Aplix Sells Anime Studio AIC to AIC's Founder for 8,000 Yen/US$77
Aplix IP Holdings announced on Monday that it has transferred all of the stock of its animation subsidiary Anime International Company (AIC) to Toru Miura, AIC's current representative director and Aplix's company director. Aplix sold the 8,000 shares for 8,000 yen (about US$77) total.
Miura established the studio that would become AIC on July 15, 1982, and the studio co-produced Megazone 23 in 1985. The company has since been involved in more than 200 anime titles, including AD Police, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: The Movie, Ai no Kusabi, Ah! My Goddess, Tenchi Muyo!, ToHeart - Remember my memories, Solty Rei, Special A, Heaven's Lost Property, and Oreimo. More recently AIC has produced Wandering Son, Persona 4, Humanity Has Declined, Date A Live, and Persona 3 The Movie #1 Spring of Birth. AIC has a number of sub-studios within itself: AIC Digital, AIC Spirits, AIC ASTA, AIC PLUS+, AIC Frontier, and AIC Takarazuka.