Takara’s majority shareholder, Konami, sells off shares.
Konami cited Takara’s poor performance as being a millstone round its neck. But when you get to down to it Konami didn’t need Takara to produce toys for its IPs and Takara didn’t need Konami’s boardroom-level pressure and second-guessing. Anyway, Konami’s stake in Takara was bought by mobile phone content distributor Index Corp. so there shouldn’t be any problems capital-wise for the toyco. But what does this mean for Takara in terms of future direction? Will Takara maintain its focus on its core toy business or will the Index Corp. tie-up mean Takara is going to diversify to become a total life entertainment business the way the previous CEO intended?
Fan-made Disk Animal-inspired mobile armour. [via]
Six-string oni.
Todoroki ought to be making his appearance on the show soon. I can’t wait to see how the creative team pull off his guitar-powered final attack.
