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Gainax, Japanese Anime Firm Behind ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion,’ Files for Bankruptcy
Gainax, the troubled Japanese anime firm behind ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion,’ has filed for bankruptcy.
The company, then called Daicon Film, was founded in 1984 by a team including Anno Hideaki, Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, Yamaga Hiroyuki, Akai Takami, Takeda Yasuhiro and Higuchi Shinji. Under the leadership of Maki Tomohiro, who joined in 1992, the company diversified into a struggling restaurant business, established an unsuccessful CG operation and provided large unsecured loans to its executives. It issued its own statement and said that it and expects to be involved in sorting out the tangle of IP claims to “ensure that creators, original authors, and writers can continue to manage and produce their works.”
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