While Avex doesn’t sell much anime rights internationally, they do sell a ton of music rights, especially to their subsidiaries like Avex Asia that then sells CDs and such to local customers. Due to the short distance from Japan, Avex even tours in SE Asia to promote the local sales of their artists. Avex Asia has been expanding and selling music-related products in Taiwan much like how the parent company in Japan sells music groups like J Soul Brothers, E-girls, Johnny’s (Kis-My-Ft2 specifically), and even the anime-inspired Wake Up Girls!. The bigger fish here is Avex Asia (housing Avex Taiwan, Avex Shanghai, and Avex Hawaii among other subgroups compiled into it). While Avex International Inc, located in the US, does exist, it’s only been around since last June and thus hasn’t had any big positives or negatives. Avex has two main subsidiaries which work in North America and south-east Asia respectively. I’ll give a warning that we’re about to head outside of anime entirely in this next part, but it’s a more likely cause for this restriction on anime sales for Avex-produced series. Therefore, it’s unlikely that anime sales were the cause of this decision. A simple glance at the publisher page on Crunchyroll shows only one title (in the US) that Avex sold internationally: Charger Girl Ju-den Chan. Avex may get some of that revenue depending on how the contracts were written for those production committees, but they wouldn’t be directly impacted by foreign buyers as they don’t sell the rights to those shows.
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Osomatsu ( which were bought by Crunchyroll for every nation outside of Asia) and TV Asahi sold the rights to Yuri!! On Ice ( which were bought by Crunchyroll for every nation except Japan/China). TV Tokyo sold the international rights to Mr. However, they don’t own the international rights to either of those shows.
If any title would be reflective of international buyers hurting domestic sales, those would be the most likely culprits. The two biggest international hits for Avex in the past two years were Mr. While that’s a valid possibility and one we have to consider, the way to rule this out is by looking at who owns the international rights for shows produced by Avex. If the audience is buying the Japanese releases instead, then the amount that’s paid to Avex will be lower as the buyer isn’t getting enough revenue from their own market. Their theory goes as such: the international rights sales depend on people buying the releases sold in those territories. Some fans (and even some former industry reps) have started to assume that this restraint was due to international rights for anime. Reports of Amazon cancelling/restricting idol-related CD purchases made the rounds on Twitter forcing fans to buy Avex products elsewhere. However, some retailers had already began restricting sales of Avex products internationally since mid January. This restraint prevents international fans from buying the Japanese home video releases or music related to those productions now. Avex Pictures has been a constant producer of anime titles like Wake Up Girls, Mr. The big news was that products that are distributed by Avex Pictures/Music will not be allowed to be sold internationally directly from online stores like Amazon Japan, HMV Japan, CD Japan, AmiAmi, and such. As this affects us more than the domestic audience, I felt the need to discuss this and to correct some misconceptions. One said event occurred this week as an international retailer who sells Japanese-made products internationally sent out an e-mail that caused a big ruckus in the international anime community. As such, I like to pop in from time to time to talk about the various business-related events that affect the anime industry. While most of the content on this site will relate to the actual animation process, we’d be amiss to ignore the finances that make such process happen. Our friend megax is here to explain the business decision that likely lead to this. This isn’t a new development, but the events got traction today thanks to a statement by CDJapan on the matter going viral.
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