The size of the animation industry's market has reached a record high.

The size of the animation industry's market has reached a record high The first “overseas expansion” exceeds 1 trillion yen December 16, 6:09

The market scale of the animation industry for the last year has reached a record high for the sixth consecutive year, and “overseas expansion” has exceeded 1 trillion yen for the first time, accounting for nearly half of the total.

The Japan Video Association, which is created by animation production companies, calculates sales for approximately 150 domestic anime-related companies and compiles annual market-scale survey results for the animation industry.

According to this, the market scale of the animation industry last year was 2 trillion 181.4 billion yen, 19 billion yen surpassing that of Ototoshi, a record high for the sixth consecutive year.

Of the nine survey items such as “TV” and “Movies”, the largest sales were “overseas expansion” such as overseas movie screenings and game sales. And exceeded 1 trillion yen for the first time.

In addition, while “video packages” such as DVDs were 58.7 billion yen, only about three-quarters of the previous year, “distribution”, which is increasing year by year, was 59.5 billion yen, and sales were reversed. did.

Hiromichi Masuda, Editor-in-Chief of “Animation Industry Report”, which released the survey results, said, “Overseas sales, which had been growing in the last three or four years, have finally surpassed 1 trillion yen. I feel that the growing part and the declining part have been clearly separated, such as the sales turnover of the distribution being reversed. "