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Sounds like the bankruptcy system is working correctly then. All the valuable assets are going to the people who matter: Cloverworks, Trigger and Khara. Its a

Sounds like the bankruptcy system is working correctly then. All the valuable assets are going to the people who matter: Cloverworks, Trigger and Khara. Its a bit sad for Gainax as an entity to be collapsing, but the individuals who bring us these stories (through producing, acting, animating, or other skills) still exist out there. I'll definitely say that Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 from Studio Khara lost a lot of the mech-design that made Gainax great... but its clear that all the "mech designers" are alive and active over at Studio Trigger. Its sad to see the team split up, because nothing like Evangelion (90s) will ever come out again. But on the other hand, these other studios are clearly active and seemingly successful. So the show goes on...

noirscape 2y ago
Yeah, it's sad in that they're a pretty massive name that's going away (and one of the few studios mostly known for doing original work rather than adaptations), but it's been a long time coming and the actual losses are minimal (it's really only FLCL but that happened years ago). One small correction though: no IPs will be transferred to Cloverworks as far as I know. Cloverworks didn't really get any specific creatives from Gainax, moreso just that a lot of the intermediate staff that you usually don't hear about ended up at Cloverworks. (Which to my understanding was largely a coincidence: A1 had formed Cloverworks, put out hiring ads and in the next month, Gainax basically declared they weren't ever going to make any experimental anime again, causing a mass exodus from the company.)