Funimation Logo Vector

About Funimation

Funimation is also known as Funimation Global Group. It is an American entertainment company that provides specialized services of dubbing and distribution of East Asian media and it has a history of working with Japanese anime. It was founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga and Cindy Brennan and its headquarters is in California, United States. Its chairman is Gen himself and it has 400 employees. Its parent company is Entertainment Japan, Aniplex, Sony Pictures and Navarre Corporation. The company was launched with funds given by Daniel Cocanougher and his family. The company became the most-known anime distributor in North America.

Meaning and History of Funimation Logo

The idea of Funimation was given to Gen by his uncle Nagafumi Hori in 1990. Hori was working as a producer for Toei Company. Hori suggested that Gen would start a production company and raise money, the Toei Animation company would give the license of Dragon Ball franchise to United States. Funimation changed its logo 7 times in the following years.

• 1994
• 1996
• 2004
• 2005
• 2007
• 2011
• 2016

Evolution of Funimation Logo

Gen asked Daniel to sell their family business which was of a feed mill in Texas and become an investor in the company. The company was launched as Funimation Productions. In 1998, the cartoons Dragon Ball and its second part Dragon Ball Z became the highest-rated tv show of all time. Funimation changed its logo in the following ways.

1994

            This year, the logo has a blue verticle square which is overlapped by a red circle and there is white star overlapping the circle and some part of the square. On its right, Funimation is written on top of Productions, Ltd. In black color. [caption id="attachment_72886" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo Vector 1994[/caption]

1996

            This year, the vertical square, the circle and the star are placed on top of Funimation and below it, Productions Inc. is written. [caption id="attachment_72887" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo Vector 1996[/caption]

2004

            This year, the logo has a blue background and the square, circle and star are now again on the left and on its right, Funimation is written on top of Productions, Ltd. This time, the letters f, u, n and Ltd are capitalized. The letters have a white gradient. [caption id="attachment_72888" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo Vector 2004[/caption]

2005

            This year, the logo has a purplish rectangle and in it, there is a red circle on the bottom right side of the circle, there is a white star. Funimation is a capitalized and the letters are misaligned. F, U and some part of N are in the red circle. Below Funimation, Entertainment is written in upper case letters. Outside below the blue rectangle, there is a text that says, ‘A NAVARRE CORPORATION COMPANY’. This text is in blue color. [caption id="attachment_72889" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo 2005[/caption]

 2007

            This year, the logo is the same but it gives a 3d look. The colors of the logo are dark now. [caption id="attachment_72890" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo 2007[/caption]

2011

            This year, the logo got a completely different look. Now there is the name of the company written in black color and all the letters are in upper case. The letters are still not aligned. [caption id="attachment_72891" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo 2011[/caption]

2016

            This year, the logo again changed completely. The logo has the name of the company in purple color where the F is capitalized and the rest of the words are in a small case. The O is customized – it is a laughing face or you can say a laughing / smiling circle. [caption id="attachment_72892" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Funimation Logo 2016[/caption]

Building of Funimation Logo

Funimation was acquired by Navarre Corporation in 2005 and Gen was made the head of the company. The company was then sold again to a classified investor and in 2014, the company produced the 3^rd part of Dragon Ball named Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. Funimation’s logo is based on the following two things.

Font

            In the first year, the font used was Tekton Pro Bold. For the next 5 years, simple bold Calibri Body font was used in Funimation logo. In the last year, the font used is similar to Helvetica Light.

Color

            In the first three years, the colors used in Funimation logo are blue, red, white, black, In the next two years, the colors used are red, white, and blue. In the second last year, only black color was used and in the last year, only purple color was used.

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Conclusion

We have no idea why the square, star and circle was added in the logo and what they represented. The next three logos looked like the old logos of Pepsi. The company had a bad idea about the logo creation in the second last year and finally, they came up with something better in the last logo – though we still believe that the company could do a lot better.