The two companies announced a business partnership in June 2020
Bandai Namco Film Works It was announced on Friday that it would create an anime studio. 8 bit We became a wholly owned subsidiary as of April 1st. 8 bit will not change.
8 bit was founded in September 2008 and has its main studio in Tokyo. This studio has produced anime such as: Infinite Stratos, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (second season), Encouragement of mountain climbing, grisaia fruit, rewrite, the stars are aligned, Aquarion EVOL, Tokyo Ravens, absolute duo, The Irregular at Magic High School Visitor Edition, blue rock, Sinjurity: Noirand The Magic of Uneven High School: Reminiscence Editionamong others.
8 bit and bandai namco arts entered into a business partnership in June 2020 to focus on producing video works and related content based on animation. Slime Diary: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime The first project is a spin-off of the TV anime. bandai namco arts‘ was to take advantage of the partnership plan at the time 8 bitWhile our animation production pipeline produces “high-quality hit content,” 8 bit‘s plan was to utilize it bandai namco artsContinuous production planning and networking capabilities.
8 bit established a new studio in Niigata Prefecture as its first regional base in November 2021.
Source: 8bit, Comic Natalie
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