Anonymous · 2015-09-30 23:14
What factors do you think led to their death? Would you agree in saying that they had too many Western elements in their series?
Anonymous · 2015-10-01 00:31
I'm not sure what you're talking about
Anonymous · 2015-10-01 01:12
>>4361
I guess I should have summarized what's going on.
Posts on Twitter from Manglobe staff indicate Manglobe bankruptcy. The official Manglobe site has been made unavailable globally. All of this has happened very recently so there has been no confirmation or press releases yet but it's most likely Manglobe is bankrupt.
This is probably the most detailed English source out there so far:
http://myanimelist.net/news/42419664
Anonymous · 2015-10-03 06:22
it's been confirmed, 350 million yen in the hole. kinda sad, they made some good stuff. champloo had imo the best standalone episode of any anime I've seen (baseball episode).
Anonymous · 2015-10-03 13:16
>revenue of 460 million yen in 2014
>a debt of 350 million yen
>460 million yen is about 3.8 million usd
>350 is 2.9 million
ouch, no wonder their broke
Anonymous · 2015-10-03 15:05
>>4360
TWGOK is very Japanese though