TRANSCRIPT · Comisma, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Establish Anime Production Fund

## Comisma, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Establish Anime Production Fund (Anime News Network)
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-31/comisma-sumitomo-mitsui-trust-bank-establish-anime-production-fund/.243384
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: a new fund wants to put real money behind anime, and the studios are already booked for years.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, just in! A bank and an anime company have started a fund. Roxy is on the set with the details.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: COMISMA and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank will run it together. COMISMA is the parent of the manga app GANMA! and the anime studio Qzil.la.
ROXY: Darlings, four reels out of five! The fund is for companies that wanted into anime production but found the door hard to reach.
ROXY: The pitch combines COMISMA and Qzil.la's skill at acquiring popular IPs and making anime with the bank's investor network.
ROXY: On screen, file footage of an animation desk: pencils, light tables, a very tired person with tea. That is the bottleneck, apparently.
ROXY: COMISMA says production capacity has not kept up with demand. Many big studios are booked to capacity years ahead. It's a heist movie where the heist is a calendar.
ROXY: It cites Japan's goal to roughly triple the overseas anime market in under ten years: six trillion yen, about 37 billion dollars, by 2033.
ROXY: And the AJA said Thursday the overseas market in 2025 was 2.54 trillion yen, about 16.1 billion dollars. I'm crying. It's a trailer for a trailer.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So it's a fan club with a vault. Reminds me of the VCR timer: everyone wanted it, nobody knew how to set it.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report doesn't say which projects get funded or when any new series arrives. Money is not yet episodes.

## Happy Halloween! SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (Space.com)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-launch-falcon-9-group-15-18-landing-ocisly
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A Halloween Falcon 9 puts 27 Starlinks in orbit, and the panel has thoughts.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Welcome to the Pixel Panel. For viewers just joining, we first told you about this Saturday 10:52, today. Falcon 9, Halloween, 27 Starlink satellites.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Twenty-seven satellites in one go! That's a small Roman Empire of broadband, and it left before the trick-or-treaters finished.
GARY: Clean run. Eight out of ten: the booster stuck the landing and no lava. This one is on its 18th flight, so it has extra lives.
GRANT BRICKMAN: The booster lands itself on a boat called Of Course I Still Love You. Gary, is the boat the villain?
GARY: No, it's a checkpoint. The landing came about eight and a half minutes after launch. Speedrun material.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Midnight launch, on Halloween? Nobody schedules that by accident. Someone wanted the trick-or-treaters looking up.
GRANT BRICKMAN: The article says it was 9:04 p.m. local time the night before, Lyle. Not midnight in California.
GARY: Grind check: the record is 37 flights, set in August by B1067. B1093 is on flight 18. Long save file ahead.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: And that boat's name is a taunt. After everything the rocket did for it? I don't trust a ship with that attitude.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Viewers, vote now. Is flight 18 for one booster boring or brilliant? Voting is open.

## Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The quick round: a game's apology, AI-designed viruses and jet-lagged seabirds.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Modern Warfare 4 used real Itaewon disaster footage; families protest, Activision apologises.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A start-up gave a patient AI-designed viruses for phage therapy. Finally, viruses with good prompts.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Manx shearwaters flying home over the ocean get jet-lagged, a Science study finds. No lounge access.

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