The LA Times’s Culture Monster blog reports that Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai kiki is opening an animation facility in Los Angeles:

The company has leased a building on North Highland Avenue, to be
adapted to the studio’s needs. With 6,220 square feet of space on the
first floor and 2,760 square feet on the second level, the facility is
expected to accommodate about 30 employees, said Daniel Rappaport of
Management 360, Kaikai Kiki’s talent management firm in Los Angeles.

Murakami Animation Studio Coming to LA (Culture Monster)