KADOKAWA Company introduced on November 7, 2024 that its anime and live-action video companies achieved vital progress within the second quarter of fiscal 12 months 2024, with income rising 26.7% year-over-year to 14.406 billion yen.
Working revenue additionally noticed a big improve, by 68.5% to 1.697 billion yen, reaching file ranges for the corporate’s leisure sector.
The expansion was pushed by sturdy demand for well-liked anime sequence each in Japan and overseas, with licensing income from streaming platforms, video games and merchandise offering a big increase.
Key drivers within the quarter included Oshi no Ko season 2, Alya Typically Hides Her Emotions in Russian aka Roshidere, and the theatrical launch of Overlord: Holy Kingdom Arc.
KADOKAWA additionally noticed optimistic leads to its live-action section, with licensing income from current theatrical releases for streaming platforms contributing to the corporate’s revenues.
Within the second half of the fiscal 12 months, KADOKAWA plans to launch new seasons of favourite anime sequence, together with Re:Zero− Beginning Life in One other World and My Completely happy Marriage.
Nonetheless, the corporate expects a slight decline within the whole variety of anime titles launched.
Within the live-action division, the corporate expects a normalization of outcomes.
KADOKAWA additionally revealed the top-performing anime/live-action titles for the interim interval. Test them out beneath:
Oshi no Ko ranked primary, with anime-related revenues alone totaling 4 billion yen. In second place was Dungeon Meshi, the place mixed income from anime and books approached 3 billion yen.
- Oshi no Ko
- Dungeon Meshi
- KonoSuba: God’s blessing to this lovely world!
- Overlord
- Alya typically hides her emotions in Russian
- Anonymous reminiscence
- The Eminence within the shadows
- Re: A zero begin in one other world
- God’s sport that we play
- Bungo stray canines
Within the first quarter of 2024 Dungeon Meshi was KADOKAWA’s highest-grossing IP, adopted by KonoSuba: God’s blessing to this lovely world!.
