A.D. Vision (commonly referred to as ADV) is a Houston, Texas based international multimedia entertainment company, active in home video production and distribution, broadcast television, theatrical film distribution, merchandising, original productions, magazine and comic book publishing and is the largest anime company in North America. Downtown Houston Uptown Houston City nickname: Space City Location in the state of Texas Founded   â€” Incorporated 1836 1837 Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Area   â€” Land   â€” Water 601. ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...

It was founded in 1992 by anime fans John Ledford and Matt Greenfield. Since then, the company has grown immensely in size and diversified with several subsidiary companies, handling an array of properties and original content. Perhaps their most popular property is the Gainax anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, originally released by ADV in the U.S. in 1997 and rereleased several times since. The company maintains offices in North America, Europe and Asia. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン Shin Seiki Evangerion) is an anime television series, begun in 1995, directed and written by Hideaki Anno, and produced by Gainax. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ...

By their own admission, what the initials "A.D." stand for are a closely-guarded company secret.

A.D. Vision subsidiaries

• ADV Films, the original core of the company, which distributes anime, tokusatsu and live-action material
• Newtype USA, the US edition of Japan's Newtype magazine
• The Anime Network, which is the United States' first all-anime cable TV network
• ADV Manga, which publishes Japanese manga
• ADV Music, which publishes soundtracks from anime and other Japanese films
• ADV Pro, which is the company's anime production studio
• ADV Toys, the merchandizing and character licensing division

ADV Films was the home video publication arm of A.D. Vision based in Houston, Texas. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Tokusatsu (特撮) (sometimes just called Toku) is the Japanese term for special effects and often used to classify Japanese live-action sci-fi/fantasy/horror movie/TV productions. ... Newtype USA is a monthly anime and manga magazine, and the official English-language version of Newtype, Japans #1 source for information about anime and manga. ... Newtype is a Japanese monthly magazine about anime and manga. ... The Anime Network, a subsidiary of A.D. Vision, Inc. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... ADV Manga is the manga publishing division of A.D. Vision, Inc. ... Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... ADV Music is the music publishing division of A.D. Vision, Inc. ... Generally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ...

External link

• ADV Films Website