Benten Film
Benten Film Co., Ltd., formerly known as Gaina Co., Ltd. from 2018 to 2025 and as Fukushima Gainax from 2015 to 2018, is a Japanese animation studio subsidiary of Creator's X.
History
In March 2015, Gainax established Fukushima Gainax, a new animation studio and museum, in a converted junior high school building in Miharu, Fukushima to take more overseas outsourcing work. The studio and museum were established to bring more tourism to the area in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. In December 2015, Fukushima Gainax and Gainax became independent companies with no relation between each other besides the Gainax name, with the company starting their own projects later.In September 2016, the company established a new subsidiary in Tokyo. In August 2018, it was announced that Fukushima Gainax had been acquired by Kinoshita Group Holdings on July 26, making it Kinoshita's new subsidiary. Fukushima Gainax changed its studio name to Gaina and relocated to Koganei, Tokyo on August 9, with its new parent company planning to make the new subsidiary a pillar of its anime production to expand its business.
In August 2025, Kinoshita Group Holdings sold Gaina to AI animation company Creator's X and Gaina changed its name to Benten Film.
Works
TV series
- Forest of Piano
- Hulaing Babies
- Hulaing Babies☆Petit
- Cap Revolution Bottleman DX
- The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting
- Hanabi-chan Is Often Late
- Flaglia
- Grendizer U
- Baban Baban Ban Vampire
- Petals of Reincarnation
- ''Rescue Academy''
Original net animations
- Bridge for Future
- Masamune Datenicle
- Omoi no Kakera
- Miharu no Amigo
- Kumo no Kanata
- Jinriki Senkan!? Shiokaze Sawakaze
- Aihime Megohime
- ''Cap Revolution Bottleman''
ONAs
- ''Tabechattate Ii no ni na!''