Muse Communication

Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

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Type	Joint-stock
Industry	Entertainment
Genre	Anime
Predecessor	Muse Cultural Enterprise Co., Ltd.
Founded	1992 (1992)
Headquarters	Xinzhuang District, New Taipei, Taiwan
Area served	Southeast Asia, South Asia, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau
Key people	Kang ZhenMu (chairman) Gary Yang (vice president) Wang Yina (marketing manager)
Products	Anime, motion pictures, merchandise, Asian and European cinema
Subsidiaries	Fukang Enterprise Eagle International Communication Muse Communication (H.K.) Muse Animation (Shanghai) Muse Communication Singapore
Website	e-muse.com.tw

Muse Communication Co., Ltd. (also known simply as Muse) is a Taiwanese distributor and licensor that specializes in the distribution of anime. Based in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City, the company also distributes Asian and European films in Taiwan. It has licenses for several popular anime series and tokusatsu such as Attack on Titan, Sword Art Online, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Martian Successor Nadesico, One-Punch Man, Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Spy × Family, Saint Seiya, Ultra Series, Kamen Rider Series, Super Sentai and many more.

History

Originally founded in 1987, the company was formerly known as Muse Cultural Enterprise Co., Ltd before becoming Muse Communication Co., Ltd. in 1992. Fukang Enterprise is in charge of physical distribution, while Eagle International Communication handles distribution for live-action films from Asia and Europe.

Muse Communication (Hong Kong) was founded in November 1997. Muse Animation (Shanghai) was founded in January 2013. On August 7, 2018, Muse Communications began marketing select titles from their library on YouTube in Taiwan.

Muse Communication SG Pte. Ltd.

Type	Private Limited
Industry	Entertainment
Genre	Anime
Founded	March 2019 (2019-03)
Headquarters	Singapore
Key people	Jeff Lee Chien - Fu (general manager / director)
Products	Anime, motion pictures, and merchandise
Owner	Muse Communication
Divisions	Hakken!
Website	e-muse.com.sg

Muse Communication Singapore (also known as Muse Asia) was founded in March 2019. In June 2019, it launched Muse Asia YouTube channel, which provides anime with English and Chinese subtitles for audiences in parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia. The company has since launched localized YouTube channels for audiences in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and India. Company has also launched new localised dub channels for audiences in Thailand and Indonesia.

Hakken! is a retail brand operated by Muse Communication Singapore which specializes in anime merchandising. On 16 January 2021, it has launched its first retail store in Plaza Singapura, Singapore. The second store is located inside the VivoCity shopping mall, which is also in Singapore; it opened on 17 July 2021. Hakken! later expanded to Malaysia through Shopee on 21 October 2021 as an online shop.

Distribution

Physical distribution

Muse does not directly release its titles on home video outside of Taiwan but instead sub-licenses to other companies such as Dream Express (DEX), and previously Rose Media and Entertainment for the Thai market.

Digital and television distribution

Muse sub-licenses select titles to OTT platforms and TV stations in other served regions. Notable platforms include Netflix, Disney+, Animax Asia, Aniplus Asia (formerly), iQIYI, CATCHPLAY+, Bilibili, Viu, Tencent Video/WeTV, Sushiroll, Vidio and many more. In 2016, Taiwanese anime streaming service Bahamut Anime Crazy began streaming select anime titles from Muse, marking the first time the company released its catalog of series and films for free on streaming. On 7 August 2018, Muse began distributing full episodes of series on YouTube to combat piracy, starting in Taiwan.

Notable titles

Anime series

• 86
• A Certain Magical Index
• Accel World
• Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
• Argonavis from BanG Dream!
• Ascendance of a Bookworm
• Assassination Classroom
• Attack on Titan
• BanG Dream!
• Battle Game in 5 Seconds
• Beast Tamer
• Beelzebub
• Black Bullet
• Bofuri
• Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious
• Cells at Work!
• Classroom of the Elite
• Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
• Fairy Tail (season 9)
• Goblin Slayer
• Golden Kamuy
• Girlfriend, Girlfriend
• Gurren Lagann
• Hunter x Hunter
• Higehiro
• Hyouka
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
• Is the Order a Rabbit?
• Isekai Quartet
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Junji Ito Collection
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
• Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
• Love Live!
• Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
• Made in Abyss
• Mob Psycho 100
• Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation
• My Dress-Up Darling
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
• My Roommate Is a Cat
• My Senpai Is Annoying
• One-Punch Man
• Parallel World Pharmacy
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica
• Rage of Bahamut
• Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
• Rent-A-Girlfriend
• Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
• Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie
• Spy × Family
• Sword Art Online
• Talentless Nana
• Tawawa on Monday
• The Detective Is Already Dead
• Teasing Master Takagi-san (season 3)
• The God of High School
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
• The Familiar of Zero
• Tokyo Revengers (Moved to Disney+ from season 2)
• Ushio and Tora
• Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
• Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
• WorldEnd

Tokusatsu series

• Ultraman (The rights has now carried by Beast Kingdom in Taiwan)
• Kamen Rider
• Super Sentai

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Muse Communication at Anime News Network's encyclopedia