ITmedia article: nlab.itmedia.co.jp/cont/article... Breakdown by Anime Corner's Chike Nwaenie (@chike00.bsky.social): animecorner.me/the-costs-of...

In an interview with ITmedia, Nao Hirasawa - CEO of the anime production company ARCH and president of Graphinica, shared developments in the anime industry that have led to TV production costs rising in recent years to as much as ¥300 million per episode or ¥4 billion per movie.

Anime Corner's Chike Nwaenie (@chike00.bsky.social) has the full story: animecorner.me/crunchyroll-...

Crunchyroll has been hit with a class action lawsuit for alleged violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA); most notably, the disclosure of personally identifiable information to a third party without consumer consent, since at least 2022.

#Manga Reading Platform comici MANGA Launches in 12 Countries

UK government's press release: www.gov.uk/government/n.... Breakdown by Anime Corner's Chike Nwaenie (@chike00.bsky.social): animecorner.me/anime-stream...

Original Dengeki Online interview: dengekionline.com/article/2026... Short summary by Anime Corner's Chike Nwaenie (@chike00.bsky.social): animecorner.me/im-constantl...

How does CTW adapt anime into games? What's the curse that hit the Steam release of Granblue Fantasy? Josh has the answers!

We've got a new column at ANN: This Week In Mobile Games! Give Josh a warm welcome!

Japanese version: dentsu-ho.com/articles/9584 English version (NOTE: machine translated; may not be 100% accurate) dentsu-ho.com/en/articles/... Small summary by Anime Corner's Chike Nwaenie (@chike00.bsky.social): animecorner.me/gachiakuta-a...

Anime Corner's Chike Nwaenie (@chike00.bsky.social) provided a short breakdown of this interview: animecorner.me/kadokawa-ceo...

Nikkei conducted an interview with KADOKAWA CEO Takeshi Natsuno: in it, he discusses about KADOKAWA's global subsidiary strategy (including possible plans for the Middle East) as well as the global potential of Japanese content. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

In Anime Corner’s new interview with Sentai Filmworks & HIDIVE president John Ledford, he mentioned that the distribution deal that was signed with Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) in 2023 is “dynamic by design,” starting with future exclusives, and left the room open for more possibilities.

A rare interview with Sentai/Hidive's John Ledford went up yesterday, and while most of it sounded rather "safe" & corporate there were some nuggets of neat info found within:

I logged into Bluesky for the first time in like 7 months to contact someone and oh hey I see this. Yay