An American anime licensor originally founded in 1990, their big claims to fame were Revolutionary Girl Utena and Slayers. Now defunct, sadly.
Should be noted here that some of the earlier dubs for the anime they licensed were re-scored as was a common practice at the time. Though this is mostly due to those early dubs being handled by Manga Entertainment, who infamously did this back in their early days to supposedly make it more accessible to an American audience note . This resulted in such mutilations as was done to Dominion: Tank Police. If you have the DVD release, switch back and forth between Japanese and English soundtracks. It's almost two different shows.
Their divisions included "U.S. Manga Corps", "Software Sculptors", and "Anime 18", as well as a manga/comics division.
One of CPM's former employees, Justin Sevakis (who worked in subtitling and DVD editing), founded Anime News Network and now runs MediaOCD who does video authoring for several companies, most notably Discotek Media and Anime Limited.
Another former employee, John Sirabella, co-founded Media Blasters and early on their hentai licenses were even distributed by CPM, but Media Blasters eventually split off from them.
Non-hentai works released by this company include:
- Agent Aika (Re-released by Bandai Entertainment)
- Alien Nine
- Animation Runner Kuromi
- Arcade Gamer Fubuki
- Area 88 (The OVAs; redubbed and re-released by ADV Films and Discotek Media)
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS (re-released by Sentai Filmworks under by the division Maiden Japan)
- Ariel (OAV)
- Ariel Deluxe (OVA)
- Art of Fighting (OVA)
- Ayane's High Kick
- Battle Arena Toshinden (OVA)
- Big Wars (OVA)
- Birdy the Mighty (The OVA series.)
- Black Jack (OVA)
- Blue Sonnet
- Cat Soup
- Chirality
- Cyber City Oedo 808 (re-released by Discotek Media)
- Demon City Shinjuku (re-released by Discotek Media)
- Descendants of Darkness (re-released by Discotek Media)
- Detonator Orgun
- DNAČ (re-released by Discotek Media)
- Dog Soldier (OVA)
- Dominion Tank Police (The original OVA series. They would also license New Dominion directly, but with the original cast returning, the latter was re-released by Sentai Filmworks while the original OVA is apparently unavailable for licensing)
- Explorer Woman Ray
- Gall Force (and sequels)
- Garzey's Wing
- Genocyber
- Grave of the Fireflies (Re-released by ADV Films, then their successor company, Sentai Filmworks.)
- Hades Project Zeorymer
- Harlock Saga
- Here is Greenwood (Re-dubbed and re-released by Media Blasters)
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan (The original OVA series)
- Legend of Himiko
- Maetel Legend
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor (Re-released by Nozomi Entertainment)
- Judge
- Kakurenbo
- Martian Successor Nadesico (manga only)
- Maze Megaburst Space
- Mermaid's Forest
- MD Geist (They even adopted Geist's Powered Armor as their "Spokesmecha" and corporate symbol; the sequel and director's cut of the original were also made at CPM's request. The director's cut and sequel were re-released by ADV Films.)
- Metal Fighter Miku (Re-released by Media Blasters)
- Minna Agechau (Intended to be their first release, but it was cancelled due to a media uproar about the pink panties that come with the tape and the sexual content which wasn't that racy.)
- Narutaru/Shadow Star
- Nightwalker
- Now and Then, Here and There (Re-released by ADV Films.)
- Outlanders (OVA)
- Patlabor (The TV series, OVA, New Files) (re-released by Sentai Filmworks under their "Maiden Japan" label)
- Photon The Idiot Adventures (now licensed by Discotek Media)
- The Ping-Pong Club
- Project A-Ko and sequels (All of the movies were re-released by Discotek Media with exception for Grey Side/Blue Side/Uncivil Wars. CPM also published an OEL manga for the series.)
- Record of Lodoss War (The OVA's and TV series) (was to be re-released by Media Blasters, but later canceled. Later re-released by Funimation)
- Revolutionary Girl Utena (re-released by Nozomi Entertainment)
- Adolescence of Utena (re-released by Nozomi Entertainment)
- Roujin Z
- Shamanic Princess (re-released by Media Blasters)
- Slayers (The first three TV anime series; all re-released by Funimation with the original English dub.)
- RG Veda
- Strange Love
- They Were Eleven
- Tokyo Babylon
- Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (re-released by Discotek Media)
- Venus Wars (was re-released by Discotek Media but license expired then rescued by Sentai Filmworks with redub)
- Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (OVA)
- The World of Narue (re-released by ADV Films.)
- YuYu Hakusho (Second film)
