Humore Raises TV Tokyo Funding and Buys Goods Manufacturer
TV Tokyo is putting money into a contractor that already draws licensed illustrations and runs pop-up shops, and the M&A adds manufacturing, which compresses the path from an anime IP to a physical product into one group.
Reporting from 1 source: GameBusiness.jp.
Humore Inc. announced on October 16, 2026 a funding round through a third-party allotment of new shares to TV Tokyo and debt financing from financial institutions. The company used the borrowed funds to carry out an M&A of an affiliated company. Humore aims to handle newly drawn anime illustration production plus goods planning, manufacturing, distribution, and sales inside its own group.
The deal sits under TV Tokyo's long-term vision TV Tokyo VISION2035 and its CaaS (Contents As A Service) strategy. Takuya Hirobe said TV Tokyo will push the speed and scale of commercialization and bring its anime works to Japan and overseas.
Humore works from a network of roughly 16,000 creators, including illustrators and manga artists, and produces more than 150 licensed illustrations a year. It also sells through physical stores, events, and e-commerce, and runs pop-up shops. Representative Director Mikiya Shibatsuji said the goods manufacturing capability gained through the M&A combines with the company's illustration production and MD planning to cover planning through manufacturing and sales.
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- GameBusiness.jp フーモア、テレビ東京から資金調達しアニメIPの商品化を強化。M&Aでグッズ製造まで一気通貫体制へ