Forum - View topicNEWS: Bandai Namco Details Restructuring of Sunrise, Other IP Production Operations
|
Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Albion Hero
Posts: 96 |
|
|||||
|
With all the talk recently of Microsoft trying to buy a Japanese game company, these developments sound like the kind of a thing a company would do to get bought by a company who has no interest in the non Video Game parts of the company.
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
GNPixie
Posts: 299 |
|
|||||
|
First off, that new logo is weeeeeak. They should've just adapted the game's division logo for the entire company. Red, black and overly making things overly simple is such an awful trend since it homoginizes every company together in a big blob.
Second and third, sucks this happened on the company's 50th. Didn't they just establish Sunrise Beyond as a studio in the last two years? This just seems counter productive since almost everybody knows Sunrise has multiple studios with their own quirks and style. I think they also did this before, with regards to the studios and that did Battle Spirits and Gintama. Wonder if it basicallly comes down to beiqng easier on the finacial work. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Escaflowne2001
Posts: 468 |
|
|||||
Sunrise Beyond use to be anime studio Xebec that they picked from Production I.G. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
DRosencraft
Posts: 665 |
|
|||||
|
I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this. As the recounting in the article partially demonstrates, this is a massive company with a myriad of disparate pieces. It's nothing unusual for an organization to occasionally rework its organizational structure, especially on the backend of a disruptive economic period (as pandemics tend to be) and when nearing or just passing a major age milestone (like turning 50). Barring other evidence, this doesn't really suggest that they're setting themselves up for a sale.
|
||||||
|
||||||
chronium
 Posts: 289 Location: Canada |
|
|||||
Nah this is usually done to reduce costs by making redundant positions and letting people go. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Silver Kirin
Posts: 1122 |
|
|||||
|
This is really weird, I'd like to know in detail what is happening inside Bandai-Namco, it seems like they're doing great in the toy, videogame and anime markets but I heard rumors about some changes happening inside the company.
I know that Sunrise was accquired by Bandai a long time ago but I'm going to miss the Sunrise name, I just hope that they update their animated logo with Haro from Gundam. When I think of Sunrise I always remembers shows like Gundam, Inuyasha, Gintama, Code Geass, Cowboy Bebop and many more. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
MFrontier
Posts: 11298 |
|
|||||
|
I'm just curious if this will effect their anime output at all.
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Lord Geo
Posts: 2553 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
|
|||||
The name "Sunrise" isn't going anywhere. While there is some general confusion online regarding all of this news, ANN does clarify in the article itself:
Bandai Namco, aside from confirming the immensely generic new logo, is just consolidating all of its various anime-related studios into one overarching division, Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc., whereas before they were split up across multiple divisions. The individual studios will still operate as they always have, and will keep their original names. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Deacon Blues
Posts: 388 Location: Albuquerque, NM |
|
|||||
|
ANN really should have clarified with this directly from the press release:
|
||||||
|
||||||
Chiyosuke
 Posts: 368 |
|
|||||
|
Noooooooooooooooooo! I had a feeling something like this was coming. Branding all of their companies a Bandai Namco has been annoying for awhile now, I really started to take note when they split off some of Sunrise to form BNP. Now they're just relegated to a brand name.
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Aresef
Posts: 910 Location: MD |
|
|||||
Yeah, it's like what happened to Lantis. Lantis as a company no longer exists but the Lantis name is still used in marketing for Bandai Namco Arts artists like JAM Project and Granrodeo. |
||||||
|
||||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group