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I think that even if you stick with a purely economic analysis, looking at the print market size might not be at all right? There's so much money in secondary g
by rtpg 4y ago
I think that even if you stick with a purely economic analysis, looking at the print market size might not be at all right? There's so much money in secondary goods (well, for the publishers). People have mentioned movies of course, but just general merchandising is a huge win (see Star Wars as a good US example of "the primary material isn't the point")
Having said that I don't know anything about the Korean market on this front, and I can totally see a legitimate decline from Japanese publishing just like in many other media spaces over the past couple of decades.
- torginus 4y agoYeah, and this is kind of a baffling oversight considering the value of franchises is well understood. There's even a table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media... Edit: I don't know what happened to this article - it used to list a LOT more Japanese stuff - Bleach, Naruto, Pokemon, Mario easily dominate stuff like the MCU in terms of value.
- Brybry 4y agoLooks like some source issues and editor drama from the talk page[1] and the edit that removed Mario[2]. The editor drama is apparently a user who made many thousands of edits over the last 17(!) years, using multiple accounts, and misrepresented sources[3][4][5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises#Sources_cleanup/Jagged_85_cleanup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_highest-grossing_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises&oldid=1123746640 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_highest-g... [3] https://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/avicennian-logic.html https://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/avicennian-logic.html [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Jagged_85/Evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jagged_85/Archive#19_May_2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investiga...