Gainax, the studio behind the Evangelion series, goes bankrupt amidst unmanageable debt
automaton-media.com
Gainax has filed for bankruptcy after gross mismanagement drove the company into unmanageable debt and core employees left.
    • WolfLinkEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Their core talent left and formed Trigger a while ago.

      • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        7 months 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.

  • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
    8·
    7 months 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.socialEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    I thought they sold years ago.

    Because some of their animes switched studios a while back.

    • Zirconium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

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

    • wjs018@ani.socialMEnglish
      3·
      7 months 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.