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EmeraldSaucer
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So I take it that Uru in Blue is officially dead, had a good 12 year run
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MagicPolly
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Uru in Blue was transferred to Gaina a while ago, but considering they just got acquired by an AI animation company a few months ago it's probably dead there too. |
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Amuro1X
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Friendly reminder that Studios don't make anime, people do and Gainax has long been a hollow shadow of what it used to be.
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Triltaison
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I know the writing was on the wall ages ago and the people that really made up GAINAX were no longer there, but it still saddens me to hear this.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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As others have pointed out, Gainax lives on in the hearts and minds of the creators of it's works, and maybe they are now the rights-holders too. A sad addendum to the storied studio's tale of woe, raise a glass and toast the passing while watching something good made by Trigger/Khara/etc if you feel...
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MFrontier
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I don't think anyone is surprised by this even if it's sad to see happen to such a historic studio that produced so many amazing and iconic works.
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1132773
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Tomohiro Maki became the representative director in October 2019, and only joined the company as a board director in 2015. The past representative director was co-founder Hiroyuki Yamaga. |
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mdo7
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Well Gainax, I guess this is good bye. RIP!!!
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Glordit
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Truly a Gainax ending.
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XSp
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Historical founding stone of modern and not so modern Japanese animation, unfortunately representative of what is happening with several other foundational stone early days businesses on the creative side that started small and became giants, now drowning or already drowned in their own hubris.
May the positive side of their legacy stay for new companies that will manage things better and more professionally. Thing is, as sad as this may be for fans, I kinda still see it as positive. Or at least not as bad as having "unsinkable" too-big-to-fail companies that keeps getting worse and worse because of a corrupt leadership or blatant mismanagement dragging the entire industry down with it. |
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Alphael
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This ending makes complete sense and is logical though... |
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dm
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ANN’s image used for this story (but, sadly, not in the story) is really nice. A trip down memory lane.
It’s good that the intellectual property is in the hands of the creators, and not Gainax’s creditors. |
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Silver Kirin
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As others said, I'm not that bummed out about this, most of Gainax's staff have moved on and founded their own studios like Trigger and Khara and some of their IPs were acquired by them.
As a side note, whatever happened with the restoration of the Daicon III shorts, I remember that a couple of years ago a group of collectors managed to find a copy of Daicon III's film negatives and were in the process of restoring it, but Gainax sent them a cease & desist saying that they were in the process of restoring it themselves, but it's pretty obvious that like most of the projects they announced nothing happened in the end |
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chronos02
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This has been a slow and painful decay, but we can finally say goodbye to GAINAX after years of dark and tumultuous times. It's sad that the name has become stained because of all of this, and I wished perhaps Khara, TRIGGER, or another studio would acquire it in some capacity, but it's way too late to clean it, has been for quite some years.
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Beatdigga
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Gainax has been de facto dead ever since the lawsuit allowed Khara and Trigger to take the IP’s they still held that had any value. This is just dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s.
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