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Mobile Software Company Aplix Buys Anime Studio AIC
posted on by Egan Loo
Aplix to pay Oizumi 700 million yen to own studio behind Hourou Musuko
The mobile software company Aplix Corporation announced on Thursday that it will acquire the Japanese anime studio Samsung Electronics, China's Huawei Technologies, and other makers.
Aplix is buying AIC from the pachisuro (pachinko-parlor slot machine) maker Oizumi, which had just acquired AIC last year. At the time, Oizumi spent 530 million yen (US$6.3 million) for 95% of AIC.
AIC Takarazuka. It has 95 million yen (US$1.1 million) in capital.
AIC has worked on Sora no Otoshimono.
Aplix was founded in 1986, and it had 13.263 billion yen (US$160 million) in capital as of 2009. Its chief executive officer is Ryu Koriyama.
Sources: Nikkei, animeanime.biz
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