>As announced in the Official Gazette on December 10, 2025, the animation production studio Gainax Inc. has completed its bankruptcy reorganization and ceased to exist as a corporation, bringing an end to its nearly 42-year history.>As someone who has been with the company for over 20 years since its founding and has been involved as a shareholder until today, this is a truly disappointing end, but I am accepting it with a sense of urgency.>First of all, we would like to express our gratitude and respect to all the related companies who worked with us for nearly six years, free of charge, to rebuild and subsequently reorganize Gainax following the arrest of then-CEO Maki Tomohiro in 2019. Thanks to your cooperation, we were able to properly process the rights for each work, transfer the rights, and transfer all production results and other materials, and safely return them to the respective rights holders and creators.>Once again, we are grateful. Thank you very much.>What I have revealed up until now about Gainax's past is almost everything that can be made public, but there is something new that I find disappointing, so I would like to take this opportunity to mention it.>The problem was that the transfer of rights and materials had been carried out without due process under the former management.>As a result, we filed a civil lawsuit against the management at the time, and on January 20, 2023, a settlement was reached in which the plaintiff's claims were accepted and the defendant apologized.https://www.khara.co.jp/news-en/Gunbust3r soon™?
Good riddance to bad company.
What are your farewell words to the Gainax studio/name?
>>23664024"where uru in blue?"
>>23664020>>23664024omedetou
>>23664024Uru In Blue when?
>>23664020They were nothing short of scummy in their last years Rest in Piss
>>23664020Despite their final years of existence, Gainax was an influential studio, today it’s succeeded by Khara and Trigger which follow up on their legacy for further inspiration for years to come. Farewell Gainax
>>23664020TOMINO WON HOLYYYY
Has any other studio had as much of a slow painful death as Gainax?
>>23664020What killed them? I thought Evangelion made bank?
>>23664020Khara next.
>>23664138Turns out, having one of the most profitable IPs in the world means nothing if you can’t learn how to manage money.
>>23664020>The problem was that the transfer of rights and materials had been carried out without due process under the former management.What happened? Is it related to Evangelion?
>>23664020RIP. In their honor I will finally watch Abenobashi which has been in my backlog for 20 years because I always forget that it's in my backlog
>>23664022>>23664107>>23664123>>23664138>>23664142Why so many newfags?
My Uru In Blue..
>The photo shows a celebratory envelope (originally animation cel paper with tap holes) that Miyasan (Hayao Miyazaki) brought to the studio (a single-family house) in Takadanobaba at the time of Gainax's founding. I kept it for myself before it was thrown away. At some point, one of our company's staff had it framed. >More than 40 years have passed since that time. It has truly become a regrettable outcome. (Comment from our company president)
>>23664020They had it coming.
>>23664226>More than 40 years have passed since that time.Couldn't they all just...work together again somewhere else
>>23664020Now they can make the Otaku no video sequel and call it Otaku no streaming.
>>23664020
>>23664134Manglobe was basically running on fumes for like 15 years but still putting out zero budget showsAt least we got Samurai Flamenco moments before their demise
>>23664134Gonzo
>>23664134Sunrise
>>23664225Honestly what’s stopping Khara from making it themselves using the original concept, especially since there wasn’t gonna be any returning characters from Royal Space Force. Just change the name of the locales and setting, Yamaga‘s shackled with whatever the hell Gaina’s become.
>>23664357Wings of Mayonaise was an industry darling but a massive commercial bomb, and the director's pet project, so I don't think anyone else would be interested in picking up the sequel or would be able to match the feeling of the original
>>23664138Anno took the rights of Evangelion from them to make up for the royalties that management wasn't paying because they spent it all on hookers and blow
>>23664020Best news in ages.>>23664310I miss those guys.
>>23664020These guys changed anime forever. Honneamise, Gunbuster, Eva, FLCL, Diebuster, TTGL and even mid stuff like Abenobashi did something no one else was doing at the time.The anime that we "legitimized" as good in the west (like Akira, GitS, Satoshi Kon's movies and Ghibli movies), despite their undoubted quality are westernized and compatible with western culture.Gainax has never been afraid to incorporate elements of otaku culture in their work and somehow give them creative and artistic dignity. You take Gunbuster and in six episodes it has everything: squemish girls doing sports, mecha, space fights, luminal travel eldritch horror, 80s songs, inazuma kick.Whether anime fans like it or not, anime tropes, fanservice, big robots punching aliens, cringe-screaming, exaggerated sentimentality and the delirium of onipotence of the grown chuuninbyou are a part of this medium. Gainax at least had the courage to make something beautiful with it - which was anime at its core: not wannabe cinema, not wannabe high-literature - anime.F.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju2P4V4Vc_8 [Embed]
>>23664258Some of the creators like Khara's and Trigger just slowly drifted in their own direction, but the problem here is that the troubles of the studio ended up souring the relationship of quite a few founders (especially when they attempted to secret separate Gainax subsidiaries so they'd retain rights over various series while Gainax proper was left to rot).
>>23664259They should make a movie about you called "Otaku no Bitches".
>>23664412Sure thing cringelord
>>23664430Go back crossboarder.
>>23664200>newfagsNone of the personnel who made Gainax great are there anymore, they all left to make new studios specifically because Gainax was a shitshow.
>>23664020A studio is just a mailbox and an office. The people that made all that shit moved on and it's clear not all their memories of gainax are good. Still, gainax didn't die. It went through mitosis into khara and trigger while leaving behind all the detritus.
>>23664020>>23664413>Important to note from this statement is that Hiroyuki Yamaga told Gainax employees to pretend he was in the hospital in one of several attempts to avoid repaying the money Anno loaned to them
>>23664418I would if they invite you to co-star as my cocksleeve
>>23664349Soon
>>23664440>while leaving behind all the detritusThe people who made Grendizer U sadly still exist.
>>23664459I am beginning to understand why Anno is so pissed about the entire situation.
>>23664459I once found Yamaga's personal facebook, it was pretty bizarre how nonchalant and "public" everything was.
>>23664138at the end of the day, they are just a bunch of otakus. financial management is not their strong suit.
>>23664459unironically, a good plot for an anime.
>>23664500Gonna be honest, I thought you were joking and turns out you're not
>>23664020Damn.A bit late, but I know what I'll be watching tonight.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTqQnk2K0QQ
>>23664459The entire falling out between Anno and Yamaga is almost the saddest thing about this.From living together in college to founding a company together, years of working, only for it to end so ugly
>>23664373>they spent it all on hookers and blow[citation needed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfczFtTvzbg
>>23664904Anno was the chosen one. Yamaga was there just for the ride
>>23664349>>23664471Not happening. Cr yharder.
>>23664020;_;7Gainax was a lot of what got me hardcore. Otaku No Video in particular was a big impact on how to weeb. The mp3s of the soundtrack on tenshi was an early contribution of mine to the hivemind, got it off ebay. I ended up with a first-pressing LD of 1985, never tried to cash in the card for the single lol. I have a few cels from Misty Mae's transformation, got them from AnimEigo.one time I directly bought shit from Gainax, they opened up business across the pacific, then it turned out you just emailed them your order, your credit card number, and they were all "trust me, bro"sure enough I got my R2 Eva movie so good on themI remember a REALLY funny hustle they pulled around then was Royal Space Force R2 dvd was Y8800. The R0 was about thirty bucks more. iirc before Studio Ironcat did the massive faceplant on Megatokyo they took a less-publicized bath in the Eva Collectors Discs. Dim Memories of early AFO pretty sure the first one, the story went Ironcat inked the deal with Gainax to translate and distro in the USA, then they got a set of the discs. Just off-the-shelf cds. Gainax eventually grasped the importance of source code to this endeavor but it turns out to be some obscure Japan-only variant of C and nobody can find the guy who made it. By this point everybody has downloaded all of the good stuff from otakuworld.other lolgainax story I have is FLCLyou know how the R2 have subs on vol 2-6? according to some rando at a con who claimed he subbed it, he had to explain to them that mailing him the finished discs after it was published wouldn't work
>>23665138Yamaga wasn't half bad, just turned out to be real scummy.
>>23665366Yeah but it must be hard to live under Anno's shadow. Especially considering he met him as that weird kid from college.
Is Yamaga still working on Gaina?
>>23664020i do see the princess maker in the picture, but where is Götzendiener?
>>23665765Jesus, that is obscure. I thought I was the only one who even played a bit of it when emulating PC-98 games and I dont even remember where I got it from now.
Alisia Dragoon is not there either, but I guess its more Game Arts than Gainax as I believe they only provided the story and art designs
>>23665485Gaina got bought by some shady AI company earlier this year
>>23664226btw in case you´ve just looking at the thread here and not the source, thats Anno basically saying only he cared enough to take it with himself before "it was thrown away" and somebody at khara framed it, so Its not even an emotional farewell post from some supposed gainax staff, quite enough to see how sad was the state of that company>>23664357Whats stopping them is very simple, the noly reason that movie was going to happen back in the day was Yamaga because he basically wanted to remake streets of fire with planes and nobody was interested in the idea, as always, he roped Anno in doing it before he got busy with outside business like Nadia and Eva(neither did originate from the company), now Anno just publicly paints Yamaga like a fraudster or a conman, Its difficult to imagine they would touch that thing, besides at some point in the past gaina put a notice that they were producing the thing, and also Top 3, Its not going to happen the fact the name of the thing has been uttered could mean he thinks he has some creator rights to it or something, in any case nobody wants anything to do with Yamaga or whatever pitch he has most likely.
>>23665801Sadamoto joined Gaina and worked on Grendizer U. I guess he has no other choice but to return to Khara
>>23666178>return
>>23666270He did work on Rebuilds 1 and 2, though I'm not entirely sure how their relationship is.I remember him tweeting for people to stop asking him about Evangelion, as he's no longer a part of the franchise.
>>23666347>>23666270Sadamoto is credited on 3.0 and 3.0+1.0 as the original character designer but he didn't work on those movies. He left Anno for Yamaga. He bet for the losing horse
>>23666347>>23666483He doesn't work at Khara, that's probably freelance work. Sadamoto has enough pull to do his own thing (or so he thinks).
I know the studio has been dying a slow death for a long ass time now, but it still feels like and end of an Era.
>>23664020Rest in peace.
>>23664020Which companies have Gainax's IPs currently? I remember Gaina, Khara, Trigger, and Production IG all having their fingers in the pie.
All of the original Daicon IV program books have now been documented and had a lot of involvement from Daicon Film etc. You can download them all here:https://mega.nz/folder/a01QkBZI#NpvhnwFsvDg1blITVfY9nQConsider reading the .txt in the MEGA for additional information, but not a requirement. IA Mirror (in case the MEGA can't be connected to for any reason):https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Nihon+SF+Taikai%22 IA supports direct .ZIP downloads (click the PNG option, hit the down arrow.) as well as torrents to just about any client. Feel free to upload/torrent elsewhere, I'm not picky.
>>23664020Good. I hope Studio Khara is next. Anno deserves to be wiped completely from the industry.
>>23670280But Khara is the one that benefited from Gainax shutting down the most.
>>23670280as if you could do anything better.
>>23670295Absolutely could but don't got the funding
>>23670309we wuz animators n sheit ass
>>23670394ayo he wuz a good boye, just didn't have da fundings n sheeeit, those japaniggas raycis cuz dey don't gib us da money mkay?
https://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2002-takeda-notenkimemoirsApparently this explains what happened to Gainax's money.
