2009-02-19, 07:14 | Link #142 |
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Well technically, yes, but in a way the anime part gave birth to its own parent when they tried expanding their output.
Basically history is: Gonzo is formed (from a bunch of ex-gainax employees if I recall), starts making anime. Then they create GDH as a holding company and call "Gonzo" the part of GDH that makes anime, with other parts like "GDH games/interactive" (or whatever it was called) handling other things like their online gaming unit. And now they are reverting back to their original form of just one company called Gonzo that mainly makes anime. So whiile Gonzo is a sub-company of GDH, Gonzo isn't really the "child" chronologically.
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2009-02-19, 10:30 | Link #144 |
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1992: GONZO Inc established -->1999: GONZO K.K.
1996: Digimation K.K 2000: GONZO Digimation Holding established -->2004: GDH 2000: Creators.com K.K. established -->2004: G-creators K.K. 2002: GONZO K.K. and Digimation K.K units merged to become GONZO Digimation K.K --> 2004: GONZO K.K 2003: Future Vision Music K.K. established 2005: GONZINO K.K. established 2005: Warp Gate Online K.K. becomes subsidiary --> GONZO Rosso Online K.K. 2005: GDH CAPITAL K.K. established 2006: GK Entertainment K.K. established 2007: GONZO Rosso Online K.K. and G-creators K.K. merge --> GONZO Rosso K.K 2008: GDH CAPITAL K.K. spun off. In the end GDH had 3 animation studios a video game studio and a company to manage the music for the 4 studios, anyone see a bit of redundancy? It took GM and GE decades to do what GDH has done in just over a decade. GK Entertainment K.K. based in Korea has put out a total of three titles GONZINO K.K. makes children's titles and has had four shows since it started. |
2009-03-19, 07:06 | Link #148 | |
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The people working on them have likely been fired and are working as contractors or are expecting to be fired sooner or later... The question for me is really, will Gonzo stick all their remaining resources on say, 1 or 2 shows and completely shaft the other two, or will they just do all of them equally crappily? I don't like to say things suck before they are even made, but money = quality in this business and gonzo is lacking in the left hand side of that equation.
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2009-03-20, 03:37 | Link #150 |
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They are likely not the sole members of the production committee and therefore have no choice but to continue with these particular shows, unless they'd like to get sued into oblivion by the other companies involved in financing.
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2009-03-20, 07:42 | Link #151 |
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Ah, so these projects were already agreed on in better days, I understand.
Well, now I'm wondering if their lawyer gave them wrong advice or if they really knew and meant what they said with "50 percent reduction". Which would mean that there won't be any Gonzo production at all in the second half of 2009. Doing grunt work for other studios then?
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2009-03-21, 00:23 | Link #152 |
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Reading this really worries me a bit about the industry as a whole. Even though I wasn't a huge fan of Gonzo's work, I'd heard the name.
With the crazy Bestbuy half price sale and less being produced, maybe we won't see stuff as much over seas. I found an online manga firesale that was selling volumes of manga for like .99 cents per...that's crazy even if it was a mishmash of different series and often not all the volumes. Is anime/manga bottom line not profitable here at all? Will this hurt the industry further--will the studios cut back their diversity and there be less selection? Makes me a bit nervous. |
2009-03-21, 05:02 | Link #153 | |
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Well, looks like FUNimation will be releasing all future Gonzo titles, from the sounds of this press release:
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I figured it'd be worth posting here. I wonder if this has anything to do with their financial trouble or not. |
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2009-03-23, 11:41 | Link #154 | |
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It's a safe, conservative thing to do.
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2009-03-24, 02:08 | Link #155 | |
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During next fiscal year, Gonzo intends to reduce the number of projects from eight to four. However, the question is whether this immediately affects series already slated for 2009 or the ones that come after (achieved by downsizing and collapsing teams as existing projects finish up). In the latter case, restructuring is still happening within FY2009, but the outcome won't become apparent until later. |
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2009-03-24, 12:19 | Link #156 |
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The news didn't say anything about exclusivity except perhaps with DVD rights. But that doesn't cost them anything anymore anyway, since none of the other players left in the R1 market have any money to license anything anyway.
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2009-03-26, 12:07 | Link #157 |
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It would for the better titles in GONZO's future release schedule. There prob would have been a skirmish over Shangri-la.
Edit: And some of those titles would have stayed in Japan gathering dust. DVD rights prob benefits GONZO more for the less than stellar titles that FUNi has to take to get to the better ones. Future streaming coordination benefits both FUNi and GONZO.
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2009-03-26, 20:49 | Link #158 | |
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As Quarkboy mentioned, Funimation is the only major distributor in healthy shape, so bidding wars simply won't happen. No one else has money to throw around. |
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2009-03-27, 02:32 | Link #159 | |
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