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Wiz Acquires Ashi Productions
Date: 8/25/2006
A segway to this past weekend's Dancougar news out of Charahobby 2006, it's been announced that Japanese toy firm Wiz Inc. has acquired a controlling stake in anime studio Ashi Productions. Upon an allocation of new stock shares totalling 100 million Yen Wiz will own a 50.1% as of August 31st. AshiPro will retain the rights to it's anime properties including alot of classics like the original Vampire Hunter D OAV, Machine Robo, VS Lamune And 40 Fire, Go Shogun, Macross 7 and others. Wiz plans to use it's controlling interest to produce remakes of held properties, capitalizing on character merchandising. Shin Dancougar will most likely be the first major project between the 2. Founded in 1975, Ashi was involved in similar business with Bandai until 2002 when it withdrew from the group.
Source: Anime News Service