History Creator / Broccoli

Not to be confused with the American family of film producers (Creator/AlbertRBroccoli and Creator/BarbaraBroccoli).

The company's first big hit was ''Anime/DiGiCharat'' starting 1998, which is a franchise built around Dejiko, the [[{{Mascot}} advertising mascot]] of Gamers. ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', another major franchise, followed in 2000. Both are {{Visual Novel}}s, as would be most games to follow. These successes led to Broccoli's attempt to get a foothold in the North American market through the founding of Broccoli Books in 2007 for manga publication and through the puchase of Synch-Point for anime (and manga) publication. Both divisions closed doors in 2008.

In 2005, it became a subsidiary of [=GungHo=] Online Entertainment

Broccoli, founded in 1994, is a Japanse media company that publishes manga, anime, video games, [[CollectibleCardGame trading card games]], and operates a chain of retailers called Gamers. As the story goes, the name came about because the company's president wanted a memorable name. Thinking of the American tech company Apple as having such a name, [[FollowTheLeader brainstorming began for another fruit or vegetable]]. "Broccoli" was the end result, and it was a fortunate coincidence that broccoli is "broccoli" in [[BilingualBonus almost every language]].

The company's first big hit was ''Anime/DiGiCharat'' starting 1998, which is a franchise built around Dejiko, the [[{{Mascot}} advertising mascot]] of Gamers. ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', another major franchise, followed in 2000. These successes led to Broccoli's attempt to get a foothold in the North American market through the founding of Broccoli Books in 2007 for manga publication and through the puchase of Synch-Point for anime (and manga) publication. Both divisions closed doors in 2008.

* ''[[Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2]]''

The company's first big hit was ''Anime/DigiCharat'' starting 1998, which is a franchise built around Dejiko, the [[{{Mascot}} advertising mascot]] of Gamers. ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', another major franchise, followed in 2000. These successes led to Broccoli's attempt to get a foothold in the North American market through the founding of Broccoli Books in 2007 for manga publication and through the puchase of Synch-Point for anime (and manga) publication. Both divisions closed doors in 2008.

* ''VisualNovel/UtaNoPrinceSama''

* ''Anime/DigiCharat''

The company's first big hit was ''Anime/DigiCharat'' starting 1998, which is a franchise built around Dejiko, the [[{{Mascot}} advertising mascot]] of Gamers. ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', another major franchise, followed in 2000. These successes led to Broccoli's attempt to get a foothold in the North American market through the founding of Broccoli Books in 2007 for manga publication and through the puchase of Synch-Point for anime (and manga) publication. Both divisions closed door in 2008.