Animate Group’s Frontier Works Acquires Yokohama Animation Lab as Subsidiary – News

The company aims to develop new properties through acquisitions
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Border worksplanning and production companies Animation The group announced on Friday that it has decided to buy an anime studio Yokohama Animation Laboratory As a subsidiary. Border works It is pointed out that the new acquisition will allow it to focus on creating new original IPs and developing production of external properties. This move will help the company strengthen its production capacity.
This transaction mark Border works‘First is the in-house animation studio, as the company mainly involves the planning and production ending of anime (as well as other media such as games, character merchandise and stage works). Border worksAnnounce Highlights Yokohama Animation LaboratoryProduction work Lapis RE: Light and Demon Hunter’s Sword.
The two companies are private institutions, so details of the transaction will not be published.
Apart from Border works,,,,, Animation The group also includes Animation Store chain, character merchandise company Movic,,,,, Libre Publishingand C-Labo card store chain (also runs Gamers shop).
Source: Border works,,,,, Animation Business Magazine,,,,, Public relations time