King Records

Background
King Records Co., Ltd. is a Japanese record label company that was founded in 1931 as a division of a publishing company Kodansha.

(2001? -)
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Logo: We see the text "KING RECORDS" with a tri-colored (red, blue, green) line on a black background.

Variants:


 * A superimposed version exists.
 * Sometimes it's in full screen.
 * Sometimes it's a smaller.
 * An early version has a slightly darker.
 * A CinemaScope/Ultra Panavision 70 version has been spotted, first appears on the music video version of Astrogation, the first song from the extended play single STARCAMP EP.
 * A red version has been spotted on Nana Mizuki's Apassionato music video.
 * A black and white version has been spotted.
 * One music video has a bigger King Records logo and a VCR effect.
 * The Kindan no Resistance music video had the text in light brown-yellow.
 * The Vitalization music video had the transparent King Records logo glitching out in a circled-stylized background with red-orange lasers, then the Nana Mizuki screen shuts off.
 * There are some fake variations of the logos.
 * A rare variant that "KING RECORDS" has been replaced with "Bellwood Records" in a Times New Roman-like font.
 * A in-credit version also exists.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Uncommon so far.
 * Appeared on the end of some music videos starting in 2007 with Nana Mizuki's Orchestral Fantasia.
 * A CinemaScope/Ultra Panavision 70 version has appeared on the music video versions of Nana Mizuki's BRIGHT STREAM, Kindan no Resistance, WHAT YOU WANT (first song from her 37th single WONDER QUEST EP), Destiny's Prelude, Mamoru Miyano's passage. and Inori Minase's Catch the Rainbow!
 * This logo is omitted on both music video versions of Nana Mizuki's Pray and SUPER☆MAN, and most AKB48 single songs.
 * The COSMIC LOVE music video however, had the logo in Nana Mizuki's official YouTube channel.
 * The blue tinted widescreen variant is appeared on Mamoru Miyano's ULTRA FLY.

Editor's Note: This logo is similar to the last Perfini logo from 1989 and SF Studios from 1930 to 1932 and 1939 to 1995.