History Creator / DiscotekMedia

* UpToEleven: When licensing older shows, Discotek usually goes for series from the 70's and 80's. The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Dororo}}'' is their first foray into anything from the ''60's''.
** Their release of ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'', with '''''four''''' English dubs (two of which were thought to be lost).

* ''Manga/CityHunter'' (all four TV series, as well as its [=OVA=]s and movies, including the newest ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' film)

* ''Toys/MachineRobo'' (TV series and both OVA)

* '' Manga/ShamanKing ''[[note]]Both 4Kids’ Edited English dub and the original Japanese version with the the first six episodes containing short-lived uncut English dub.[[/note]]

* ''Anime/{{Braiger}}''

* ''Anime/MakyouDensetsuAcrobunch''

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan''

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan''

* ''Anime/FiveCentimetersPerSecond'' [[labelnote:†]] A sub-license from Crunchyroll.[[/labelnote]]

** ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''

* ''Anime/PandaGoPanda''

They also recently announced a partnership with streaming site Website/{{Crunchyroll}} to release a few select titles from Crunchyroll's catalogue for home video. In return, some titles from Discotek's catalogue became available on Crunchyroll for streaming.

!!Series licensed by this company include:

* ''Anime/{{Free}}: Iwatobi Swim Club'' (initially) [[labelnote:•]] A sub-license from Website/{{Crunchyroll}}, who eventually will release it themselves on Blu-Ray and DVD with an English dub that debuted on their site.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:‡]] The second season, ''Eternal Summer'', was licensed by Creator/{{Funimation}}, however FUNimation DID eventually release the first season themselves.[[/labelnote]]

* '' Anime/{{Symphogear}}''

* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'' [[note]] Japanese version with English subtitles only, a release of the dub has since been announced. [[/note]]

* ''Anime/SubmarineSuper99''

''Discotek Media'' (also known as Eastern Star) is an entertainment corporation in the business of licensing, translating, and releasing Japanese anime and live-action movies, adult anime, independent movies, and television series to home-video in the North American market. Despite being formed in 2005, they didn't become active in the anime business until around 2008 (their early output consisted mostly of samurai films with a couple of old Toei anime movies thrown into the mix). The crash of the North American anime industry in the late 2000's[[labelnote:*]] (it started in 2007 with the sudden shutdown of Creator/{{Geneon}}, accelerated in 2008 with the collapse of Creator/ADVFilms, continued through the 2009 liquidation bankruptcy of Creator/CentralParkMedia [which hadn't released anything since 2006], and finally ended with Creator/BandaiEntertainment's closure in 2012)[[/labelnote]] probably aided the rise of Discotek – with other major distributors going out of business, drastically cutting back, or at least not renewing obscure vintage titles, this left the small startup Discotek free to carve out its own niche.

Compare Creator/TheCriterionCollection, which fills a similar niche in film distribution, complete with noticeably high price tags, Creator/ShoutFactory, who is also known for rescuing obscure television shows (though Discotek focuses more on anime), and Rhino, which fills a similar niche in music.

Compare Creator/TheCriterionCollection, which fills a similar niche in film distribution, complete with noticeably high price tags, and Creator/ShoutFactory, who is also known for rescuing obscure television shows (though Discotek focuses more on anime).

*** Averted with the 2022 Blu-Ray release where it's been confirmed the series will be fully uncensored, sans the mosaic censoring, for the first time ever.

** An example that was apparently unavoidable is their DVD release of ''Violence Jack''. [[http://www.discotekmedia.com/violence_jack.htm As pointed out on their website]], the release is uncut for the most part, but contains mosaic censoring over certain scenes.

* ''Anime/GalacticWhirlwindSasuraiger''

* ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808

* ''Anime/DinosaurKing''

** ''Anime/LupinIIINapoleonsDictionary''

** ''Anime/LupinIIIDragonOfDoom ''
** ''Anime/LupinIIIThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure ''
** ''Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini ''

** ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine ''

* ''Anime/TheWonderfulWorldofPussInBoots''[[note]]License has expired[[/note]]

* '' Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear''

* ''Toys/MachineRobo''

** ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm''[[note]] Included as an extra on the DVD release of the first TV series.[[/note]]

* ''Anime/Genocyber''

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''

* ''Anime/SonicX'' [[note]]So far, only the [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub due to 4Kids themselves not providing the subtitle scripts for the uncut version of the show that streamed on Hulu, meaning that a subtitled release would require a complete recreation from scratch.[[/note]]