most of the anime and films that has been distributed and licensed by bandai visual has been released under the emotion label. since the reorganisation of bandai namco holdings in 2006, bandai visual now heads the group's visual and music content strategic business unit. its subsidiaries include the emotion music company, limited (whose logos also include the moai from easter island), and lantis company, limited music publishing labels. until 2012, it was involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio sunrise, an alternate anime studio subsidiary of bandai namco holdings. in september 2017, bandai visual has acquired the anime studio actas.