{"id":25148,"date":"2011-04-01T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=25148"},"modified":"2011-04-01T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:01:45","slug":"25148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/25148\/","title":{"rendered":"Broccoli Leaving Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Anibro_Gamers_header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Anibro_Gamers_header-450x55.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Anibro_Gamers_header\" width=\"450\" height=\"55\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Anibro_Gamers_header-450x55.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Anibro_Gamers_header-300x36.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Anibro_Gamers_header.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese character goods development and retail company Broccoli has announced plans to exit consumer-level retail to focus on development and manufacturing. On June 1st, retail chain Animate, which obtained 11% ownership of Broccoli in 2008, will take over operation of Broccoli&#8217;s mail-order business and Broccoli&#8217;s 16 &#8220;Gamers&#8221; retail stores throughout Japan. The Gamers stores will be renamed &#8220;AniBro Gamers&#8221; to designate the Animate &#038; Broccoli partnership. Animate currently operates 100 retail stores throughout Japan. Animate will pay Broccoli roughly 250 million yen (about $3.02 million USD) for control of Broccoli&#8217;s retail operations.<\/p>\n<p><i>Anibro? Really?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2011-04-01\/broccoli-transfers-stores-to-animate-leaves-retail\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese character goods development and retail company Broccoli has announced plans to exit consumer-level retail to focus on development and manufacturing. On June 1st, retail chain Animate, which obtained 11% ownership of Broccoli in 2008, will take over operation of Broccoli&#8217;s mail-order business and Broccoli&#8217;s 16 &#8220;Gamers&#8221; retail stores throughout Japan. The Gamers stores will [&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-25148","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\/25148","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=25148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25151,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions\/25151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}