No! God please no!
Another aspect of this that I just realized is that the two most timely/thorough anime news sources I use for English language articles are:
- Anime News Network - Owned by Kadokawa
- Crunchyroll - Owned by Sony
I can imagine a scenario in which the news groups of these two companies are consolidated. There are other English news sources out there, but it doesn’t sit well with me if these two big players combine.
I hope this shit gets blocked like hell, this would mean a defacto monopoly on Japanese media for Sony and that means nothing good.
There’s no way this doesn’t get blocked right?
Japan doesn’t have antitrust at all
So we’re going back to zaibatsus?
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Never left
Important to know, but is this really relevant to anime?
It would pretty much give Sony complete control of the industry through ownership of Aniplex and Kadokawa. BD prices would skyrocket…
Sony also owns Crunchyroll for digital distribution.
Yup :/
I might quit consuming animanga if this goes through and JNC folds into Bookwalker.
Yes. Kadokawa has several anime studio subsidiaries, and also publishes manga.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/1696/Kadokawa
Here is the list of anime that Kadokawa produced. I’m sure you would know many anime on the list.
