A disappearing website and sometimes deleted series Tweets about unpaid salary and related worries from creators such as animators Toshio "SNIPES" Kobayashi, Hideto Komori and Yoshitaka Kouno as well as writer Shigeru Morita have spawned a wave of rumors that anime studio Manglobe is set to declare bankruptcy.

The studio in 2002 founded by Sunrise producers Shinichirō Kobayashi and Takashi Kochiyama recently produced summer's Gangsta. TV anime and the Project Itoh: Genocidal Organ movie opening in November.



The studio's works have included

2003

Trip Trek (ONA)

2004

Samurai Champloo

2005

Sengoku BASARA (game cut scenes)

2006

Ergo Proxy

2008

Michiko and Hatchin

2009

The Sacred Blacksmith

2010

House of Five Leaves

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic "Limbo" (OVA)

The World God Only Knows

2011

Deadman Wonderland

The World God Only Knows II

Mashiroiro Symphony

Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven is a Place on Earth (movie)

2012

Hayate the Combat Butler! Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Shinken Zemi Koko Koza (OVA)

2013

Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited

Karneval

Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties

The World God Only Knows - Megami Hen

Samurai Flamenco

2015

Gangsta.

Genocidal Organ

via otakomu





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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.