Japanese Animation Industry: Market size reaches 2 15 trillion yen – Record high
“Japan Video Association” calculates sales of 150 domestic production companies (9 items: television and movies, video distribution, overseas expansion).
Every year, we are summarizing the survey results of the market size of the animation industry.
The market size of last year was 2,152.7 billion yen, which was about 160 billion yen more than the year before, and we updated the record high.
Of the nine items, last year, sales were the largest,
Screening of movies and sales of animation-related games etc. “Overseas deployment”: ¥ 99.8 billion
“Merchandise” such as character goods: ¥ 523.2 billion
NHK News
Anime Industry Report 2017 Summary
Our organization has been publishing “The Report on Japanese Animation Industry” on every year, which provides with the latest information about Japanese animation industry and its business.
It is only available in Japanese; however, for non-Japanese readers, we have prepared the summary version of the report, which you may download from the link below.