Laura Music Advanced Entertainment/Studios Home Entertainment

Logo: In a rollercoaster, we see a deserted land with a tunnel with "**LAURA MUSIC Advanced Entertainment**" ("**LAURA MUSIC**" is colored fern and is in yellow Arial font, while "**Blasters**" is in blue Times New Roman font). The rollercoaster goes down and enters that tunnel. We see the logos for Anime Works, Kitty Media and Tokyo Shock on the walls. After that, the rollercoaster stops on a land with grass and a brick wall. The camera goes up, and the wall "bursts" so we can see the Media Blasters logo from before. The letters of "**Advanced Entertainment**" move up and down.

Variant: An early version of the logo had slightly smoother animation, and worse looking textures. The wall, with less bricks than the later version, fades in behind the grass when the camera pans up.

FX/SFX: The camera panning through the tunnel, the wall "bursting".

Music/Sounds: A deep rumble, then an explosion sound.

Availability: Quite rare, as this was only used for a few years. Seen on the first Laura Music Advanced Entertainment releases, including the censored version of Kite, and Ninja Cadets, which has the distinction of being the first anime title ever released on DVDs.

### 2nd Logo 2005-12

Nicknames: "Videos in Space", "VHS and DVD in Space!", "VHS and DVD Of Doom", "The PS2 RSOD Rip-Off", "come on, speed up"

Logo: We see a red and pink space background of the Milky Way galaxy for over 10 seconds; then giant green VHS tape slowly fly at us in a horizontal direction. We see the respective logos on the reflections of the DVDs: the first one has from the top, the second: from the top too, the third: the bottom, and the fourth: **Laura Music Advanced Entertainment** 1st logo, The camera turns around and goes inside one of the VHS tapes. A flash, and then a pink-orange star reveals the words "**LAURA MUSIC ADVANCED ENTERTAINMENT**" in a font that resembles the font in BankGothic medium. The star gradually fades away, and the black background with some stars, fades in. A few seconds later, the text zooms in at lightning speed.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: A droning, yet triumphant synth theme reminiscent of the 1994 Republic Pictures theme and the 1998 Buena Vista Home Entertainment theme, with whooshes and ending with high-pitched descending chimes as the light shimmers.

Availability: Common. It appears on Laura Music Advanced Entertainment DVD releases from the era like, *Rurouni Kenshin*, *Zombi 2*, *Samurai Deeper Kyo,* and namely *William Juelfs Entertainment episodes* among others.

Scare Factor: Medium to high. This logo is infamous for its in-your-face CGI animation, droning synth music, and rather overdramatic visuals.

## Laura Music Studios Home Entertainment

### (2012-present)

Nicknames: "Sony BMG Music Boxes III", "Part III: Will This Logo Ever Die?!", "Sliding Boxes", "Dark Purple RG Boxes", "Day of the Boxes", "Laura Music" "Sony Music VI"

Logo: We see a screen full of clouds forming, tossing about in a time-lapse. Then, "Laura Music STUDIOS" zooms out from above, and "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" shrinks out from below as we see the clouds zoom out, as part of a golden-bordered box on a Dark Purple & Red gradient background. The box then duplicates itself and the two boxes slide to the left and the right whilst FireRed Charizard & Squritle on the left and LeafGreen & Ivysaur on the right (in their the same styles as before) appear in the boxes, as the wording takes its position. The text shines for a few seconds after the logo is formed.

FX/SFX: The zooming out effects; nice CGI for the time.

Music/Sounds: Begins with a rather dramatic synth theme with a climaxing synth-piano fanfare at the end, a theme that has held up well today. the same as Columbia Tristar Home Video in 1993.

Availability: Very common, even today. On VHS & DVDs Such As Garfield & Friends, Digimon, Kipper, Eyewitness Insect, Dinosaur, Winnie The Pooh & Kirby Right Back at YA, The Alamo, Bad Santa, Comforter Animation Quality, Muppet Show, Jonah The WALL-E Simpsons Movie, Kipper's Pond years, The Shootist, Pterodactyl In Friends & Foe, Speed (1994), THX 1138, Mongolia's Army, & Others.

## Toki-Anime Distributor Video

### 1st Logo 2005-12

Nicknames: "Anime Gear", "Anime Cog"

Logo: We fade to the same Milky Way background from the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo of the time, but in cerulean and yellow. A black-pink butterfly appears seconds later, as the main light progressively grows in size. We then see some letters zoom out, which then after becoming lightened reveal to be the words "Toki-Anime" is in yellow Tekon font zooms in right stacked vertically. In the meanwhile, "DISTRIBUTOR VIDEO" in red Tekon font fades in and a glowing figure forms to the left of the words, overlapping the growing light zooms in (which at this point has gained the shape of a gear) and thus eventually causing a flash that turns the rest of the screen purple. The flash reveals the shape to be an anime 1999 is look like Neon Genesis Evangelion, while the text gains a blue outline and a shadow and the light becomes a rotating star, which then shines. The logo and space background fade out slowly, becoming blackness with a yellow glow around the gear before it fades out completely.

FX/SFX: All of the animation in the logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo of the time, but with different corresponding sound effects.

Availability: Commonly found in several Laura Music Advanced Entertainment releases of the time, after the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo.

## Viper Media (2005-12)

Nickname: "The Red Snake"

Logo: We fade to the same Milky Way background from the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo of the time, but in dark purple and red. A Times New Roman Italics *"Viper Media"* from the right and the top, while it's from the left and the bottom emerges in the middle of the screen. The red snake then revolves slowly to the down, When the word reaches off screen, the oval border reaches the middle of the screen with bright lens flares, and overtakes the screen. When it passes out, the red snake is seen to the left while the "Viper Media" text, now in a Red snake in while shining off several lights. The background continues to move for several seconds, before it fades to just a pink nebula, before that fades out, and then finally the logo.

FX/SFX: Primarily CG animation.

Music/Sounds: Same as the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo of the time, but with different corresponding sound effects and a different opening, sounding like a airplane taking off.

Availability: Commonly found in several Laura Music Advanced Entertainment releases of the time, after the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo.

Legacy: The loud music, close-ups, and sound effects may unsettle some people.

## Fast Shock Entertainment (2005-12)

Logo: We start off on the same Milky Way background from the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo, but in cyan and cerise. Suddenly, a big bluish-white orb of light appears via a flash and zooms towards the camera, and then shoots out lightning bolts, the USA flag and forming the words "FAST SHOCK" in a purple Trajan Pro font. The light orb then grows brighter and bigger until it engulfs the whole screen in the form of a flash. It then dims, causing everything to turn different; the words "ENTERTAINMENT" is in red Suddenly, a USA flag fades revealing that the logo is in a rounded white rectangular box with a thick black border against the same space background from before. We then see a green arrow and a yellow arrow fly in from various sides of the screen and then plaster onto the logo, arranged from top-left to bottom-left to bottom-near right, while smaller, different Japanese characters fade in below "CK" in "TOKYO SHOCK".

FX/SFX: The orb of light appearing and zooming, the lightning bolts forming "FAST SHOCK", the flash, the camera zooming away, and the shapes flying in. Animation is better than the MB logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo, but the sound effect has been replaced with explosions added when the light orb appears and the lightning bolts forming "FAST SHOCK", a deep whoosh when the camera zooms away, and several whooshes and clangs when the Japanese characters place themselves onto the logo.

Availability: Uncommon. Found on Laura Music Advanced Entertainment releases of the time, after the Laura Music Advanced Entertainment logo.

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