Founded on October 17, 2012, Daisuki Inc. was a joint venture between Asatsu-DK and six major anime studios. The venture's backers by initial shareholder stakes were split with minority shares amongst all backers. The largest minority shareholder is
Asatsu-DK with 121,000,000 yen for a 26.3% stake;
Toei Animation,
Aniplex,
Sunrise,
TMS Entertainment, and
Nihon Ad Systems each have a 61,700,000 yen investment for 13.4% shares.
Dentsu has 30,000,000 yen invested for a 6.5% stake. However, its capital on launch was noted to be 229,750,000 yen. Shin Unozawa, an executive vice president of Bandai Namco Entertainment, serves as ACJ's president and representative. In March 2017, Bandai Namco purchased the entirety of Anime Consortium Japan for 2.1 billion yen. On August 1, 2017, Daisuki released a statement announcing the closure of their operations effective October 31, 2017. The service was terminated on October 31, 2017, at 11:59 JST. Despite this, Daisuki continued to stream
Dragon Ball Super until February 22, 2018, where it was instead transferred over to Dragon Ball Super Card Game. == References ==