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News, insights, and data on the global business of anime and manga 🗞️ Newsletter: news.animenomics.com 📧 Contact: editors@animenomics.com

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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/05/2026
Crunchyroll has more than 21 million paid subscribers worldwide as of March, Sony reported in its year-end earnings presentation today. The streaming platform started its paid subscription service in 2009 after it struck its first anime licensing deal with TV Tokyo.
Area chart showing the growth in the number of paying customers on Crunchyroll's anime subscription video on demand platform and its legacy predecessors from 2009 to 2026. Prior to 2022, the area chart is split into two separate categories for the legacy Funimation platform and the legacy Crunchyroll platform. As of March 2026, Crunchyroll has more than 21 million paid subscribers worldwide. Chart was created by Animenomics, with data sourced from Crunchyroll and Sony Group investor relations materials.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 30/10/2025
Animenomics has been named as a finalist in the Los Angeles Press Club's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. We are nominated for a story published in February about how the end of de minimis duty exemptions affects imports of anime merchandise into the United States.
18th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
FINALIST
Online Content - Business, Tech/Design/Arts

Screenshot of an Animenomics article titled "Tariff threats loom over U.S. anime merch imports" and a circular logo of the Los Angeles Press Club are included.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 12/09/2025
Animenomics will present a current overview of how the anime industry works this Saturday, September 13, as part of @animelockdown.bsky.social programming on twitch.tv/animelockdown. Join us to learn about anime studio financials, anime production committees, and more!
Animenomics: How the Anime Industry Works, Anime Lockdown, September 13, 2025, 2:30 p.m. ET (UTC−04:00), twitch.tv/animelockdown
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 28/05/2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Animenomics is entering into a strategic partnership with Curation Entertainment Partners to bring more expansive stories about the global anime, manga, and webcomics market on different online platforms like @bijuku-official.bsky.social.
Curation Entertainment Announces Partnership with Animenomics: B!JuKu to Feature Top Industry Stories in Anime & Manga

(Holmdel, NJ, May 26, 2025) – Curation Entertainment Partners Inc. continues to expand & collaborate with companies who believe and support the company's ethos in supporting content creators. Since the launch of B!JuKu beta last December, the creator platform has been active in developing strategic content partnerships. As a part of B!JuKu's growth, the company is partnering with Animenomics, a global newsletter that specializes in deep-dive analytics in the anime & manga business sector. The information reported weekly on Animenomics impacts creators & media business professionals in the manga & anime spaces worldwide.

The partnership represents strategic opportunities for growth on both platforms. The companies have agreed to share resources in strategic business development, marketing, and sales. Animenomics's content is featured on B!JuKu's News page and will expand content to other areas of the site. Terms of the deal are not disclosed.

"I've been a huge fan & supporter of Richardson Handjaja's work in Animenomics," said Amanda Nanawa, founder of Curation Entertainment. "When I reached out to Richardson, we both saw an opportunity to help each other out. We can provide guidance & support in marketing, cross-promotion, and sales."

"I'm excited to collaborate with Amanda Nanawa and the Curation Entertainment Partners team to help foster and grow the manga creator community on B!JuKu," said Richardson Handjaja, Publisher & Editor of Animenomics. "For too long, anime and manga creators have remained excluded from understanding the businesses that publish, distribute, and monetize their intellectual properties. I'm confident that reports by Animenomics about the anime and manga business will inform creators about their industry and help them become better entrepreneurs."About Curation Entertainment Partners, Inc.

Curation Entertainment Partners, Inc. is a New Jersey-based digital entertainment company founded by industry veterans and focused on connecting content creators with fans, fostering new ideas, and pioneering "Hollywood 3.0." The company’s flagship creator platform, Bi-Ju-Ku.com, is in beta. Curation Entertainment aims to reshape the entertainment landscape by providing unique opportunities for creators and audiences alike.

To learn more about Curation Entertainment, visit https://curationent.com/. 

To learn more about B!JuKu, visit https://www.bi-ju-ku.com/. 

About Animenomics

Animenomics is dedicated to reporting and analyzing the top business stories in the global anime and manga market. Dozens of industry executives and thousands of anime and manga fans around the world benefit from clear and concise reporting by Animenomics, and they praise its electronic newsletter as the best source in the English language for anime business news. International news media and trade publications like BBC News, Nikkei Asia, The Japan Times, Variety have also cited Animenomics in their own reporting of anime's global expansion.

To learn more about Animenomics, visit https://news.animenomics.com/.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 15/05/2025
Sony's year-end earnings presentation yesterday announced that @crunchyroll.com's anime SVOD service has surpassed 17 million paying subscribers. Here's what that subscription growth over time looks like.
Stacked area chart showing the the number of paying customers on Crunchyroll's anime subscription video on demand platform and its legacy predecessors prior to the merger of Funimation and Crunchyroll in 2021. Horizontal axis ranges from 2009 to 2015. Vertical axis ranges from 0 to more than 16 million. For data prior to the merger, the chart shows separate areas for Funimation and Crunchyroll subscribtion numbers. After the merger, the chart shows a single area for Crunchyroll alone.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 27/03/2025
Animenomics will present two panels about the anime and manga business at Anime Detour at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis this weekend.
Image announcing two Animenomics panels at Anime Detour 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first panel is "How the Anime Industry Works" on Friday, March 28, 8:00–9:00 pm in room Lakeshore B. The second panel is "The Year in the Anime and Manga Business" on Saturday, March 29, 10:30–11:30 am in room Lakeshore A.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 18/10/2024
Animenomics has reached our first US$1,000 in annual recurring revenue, thanks to the generosity of paid subscribers who see a need for more anime business reporting. This money will allow us to offset data subscription costs and to explore paid writing opportunities for contributors in the future.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 04/07/2024
Aviot, a Japanese maker of audiovisual products, is exhibiting premium anime-branded electronics at Anime Expo. As anime grows internationally, it's often seen as mass-market media with mass-market products, but there is also a growing consumer market for high-end anime merchandise.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 03/07/2024
Animenomics in Los Angeles this week for Anime Expo, North America's largest anime industry and fan convention. It will be several days of meeting industry professionals and seeing the latest in anime fandom.
An outdoor view of the Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall, decorated with a banner of Anime Expo and a poster of Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero.An indoor view of the lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall, decorated with banners of Good Smile Company, Bilibili, Demon Slayer, and others.An indoor view of the lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall, decorated with banners of Fate/Grand Order and others.An indoor view of the lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center's West Hall, decorated with a Netflix banner of Blue Box and standing displays of My Happy Marriage, Delicious in Dungeon, and others.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa is also increasingly less reliant on the Americas for international sales as sales in Asian markets (outside Japan) rise across all business segments. 15/15
Presentation slide on Kadokawa Corporation's international net sales for the last eight fiscal quarters. Highlighted are the sales breakdowns for the Americas and Asia.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Mushoku Tensei comes in as the top-selling title in Kadokawa's publishing business segment, while Oshi no Ko is the top-selling title in anime. A new addition on this slide is the breakdown of publishing sales between actual book sales vs. licensing sales (to anime, etc). 14/15
Presentation slide on net sales of Kadokawa Corporation's top ten best-selling titles.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Looking back over multiple fiscal years, it's clear that Kadokawa's anime licensing sales have grown significantly. Operating margin of the overall licensing business remains fairly consistent over the years. 13/15
Presentation slide on the sales and operating margin of Kadokawa Corporation's publication and animation rights-licensing businesses. Highlighted are yearly data on animation licensing sales to other companies.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Zooming in on Kadokawa's anime business, international licensing sales jumped significantly in Q4 (January to March), driven by Delicious in Dungeon and Ishura. 12/15
Presentation slide on net sales of Kadokawa Corporation's animation business over the last eight fiscal quarters.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
In digital publishing, more than three-quarters of Kadokawa's e-book sales come from manga. For context, in the broader Japanese publishing industry, 90% of all e-book sales come from digital manga. 11/15
Presentation slide on Kadokawa Corporation's e-book business. Highlighted is the net sales breakdown between comics (77%) and other categories (23%) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa's pace of manga and light novel publishing appears to have slowed in Q4 (January to March), but the previous pace was ahead of the previous fiscal year. Overall, there is still a net increase in the number of unique volumes published in FY2023. 10/15
Presentation slide showing the number of new intellectual properties of paper-based books and magazines by genre. Highlighted are the numbers for light novels and comics for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Q4 (January to March) sales of light novels and manga, about ¥4.73 billion, make up about 40% of Kadokawa's Q4 total print publication sales. 9/15
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's sales trends in the publication/IP creation business segment. Highlighted are net sales of light novels and comics.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa not only finances anime productions of its own intellectual properties, but also properties from other publishers. For example, Oshi no Ko, Trillion Game, and Medalist aren't Kadokawa titles. 8/15
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's publicly announced major promising titles of animation in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Looking forward to the new fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, Kadokawa expects the anime business to post record sales and profit. Sales and profit in the aggregated anime and live-action film business segment are expected to fall, however. 7/15
Presentation slide summarizing Kadokawa Corporation's net sales and operating profit forecasts by business segment for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. Details on the animation/film business segment are highlighted.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa summarizes its anime intellectual property strategy as the following: "Give hit titles a more global and mass market reach, making them bigger and longer-life." Studio subsidiaries are exploring AI and shared systems to increase productivity to achieve this goal. 6/15
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's intellectual property creation strategy. Highlighted are details about the group's lineup of large animation IPs, such as KonoSuba, Oshi no Ko, Overlord, and Re:Zero.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa is the joint operator of the annual Animelo Summer Live (also known as Anisama) anime music festival through a subsidiary. As expected, the live entertainment business is rebounding from pandemic-era lows, with net sales jumping 18% year-over-year. 5/15
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's web services business segment overview. Highlighted are information on the live entertainment sub-segment, whose net sales increased 17.9 percent year-over-year.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Anime is driving most of the sales growth in Kadokawa's anime and live-action film business segment. Within Q4 (January to March), Delicious in Dungeon and Ishura recorded strong sales. Anime studios under Kadokawa also appear to be profitable. 4/15
Presentation slide of Kadokawa's animation/film business segment overview. Highlighted are details about the animation sub-segment, which recorded 8.6% year-over-year growth in net sales. Animation makes up 70% of the sales in this business segment.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa's anime and live-action film business segment (previously called the video business) grew more than last forecast. Net sales grew 6.4% (compared to 3.5% forecast), and operating profit more than doubled. 3/15
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's net sales and operating profit by business segment. Highlighted are the animation/film business segment's net sales and operating profit results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, and the year-over-year change.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa's high-level observations from the past year: U.S. publication business declined after pandemic-level highs; net sales in anime business recorded 15% CAGR in the last 5 years. 2/15
Presentation slide summarizing Kadokawa Corporation's consolidated earnings results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 09/05/2024
Kadokawa, a regular participant of anime production committees, posted FY2023 full-year financial results today. Below are some highlights from their anime, manga, and light novel businesses. 🧵 1/15
Cover slide of Kadokawa Corporation's full-year earnings results presentation for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, announced on May 9, 2024
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 05/04/2024
Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron opened in China this week to record-breaking ticket sales. Ticketing services provider Maoyan predicts it will earn at least CN¥755 million (US$104 million), beating Makoto Shinkai's Suzume to become China's best-selling anime film release. Photo: Kyodo News
The lobby of a movie theater in China. A boy is watching a screen in front of him that shows a trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's anime film The Boy and the Heron.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 04/04/2024
My Hero Academia has become the the 20th manga series to have 100 million copies in circulation worldwide. Below is an advertisement spread in The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper today announcing the milestone. Photo: Atsushi Ohara/The Asahi Shimbun
An unfolded newspaper spread containing drawings of characters from the My Hero Academia manga series. In the center, text in Japanese script announces that the manga series has surpassed 100 million copies in circulation worldwide, thanking readers.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 14/02/2024
Sony published Q3 FY2023 results today. Crunchyroll's partnership with Amazon (Prime Video); expansion into Brazil, India, and SE Asia; theatrical distribution; and e-commerce business (formerly RightStuf) were highlighted. Annual subscriber growth rate is 23%.
Transcript of Sony's third quarter earnings presentation for the 2023 fiscal year, describing the current state of the business in the pictures segment. Details about Crunchyroll are highlighted.Transcript of Sony's third quarter earnings presentation for the 2023 fiscal year, describing the outlook for the next fiscal year in the pictures segment. Details about Crunchyroll are highlighted.
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Oshi no Ko remains Kadokawa's best-selling property this year, crossing ¥3 billion in sales. The Eminence in Shadow and Bungo Stray Dogs overtook My Happy Marriage, which was in #2 position in Q2.
Slide listing net sales of Kadokawa's top ten best-selling titles, also broken down between the publishing segment and video segment
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
International sales in Kadokawa's anime business segment is largely stable over the last seven quarters.
Slide summarizing sales and number of titles in Kadokawa's anime business
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Three-quarters of e-book sales at Kadokawa came from digital manga. For context, Japan's publishing sector reported that 90 pct of e-book sales in CY2023 were for digital manga.
Slide showing sales trends and breakdown in Kadokawa's e-book business, with net sales breakdown from April to December 2023 highlighted
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Half of all books published by Kadokawa in Q3 were manga and light novels. Popular releases include Delicious in Dungeon #13 and #14, The Summer Hikaru Died #4, and Yamada-kun Lv999 #8.
Slide showing trend of new publications by Kadokawa over the last seven quarters, with light novels and comics highlighted
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Sales of light novels and manga (¥5.6 billion) accounted for 45 pct of total sales in Kadokawa's publishing business in Q3.
Slide showing publication segment sales trends over the last seven fiscal quarters, with light novel and comic segments highlighted
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Kadokawa's anime rights licensing sales so far this year have grown 8 pct compared to FY2022. Positive results are expected from KonoSuba season 3 and Oshi no Ko season 2.
Slide giving overview of Kadokawa's video business, with details of net sales, operating profit, and future outlook in the animation segment highlighted
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Kadokawa summarizes its recent international expansion. New subsidiaries in Indonesia and France were previously reported by Animenomics.
Slide summarizing Kadokawa's international business expansion in the publication segment, with new subsidiaries in Thailand, Indonesia, and France highlighted
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Kadokawa updated FY2023 year-end forecast for its video business (anime and live-action), with profits estimated to double, primarily thanks to streaming rights sales of Oshi no Ko.
Data table of Kadokawa's net sales and operating profit forecasts by business segment for fiscal year 2024, showing profits for the video business increasing 102% over the previous year
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 08/02/2024
Kadokawa published Q3 FY2023 results today. Here are some highlights from their anime, manga, and light novel businesses.
Cover slide of Kadokawa's earnings results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, presented on February 8, 2024
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Animenomics @animenomics.com · 07/02/2024
Hello, Bluesky! Animenomics is a weekly newsletter showcasing insights and data on the business of anime and manga. We also produce charts like the one below. Follow us for updates, or subscribe to our newsletter at news.animenomics.com
Line graph of Japanese publishing industry revenues from 2014 to 2023 comparing rising sales in the digital comics segment against declining or stagnant sales in print books, print magazines and comics, digital books, and digital magazines.
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