Namco Bandai Announce Restructure, Includes Specialised Gundam Department
At least here’s a piece of happy restructing news: Namco Bandai will be having a reorganistaion of all its subsidaries into six new departments: the Gundam department, the high-end department, the character department, the anime department, the film department, and the music department.
Why a specialise department for making Gundam stuffs? Because it makes the most money for Bandai. The separate high-end department will be responsible for the projects aimed at the most dedicated fans in Bandai Visual’s customer base.
Satoshi Kōno will be in charge of the reorganized content division. Minoru Takanashi will continue to head up the content division’s development unit. Satoshi Kubo will be the chief producer of the Gundam department, while Kōichi Ueyama will be the chief producer of the high-end department. Chief producers Kenji Hamada, Atsushi Yukawa, Katsuji Umezawa, and Hiroyuki Takano will head up the character, anime, film, and music departments, respectively.
The rest of Bandai Visual’s business strategy division has been redivided into two new divisions for packaged releases and network global business (new media, electronic commerce, network distribution, and other related areas). Kunitoshi Yoneta will run the packaged release division, while Yoshihiro Ueno will run the network global division.
Source: ANN
Looks like we are going get more awesome Gundam stuffs in the future. I just hope they don’t raise the prices of those Gundam kits. =P
