Now what are chances of Funimation buying it from AIC’s Founder?
Zero. They’ve dabbled in co-productions before, but there’s no reason for FUNimation to buy their own animation studio. I doubt they would even have the money to keep it in operation and to pay their employees. Making shows is extremely expensive, but licensing them is much less so. That aside, the biggest benefit to a hypothetical buyout like this is that I guess they’d become the de facto owners of AIC’s properties. $77 would’ve been quite the steal for AIC’s excellent slew of licenses.
