{"id":6629,"date":"2003-11-10T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/anime-character-break-into-worlds-highest-grossing-list\/"},"modified":"2003-11-10T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T15:34:00","slug":"anime-character-break-into-worlds-highest-grossing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/anime-character-break-into-worlds-highest-grossing-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Character Break into World&#8217;s Highest Grossing List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial magazine Forbes has published its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/2003\/09\/25\/cx_al_0926fictionalintro.html\" target=\"_blank\">list of 2002&#8217;s worldwide highest grossing fictional characters<\/a>. The list was isolated to narrative source franchises (movies, books, video games) and excluded pure toys with no narrative origin, such as Barbie dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Two anime franchises broke into the top 10 list, but the highest ranking anime still earned less than a fifth of the number one franchise worldwide, suggesting that anime still has a long way to go before it&#8217;s recognized internationally as truly massively successful.<\/p>\n<p>The list of worldwide merchandise sales in 2002:<\/p>\n<p>01. Winnie the Pooh &#8211; $5.9 billion<br \/>\n02. Mickey Mouse &amp; company &#8211; $4.7 billion<br \/>\n03. Harry Potter &#8211; $2.9 billion<br \/>\n04. Spiderman &#8211; $2.7 billion<br \/>\n05. Lord of the Rings &#8211; $2.2 billion<br \/>\n06. Star Wars &#8211; $1.3 billion<br \/>\n07. Monsters Inc. &#8211; $993 million<br \/>\n08. Pokemon &#8211; $825 million<br \/>\n09. Spongebob Squarepants &#8211; $800 million<br \/>\n10. Yu-Gi-Oh &#8211; $725 million<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=4324\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial magazine Forbes has published its list of 2002&#8217;s worldwide highest grossing fictional characters. The list was isolated to narrative source franchises (movies, books, video games) and excluded pure toys with no narrative origin, such as Barbie dolls. Two anime franchises broke into the top 10 list, but the highest ranking anime still earned less [&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-6629","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\/6629","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=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}