オリグレス

Origress (株式会社オリグレス) is a Tokyo-based entertainment producer founded in April 2021 and headquartered in Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku. It was established as 株式会社ORIGRESS PARKS and changed its trade name to 株式会社オリグレス on 3 December 2024. The company describes itself as an "entertainment capital" combining entertainment, finance and group management, and positions itself as a general trading/production company for real-world (offline) entertainment experiences.

Its founding business is Lejapass (レジャパス), described as Japan's first cross-facility flat-rate subscription giving members unlimited monthly access to paid venues and events including amusement parks, theme parks, aquariums, zoos, museums, hot springs, saunas and campgrounds. Around this, the company operates Entame Base (エンタメベース), a matching service connecting facilities, commercial complexes, municipalities and sports venues with customer-acquisition solutions, and Lejafes (レジャフェス), a nationwide, jointly-hosted IP collaboration event format using anime and other IP. Other lines cited include the anime-and-art space production business ANIME SHINE PARK, the inbound travel pass NIPPON PASS, collaboration cafés with restaurant chains, and immersive digital art exhibitions such as "動き出す浮世絵展 HIROSHIMA." A stated mid-term plan, "democratizing IP collaboration," covers rolling collaboration events out nationwide, digitizing collaboration workflows, and launching the IP collaboration platform ColaboMatch (コラボマッチ), planned for 2025.

As of the May 2026 funding announcement the company reported paid-in capital of JPY 1.087 billion and about 90 group employees, and said it was moving toward an "IP × experience" global entertainment producer and eventually a data-driven global platform for IP and fan-activity (oshi-katsu) demand.

Founding story

Founder and CEO Yu Yoshitake is from Kobayashi, Miyazaki Prefecture, was raised by his mother, who ran a franchise bento shop that stayed profitable for 35 years, and credits her reverse-engineered goal-setting approach with shaping his approach to management. After graduating from Sophia University he joined Dentsu, where he covered the Nikkei newspaper for two years before moving into sales and planning, and became the youngest and first individual recipient of his division's annual sales grand prize in his fourth year, an award tied to winning a large campaign pitch for dely. At Dentsu he led marketing for the opening of the indoor miniature theme park SMALL WORLDS and later served as representative director of a Tokyo entertainment facility opening project. He founded the company in April 2021 with the long-term ambition of creating a next-generation theme park, and after launch pivoted to near-term revenue, developing the Lejapass subscription as an industry-first entertainment subscription model amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Business model

Origress operates business-to-business and business-to-consumer entertainment services: a consumer flat-rate subscription (Lejapass) across partner leisure facilities, customer-acquisition SaaS and a matching service sold to facilities and other venue operators, IP collaboration event production for facility and IP-holder clients, and space-production and experience-development work with facilities, restaurants and regional operators. It also expands through group management, including strategic M&A and business succession, and jointly developed pass products with partner companies.

Revenue is derived from subscription fees for its pass services, SaaS and matching services sold to leisure and entertainment facilities for customer acquisition, and fees from producing IP collaboration events, collaboration cafés, exhibitions and space-production projects.

Traction

Sources cite a network of over 2,000 to 2,500 leisure and entertainment facilities, more than 100 facilities and events usable under Lejapass, recognition at the 2022 Japan Subscription Awards, eight editions of the Lejafes joint IP collaboration event by July 2026, and paid-in capital of JPY 1.087 billion. The CEO stated in May 2026 that revenue was growing at a pace of 1,000% year on year, partly reflecting strategic M&A that added group companies in the prior year. Employee counts reported over time were 23 (June 2023) and about 90 across the group (May 2026).

Latest developments

In May 2026 Origress announced funding from the ANA Mirai Souzou Fund and follow-on investment from Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, framed as a strategic capital partnership with the ANA group to combine air travel, official hotels and entertainment experiences and to expand oshi-tabi (fan travel) and content tourism, including IP- and artist-linked touring plans, region-based fan-activity programs and experiential VIP tours. STARTUP DB records the May 2026 round as a third-party allotment and a capital and business alliance with ANA Holdings. Recent event activity in 2026 includes the eighth Lejafes edition with the Pretty Series at a bathing facility from 30 July 2026, collaboration cafés for TV anime Osomatsu-san and the Zombie Land Saga film, and the "動き出す浮世絵展 HIROSHIMA" digital art exhibition running through 6 September 2026.