CATDOLL: Japanese animation production company Studio Fantasia announced bankruptcy. Winter is really coming.

In recent years, the situation of the Japanese animation industry has been quite grim. In September 2015, the animation production company Manglob suddenly announced bankruptcy and closed down, shocking the industry. Many people were discussing how many years the animation industry would last. In 2016, an animation production company closed down again. Studio Fantasia, a company specializing in animation outsourcing, officially announced bankruptcy recently and has officially started to go through the legal procedures for bankruptcy liquidation.

Studio Fantasia should be said to be an animation production company that once became a main production company. It has produced many good works before, such as TV animations such as "The Forever You Expect", "Star Defense Force", "AIKa ZERO", "Nanabi Kashiwa Electric War", and "The Last Weapon Girl" OVA. In addition, it is basically a company that undertakes a large number of animation outsourcing productions. Basically, this company has participated in the outsourcing production of topical animations in recent years, such as "Lagrange of Samsara", "Space Battleship Yamato 2199", "Nisekoi", "Rondo of Angels and Dragons", "Queen of Arms", etc. However, as the industry environment becomes more and more severe, the performance of this outsourcing company has continued to be sluggish, and outsourcing work has gradually been unavailable. Finally, it decided to go bankrupt. The company is currently in debt of 190 million yen and has about 50 creditors. This situation also makes many people feel that the cold winter of the Japanese animation industry has really come.