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ufotable, Inc. ( Ufortable Co., Ltd. , YūfōTēburu yūgen gaisha ^? ) is a Japanese animation studio located in Suginami in the Tokyo prefecture, in Japan, founded in October 2000 . It is mainly known for its “plasticine animations” ( Claymation ) such as the end of the end of Futakoi Alternative , Ninja Nonsense  (in) , Coyote Ragtime Show  (in) , GAKUEN UTOPIA Manabi Straight! (in) And Tales of Symphony as well as the start of the film of each KARA NO KYōkai .

Ufotable, Inc. is created in 2000 PAR HIKARU KONDō (and) , which participated in the progress of productions within the new company Tokyo Movie (now TMS Entertainment) and Telecom Animation Film, and was also a producer of Step Video (and) (Daughter of Sumitomo Corporation).

Towards 1999 , in his desire to “Wanting to create a business to which he wants to belong to his 25th birthday” , Hikaru Kondō began to bring two offices to a 4 -piece of 4 Tatami and a half of a former apartment in the north of the ikebukuro district where he lived with a friend, and started activities with Takuya Nonaka (and) , Satoshi Takahashi, Emi CHIBA et Jun SHIBATA (and) . They register as a company in 2000 . Kazuo (and) also participated in the creation of the company, by undertaking the production of the opening animation of the musical variety program Utaban , which leads Ufotable began large -scale activities as a production company ^{[ 2 ] , [ 3 ] , [ 4 ]} .

The origin of the company name is from a real piece of furniture called “UFO TABLE” ( UFO table , Yūfōfō ^? , A bit. “OVNI table” ) . This piece of furniture pleased Kondō, he managed to obtain it from a person who owned it in Northern Europe. The name of the company also includes the feeling of “Let people know what they want to do” ^{[ 5 ] , [ 6 ]} . In addition, there is the mascot called “ufo-kun” ( UFO -kun ^? ) , which appears in the opening jingle at the beginning of the studio cinematographic productions ^{[ 7 ]} . In its first productions, the studio was credited as “ufotable zippers” ( Euphor Table Zippers , Yuktu jippaspas ^? ) .

The animated television series of 2003 , Summer miyako no cosmos-sō: Suttoko Taisen Dokkoida (and) , is their first series produced officially independent. The same year, the studio began the production of their original project GAKUEN UTOPIA Manabi Straight! (in) . The television series Futakoi Alternative produced in 2005 was selected as a work recommended by the jury of 9 ^{It is}  Japan Media Arts Festival ^{[ 8 ]} . In addition to this, the joint project “Type-moon x ufotable project” ( Type-Moon x UFOTABLE project ^? ) With aniplex and notes is launched.

In April 2009 , Ufotable opens a second studio in the city of Tokushima. The reason having led the opening of a studio in this region was because Kondō wanted “A different environment from Tokyo to produce series and people can be trained in a calm environment” ^{[ 9 ]} . He initially tried to create a studio in Okinawa, but he abandoned because the conditions were not met for a production studio. After learning that the city of Tokushima in the Tokushima prefecture, of which Kondō is from the campaigns to attract companies ^{[ 9 ]} , Ufotable has signed a contract to open a new studio at 3 ^{It is} Form Takahara Building (and) (DEVENU LE Kokusai East Senba 113 Building (and) ^{[ ten ]} ) which belongs to Takahara Oil, a long -standing local oil sales company. The Ufotable Cafe is located at first ^is floor of the same building ^{[ ten ]} . After that, it was revealed in May 2011 that a cinema will be relaunched by Ufotable in the Higashishinmachi district (and) à Tokushima ^{[ 11 ]} ; This one renamed in Ufotable Cinema (and) opened the doors 18 mars 2012 ^{[ twelfth ] , [ 13 ]} .

The 3 mars 2018 , Ufotable is exported to South Korea with the creation of a structure to manage the “Ufotable & Machi ★ Asobi Cafe” opened in April 2018 near Hongik University ^{[ 14 ]} .

In mars 2019 , Ufotable was the subject of a survey for tax fraud ^{[ 15 ]} . In April 2019 , it was reported that auable owed 400 million tax yen and was suspected of having diverted funds during a charitable auction for the survivors of the Tohoku earthquake in 2011. No charge was restrained against the founder and president of the company, Hikaru Kondō and Ufotable, at April 15, 2019 ^{[ 16 ]} .

In June 2020 , it has been reported that the Tokyo prosecution accused Ufotable and Hikaru Kondō for violation of corporate tax laws and consumption tax due to the non-payment of 139 million yen of taxes ^{[ 17 ]} . Kondō would have hidden around 30% of the revenues from some of the “Ufotable Cafe” restaurants in Tokyo and stored them in a safe at his home ^{[ 17 ]} . The accounting books for the years 2015, 2017 and 2018 have thus been modified to indicate a drop in income, allowing the concealment of nearly 446 million yen ^{[ 17 ]} . The total amount of taxes due by the company would be 110 million yen in corporate tax and 29 million yen in consumption tax tax ^{[ 17 ]} . This money would have used to finance the company ^{[ 17 ]} . Ufotable and its president, through their lawyer, apologized to fans and people involved and reimbursed the total amount they had to ^{[ 18 ]} .

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The studio only took care of animated sequences.