Two former employees of Nendoroid and Figma toy company Good Smile, Guy Brand and James Young-sik Kim, are suing Good Smile for distributing “potentially obscene sexually explicit anime products and merchandise” of underage characters, engaging in false designation of corporate officers as independent contractors, tax evasion, improper licensing practices, and funding controversial website 4chan.
In 2020, Good Smile filed a lawsuit for against Brand, Kim, and Diaz for allegedly stealing confidential information from Good Smile while employed there to create a new “secret” company for their own profit.
Brand and Kim claimed that Good Smile retaliated against them by reducing their authority and firing them, after they had already requested to transition away from the company.
Good Smile is the company that develops the popular Nendoroid and Figma figure lines.