Kyoto Animation Co. is seeking to recover drawing and storyboard data from a server that apparently escaped damage from the deadly arson attack on one of the firm's studios earlier this month.
"The data is the product of people who were killed or injured," lawyer Daisuke Okeda, who represents the Uji-based animation production company, told reporters last week. The arson attack on July 18 killed 35 people and left dozens of others injured.
The server was located inside a room on the ground floor of the three-story studio building, in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward. The room, surrounded by concrete walls, was distant from the staircase close to where Shinji Aoba, 41, is suspected to have poured and ignited gasoline.