AIC Classic

Anime International Company, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社アニメインターナショナルカンパニー Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Anime Intānashonaru Kanpanī), often abbreviated as AIC, is a Japanese animation studio with headquarters in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan The company was founded on July 15, 1982

In addition to producing anime for domestic consumption in Japan, AIC has provided animation assistance on other animated series such as Inspector Gadget AIC had eight divisions, named AIC ASTA (2003, previously: AIC A.S.T.A.), AIC Build (2010), AIC Classic (2010), AIC Digital (2003, headquarters), AIC Frontier (June, 2012), AIC PLUS+ (2006), AIC Spirits (2003) and AIC Takarazuka (2006)

In March 2011, Aplix Corporation acquired all shares except AIC’s treasury stock, and AIC became a subsidiary of the company

In February 2013, production producers of AIC Spirits quit the company and established an animation studio Production IMS. Also in May of that year, production producers of AIC Classic quit and founded the studio, Troyca

On January 20, 2014, Aplix Corporation transferred all shares of AIC to Toru Miura at 8,000 yen (1 yen per share)

In November 2015, Yasutaka Omura became the CEO of AIC, and he established AIC RIGHTS that received the transfer of some copyrights of the work of Anime International Company.