Bandai is one of the largest comprehensive entertainment companies in Japan, mainly involved in entertainment, Internet, animation products and peripherals, etc. The number and variety of science fiction, animation, and tokusatsu models it produces ranks first in the world.

Bandai Corporation is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has more than 27 subsidiaries in eight major countries around the world. It is the largest comprehensive entertainment, toy and audio-visual product distribution, production and publishing company in the world.

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When Bandai was founded, it was called "Bandaiya Store" and was changed to Bandai in 1961. Bandai's opportunity to develop the plastic model business began with the acquisition in 1969 of the Shizuoka factory and various production molds of "Imai Science", a model manufacturer that was in business crisis at the time. Based on the reprinted Imai model, various military and automotive models were developed.

In particular, the reasonable price of the "Mecha Division Series" and the reproduction of the internal structure were generally well received, making this series of models to be ranked alongside Tamiya's "Military Mini Amateur Series" in the first half of the 1970s. The most popular model. In the mid-1970s, it once represented the American Monogram Company's models, and sold the company's excellent 1/48 aircraft model kits at low prices throughout Japan.

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