Insights and obervations from someone who has been there and back again
Yesterday, Anime News Network reported that 4Kids plans to sell “substantially all of [their] Yu-Gi-Oh!-related assets” to KidsCo Media Ventures, LLC. KidsCo is incorporated in Delaware, though their listed address is identical to that of the Saban Capital Group. In addition, contact e-mail addresses for Kidsco are also tied to “saban.com.” Currently, KidsCo is listed [...]
Before we continue our conversation on potential paths to Blue Oceans, I’d like to recap the previous chapter. In the last chapter, I kicked off the conversation by explaining that looking at a market with a new perspective can create a new channel into uncontested market space. These perspectives aren’t overly complicated, and include the [...]
As we take the first steps into the Blue Ocean, it becomes important to decide a basic space in which the study must take place. In the anime industry, it is easy to see that there are two basic categories that businesses operate. Each of these can be broken into pair of separate sub-categories: Anime [...]
Earlier today, ANN reported that Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V topped Nielsen Bookscan’s top 20 graphic novels for September. The two joined nine other manga novels to make a total of 11 titles in the top twenty. Sailor Moon and Sailor V were both released on September 15 which means that the titles shot [...]
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Manga Sales See 1.5% Drop In 2012
Yesterday, ANN reported that Oricon’s annual manga sales statistics for 2012 were released. According to Oricon, manga sales totaled 267.5 billion yen ($2.892 billion) in revenues, down 1.5% from 2011′s 271.77 billion take. The drop coincides with a 5.4% decline in sales in the overall book industry, which took in 1.0528 trillion yen ($11.3803 billion). [...]