When studio president Tomohiro Maki was arrested in 2019 for sexual assault of a teenager, a subsequent audit unveiled years of unrecoverable mismanagement.
The FLCL sequels were made at Production I.G., Gainax just licensed out the IP. There’s no real overlap in the people who worked on it either; I think just the director, and only in the role of “supervisor”, and the original character designer.
Unfortunately, that’s what most of these companies and studios have largely become. Risk averse IP leasing crews.
I remember seeing a while back that they were looking to restart reboot or somehow continue some of Rumiko Takahashi’s IP from the 80s. I think they did produce some new episodes of Those Annoying Aliens and there was talk of new Ranma 1/2 as well. I’m sure Inuyasha 2 is somewhere in the pipeline.
The FLCL sequels were made at Production I.G., Gainax just licensed out the IP. There’s no real overlap in the people who worked on it either; I think just the director, and only in the role of “supervisor”, and the original character designer.
Unfortunately, that’s what most of these companies and studios have largely become. Risk averse IP leasing crews.
I remember seeing a while back that they were looking to restart reboot or somehow continue some of Rumiko Takahashi’s IP from the 80s. I think they did produce some new episodes of Those Annoying Aliens and there was talk of new Ranma 1/2 as well. I’m sure Inuyasha 2 is somewhere in the pipeline.