Industry

industry 2 sources · Oct 4

Tokyo Court Ties Voice To Publicity Rights In Tsuda AI Suit

The court recognized voice as a protectable publicity right even as the practical claim collapsed, so the ruling's effect lands on future generative AI cases rather than on the videos Tsuda wanted gone.

Anime News Network, OtakuKart Anime
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 3

VRChat And pixiv Formalize Capital Alliance After Years Of BOOTH Collaboration

The division of labor the two executives describe, pixiv on creation and distribution and VRChat on the place itself, means the next fight over 3D avatar money is not between the two platforms but over whether game companies bring their IP in through BOOTH and VRChat worlds rather than building their own.

GameBusiness.jp, Inside
industry 2 sources · Oct 3

Haseshin Joins ZETA DIVISION CREATOR Division

The signing adds a multi-year streamer with 950,000 YouTube subscribers to ZETA DIVISION's CREATOR division, a group separate from its competitive rosters, which shows the team building its creator side rather than its pro-player side.

Denfaminicogamer, Inside
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 3

AMD Signs Deal to Acquire World Labs for About $8.2 Billion

AMD is buying model researchers rather than another chip line: World Labs' spatial and robotics work gives AMD insight into physical AI workloads, which is the stated basis for its forward hardware and software roadmap.

ASCII.jp, GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 3

Disney+ And Hulu Raise U.S. Prices Again

Disney's entertainment streaming revenue from Disney+ and Hulu reached $5.5 billion in the third quarter of 2026, up 11% year on year, so the higher rates land while that segment is already growing.

Anime News Network, GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 3

Kakao Entertainment to Shut Down Tapas and Kakao Webtoon

Kakao Entertainment plans to use the combined platforms' payment and subscription data to develop AI-based content recommendations, so the consolidation is aimed at a recommendation business, not only at cutting platforms.

Anime News Network, Anime Corner
industry 1 sources · Oct 3

French Publisher Kana's Founder Yves Schlirf Dies

Kana's catalog made it one of Europe's largest manga publishers, so the death of the man who founded it in 1996 leaves the house he built without its founder.

Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 3

Remow Launches It's Anime FAST Channel On Pluto TV, Prime Video, PS5

The three placements widen U.S. reach for a FAST channel that had been limited to Samsung TV Plus and VIZIO's WatchFree+, and Tomodachi Talks gives the service a piece of original programming rather than a licensed catalog alone.

Anime News Network
industrybusiness 4 sources · Oct 2

Cygames Backs Shoma Uno And Marin Honda Ice Dance Team

Cygames frames the sponsorship under a stated vision of bringing joy through fields outside games, and Uno's separate contract with its esports roster and his appearance in a Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond commercial make this a deepening of ties that already existed, not a cold-start deal.

4Gamer.net, KAI-YOU, Inside, and 1 more
industrybusiness 2 sources · Sep 25

Kodansha And Dentsu Open Americas Brand Deals For Three Titles

Kodansha is routing Americas licensing through a single agency contact rather than handling brand inquiries title by title, which puts three separate franchises behind one sales desk.

Cartoon Brew, OtakuKart Anime
industryrelease 2 sources · Sep 24

HIROMEIRO Full-Body Tracking System Gets Official Release

By separating tracking from avatar display and offering desktop PC, Android, and developer Python versions of the tracking app, Kushinada Kikou positions HIROMEIRO so a streamer can run capture on one device and output on another without a motion capture suit.

MoguLive, PANORA
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 20

Disney+ Revises Terms So Ads Apply To Every Plan

The revision folds advertising into every tier of a paid service, which undercuts the reason customers paid more to avoid it and pushes the value question toward whatever free tier Disney is reportedly weighing.

GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 19

Puente Launches AI Anime Factory For Generative Production

A commercial one-stop AI orchestration offer at one-third to one-half conventional cost, aimed at webtoon adaptations and short-form AI anime, puts the pricing question ahead of the tooling question for production committees comparing AI against hand-drawn pipelines.

ASCII.jp
industry 1 sources · Sep 18

JPYC Eases Login Rules as Issuance Passes 10 Billion Yen

A yen-pegged token reaching a ten-digit cumulative issuance figure is a usage signal for yen-denominated on-chain payments, and the July update that removed one-time codes from issuance and redemption lowers friction for the businesses and services the company names.

ASCII.jp
industry 1 sources · Sep 18

Brussels Court Upholds DAZN's DNS Blocking Order Against Google, Cloudflare, Cisco

The ruling extends Belgium's pirate-site blocking regime from internet service providers to the public DNS resolvers that sit underneath them, and three of the largest resolver operators have now been told that blocking domains on their systems is technically feasible and not disproportionately costly.

GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 18

ACGWORLDS Opens Corporate Manga Service at 100,000 Yen for 1-12 Pages

The pricing and turnaround are aimed at Japanese companies that want brochure, recruiting or ad content in manga form but have found outsourced manga hard to quote and slow to draft, a gap ACGWORLDS is now selling against with a fixed page band and a published base rate.

ASCII.jp
industryevent 1 sources · Sep 18

AnimeJapan Opens New Creator Awards 2027 Entries on October 1

The award money now runs through four technical categories plus the Grand Prix and Crunchyroll prizes, and winning shorts are slated for streaming, which makes this a talent pipeline rather than a one-off contest.

Anime News Network