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 and Friends and GoGoRiki), and is also the owner of the Viva Piñata: Party Animals franchise. It also runs four television channels: 4KidsTV: 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.