BANDAI CO., LTD.

Bandai develops and markets entertainment products across several categories, including cards, toys and capsule toys. It operates within the Bandai Namco group’s Toy and Hobby Unit. The group presents Bandai and Bandai Spirits as separate companies with different product emphases, so this profile follows Bandai’s own documented card-related activity.

Headquarters: Based inTokyo, Japan source
Activity: Active in 5 games

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Company record

Legal and ownership facts as the cited sources state them.

Legal name: BANDAI CO., LTD. (株式会社バンダイ)¹
Founded: Jul 5, 1950¹
Registration: Japan Corporate Number 5010501016209²

Ownership history

Sep 2005Management integration of BANDAI and NAMCO; joint holding company NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. (now Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.) established⁴

Company family

Parent companyBandai Namco Holdings³

This company

BANDAI CO., LTD.

Ownership as the sources state it. Group companies are listed when they are in the directory.

Sources

Timeline

When its relationships started, ended or were announced, by year.

2024

Nov 28, 2024Announced
BANDAI CO., LTD. publishes Digimon Card Game in Worldwide. source

2022

Dec 2, 2022Starts
BANDAI CO., LTD. publishes One Piece Card Game in English edition (NA/EU/OC/LATAM/ME). source
Jul 2022Starts
BANDAI CO., LTD. publishes One Piece Card Game in Japan (initial release). source

2021

Feb 12, 2021Starts
BANDAI CO., LTD. publishes Digimon Card Game in English edition. source

2020

Sep 4, 2020Announced
BANDAI CO., LTD. publishes Digimon Card Game in English edition. source

Dates as the sources publish them, at their precision; announcements and effective dates are separate events. A relationship without a dated source is not shown here, so the timeline is not a complete history. Parties without a profile appear under the name their source uses. † rests only on secondary sources.