws a silver line. Then, the background turns black as the text becomes white and the line gets divided in three parts colored respectively in red, green and blue.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Unknown

Availability: Found on VHS and DVD releases distributed by this company, such as concerts of TWO-MIX.

2nd Logo (January 2006-)

Variants

Visuals: There is the text "KING RECORDS" with a tri-colored (red, blue, green) line on a black background.

Variants:

  • A superimposed version exists.
  • Sometimes it's in full screen (4:3).
  • Sometimes it's a smaller or larger size.
  • A scope version has been spotted.
  • A color-tinted might prefer some music videos. Cyan in Theory of Absolute Happiness, and brown in Forbidden Resistance.
  • A variant that "KING RECORDS" has been replaced with "Bellwood Records" in a Times New Roman-like font.
  • A in-credit version also exists.

Music Video Variants:

  • "Orchestral Fantasia" has a slightly darker, smaller, and stretched out.
  • "Vitalization" has the transparent King Records logo glitching out in a circled-stylized background with red-orange lasers, then Nana Mizuki's face screen shuts off.
  • "Apassionato" has the logo in red.
  • "Smart Love" (Suiren) had the logo in black and white.
  • One music video has a bigger King Records logo and a VCR/VHS effect.
  • "Get up! Shout!" has the print logo appearing on a background via a glitch-like transition. After a few seconds the logo and background glitch out.

Technique: Fading effects.

Audio: None or the closing theme.

Audio Variants:

  • Nana Mizuki's NEVER SURRENDER has raining and dripping sound effects, with the wind ambience on the background.
  • Similarly, Inori Minase's Catch the Rainbow! has winding-like sound effect.

Availability:

  • Seen on many music videos of some King Records artists, such as Nana Mizuki, Mamoru Miyano, Inori Minase, and etc.
  • This logo is omitted on some music videos, mostly from AKB48.
  • The logo made its surprise appearance on the Nana Mizuki's official YouTube version of COSMIC LOVE.
  • Inori Minase's official YouTube version of "Starry Wish" and "Ready Steady GO!" music videos had no logo.


3rd Logo (Early 2010s- )

Visuals: Over a black background is the silvery letters "KING RECORDS" flip in and zoom out, as red, blue, and green stripes streak in and fly underneath, forming the familiar tri-colored line in their logo. The company name flashes and turns to white.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: Several whooshes, then a synth note.

Availability: Can be seen at the start of some Funimation series, such as Endro! and Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist, among others. It might plaster the Starchild logo.

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