{"id":8271,"date":"2005-01-26T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/icv2-news-reports-2004-market-trends\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T15:42:00","slug":"icv2-news-reports-2004-market-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/icv2-news-reports-2004-market-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"ICv2 News Reports 2004 Market Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to estimates from comic industry market watch company ICv2, English translated manga saw a 40-50% sales increase in mainstream American bookstores in 2004. The American manga publishing industry is now estimated to be valued at $110 to $140 million, up from $90 to $110 million in 2003. However, 2004&#8217;s manga growth rate is a sharp decrease from the tremendous 100% growth in 2003. Likewise, the domestic anime market remained steady or shrunk in 2004. While anime was a $550 million market in 2003, 2004 estimates place its value at $500 million up to $550 million. The decrease is blamed on slowing mainstream anime sales and declines in the mainstream popularity of Dragon Ball home video.<\/p>\n<p>The best selling manga of fourth quarter 2004 were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Rurouni Kenshin<br \/>\n2. Fruits Basket<br \/>\n3. Naruto<br \/>\n4. Inuyasha<br \/>\n5. .Hack<br \/>\n6. Tsubasa<br \/>\n7. Trigun<br \/>\n8. D.N.Angel<br \/>\n9. Hellsing<br \/>\n10. Negima<\/p>\n<p>The best selling anime franchises of fourth quarter 2004 were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex<br \/>\n2. Dragon Ball Z &amp; Dragon Ball GT<br \/>\n3. Inuyasha<br \/>\n4. Yu-Gi-Oh!<br \/>\n5. Initial D<br \/>\n6. Neon Genesis Evangelion<br \/>\n7. Yu Yu Hakusho<br \/>\n8. Gungrave<br \/>\n9. Hayao Miyazaki\/Studio Ghibli<br \/>\n10. Wolf&#8217;s Rain<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/6340.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2 News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to estimates from comic industry market watch company ICv2, English translated manga saw a 40-50% sales increase in mainstream American bookstores in 2004. The American manga publishing industry is now estimated to be valued at $110 to $140 million, up from $90 to $110 million in 2003. However, 2004&#8217;s manga growth rate is a [&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-8271","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\/8271","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=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}