japanese companies do not give a fuck about your feelings on the subject. They dont care about your dumb soy eating , funko pop collecting employees who im sure are paid way too much.
just wanted to say that these types of people are the ones who actually buy merch related to the anime, so they're exactly who the Japanese companies care the most about. Weebs like me who never buy anything and mostly pirate the shows I watch are completely outside the radar of any animation company.
edit: holy shit then I got to the part where it gets really bad, god damn.
edit2: okay I read the whole thing and I really shouldn't have done that to myself, there's just nothing of value there at all.
Soy has been a staple of Asian diets for hundreds of years, though I'm not sure about the market penetration of Funko Pops in Japan given that they have so many other companies doing higher quality plastic sculpts.
I actually went and did a bit of homework because I was curious about sales comparisons. So a normal funko pop is $10 but a normal price for one of those 1/8 scale resin/plastic models is about $90USD from the big names. Funko pops actually had their best year last year, pulling $227 Million in sales, no small feat until you take in labour, materials, transport, advertising, and (probably their biggest expense) IP licensing. That one company I used earlier was Kotobukiya, one of many companies that makes "official" (IP is bullshit) figurines and their revenue last year was $744 Million USD (¥8.02 Billion).
So like, they are probably just a fancier funko pop but the capital behind them is somewhere between just-under and multiple-times an order of magnitude more, all of which is specifically targeted at anime/related media products instead of funko pop's big tent for any individual item of each companies' products. And this is also before we get into consumption habbits of people who buy either product.
All this to say it is the unfortunate market inevitability that brought anime studios to shill to this type of guy. The kind of guy who would not only buy several $90 figures of some fictional 14y/o but would also attempt to peer-pressure others into his cucked headspace. I lost track of the argument, ngl, but anime titties ≠ funko pops.
just wanted to say that these types of people are the ones who actually buy merch related to the anime, so they're exactly who the Japanese companies care the most about. Weebs like me who never buy anything and mostly pirate the shows I watch are completely outside the radar of any animation company.
edit: holy shit then I got to the part where it gets really bad, god damn.
edit2: okay I read the whole thing and I really shouldn't have done that to myself, there's just nothing of value there at all.
Thats the domestic anime market too?
Soy has been a staple of Asian diets for hundreds of years, though I'm not sure about the market penetration of Funko Pops in Japan given that they have so many other companies doing higher quality plastic sculpts.
for the sake of example, a resin statuette is just a fancier funkopop
I actually went and did a bit of homework because I was curious about sales comparisons. So a normal funko pop is $10 but a normal price for one of those 1/8 scale resin/plastic models is about $90USD from the big names. Funko pops actually had their best year last year, pulling $227 Million in sales, no small feat until you take in labour, materials, transport, advertising, and (probably their biggest expense) IP licensing. That one company I used earlier was Kotobukiya, one of many companies that makes "official" (IP is bullshit) figurines and their revenue last year was $744 Million USD (¥8.02 Billion).
So like, they are probably just a fancier funko pop but the capital behind them is somewhere between just-under and multiple-times an order of magnitude more, all of which is specifically targeted at anime/related media products instead of funko pop's big tent for any individual item of each companies' products. And this is also before we get into consumption habbits of people who buy either product.
All this to say it is the unfortunate market inevitability that brought anime studios to shill to this type of guy. The kind of guy who would not only buy several $90 figures of some fictional 14y/o but would also attempt to peer-pressure others into his cucked headspace. I lost track of the argument, ngl, but anime titties ≠ funko pops.
the anime business model is INCREDIBLY fucked
Just thought of a phrase, so now you have to as well: FunkoPop jar.
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