| the-pi-guy said: I have a really hard time finding actual numbers on these things, but there are a lot of anime studios out there. (and some of the claims are exaggerated, people were overestimating how much manga Kadokawa makes for example.) I'm pretty sure there's not a monopolization concern. I think the biggest concern for Sony is that Kadokawa does a lot of business that Sony isn't interested in. A lot of Sony's business is global media and electronics. Even their Japanese financial branch, they've been somewhat moving away from. There were discussions of spinning that off. Kadokawa publishes books, textbooks; they even have a real estate business, and apparently even run a few schools in Japan. |
I also can't imagine regulators distinguishing anime any differently from other forms of television/movies.
