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

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.
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.
Animenomics: How the Anime Industry Works, Anime Lockdown, September 13, 2025, 2:30 p.m. ET (UTC−04:00), twitch.tv/animelockdown
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Presentation slide on net sales of Kadokawa Corporation's top ten best-selling titles.
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.
Presentation slide on net sales of Kadokawa Corporation's animation business over the last eight fiscal quarters.
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.
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.
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's sales trends in the publication/IP creation business segment. Highlighted are net sales of light novels and comics.
Presentation slide of Kadokawa Corporation's publicly announced major promising titles of animation in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Presentation slide summarizing Kadokawa Corporation's consolidated earnings results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024
Cover slide of Kadokawa Corporation's full-year earnings results presentation for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, announced on May 9, 2024
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.
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.
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.
Slide listing net sales of Kadokawa's top ten best-selling titles, also broken down between the publishing segment and video segment
Slide summarizing sales and number of titles in Kadokawa's anime business
Slide showing sales trends and breakdown in Kadokawa's e-book business, with net sales breakdown from April to December 2023 highlighted
Slide showing trend of new publications by Kadokawa over the last seven quarters, with light novels and comics highlighted
Slide showing publication segment sales trends over the last seven fiscal quarters, with light novel and comic segments highlighted
Slide giving overview of Kadokawa's video business, with details of net sales, operating profit, and future outlook in the animation segment highlighted
Slide summarizing Kadokawa's international business expansion in the publication segment, with new subsidiaries in Thailand, Indonesia, and France highlighted
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
Cover slide of Kadokawa's earnings results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, presented on February 8, 2024
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.