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>The company reported sales of 1.527 billion yen (about US$13.70 million), an operating loss of 399 million yen (about US$3.58 million), an ordinary loss of 433 million yen (about US$3.88 million), and a total loss of 597 million yen (about US$5.35 million). The company reported an insolvency of 3.401 billion yen (about US$30.5 million) for the year.
What can we do to save /ourcompany/?
why did they even bother coming back?
They could use the studio for money laundering like madhouse does.
>gonzo
They still exist?
>3 billion yen is barely 30 million dollars
Haha, talk about a worthless shitty currency.
How could this happen? They sold a whopping 76 BDs last year. That should be enough to feed their animators for at least a couple months.
PLEASE JUST MAKE ANOTHER 2 COUR ANIME ORIGINAL WITH RANGE MURATA'S ART STYLE BEFORE YOU GO PLEASE GONZO
God I'll miss them.
>Range Murata
A god among men. He's Gonzo's greatest asset. Koichi Chigira sadly used to mean something.
What series have they even done recently? That one weird pregnancy anime?
Has any other studio ever crashed and burned harder than Gonzo? People know why Madhouse has gone downhill with Masao Maruyama's departure. Gainax lives on in the many different offshoots that all of it's talented folks have created. Ghibli is dying with Takahata and Miyazaki just a s afew examples. Wtf happened to Gonzo though?
What? Gonzo still exists?
>weird pregnancy anime
>no actual pregnancy in the anime
They had the potential to tap into every weeb maiesiophile out there to be the first show made for their fetish that wasn't some cheap looking clusterfuck of a hentai but they didn't deliver anything on the fetish.
>goes bankrupt twice
I thought Gonzo died ages ago?
You realize that the currencies are actually equal, right? Only difference is that the Japanese don't have cents. If they did, it'd be 1:1 conversion rate.
Akiba's Trip was such a great show
They were bought out by ADK.
It did, this is just a zombie that people refuse to let go.
They made shit. Went bankrupt. Bough by chinks and now they make worse shit. Good riddance.
I watched it to support them.
>check wikipedia
>they released 4 series last year
i had no idea. no wonder they're going under
They made a few gems between all the shit, now it's just shit.
7seeds will save them just you watch
Nurse Witch was fun and the tomboy won.
No, it's not. It violates the lore of the games.
This show was fantastic. It also worked as S2 of Sore ga Seiyuu!
What have they even made in the past 3 years? I can't think of anything at all? I'd assumed they already died again
Who gives a fuck. It was fun and Mayo was extremely cute
>caring about games
>caring about lore
It was great you faggot.
>Gonzo
>ever again making any profit after "00
Unironically looking forward to this. Maybe getting some of that Netflix money will help them.
Asatsu-DK owns 84% of Gonzo
Asatsu-Dk was bought out by US firm Bain Capital with 87% shares
The $30 million debt is about the same debt that madhouse had when it was bought out by Nippon TV with 85% of it's shares.
The difference is that madhouse recouped all it's debt with HxH 2011 anime being in enormous hit for the TV station.
NTV also owns Tatsunoko Production with 54% and Takara-Tomy owns 20% of Tatsunoko.
Imageboard I'm usually on they are separate, ,but I forgot how shitty the website has gotten since 05
this one just ended
Murata already moved on, ID-0 was released on 2017 and there's Cop Craft for this year:
youtube.com
This.
He's working on two shows in summer.
Decent bait
Too bad they butchered the character designs.
How are the designs in the other one from summer?
I know and I can't wait but there's never enough murata and if they're going out then at least with a bang please
The pv looks much better than the key visual here. I lost all hope after the studio and director got announced but the pv got me looking forward to it again.
It's the same as in any other Murata anime, you'd need Lady Innocent levels of quality to be faithful to his drawings.
Fond memories of watching this with my anime club.
cop craft am cry
Why don't they adapt something good?
Madhouse did and went bankrupt
Can't wait to see how many million yens ANN will lose after the lawsuit lmao
Boogieflop isn't enough to bankrupt them.
What
They came back only to make horrible shit anime, what did they expect?
>People know why Madhouse has gone downhill with Masao Maruyama's departure.
It was Maruyama who killed Madhouse. He demanded high quality anime all the time despite Their series were always underperformed in the market.
More like Donezo lmao
>all this talk about Gonzo
>not a single mention of Aokana
Is it really THAT forgotten?
Who the fuck watched that garbage?
nice.
I miss Vandread
...I did
>anime club
A true hero.
Kids these days don't know the things you had to do to see any anime back then.
Gonzo? More like Bombzo!
Gonzo? More like Gone-zo!
Gonzo? More like couldn't-even-win-bronzo-o!
The only Gonzo series that I ever liked was Chrno Crusade, and that came out like 15+ years ago. I'm surprised they even exist anymore.
Gonzo is a phoenix. No matter how many times they die, they'll always come back.
Samurai 7 was cool.
Not him but something about assistance in trying to slur an American VA with false claims about sexual harassment leading to people being sued. bla bla bla
Would be nice to see them burn as well.
I hope they die.
i absolutely adored Kiddy Grade and Kaleido Star back then.
fuck off
yeah, loved it
Man I never got to watch this but I'll love forever the OP.
It was okay. Sequel was shit though.
Based Gonzo, saviors of the anime industry.
I'm still waiting for that Usagi-chan sequel.
Certain success would come to them if only they invested in Ringo and her show.
Their best works are pseudo-originals. Their talents can't shine through when they're constrained by an existing story.
>Kids these days don't know the things you had to do to see any anime back then.
We were elite. Top quality SVHS deck, Laser disc player, LCD projector, the works.
This doesnt loo bad. Looks like the guy who did this also did the character designs for Last Exile. Do newfags really hate the aesthetics of anime from the 2000s?
According to Wikipedia, they have been having money problems since 08-09 years
The wrong VA got famous after this anime
They made the original FMP before KyoAni picked it up.
She needs more roles.
Thats like 10 real dollars
They are doing 7Seeds this year. It’s a great manga but the anime looks terrible from its promotional art
>cool manga it's based on
>netflix broadcast
>cast full of popular seiyuus
>but it looks like ass
I don't get it. Shouldn't they put more effort into such an ambitious adaptation? I thought studios were supposed to make their netflix series look nice.
Meia is my Gonzo waifu. Barnette is for /k/.
>the weakest VA became the most famous
Gonzo will always have a special place in my heart.
Surprisingly, I've come to like RinRin the most. Her voice is really soothing. Ichigo has shown good range, but it's hard to say with how dead her career has been. Rie just fills a niche well and that's an easy way to make it.
Pretty sure Gonzo is just a yakuza shell company at this point. You know, since they pretty much got revived by pachinko.
Gonzo made some of my favourite pretentious and ambitious but not-quite-there anime original shows. I was sad to see they went bankrupt, sadder still when they were revived, and now beyond caring that they are dying again.
muh Strike Witches OG season
>Mayo scale figure never
>Mayo spinoff never
how can a studio that created such magnum opus like Gankutsuo fall so fucking hard
it oversupplied shit to USA, and never recovered.
i thought animes need to make about 1 million bucks in earnings to break even unless they're sponsored by cygames? that means they needed to sell at least ~14 000 BDs to break even, if each BD cost 70 USDs.
Mayo is love.
That's what happens when everything you make is a shitty vidya adaptation. They should switch to making moeshit and package hentai OVAs with the BDs. Like Madoka with full penetration.
They made some pretty good anime back then
>Full Metal Panic S1
>Gad Guard
>Gankutsuou
>Kaleido Star
>Kiddy Grade
>Last Exile
>Samurai 7
>Vandread
>Witchblade
Mayo is life.
I will take Mayo as my wife.
redpill me essential (gone)zocore
Gatekeepers was fun post WW2 sci fi. Avoid the sequel series.
Vandread is cool mecha shit in space. Watch both seasons.
Last Exile is sky pirate as fuck. Avoid the sequels.
Samurai 7 is a pretty faithful sci fi re imagining of the kurosawa film. expands the story in places but is very faithful. Kikuchiyo is best samurai.
Count of Monte Cristo. Has vampires and giant robots. You can decide for yourself from there.
Druaga is a good fantasy adventure but the tone is on constant whiplash.
Gravion is Obari as fuck.
Soul Taker has an awesome op.
Akiba's Trip is funny. Has nothing to do with the game.
They died their first death right after doing that
I'm mad over Dragonaut. That was 12 years ago. Still angry.
Witchblade was pretty enjoyable.