The End of GAINAX, Part 2, from khara Inc.
In response to the statement regarding bankruptcy proceedings announced on the Gainax official website , we would like to provide some additional information from our perspective, and after considering the relationship with Gainax and its current management structure, we would like to post this comment on the official website. Masu.
Gainax was the former company of our Color representative director Hideaki Anno, but Anno founded Color in 2006, retired from Gainax the following year in 2007, and subsequently became a shareholder of Gainax. I am.
Our company had been aware of Gainax's poor management and debt for some time, and Anno expressed his concerns to management and made proposals for improving the company's management, but these were not accepted for a long time. Even in such a situation, we accepted the proposals of the management at the time and even provided supportive loans as color. However, Gainax's situation did not change, and the situation continued to worsen, culminating in the arrest of the then-presidential director in 2019 on a criminal offense unrelated to the operation of the company.
Following the arrest of the former CEO of Gainax, our company's CEO, Hideaki Anno, asked for cooperation from KADOKAWA, King Records Co., Ltd., and Trigger Inc. in order to prevent reputational damage to the Evangelion series and other related works. He revamped the management team by having representatives from each company serve as directors, and has been working with each of our partner companies to understand the inner workings of Gainax, at the very least resolve unpaid payments to studios, writers, and creators within the animation industry, and prevent the loss of intellectual property and documents.
However, as stated in a release from Gainax, by the time they learned the internal situation, they were already in a state of insolvency that was beyond their control, and Gainax had decided that it would be difficult for them to continue their operations. I'm here.
In light of this situation, in order to ensure that creators, original authors, and writers can continue to produce and manage their works in the future, we have worked with each production committee to confirm and organize the rights and transfer the rights to the companies and individuals we deem most suitable.
In order to eliminate even a small amount of debt owed to many people in the industry, we considered providing support from our company, but it was unreasonable to also have to guarantee the debts of the former management team and former CEO. Due to the current situation, it was not possible to fully repay the loan.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the directors of the new system and the companies to which they belong, for their cooperation in reorganization and transfers that put authors and creators first in terms of intellectual property and future management. We would like to once again thank the production committee members for their efforts.
Finally, it is a shame that an animation studio with a history of just under 40 years has come to an end like this. As stated in the release from Gainax, the trademark and title of GAINAX are acquired and managed by our company.
In addition, "Gainax" is a separate legal entity from similar companies such as "Gaina Co., Ltd. (Studio Gaina)" and "Fukushima Gaina" (both of which were formerly known as "Fukushima Gainax"), "Gainax International", "GAINAX Kyoto", "Yonago Gainax", "Gainax Niigata Co., Ltd." and "GAINAX WEST", and there are no trademark license agreements between our company and the above similar companies. Please also refer to Diamond Online's past coverage
of this matter .
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