Sony Reported in Talks to Acquire Anime Giant Kadokawa! What This Could Mean for Anime's Future

Reuters reports Sony Group Corporation is in talks to acquire Kadokawa Corporation. A massive staple in manga, light novel, and anime in Japan.

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[TheWhiteMamba]

Prepare for the Dark Age of anime where censorship is spreading like a disease.

[JoseLopez-gisf]

No more positivity we are in a monopoly now. And didn't Kadokawa buy out anime news network last year.

[f.b.l.]

RIP all the anime under their umbrella, goodbye to all the waifus in Sword Art Online, Re Zero etc. and hello Concord level of slop characters.

[InfamyOrDeath-__-]

Oh my God this is terrible news, please god let this not be true, this deal better not go through. This will do so much damage to manga, none of the English published manga I have comes straight from them, but some of the Japanese published manga I have is published by them. And when you look into it they publish sooo much.

And so many figures that I buy are made by Kadokawa, I just got 2 last week, Albedo (restraint ver) and Magia Baiser, and I’ve a bunch of others. And having a monopoly in anime is just a terrible thing to happen, and they’re quite fond of censorship, god I hope this doesn’t happen.

[Haigen]

I hope Sony doesn’t buy out kadokawa. Sony would monopolize the anime with already owning 35 percent of the anime industry (inc: crunchyroll, and Aniplex, which owns A1 pictures and clover works). Just like what otaku spirit said if Sony continues to acquire more animation/production companies it could significantly ruin the anime industry as a whole. They think of global industry, meaning censorship, which could cause of a lot show unnecessary censored. We wouldn’t be consuming the media the way the author originally wanted. Please let this just be a talk rather than a negotiation.

[OSTemli]

Wtf black rock must be fueling Sony with money

[Maho]

Sony isnt Satisfied with censoring games? They want to do the same with light novels and manga?! I’m going to throw up

[vng]

Sony sees Disney and goes, if they can do it, so can we. RIP anime.

[grawman]

I just saw stuff about this on Twitter. Glad to see you covering it. Thanks. Also, I love the channel!

[MiseRaen]

You will have to wonder if Sony's own subsidiaries get integrated into Kadokawa or Sony's own incompetent subsidiaries like their games division would girlboss over Kadokawa's subsidiaries like Fromsoft or their anime/manga/novel division.

[Wolfaydragoon]

And there goes the light novel industry. Sony has consistently been ruining various projects related to anime since the 2010’s, so this is terrifying

[tomasz]

If this is true then rest in peace Kadokawa, you will be missed. Especially since Sony is now firmly embedded in the Western counter-culture, and dances to the anti-consumer tune.

[thetruestar]

I HATE Microsoft and Disney for making becoming a monopoly so easy in America

[Haiyami]

This is not overblown. The sirens are going off. The red flags are being raised.

[TheBlackOtaku]

Great Sony’s being another anime of monopoly again 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Alexandragon]

>_< we are Fked... Aren't we? ((

[mikeluna]

I mean, who doesn't want censorship and preaching in their entertainment?... 💀💀💀

[jamesjeager]

I have a bad feeling about Sony trying to buy a big Japanese company that makes anime & manga to start censoring anime & manga in a domino effect mode imo.

[hhjan]

I like that you emphasized the fact that Sony is a Japanese corporation, unlike a lot of other content creators just used the Playstation branch as Sony.

Yes they are going global, but they are very clear how uncensored content are popular in regions that allow them. I believe that means stuff will not be censored down to the source, as they still want to sell them in regions that allow them. That being said if you live in those countries that are not friendly with these content, yeah accessing those content legally will get more difficult, but that's as bad I believe stuff will go. Go into some shady sources you can definitely still find the uncensored sources.

[HankyUSA]

I think it's less than 50% likely they'll announce an acquisition before the end of 2025. So I posted the question to Manifold and placed a bet.