Comment on KADOKAWA CEO Partly Blames Increase in New Anime Companies for Making Anime 'Less Profitable'
shirasho@feddit.online 5 weeks ago
It also doesn’t help that Japan cares very little about foreign markets. Anime merch is still wildly overpriced outside of Japan. I’m not paying $60 USD for a 1 inch tall figurine, and $13 USD per Manga book is hardly sustainable.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I sometimes think they do it on purpose.
It has to be intentional at this point. Imagine if the Japanese people didn’t automatically side with big businesses because of their society and heard the prices we had to pay for the stuff they get at like, a quarter of the price.