4Kids Entertainment

4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (known by most people as simply 4Kids) is an American licensing company. It is also a film and television production company that produces English-dubbed Japanese anime through its television production arm 4Kids Productions; the first anime that 4Kids dubbed was Tama & Friends: Search for It! The Magic Puni-Puni Stone (under the name of Tama and Friends: The Search for the Magical Squishy Stone), that first began airing on Bohbot Kids Network, and then it later moved to exclusively air on the 24/7 channel version of Cookie Jar TV. The company is most well known for its range of television licenses (including Tama & Friends and GoGoRiki), and is also the owner of the Viva Piñata: Party Animals franchise. It also runs four television channels: 4Kids TV: The Game Station (its flagship channel), FoxBox, Toonzai, and The CW4Kids.

4Kids has its world headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City, while 4Kids Productions has its headquarters in a separate building in the Bronx. 4Kids' ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is KDE.