Overlord and ReZero are Kadokawa Best-Selling Animes

May 16, 2023 Crazy 0 Comments 2 min read

What are the Kadokawa Best-Selling Animes? Kadokawa has released its earnings report for the last fiscal year 2023 and are you curious to know which animes were the Kadokawa Best-Selling Animes in this period and how the company did overall?

Read our summary below!

Overlord and ReZero are Kadokawa Best-Selling Animes

Let’s start right away with what everyone wants to know, which were the 10 anime that made the most profit for Kadokawa in the last fiscal year of 2023.

This data is from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. Below you can see the 10 best-selling anime for Kadokawa in the last fiscal year:

Overlord
ReZero
The Eminence in Shadow
Shield Hero
Bungo Stray Dogs
Made in Abyss
A Couple of Cuckoos
Konosuba
Youjitsu
Isekai Ojisan

Only these 10 animes correspond to 28% of the total sales. That is, only these 10 anime sold a total of 12.121 million yen. All of Kadokawa’s other anime combined sold 31.168 million yen.

As for publications of Kadokawa titles, these are the 10 most profitable series:

Sword Art Online
Overlord
The Eminence in Shadow
Kadokawa Manga Gakushu Series
Pan Dorobou
ReZero
Bungo Stray Dogs
Mahouka
Fate
Love Live

The top 10 best-selling publication titles account for 7% of total sales. Kadokawa’s publishing business saw an increase in sales, but profit declined because of investments and increased expenses.

Regarding the types of publication, Manga appears first with the highest sales, check the ranking below:

Manga – 16.100 million yen
General Books and Pocket Editions – 10.000 million yen
Light Novels – 6.150 million yen
Regular Paperback – 4.600 million yen
Children’s Books – 4.550 million yen

Mangas and light novels saw a year-over-year drop in sales.

The Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute anime sold well for Kadokawa and saw increases in sales of its light novel, the anime greatly contributed to Kadokawa’s results.

Via: Você Sabia Anime

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