Hideaki Anno has issued an in depth public assertion confirming that Gainax, the animation studio finest recognized for Neon Genesis Evangelion, has formally dissolved following the completion of its chapter liquidation.
The announcement, launched on Studio Khara’s official web site on Dec. 11, marks the top of the corporate’s almost 42-year historical past and contains pointed criticism directed at members of Gainax’s former administration.
Anno described the closure as deeply regrettable, noting his private involvement with the corporate from its earliest days and his continued function as a shareholder for greater than twenty years.
“…this end result is really regrettable, however I settle for it quietly.” he mentioned.
Anno additionally used the assertion to specific gratitude to trade companions who assisted in making an attempt to rebuild and later liquidate Gainax after the 2019 arrest of then-president Tomohiro Maki. He mentioned these teams labored for almost six years with out compensation, and helped “correctly return the rights, manufacturing supplies, and numerous paperwork related to every work to the rightful rights holders and creators by appropriate authorized procedures.”
Nonetheless, the assertion additionally disclosed beforehand unrevealed points involving former administration.
He said that improper rights transfers and unauthorized motion of manufacturing supplies had occurred underneath the administration. Khara filed a civil lawsuit in response, and a settlement was reached on Jan 20, 2023, with the court docket recognizing Khara’s claims and the defendants providing an apology.
Anno mentioned that additional investigation revealed particulars that he described as deeply saddening. In keeping with his account, inner messages from former executives, together with ex Fukushima Gainax president Yoshinori Asao and long-time associates Hiroyuki Yamaga and Yasuhiro Takeda, confirmed repeated situations of deception towards Khara.
These allegedly included making an attempt to evade compensation of emergency loans supplied by Khara, instructing employees to assert that Yamaga was hospitalized to keep away from communication, and lack of respect towards their very own works and employees in issues of company governance and preservation of manufacturing supplies..
“Discovering these particulars left me feeling not anger, however deep unhappiness,” he said, including, “I used to be compelled to simply accept that we might possible by no means return to the relationships we as soon as had, and I’m really upset. The rationale we agreed to the settlement was that we now not wished to expend any extra of our firm’s time on these people.“
Anno expressed explicit gratitude towards Gainax’s final president, Yasuhiro Kamimura, who had publicly detailed the corporate’s decline when the chapter was filed.
Kamimura had cited years of dangerous enterprise choices starting round 2012, comparable to poorly deliberate restaurant ventures, the reckless institution of CG studio, unsecured loans to executives, and losses from failed investments, as components that worsened the studio’s monetary state.
Anno credited Kamimura with managing creditor negotiations, stopping the lack of remaining rights and supplies, and overseeing the studio by its closing part, and closed the assertion by thanking Kamimura for his work and for supporting the studio till its finish.
Supply: Oricon
