French-Bread

Soft Circle French-Bread
Native name	フランスパン
Romanized name	Furansu Pan
Formerly	Watanabe Seisakujo (1995–2003)
Industry	Video games
Founded	1995
Founder	Nobuya Narita
Headquarters	Taitō, Japan
Key people	Nobuya Narita; (Studio Manager); Seichi Yoshihara; (Primary Sprite Artist); Kamone Serizawa; (Game Director); Masaru Kuba (Raito); (Sound and Music Composer); Takehiko Wagatsuma; (Special Effect, UI and Layout Artist);
Products	Melty Blood series; Under Night In-Birth series;
Number of employees	14 (2021)
Website	www13.plala.or.jp/french/ (Old); unknown-corp.co.jp (New)

Soft Circle French-Bread, also known simply as French-Bread, is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1995 as Watanabe Production (渡辺製作所, Watanabe Seisakujo), based in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. Originally a doujin circle, French-Bread became well known for their work in fighting games, particularly the Melty Blood series. In recent years, they worked on other licensed-based fighting games, such as Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax and the company's original game, Under Night In-Birth. Most of its developed video games are commonly released for Microsoft Windows, Sega arcade systems, and PlayStation consoles.