Question: Information: - Sailor Moon S : The Movie , known in Japan as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S The Movie ( Gekijban Bishjo Senshi Sr Mn Sp ) and Sailor Moon S the Movie : Hearts in Ice in the Pioneer English adaptation , is a 1994 Japanese animated film directed by Hiroki Shibata and written by Sukehiro Tomita . It is the second film in the Sailor Moon series . The film is adapted from a side story of the original manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi , The Lover of Princess Kaguya . The storyline is loosely based on '' The Snow Queen '' fairytale by Hans Christen Andersen . The film was released on December 4 , 1994 in Japan as part of the Winter ' 94 Toei Anime Fair . It is unknown what the parental guide rating the movie has but the Uncut Billingual Version DVD it says , '' recommended for ages 13 and up '' , suggesting the film should be PG - 13 , but it seems more like a PG film . - She earned the 2nd Nakayoshi Comic Prize for Newcomers in 1985 for "Yume ja Nai no Ne" and the 1986 New Artist award for "Love Call". Her next manga "Sailor Moon", went on to become one of the most popular and successful manga around the world, with over 35 million copies sold worldwide. In 1993, she earned the Kodansha Manga Award for the series. Overseas, "Sailor Moon"'s anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting Japanese animation's popularity in the Western world. - History. The studio was founded in 1948 as . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Leiji Matsumoto and Yoichi Kotabe have worked with the company. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network Animax with other anime studios and production companies, such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems Inc. The company is headquartered in the Ohizumi Studio in Nerima, Tokyo. - VIZ Media LLC is a Japanese-American manga, anime, and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). - Simulcast, a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast, is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts were formerly simulcast on both BBC Radio 3 and BBC Television. Another application is the transmission of the original-language soundtrack of movies or TV series over local or Internet radio, with the television broadcast having been dubbed into a local language. - The term "manga" (kanji: ; hiragana: ; katakana: or ) in Japan is a word used to refer to both comics and cartooning. "Manga" as a term used outside Japan refers to comics originally published in Japan. - Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that distributes Australian and foreign films as well as Japanese anime and manga in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Madman is one of the major entertainment companies in Australia. It employs approx 100 people and has an annual turnover of around A$50 million. Its headquarters is in Richmond, Victoria. - The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Topffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World WarII era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia. - The 18 manga volumes have been adapted into an anime series titled "Sailor Moon" which was produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast from 1992 to 1997 in Japan over the course of five seasons along with three feature films, a television special, and three short films produced during the same period. A live-action television adaptation titled "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" aired from 2003 to 2004 and a reboot of the anime series titled "Sailor Moon Crystal" began simulcasting in 2014. Several companies have developed merchandising based on the series, including light novels, collectible trading card games, action figures, musical theater productions, several collections of soundtracks and a large number of video games. The manga series was licensed for an English language release by Kodansha Comics USA in North America, and in Australia and New Zealand by Random House Australia. The entire anime series has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release in North America and by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'sailor moon s: the movie' exhibits the relationship of 'production company'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - bbc - history - kodansha - madman entertainment - nihon ad systems - sunrise - toei - toei animation - viz media
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toei animation