Gonzo parent company GDH has decided to change its name to Gonzo, after first announcing it would be sacking three quarters of the original Gonzo; it now announces it will disincorporate the original Gonzo completely, and take on the name for itself, “merging” the two companies.
It appears that anime production within the new Gonzo will essentially be a matter of coordinating the actions of external contractors, as opposed to the business of directly conducting anime production, which obviously proved a financial disaster for the original Gonzo for whatever reasons.
The report outlining the plan also cites cost savings from reducing duplication of work roles and corporate administration, as well as economies from shared offices in Nerima, Tokyo.
GDH, as well as running Gonzo as a subsidiary, also runs a variety of other operations, including a moderately successful mobile gaming business. Presumably these are thought likely to benefit from being Gonzo branded.
Rather than a merger it might be more correct to think of this as a rebranding of the poorly branded GDH (which never had the profile of Gonzo despite being the larger parent) – the report does mention brand strengthening as one objective.
You can read the report in detail here.
i dont know if anyone is aware of this, but in the strike witches official site “http://s-witch.cute.or.jp/”, it says something like countdown of days before announce some information, check it, maybe its nothing important, but i think they would realise some information about SW season two.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/02/20/strike-witches-second-series-announcement-announced/
Just give us R+V season 3 or an OVA without mascot censors we can forgive you.
f♥♥k YOU, I’d rather Gonzo stop desecrating the awesomeness that is R+V and still to making their no-pan animu.
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oh god and i just bought the official artbook for Strike Witches. Should there be less mindfucking and more quality now that they’ve uhh… “gattai’d”?
The original Gonzo was in essence a cheap whore with legs wide open towards US, dilluting the anime industry with digusting titles aimed at fat americans. Thank god this buisness model failed.
Yeah, why do they bother trying to appeal to fat stupid infidels like us?
Because you are rich fat stupid infidels.
A-fucking-men to that AmericanOtaku. I wish I was born on Mars instead right about now, especially with North Korea trying us and a pussy for a president.
Well, except that I’m not rich. And I wish I wasn’t an American.
Wow,I’m in awe.Geneon probably hit the first wave then the rest came tumbling down…