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Aplix Sells Anime Studio AIC to AIC's Founder for 8,000 Yen/US$77
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
Tōru Miura, AIC's current representative director and Aplix's company director. Aplix sold the 8,000 shares for 8,000 yen ($77) total.
Miura established the studio that would become AIC on July 15, 1982, and the studio co-produced AIC Takarazuka.
Aplix purchased 95% of AIC in 2010 for 530 million yen (US$6.3 million).
Aplix also announced on Monday that it is transferring all of the shares of its wholly-owned subsidiary game development company G-mode (total of 113,183 shares) to the company ONE-UP for 750 million yen ($7.2 million). Aplix will formalize the transfer on January 31.
Aplix made G-mode its subsidiary in January 2010, and then made it Aplix's core company of multimedia entertainment in December 2011. Aplix explained that after the sudden death of G-mode's president Takeshi Miyaji in 2011, the company's endeavors in the anime and manga markets did not improve as a result of the merger, even though the company made efforts to restructure. As a result, Aplix decided to sell G-mode even though G-mode's smartphone game development was profitable. G-mode's new parent company ONE-UP is a game developer that develops mainly for smartphones.
G-mode produced last year's Katayoku no Khronos Gear video anime.
Source: Social Game Info
