Thread 281278311

Re:Zero was Kadokawa's highest selling IP in Q1 of 2025. Doomfags, your response?

>>281278311 (OP)
I dont like retarded series like re zero

Is this the WN thread? I suppose it is.
New chappy has arrived:
>>281278311 (OP)

>>281279236
https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2267be/739/

>>281278311 (OP)
Sbery strong!

>>281279268
you shouldn't have posted the chapter link on a sales fag thread.

>>281280180
I see
Well if anybody gives enough of a damn to make a chappy thread, they can feel free to do so any time

>>281278311 (OP)
lol

>>281278799
name series you like

>>281278799
cope

>>281278311 (OP)
His cope will just be that Kadokawa itself is a massive failure and in keeping with sensible business practices will certainly cancel its IPs starting with the ones that make them the most money.

>>281278311 (OP)
ermmmmmmm petrabond bagkeks i think its starting to look like a bubble

>>281278311 (OP)

1. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World —— 520 million yen

2. The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl —— 500 million yen

3. Once Upon a Witch's Death —— 480 million yen

4. The Eminence in Shadow —— 460 million yen

5. The Shiunji Family Children —— 450 million yen

6. Overlord —— 450 million yen

7. Please Put Them On, Takamine-San —— 440 million yen

8. KONOSUBA: God's Blessing on This Wonderful
World! —— 420 million yen

9. Delicious in Dungeon —— 390 million yen

10. Bungo Stray Dogs —— 380 million yen

>Publishing / IP Creation Segment (Books)
Covers sales of physical books, e-books, e-magazines, as well as license revenue from publishing IP (e.g., adaptation rights for books).

>Publishing / IP Creation Segment (Rights & Others)
Refers to other revenue under “Publishing / IP Creation” that comes from various derivative rights licensing for publishing IP—this includes licensing fees for using the IP in games, anime, merchandise, and so on.

>Anime & Live-Action Video Segment
Covers production and distribution revenue for anime and live-action works, as well as related distribution rights (e.g., streaming, TV, overseas distribution). It can also include licensing revenue for anime-related merchandise.

>Game Segment & Others
Covers video game sales (console, DLC, PC/mobile games, etc.).
“Others” includes miscellaneous businesses such as facility operations and merchandise (MD) sales—e.g., figures and character goods.

>>281285246
Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World

Global licensing revenue from the anime, merchandise licensing, and Blu-ray/DVD sales totaled 350 million yen. Re:ZERO's global licensing revenue is nearly identical to Toei Animation's Pretty Cure (Precure's copyright revenue was 351 million yen).

Licensing revenue from light novel and manga merchandise was approximately 70 million yen.

Sales of Kadokawa's official merchandise were 60 million yen.

Kadokawa's light novel and manga sales were 40 million yen.

>>281285246
Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World

Global licensing revenue from the anime, merchandise licensing, and Blu-ray/DVD sales totaled 350 million yen. Re:ZERO's global licensing revenue is nearly identical to Toei Animation's Pretty Cure (Precure's copyright revenue was 351 million yen).

Licensing revenue from light novel and manga merchandise was approximately 70 million yen.

Sales of Kadokawa's official merchandise were 60 million yen.

Kadokawa's light novel and manga sales were 40 million yen.

Toei Animation (Apr. 1, 2025 to Jun. 30, 2025)

>1. One Piece —— 6.095 billion yen (up 547 million yen from 2024)

2. Dragon Ball —— 5.162 billion yen (down 514 million yen from 2024)

>3. Digimon —— 768 million yen (up 107 million yen from 2024)

>4. Precure —— 351 million yen (up 190 million yen from 2024)

>5. Saint Seiya —— 170 million yen (up 52 million yen from 2024)

6. Girls Band Cry —— 44 million yen (Entered the sales rankings for the first time)

>>281285366
Analyzing Kadokawa's financial reports, the main source of revenue for Kadokawa's IP is copyright income, and sales of peripheral products only account for a small part. The purchasing power of otaku is too weak, and they are unable to make money mainly by relying on peripheral products like Bandai Namco.

Bandai Namco (Apr. 1, 2025 to Jun. 30, 2025)

>1. Mobile Suit Gundam – 65.4 billion yen (up 29.3 billion yen from 2024)

2. One Piece – 32.8 billion yen (down 0.5 billion yen from 2024)

3. Dragon Ball – 26.5 billion yen (down 4.5 billion yen from 2024)

4. Naruto – 6.8 billion yen (down 0.6 billion yen from 2024)

5. Kamen Rider – 5.9 billion yen (down 0.3 billion yen from 2024)

>6. Pokémon – 3.0 billion yen (up 0.8 billion yen from 2024)

>7. Anpanman – 2.6 billion yen (up 0.1 billion yen from 2024)

>8. Precure – 2.5 billion yen (up 0.7 billion yen from 2024)

9. Ultraman – 2.4 billion yen (down 1.1 billion yen from 2024)

10. Super Sentai – 1.8 billion yen (down 100 million yen from 2024)

>>281278311 (OP)
>not even Top 3 in the books
>not even Top 3 in the anime
What is it even that sold out so much? Rem figgies?

>>281285416
>>1. Mobile Suit Gundam – 65.4 billion yen (up 29.3 billion yen from 2024)
huh

>>281284793
These sales for a company making nearly 1.5 billion dollars a year is nothing.
It's making it's money in mass production of series.
>>281285416
More like bandai namco are sharks that are trying to stranglehold the merchandise market.
They did this to sunrise, fucked over the contract they had and bankrupted sunrise overnight.
Result? sunrise was immediately eaten up by bandai, name changed and everything.

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520 million yen, which is roughly 3.5 million usd. This is right after S3 finished airing (peak interest). Multiply that by 4 quarters (taking into account decay-lower revenue for subsequent quarters) and you will have under 13m usd for the entirety of 2025 FY. During the 2024 FY ending in 3/2025, rezero made 27m usd.

For context, the total revenue since the series' creation is roughly 60 billion yen, with probably 99% of it generated from 2016 onwards. Divide that by 9 fiscal years starting from 3/2016 and ending in 3/2025, you will have the yearly average of 6.7 billion yen or 45m usd. That's only the yearly average. The peaks of previous seasons, especially S1, were probably 1x billion.
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/279008297/#q279011626
This is really bad for kadokawa as a corporation if this is one of their best selling titles right after a new season. Not only is the revenue low compared to other non-kadokawa ips, but its also rapidly decreasing. I suspect the quality of marketing and the lack of figures for the cast, especially hit characters in S3 like Capella and Regulus have some underlying financial reasons. A lack of faith stemming from something that the higherups see. Hit characters from previous seasons like Echidna and Petelgeuse and other female side characters from S1/2 got a lot of figs (41 for Echidna for example). But none for S3

>>281288031
Furthermore, the earliest instance of kadokawa reporting sales for individual anime series was in Q1 2023 FY.
1. Rezero made more 2 years after S2 than 3 months after S3
2. Kadokawas top quarter performers just keep getting worse YoY

>>281288084
Kadokawa itself reported 1 billion yen loss In the Publication Segment for this quarter, on top of this.

>>281288084
520 million yen would put you at the top 5-10 of a top 10 list in 2023.

>>281278311 (OP)
Rezerofags are fucking retarded and only read the headlines as always

Kadokawa
https://ssl4.eir-parts.net/doc/9468/ir_material_for_fiscal_ym13/184468/00.pdf
https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/files/ir/financialstatements/pdf/en_20250805_presentation.pdf
Bandai Namco
https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/files/ir/financialstatements/pdf/20250805_en_Complement.pdf

Toei Animation
https://corp.toei-anim.co.jp/en/ir/main/00/teaserItems1/0111/linkList/01/link/202603_Q1_keisu.pdf
https://corp.toei-anim.co.jp/en/ir/main/00/teaserItems1/0111/linkList/0/link/202507_1Q_presen_en.pdf

>>281285416
>>281285444
>>281285835
These just indicate "not exceptional" revenue from the anime (S3)

>Kadokawa

https://ssl4.eir-parts.net/doc/9468/ir_material_for_fiscal_ym13/184468/00.pdf
https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/files/ir/financialstatements/pdf/en_20250805_presentation.pdf


>Bandai Namco

https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/files/ir/financialstatements/pdf/20250805_en_Complement.pdf

https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/files/ir/financialstatements/pdf/en_20250805_presentation.pdf


>Toei Animation

https://corp.toei-anim.co.jp/en/ir/main/00/teaserItems1/0111/linkList/01/link/202603_Q1_keisu.pdf

https://corp.toei-anim.co.jp/en/ir/main/00/teaserItems1/0111/linkList/0/link/202507_1Q_presen_en.pdf

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>>281285246

1. Delicious in Dungeon —— 2.3 billion yen

2. KONOSUBA: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! —— 1 billion yen

3. OSHI NO KO —— 800 million yen

4. Unnamed Memory —— 600 million yen

5. Gods' Games We Play —— 500 million yen

6. The Eminence in Shadow —— 500 million yen

7. KUBI —— 500 million yen

8. Bungo Stray Dogs —— 500 million yen

9. Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again —— 400 million yen

10. Classroom of the Elite —— 400 million yen

https://ssl4.eir-parts.net/doc/9468/ir_material_for_fiscal_ym13/161905/00.pdf

https://ssl4.eir-parts.net/doc/9468/ir_material_for_fiscal_ym10/161904/00.pdf

2025

Gambling, education, and web services businesses, all unrelated to Kadokawa's anime IP, saw sales growth.

All anime-related businesses saw sales decline.

>>281288109
>>281290103
Doing so badly this year they even admitted it lmao

>>281290484
I like how you actually look at the stats instead of reading muh headlines like 99.99% of rezerofags. Similar to how I usually approach these kinds of stuff cause I'm also skeptical af.

>>281290571
I like how you think you're convincing anyone with your pathetic samefagging when you're so illiterate you think the only thing Kadokawa should be doing is cancelling exactly the one IP you've decided you hate that generates profit for them and that this will somehow turn anything around. You really should apply at Disney with business genius like that, that's really their style.

>>281290809
what a fucking retarded faggot. Somehow I gotta accept that 500 million yen 3 months after S3 is fucking exceptional lmaooooo. Did you even look at the 2023 Q1 image? lmaooooooo flip floppp. One of their most profitable? Only within 3 years of an anime season obviously. Want something for other quarters when it was top 5-10 or even outside? This guy brought up one >>281290122
I dont give a fuck if they axe it or not. The point is a new season being greenlit is not a given anymore

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Why is this series popular it just seems like a generic isekai with some hammy ass melodrama

>>281291313
wrong tag, should be this one >>281290103

>>281291391
Compared with the top 10 sales in 2024, the sales of this series are only at a medium level. It is only because the sales of most of Kadokawa's animations have dropped sharply this year that the sales of this series appear to be very high.

>>281291560
I got the numbers for 2023 and you got 2024. The trend is clear. Look how retarded these copers are lmao

>>281278311 (OP)
Sophia's series actually sells that well??

https://ssl4.eir-parts.net/doc/9468/ir_material_for_fiscal_ym13/139226/00.pdf

https://ssl4.eir-parts.net/doc/9468/ir_material_for_fiscal_ym10/139202/00.pdf

>>281290487
Stop being silly. They are a publicly traded company, they legally have to "admit it" to their investors.

>>281278311 (OP)
whats overlord doing there in 2025

>>281280408
>read the fucking WN
The one where she wins?

>>281290809
shit, sorry. you got me

>>281290487
That explains it

>>281285366
everyone wants to be with the winner, all the faceless companies suck their own penis no matter if they are on the verge of bankruptcy, only in very specific cases will they admit their catastrophes, as Warner did with the DCU or Toei itself with Knights of the Zodiac The Beginning, which makes me think if nobody cared about the whole CGI project and its derivatives, how is SS in that position, does it really not need those ads disguised as animation to be successful?

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>>281278311 (OP)
>our crusade in 10th
S3, fund it.
>>281292806
They bought back some of their equity they sold, kadokawa is better off and resistant to a hostile take over now.
More companies are now realizing that going public is a trap meant to kill you slowly by breaking you up into share holders.

>>281292806
>Kadokawa is doing very well