It took studio BONES over 4 months just to come up with a final answer with regard to their "corporate plumbing" problem this past summer, when an internal company document was allegedly leaked (along with early news of 2 new anime projects), and yet they still have nothing more to say about the hottest topic touched upon in that leak: Fullmetal Alchemist 2. To them, fairly enough, the main issue was the security of their employees' personal information, which was pretty much compromised, not to say fudged up.

While most of us were simply thrilled by the prospect of new Fullmetal Alchemist and Darker than Black animes, BONES had to deal with the nightmare of seeing the personal information of nearly 300 animators be made public. In this latest report, as interpreted by ANN, the company decided to support the costs of changing the contact information for the animators affected by the incident. And, just to be sure, to enforce stricter information management from now on within the company.



Still, I can't help wondering: since the leaked document also included personal addresses, it would be interesting to see how they would "cover the costs", should several grumpy employees ask for new places of residence. Workers... can't live with them, can't make animu without them.

Meanwhile, we have yet to hear anything about Darker than Black 2, but at least the new Fullmetal Alchemist 2 series - confirmed along the way - is pretty firmly set for an April 2009 TV debut in Japan.