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Gainax, the studio behind the Evangelion series, goes bankrupt amidst unmanageable debt (automaton-media.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/anime@ani.social

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gainax still existed? I thought they had closed down years ago.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their core talent left and formed Trigger a while ago.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

And Hideaki Anno formed studio Khara, which has been financially supporting Gainax, and is a major creditor.

Khara (and Anno) has now acquired the Gainax trademark and serves as the manager of the trademark.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I was surprised too

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The good news is that:

Co-founder Hideaki Anno's current studio Khara acquires Gainax's trademark

You couldn't ask for the Gainax IP's to be in better hands than the most accomplished of Gainax's founders.

[–] Toes@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought they sold years ago.

Because some of their animes switched studios a while back.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I swore they always had funding issues. I know they went on the last 2 episodes of NGE because of budgeting

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

TIL Gainax was still around

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Just noticed there was another post a few hours ago, sorry)

[–] wjs018@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's fine, I will leave both up. I would normally have taken this one down pretty promptly, but I have had to spend a lot of time in a cleanroom today for work, so I wasn't able to use my phone to keep tabs on things.

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Omedetou