Company Index: Streamline Pictures (defunct)

Reviewed Titles

• Lensman (Theatrical Movie) [Quick Review] [Full Review]
• Robot Carnival (Movie) [Reader Review]
• Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture (Movie) [Quick Review] [Full Review]

Complete Release List

Streamline has long been out of business. This is a list of all their releases; titles that have been re-licensed by other companies are listed with that company.

• Akira (Geneon)
• Akira Production Report (Geneon)
• Babel II (Image Entertainment)
• Barefoot Gen (Geneon)
• Casshan - Robot Hunter (ADV)
• The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga)
• Crimson Wolf (unlicensed)
• Crying Freeman (ADV)
• Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia (ADV)
• Dirty Pair: Project Eden (ADV)
• Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy (ADV)
• Doomed Megalopolis ADV)
• Eight Man After/Perfect Collection (Image Entertainment)
• Fist of the North Star (Image)
• Lensman (Movie) (unlicensed)
• Lupin III (assorted TV series collections)
• Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo (Geneon)
• Lilly C.A.T. (Movie)
• Megazone 23 Part 1 (ADV)
• Nadia (ADV)
• Neo Tokyo (ADV)
• Planetbusters (Movie) (unlicensed)
• The Professional: Golgo 13 (Urban Vision)
• Robot Carnival (Movie of shorts) (unlicensed)
• Romance of the 3 Kingdoms (Movie)
• Robotech: Macross Perfect Collection (ADV/AnimEigo)
• Robotech: Southern Cross Perfect Collection (ADV)
• Robotech: Mospeada Perfect Collection (ADV)
• Robotech II: The Sentinels (Failed TV Series)
• Silent Mobius: The Motion Picture (Movie) (unlicensed)
• Twilight of the Cockroaches (Movie) (unlicensed)
• Vampire Hunter D (Urban Vision)
• Wicked City (Urban Vision)
• Windaria (ADV)
• Zillion (5 OAVs)
• 3 x 3 Eyes/Perfect Collection (Geneon)

About Streamline Pictures

Company info last updated 2006-09-15

Now no longer in business, Streamline Pictures deserves credit for being the oldest of the US anime companies. Their releases of movies like Vampire Hunter D, the original splatterfest Fist of the North Star, and the penultimate classic Akira sparked the interest of many an anime fan during the '90s. They also have the distinction of being the first company to have their wares shown on the Sci-Fi channel. Unfortunately, as the market expanded, they distinguished themselves as the only company that didn't release subs, with the sole exception (thankfully) of the Akira special edition and some interesting tapes that showed the original subtitled episodes of the series on which Robotech was based along with the corresponding Robotech episodes. Just as the anime market was starting to take off in the US, they went out of business.

Almost all of their catalog has been picked up by other companies, but a handful still sadly remain without a North American license. Although Streamline itself never released any DVDs, Image Entertainment grabbed a couple of their titles (including the Fist of the North Star film) and stuck them onto crude DVDs pretty much straight from Streamline's masters, so you can still find a bit of their handiwork floating around.