https://automaton-media.com/en/news/black-lagoon-directors-anime-studio-contrail-to-be-absorbed-by-mappa-amidst-financial-losses/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/black-lagoon-directors-anime-studio-contrail-to-be-absorbed-by-mappa-amidst-financial-losses/#comment-8046 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:36:49 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=60980#comment-8046 2019 again. I wonder if lockdowns had anything to do with financial debt mounting up, but you’d think that would have been an issue far sooner. Maybe anime grew too big too fast, mismanagement or money going overseas is at fault. I feel many are pirating anime to avoid growing cost or Western localization issues to where Japan isn’t collecting any of the profits and things are compounding. For a very long time now some of these things have been ignored and fans asked for overseas for more direct ways to support anime and manga, yet never been provided.

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