> Quote - It must be a bit more elaborate than that. Smith Micro bought the entire US branch of eFrontier, while eFrontier kept the Asian branch. Poser is big in Japan while SM is advertising wildly on Manga Studio and alike, and note that SM issued Miki4 recently. > > So I guess the relationship between SM and eF is a bit more than just owning by one and distributing by the other.

I have no idea about the contract between them. EFrontier has released its own Poser box in Asia under both the SM and EFrontier label. Poser development however is done with Smith Micro (and maybe help from EFrontier, but I have knowledge about that)

See the attached picture for the box