『XEBEC』

Xebec, Inc.(Japanese: 株式会社ジーベック, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Jībekku, stylized as XEBEC) was a Japanese animation studio based in Kokubunji, Tokyo, founded by former Tatsunoko Production animators on May 1, 1995.

They worked on many popular series, such as Nadesico, Love Hina, Shaman King, Fafner, To Love Ru, and Space Battleship Yamato remakes 2199 and 2202.

The company logotype is interesting in that it includes the International Phonetic Alphabet transcription[zíːbek], which represents not the Japanese pronunciation but rather a presumed"English" pronunciation.

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Closure

On November 20, 2018, Xebec's parent company, IG Port, sold the studio to Sunrise after constant deficits that the subsidiary had in different years.

On March 5, 2019, Sunrise announced that they established a new company, Sunrise Beyond, at Xebec's address, with Xebec's operations being transferred to it.

Xebec ceased to exist as a business entity on May 31, 2019.

Its post-production teams, which were not part of the sale to Sunrise, were broken up and consolidated into several IG Port companies, but Production I. G inherited the company's assets.

Copyright of Xebec's past works reverted to the IG Port group as a whole.