The Nippon TV (NTV) television broadcasting company announced on Thursday that it has decided to acquire 42.3% of the shares of world-famous animation studio Ghibli. This transaction, once completed, would make NTV the largest shareholder of the Ghibli, and turn the studio into a subsidiary of Nippon TV.

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    1 year ago

    Could be worse, like it being assimilated into Disney and spread profit-maximisingly thin like Marvel/Star Wars, or Time Warner so that Zaslav can torch the archives out of sheer spite.