As of Monday, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office has dropped the charges of fraud against an executive and his son who allegedly claimed to hold the anime production rights to the late pop singer Michael Jackson.
From 2010 to 2011, the pair allegedly claimed to the president of a Tokyo anime production company that they had the rights to adapt Michael Jackson into anime.
His 1995 “Scream” collaboration with his sister Janet Jackson included some brief background sequences from Tatsunoko Production’s Akai Kōdan Zillion anime series.
Jackson was the first major American artist to use anime in a music video.