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Gen Fukunaga is the founder and president of FUNimation Entertainment, a company that distributes anime in the United States and Canada. Funimation Entertainment (previously known as Funimation Productions, and usually stylized as FUNimation) is an American Entertainment company (anime in Japanese, The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

Fukunaga was born in Japan and grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. West Lafayette (ˌwɛst ˌlɑːfeɪˈɛt is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, 65 miles (105km northwest of Indianapolis. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union

Fukunaga attended Purdue University and moved to Boca Raton, Florida to work for IBM. Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn" is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925 Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology But he decided to go for a management-based career, so he went to Columbia University to get an MBA. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. He held a position with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) before getting a job with Tandem Computers in Sunnyvale, California. Accenture () is a global Management consulting, Technology services, and Outsourcing company Tandem Computers was an early manufacturer of Fault-tolerant computer systems, marketed to the growing number of Transaction processing customers who used them for Sunnyvale ( or) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

Fukunaga's uncle was one of the producers for Dragonball Z, he approached Gen about bringing the series over to America, if Fukunaga could start a company and raise enough money, Toei Animation would license the rights to the show. ( is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co Ltd. The studio was originally founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films (日本動画映画 Nihon Dōga Eiga often shortened So Gen went to a coworker named Daniel Cocanougher whose family owned a feed mill in Decatur, Texas and convinced the Cocanougher family to sell their business and invest in creating a production company and with that FUNimation was established in 1994. Decatur is a city located in Wise County, Texas, United States. Funimation Entertainment (previously known as Funimation Productions, and usually stylized as FUNimation) is an American Entertainment company

Currently Fukunaga lives in Roanoke, Texas, with his wife, Cindy, and their three children. Roanoke is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 5450 at the 2005 census Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State.

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