Sony Corporation in talks to buy Kadokawa Corporation

Wait, does this apply to Kadokawa Group as a whole or just the anime/gaming section? Kadokawa owns BookWalker, does this mean Sony will own BookWalker as well? Are all my LN purchases screwed!? I mean CR buys Funimation and suddenly ppl are losing access to their purchases... Who says the same cannot happen with Sony...

What abt their publishing itself (manga & LN)? Will it be owned by F*ing Sony as well?

I'm sorry, but I don't really care for the anime & gaming sections, I'm much more concerned abt the manga & LN side instead....

@uncleqrow This purchase applies to everything Kadokawa owns, meaning all anime and software and subsidiaries (every publishing branch included).

This is the beginning of the death of the anime industry, prepare for more censorship and more western crap in your anime.... RIP, it was fun while it lasted

Will that lead to more game adaptations?

I don't like Kadokawa and its practices but the sonyfication of kadokawa will turn the sour cheese rancid and we all know how great monopolies go for any industry.




and why is it a wrong concern? Censorship doesn't just apply to ecchi and woke content but also to creative freedom in general, Disney doesn't just restrict "anti-woke" content but also content that it deems too radical or inappropriate in its animated movies. Also, the bigger the corporation, the lesser the risks it's willing to take with its products so you will see fewer new ideas and more generic run-of-the-mill shows

I don"t realy understand all the fear is both company are public listed company , that mean there japanese only in name , the real owner are investment company who put money in both company . when sony buy kodakawa , the owner still the same , the investment company , . cencership will always be there as long it is pulic company both went public company to begin with .

@Zarutaku I don't see why that would? Sony doesn't have a gaming division anymore since they sold it to SIE.

SIE is a subsidiary of Sony, not sure what you're getting at.

@Zarutaku And they operate completely independently.

I don't like Kadokawa and its practices but the sonyfication of kadokawa will turn the sour cheese rancid and we all know how great monopolies go for any industry.




and why is it a wrong concern? Censorship doesn't just apply to ecchi and woke content but also to creative freedom in general, Disney doesn't just restrict "anti-woke" content but also content that it deems too radical or inappropriate in its animated movies. Also, the bigger the corporation, the lesser the risks it's willing to take with its products so you will see fewer new ideas and more generic run-of-the-mill shows

A subsidiary is owned and controlled by its parent company, so it's not independent.

Oh boy, here's to another studio not being able to have freedom of what shows they get to be in charge of. And people do have a right to be concerned about censorship since it's modern Sony we're talking about here. Look at a number of shows Kadokawa has a big part in and it's rather worrying what Sony would do with the acquisition.
@animegamer245 Don't forget the double standard Sony has to new Japanese games, many Western games get to have full nudity or sex scene, but Japanese games get hit with censored CG scenes or modified costumes. (some VN's on PS4/5 have light censors on swimsuit scenes, not joking)

"Censorship and Western crap" and it's literally the company that made ecchi anime like Eromanga Sensei and My Dress-Up Darling.
Also you literally have anime produced by Sony on your favs, as well as a Sony owned studio in your fav companies...

Why would it be dead? Why there's no reason to believe it won't?

Considering the shows they helped produce in the past, I fail to see why they would kill an entire anime project...

What censorship?
I didn't see any censorship on MDUD.
Also Kadokawa is not a studio, they are a producer, so if any company is not giving studios the freedom of what shows they are in charge in, it's Kadokawa who is pushing their anime studios with their 40 anime a year plan.

Unless they also own Sentai Filmworks' parent company, AMC Networks (which they don't seem to) they wouldn't quite hold a monopoly in anime streaming and licensing just yet.

But owning Kadokawa would mean owning all of the series that Sentai licenses that are worth anything at all (like No Game No Life), so they could presumably give the licensing for those works to Crunchyroll, which they do own.

So they're definitely getting closer to becoming a monopoly. Not a huge fan of that, but if we end up getting No Game No Life season 2 out of it then I can't complain too much.

@ShatteredSans I would say that with Sony you can definitely forget about a second season of NGNL... imagine if the minds behind Concord would start dealing with a story of incest between brothers with all that mild nudity lmao

@ShatteredSans I would say that with Sony you can definitely forget about a second season of NGNL... imagine if the minds behind Concord would start dealing with a story of incest between brothers with all that mild nudity lmao

Oh boy, here's to another studio not being able to have freedom of what shows they get to be in charge of. And people do have a right to be concerned about censorship since it's modern Sony we're talking about here. Look at a number of shows Kadokawa has a big part in and it's rather worrying what Sony would do with the acquisition.
@animegamer245 Don't forget the double standard Sony has to new Japanese games, many Western games get to have full nudity or sex scene, but Japanese games get hit with censored CG scenes or modified costumes. (some VN's on PS4/5 have light censors on swimsuit scenes, not joking)