The anime industry continues to make big numbers worldwide, but what was the situation like in 2020? From the data released by the Association of Japanese Animations, what appears to be a fairly significant drop compared to 2019 revenue. Let’s analyze together what is reported in the Anime Industry Report.
The report in question stated that it was considering the sector with merchandising, music, gadgets and other products related to the series an overall decrease of 3.5% in 2020, which ended up being worth $ 21.32 billion. However, if we just look at the revenues from the only anime productions, then they will be achieved a significant decrease of 9% compared to 2019, valued at around $ 2.4 billion.
Despite this drop, the industry’s incredible growth in 2019, equivalent to 15.1% year-on-year, somehow mitigated the losses, which resulted in 2020 as one of the best years for the industry since 2002as indicated in the first of the two graphs below. Second, it shows that in terms of the general market 2020 is the first year in which a contraction was recorded, since 2009 when we talked about the animation crisis.
Obviously, the popularity of streaming services and platforms helped keep Japanese animation moving, for the first time in history It has seen that domestic receipts outnumbered foreign receiptsAn incredible result considering how much the pandemic has affected the productions of many animation studios.
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