Financially troubled anime studio Gonzo is set to undergo massive restructuring, sacking 100 of its 130 employees, rather than the smaller numbers announced earlier, with parent company GDH mandating a return to profitability within 5 years.
However, they set the time frame for these sackings to “within 5 years”, perhaps indicating they are set after all on moving towards a heavily outsourced production style, rather than simply shedding employees as a matter of urgency (which it admittedly is).
All this comes after parent GDH’s call for 50 sacrificial lambs (from its own workforce) to volunteer for the block only resulted in 36 volunteers; this seems unconnected however, as the plan laid out at the start was for a drastic restructuring of how Gonzo produces anime, whereas GDH is committed to lighter cuts.
The precise details of their production plans are not known; they are said to be looking at more “casual” anime, as well as halving output overall though it seems unlikely this will affect the hit loli anime Strike Witches.
There are also suggestions of them producing more prurient works, if that is meaningful considering the content of Strike Witches…
Via AnimeAnime.
It looks as though there will be some franchises and licences going cheaply quite soon if their backers get cold feet after continued poor performance…
I beg them not to cancel the black lagoon ovas I’d buy all the DVD’S or blue ray’s to see it all unfold with fabiola’s mini maid rampage, what they need to cash in again is more basilisk or maybe seto no hanayome the show was underrated I loved it
gonzo have some good anime series but my favorite is strike witches. for god sakes, i dont care if its another studio or gonzo i just want a good second season of strike witches (with more yuri) 😀
those who want the same please keep commenting about this in the articles of strike witches.
thanks
That’s what u got for making Blassreiter
Blassreiter was actually good, you know.
dont lie
it faild on levels never seen befour ugh i have a lothing for most new Animes latly the go to soon to relying on CG elments when they could just draw the damn thing
worse when they Try and gel it to the actual animation.. makes it so obivuse i dont mind it when they use cg or computer system to aid in the flow or controle even some smaller elments but when its a core point its just horrible as they just contrast so badly its not even worth watching
now that i think of it cg animation is like silicone boobs, nothing like the real thing, not to mention those awful scars!
i agree, everytime i se a cool anime and a cg element enters i totally loose interest, lately i had the chance to se old animes i always wanted to see and the quality they had just blew me away!
GONZO or BONZO the Clown?
LOL