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©Copyright_ ©Koyoharu Gotoge _ SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable Spending on Japanese anime worldwide reached a record JPY4.45 trillion ($28.2 billion) in 2025. That is up 15.8% on the previous year, and overseas consumers now account for well over half of the total.
Hasegawa Masahiro, editor-in-chief of the Association of Japanese Animations’ (AJA) annual “Anime Industry Report,” presented the preliminary figures Friday at TIFFCOM, the market attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival. The final numbers will appear in the 2026 edition of the report when it is published in December.
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