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* On December 14, 2016, Enlight transferred all the shares of BlueArc Culture held by it for 240 million yuan. The founder Wang Wei became the largest shareholder with 40% of the shares. Many people suspect that this is related to the box office disaster of the film "Fruit Escape" produced in 2016, so that Tommy Wang finally spent a lot of money to buy back the shares from Enlight.
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* On December 14, 2016, Enlight transferred all the shares of BlueArc held by it for 240 million yuan. The founder Tommy Wang became the largest shareholder with 40% of the shares. Many people suspect that this is related to the box office disaster of the film "Fruit Escape" produced in 2016, so that Tommy Wang finally spent a lot of money to buy back the shares from Enlight.
  
 
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* From 2017 to 2019, Blue Arc Culture has produced a number of works (collectively referred to as ''Dragon Force: Ultraman'') that combine the worldview of its own ''Dragon Force'' franchise and Tsuburaya's ''Ultraman'' series. The OOC of the original work was greatly controversial, and it was also protested from Tsuburaya. On July 8, 2020, Tsuburaya won the case.
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* From 2017 to 2019, BlueArc has produced a number of works that combine the worldview of its own ''Dragon Force'' franchise and Tsuburaya's ''Ultraman'' series (collectively referred to as ''Dragon Force: Ultraman''). The OOC of the original work was greatly controversial, and it was also protested from Tsuburaya. On July 8, 2020, Tsuburaya won the case.
  
 
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Revision as of 19:50, 9 March 2022

BlueArc Animation Studios
BlueArc.png
Company name Guangzhou BlueArc Culture Media Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 广州蓝弧文化传播有限公司)
Type Media production company
Headquarters 19th Floor, No. 128, Fengyuan Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou
Parent Alpha Animation (exited)
Enlight Media (exited)
Main works RevEvolution series
Fruity Robo
Dragon Force series
Key people Tommy Wang
Related Companies Winsing Animation
Website http://www.bluearc.com.cn/

BlueArc Animation Studios is a Chinese animation production company.

History

  • It was founded in 2003 by Tommy Wang.
  • On June 4, 2007, Guangzhou Blue Arc Culture Communication Co., Ltd. was established, with "BlueArc" as its official abbreviation.
  • In 2009, BlueArc and Xingjie Toys released RoboWarriors: Adventures of Lolo, which became a famous work for BlueArc, but due to the competition between BlueArc and Xingjie for the dominance of the RoboWarriors series, the cooperation between the two parties broke down, and the dominance of the RoboWarriors series belonged to Xingjie Toys.
  • In 2010, BlueArc accepted the investment of HiWay Capital, and cooperated with Alpha Animation to launch the Fruity Robo series, which became a new series after RoboWarriors
  • In 2012, Aofei Animation bought BlueArc, during which the series RevEvolution was released, which was the peak period of BlueArc.
  • On June 17, 2014, Enlight Media bought BlueArc.
  • On December 14, 2016, Enlight Media transferred all the shares held by Blue Arc Culture, and Tommy Wang became the largest shareholder again.

Lawsuits

Enlight Media
  • On June 17, 2014, Enlight Media announced that it planned to acquire a 50.8% stake in BlueArc for about 200 million yuan. Due to BlueArc's continuous losses at this time, fans and investors were worried.
  • On December 14, 2016, Enlight transferred all the shares of BlueArc held by it for 240 million yuan. The founder Tommy Wang became the largest shareholder with 40% of the shares. Many people suspect that this is related to the box office disaster of the film "Fruit Escape" produced in 2016, so that Tommy Wang finally spent a lot of money to buy back the shares from Enlight.
BlueArc Ultraman Copyright Controversy
Main article: BlueArc Ultraman copyright controversy
  • From 2017 to 2019, BlueArc has produced a number of works that combine the worldview of its own Dragon Force franchise and Tsuburaya's Ultraman series (collectively referred to as Dragon Force: Ultraman). The OOC of the original work was greatly controversial, and it was also protested from Tsuburaya. On July 8, 2020, Tsuburaya won the case.
Xingjie and Alpha lawsuit
  • On April 20, 2018, Xingjie Toys sued BlueArc for copyright infringement of the remake of RoboWarriors' on the animation Martial Mecha Saga and Xingjie Toys won the lawsuit.
  • On May 12, 2018, Alpha Entertainment sued BlueArc for violating the cooperation agreement and cooperating with a third party in the fourth part of Fruity Robo, and Alpha won the lawsuit.

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TV series

Films

Tokusatsu

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