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Anime Video Sales Jump 6.5% in Japan in 2013
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Japan Video Software Association (JVA) released its "JVA 2013 Year Statistics Results" report on March 17. Sales in the entire video software market had a slight decrease, but sales of domestic anime Blu-ray Disc and DVD sales were strong.
Japanese animation sales rose 6.5% to 78.99 billion yen (about US$768.4 million) in 2013 to its highest total in six years. Sales of foreign animation for the general public and children were 6.191 billion yen (US$60.2 million), and foreign and domestic animation sales combined were 85.17 billion yen (US$828.5 million).
Japanese anime now accounts for one-third of the domestic video software market.
Retail sales of Japanese anime for the general public rose 14.8% compared to 2012 to 61.062 billion yen (US$594 million), with 12,435,495 discs sold (an increase of 23.6%). Conversely, rental store sales fell 1.7% to 13.167 billion yen (US$128.1 million yen).
Video software sales in Japan in 2013 were 251.77 billion yen (US$2.449 billion), a 2.6% decrease over last year. DVD sales were down 12.8% to 162.988 billion yen (US$1.585 billion), and Blu-ray Disc sales were up 24.1% to 88.782 billion yen (US$863.6 million).
Source: animeanime.jp
