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Nihonbashi District To Become Osaka's Suginami Date: 10/1/2005 |
| The outlying area of Suginami has been Tokyo's animation production engine for decades with 70 of the nation's 430 anime companies located there. Now plans have been unveiled to create a similar locus of productivity in Osaka, a city which is attempting to raise it's profile visibility in the grand scheme of the Japanese animation industrial complex. The Nihonbashi area of the city will become this place where Osaka's CG focused anime production interests will materialize from this spring. The main street there which used to be occupied by smaller electronics shops has for the most part been vacated as wholsale national chains have taken the business. Four of the larger enterprises such as Doga (Lost Universe, TANK SWAT 01) have began moving into some of these empty shops. This activity is part of the "Minami CG Animation Village Plan" proposed by the company. The idea is to accumulate the top CG art talent in the region as well as writers, chara designers, promotional companies, etc.. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
