WiZ

WiZ Co., Ltd (株式会社ウィズ, Kabushiki Gaisha Wizu), also referred to as WiZ Inc, was a Japanese business that specialized in toy products in addition to the design, planning and production aspects of animation. The company introduced the Digimon franchise, marketed through Bandai, one of their major clients. As of April 1, 2019, WiZ Co., Ltd merged with PLEX International design Co., Ltd, a fellow subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings, and now operates under the PLEX brand name.

History
In June 1997, WiZ introduced the hand-held electronic game series, "Digital Monster", following the worldwide success of the Tamagotchi, which was released the previous year, utilizing original animated characters. In April 1999, they created the animated series "Digital Monster" (with character copyrights) and began airing it on Fuji TV under the name "Digimon Adventure".

Notable people

 * Watanabe Kenji
 * Kitagawara Makoto
 * Akihiro Yokoi (President from 06/1987–08/2016)

Trivia
In Digimon Savers, when Yggdrasill became “bugged” as a result of being unable to interpret the requests of the Digimon. It began to call itself the "WIZ9000 Computer" (ＷＩＺ９０００型コンピューター, WIZ9000-gata Konpyūtā), a reference to both the company and sentient computer from 's  series.