{"id":13721,"date":"2008-10-30T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13721"},"modified":"2008-10-30T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:20:21","slug":"anime-manga-offset-kadokawa-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/anime-manga-offset-kadokawa-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime &amp; Manga Offset Kadokawa Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kadokawa Group Holdings, the parent company of businesses involved in the anime &amp; manga field including Kadokawa Shoten, ASCII MediaWorks, Enterbrain, and Fujimi Shobo, has reported 1.854 billion yen (US $18.95 million) in stock securities losses during the first half of its 2008 fiscal year (April through September). The loss represents a 6.8% decline from 2007 first half revenue.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kadokawa cites strong DVD sales of titles including Lucky Star, Junjo Romantica, and Keroro Gunso movie 3; Full Metal Panic Blu-ray disc sales; and sales of manga titles including Yotsuba to!, Lucky Star, MPD Psycho, and Shakugan no Shana as mitigating factors cushioning the financial loss.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the first half loss, Kadokawa Group Holdings expects to end the 2008 fiscal year with a 100 million yen (US $1 million) profit.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-10-30\/kadokawa-group-holdings-report-net-loss-for-1st-half\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kadokawa Group Holdings, the parent company of businesses involved in the anime &amp; manga field including Kadokawa Shoten, ASCII MediaWorks, Enterbrain, and Fujimi Shobo, has reported 1.854 billion yen (US $18.95 million) in stock securities losses during the first half of its 2008 fiscal year (April through September). The loss represents a 6.8% decline from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}