By the way, Gainax has officially closed down. Happened at the beginning of the month, filed for bankruptcy a year ago. RIP. They barely existed for a decade at this point as they haven't produced a single anime and were just scrapping the barrel, but still sad
>but why
Ok, the reasoning for this one is actually hilarious. So, back in 2015, they made Houkago no Pleiades, a magical girl show in collaboration with Subaru (yes, the fucking car manufacturer). The deal was big but since you haven't heard about this one, it absolutely flopped. Then the studio got in huge debt because they owned 100 million yen to Anno of all people. Then the CEO got arrested for sexual assault. Then the new CEO filed bankruptcy after unsuccessfully trying to do some MVs for some mid-tier J-pop bands. Also, Anno shared that the reason why him and plenty of other people quit was because of higher ups in the studio were doing tax evasion and they sold out FLCL without his approval (if you thought that those FLCL sequel were soulless cashgrabs, that's because they literally were). Yeah.