{"id":56553,"date":"2026-02-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=56553"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:30:43","slug":"overseas-anime-market-growth-continues-to-outpace-domestic-market-gap-in-revenue-expected-to-grow-industry-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/overseas-anime-market-growth-continues-to-outpace-domestic-market-gap-in-revenue-expected-to-grow-industry-research-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseas anime market growth continues to outpace domestic market, gap in revenue expected to grow, industry research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) released the summarized version of its <a href=\"https:\/\/aja.gr.jp\/info\/2653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Anime Industry Report 2025 <\/strong><\/a>on February 4th. The report, based on surveys and data analyses conducted by AJA throughout 2024, reveals that the anime market size had grown by 114.8% year-on-year, reaching 3.84 trillion yen (about $24.5 billion USD) and setting a new record high for the industry. In particular, the overseas market has been witnessing much greater growth compared to the domestic market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, continuing last year\u2019s trend, the anime market has witnessed one of its biggest ever year-on-year increases in growth, only second to the 115.3% growth recorded in 2019. The market is said to have doubled in size since 2015, and is 3.5 times bigger than what it was in 2002. Assuming the same growth pace, the estimated market size for 2025 is over 4 trillion yen (about $25.54 billion USD)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overseas anime market has grown by 126.0% year-on-year, and its expansion has been greatly accelerating ever since 2022. This comes thanks to the worldwide popularization of Japanese anime through global streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney +, and Crunchyroll. According to the data, the overseas market accounted for 56.5% of the overall market size, beating the domestic market by a margin of around 499.7 billion yen (about $3.18 billion USD) once again. This gap has significantly widened compared to the 97.9-billion-yen difference (around $624 million USD) from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related note, due to the potential Japanese content has shown in the overseas market, it seems like the industry has been taking more concrete steps towards global expansion. For example, the Japanese government recently laid out a <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/no-interference-in-creative-works-japanese-government-proposes-new-policy-for-anime-and-game-expansion-in-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new set of policies <\/a>to promote the expansion of Japanese content and anime industry on a worldwide scale. Furthermore, only last month, Japanese anime studio MAPPA announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/netflix-and-mappa-form-strategic-partnership-to-exclusively-distribute-anime-worldwide\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/netflix-and-mappa-form-strategic-partnership-to-exclusively-distribute-anime-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strategic partnership with Netflix<\/a>, aimed at creating new projects with global audiences in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/sword-art-online-director-believes-japanese-anime-has-the-potential-to-replace-hollywood-but-focusing-too-much-on-global-appeal-could-lead-to-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sword Art Online director believes Japanese anime has the potential to replace Hollywood, but \u201cfocusing too much on global appeal could lead to failure\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/more-sequels-and-even-more-remakes-of-90s-and-00s-hits-anime-industry-research-report-predicts-eight-major-trends-for-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>More sequels, and even more remakes of 90s and 00s hits. Anime industry\u00a0research report predicts eight major trends for 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJA&#8217;s Anime Industry Report 2025 reveals the overseas market has been witnessing much greater growth compared to the domestic market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":56555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[73,261,17,66],"class_list":["post-56553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-anime","tag-financial-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-non-gaming-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Overseas anime market growth continues to outpace domestic market, gap in revenue expected to grow, industry research shows - 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