https://gamebiz.jp/news/408250
A-1 Pictures' financial results for the fiscal year ended March 2025 showed a net loss of 178 million yen.

>>280116731 (OP)
Gainax 2.0

>>280116731 (OP)
Maybe making NTR garbage wasn't such a good idea.

have to spend money to make money, always next year

It's called Hollywood accounting, they report losses to avoid having to pay taxes

>>280116731 (OP)
How could you make a loss with all top ratings anime?

>>280116801
Aniplex gets the biggest slice

Solobros... we were supposed to start the Korean wave...

>>280116731 (OP)
>solo shilling made no bank
But anon told me its super popular

>>280116801
Covid pandemic ended

>>280116731 (OP)
>>280116745
Aniplex will never let them die

>>280116801
>top ratings anime
stop it cuck

A-1 is owned by Sony, Sony will continue to use A-1 to make anime, the finances of the studio don't even matter it just all goes to and from Sony anyway.

>>280116731 (OP)
Solo Shitting is literally bankrupt the gook webtoon industry and A-1 LMAO

>>280117422
Damn, maybe they shouldn't have published 500 of the same story.

>>280116731 (OP)
Newfags think that this is special
Newsflash! EVERYONE is in the red

The money does not matter to them because they are owned and operated by even bigger companies who would keep them up because
1. They generate much more revenue by advertising and promoting their IPs
2. Killing off a company reflects badly on their Quarterlies which would piss off their investors

The only ones that actually care about this are studios that are mostly independent like Toei, Kyoani, PA, and Pierot

And assuming that they do close down, it would matter at all
Lots of anime companies have folded over the years and no one ever sees any difference because guess what?
Their talents are always rehired almost immediately in other companies as they do not just have experience, they also have very valuable insider information that they may now share.

>>280116731 (OP)
maybe they should make something good

>>280117468
Yeah people here don't seem to get that anime studios are all owned by big corporations

>>280116731 (OP)
>[Sad News]
Not a single good anime came out from this studio.

>>280117468
Yeah A-1 has been in "red" since it's existence, same with A-2 pictures aka Cloverworks.

>>280116731 (OP)
At Toei Animation's shareholders' meeting this month, a shareholder asked about Toei Animation's lending to other studios. Toei is now a part-time financial company, and it is unknown which studio asked Toei Animation for a loan.

https://note.com/akb428/n/nb4341ac3d13c

>>280116731 (OP)
>daddy sony
>sad news
It's the usual, no red signs about this

>>280117468
>Kyoani
They've got backing of bandai, hatta is a buisness man first then president of kyoani. He also got stakes in production IG, although i'm not sure if he does anymore after arson.

Cloverworks BTFO them a while ago.

2023.4 — 2024.3

2022.4 — 2023.3

2021.4 — 2022.3

>>280116731 (OP)
>he doesn't know what 'A-1 Pictures' is

2020.4 — 2021.3

>>280116801
Don't they make the most of their money from bluray sales?
People don't need those anymore since they can just rewatch their favorite series from online streaming services.

2019.4 — 2020.3

The cumulative net profit from 2019 to 2023 is 164 million yen, but the net loss in 2024 is 178 million yen. It only takes one year to lose all the money earned in five years.

>>280118705
BD sales are pennies, they get paid to do a job.

blue won't lose to fate

>>280116731 (OP)
solo levelingbros... how can we ever recover

>>280118775
>178 million yen is 1 million dollar
That's just sad

Studios don't make profit anymore since BD is dead.
the ones making profit are the ones who own the IP through derivative goods sales.

>>280119439
Also, most of these studios are owned by those IP holders themselves, so anime studios making losses are simply operating expenses to them. profit from somewhere else cover all the losses.

Eh, what likely is happening is that Aniplex is moving some of it's losses to A-1 pictures and other subsidiaries, it's a common japanese way to "legally" misrepresent a company to investors.

There is nothing to be worried about though, Aniplex needs people to animate anime and they can't outsource the whole process, so they are never going to get rid of A-1 when the whole industry lacks animation studios.

>>280116801
Because anime studios don't get the money but publishers/production companies

>>280116731 (OP)
Wasn't Solo Leveling super popular? Even some of my normie friends who don't give a shit about animu watched it for some reason.
If you're in red after releasing a hit there's something wrong with the industry.

>>280120199
Being popular with Westeroos and hood weebs is irrelevant

>>280116731 (OP)
This wouldn't have happened if they just made Birdy the Might: Decode season 3

>>280116731 (OP)
They should stop making slop

But tranny leveling supposed to be a super hit and make them billions? Crunchysisters, what went wrong?

>>280116731 (OP)
>Solo Leveling
the sooner the better. Makeine was fine though tbf.

>>280120199
Super popular in the west, probably not in in Japan. A studio cannot rely on streaming services but mainly on bluray sales and sometimes merchandise to get profit. So yea Crunchyroll is the one who made the biggest profit from that crap as it became the most watched anime on their platform.

maybe if they start adapting yuri, they will go into the green again

>>280120199
>thinking western streaming platforms help japanese companies
kek

>>280121469
So why did they agree to make SL then? Are you telling me that japs are so dumb they actually thoutghts this shit gonne get popular in japan?

>>280116731 (OP)
If they stop making romcomslop and focus on kino like Solo Leveling they would be in the green

>>280116731 (OP)
Where are all those faggots who said Solo Levelling didn't need the Japanese audience now?

>>280116731 (OP)
Didn't the one in the middle do super well?

>>280121585
It's the first time they were in the red in 10 years.

Japan is irrelevant.

>>280116731 (OP)
>Big budget show will terrible BD, manga and merchandise sales loses the production company money
Well I never

>>280116731 (OP)
They are Aniplex slaves. Sonybux will keep them alive.

>>280116731 (OP)
They should have made Lycoris Recoil S2 earlier.