>>8
Well even subsidiary companies have to stem from somewhere. The fact is that when you return to the source, it's always been a home made thing.
The production committee started in the 90s as basically a money pool of sorts to help ensure the the relevant parties which were beginning to get off the ground with their own studios etc. had money to fall back on in the event of disaster.
But as anime got popular in the 2000s the investors swiftly joined and took over as they saw the potential for money to be made.
The story isn't too dissimilar to what we see in the news every day, small companies perish and big companies buy them out eventually resulting in a monopoly which is never good news for a creative medium. It rarely works with retail outlets.