Why do you keep doom posting? Is that the only way to bring views now? All that hype about censorship just for you to make this video saying it's good news now.
I hope it does happen - Hope both kadowkawa, and sony go UNDER: They are two of the most meaningless, ruthless anti-anime-fan companies you will EVER see in your lifetimes, and no one needs them anymore.
Yeh well said, except with sony's proven track record with their heavy handed approach to censorship, it's not if, it's when. Which is why they can't be allowed to get a controlling stake in kadakawa or own them outright.
Their gonna put him in a infinite cuck rewind if *that* part of Sony takes over Sony as long as it’s more Sony Japan side in this….hopefully we should be fine
From what I've been hearing, its Sony Japan and not Sony American which has different values than Sony america. They holds ownership of Crunchyroll and Funimation
Yea it is, that's why these videos have already been debunked weeks ago and chibi is tryna to come out and say it's good news now. He's a little late to the party lmao.
@Frostyboii7 he's not entirely wrong, Sony Japan is affected by Sony America's actions and vise versa. It's still something to be wary of, but Chibi is exaggerating. Regardless I'd still be worried of an acquisition from Sony.
@@Sky-7a7 clearly you didn't listen his major gripe was that it would be a major monopoly which is bad regardless of the values of a company. So actually no he didn't walk it back, it's good news cause they aren't actually taking full ownership.
I hope this actually is good news, also remember Sony Japan is not quite the same entity as Sony America. I'd really like to see Legal Mindset go over this for some insight, though.
@@TheRibbonRedfrom my view, it mean only us EN Audience dat get affected by it (like Localization). So the source will be still safe. I mean they didn't Censor Madoka at all kekw
Ok only 10%(“only”, it’s still quite a lot considering the size of kadokawa), is good to hear, but let’s hope it stays that way. The chances of that? Ehhhhhh
You do realise it could have stayed 100% Tencent or Kakao instead, right? I have a feeling not many people here know how either of those two companies operate and thus can't really see how this really is the brightest possible timeline.
@mappybc6097 weren't they at risk of being taken over by Kakao hence why they approached Sony to start with but that somehow resulted in the "Sony better stay away from Kadokawa" crowd cropping up applying that famous lack of logic they appear to be known for.
@tribopower Kadokawa stock isn't even worth that much. The problem is that it is not public stock. If it was public, fans could easily buy it and short the stock and force the anime community to bend to their will. Now only companies that make deals with Kodakawa will be the only ones able to do that.
feel like I should comment just because a lot of people don't really understand Sony, or really just view it as SIE/Sony of America, but Sony is not based in California, just SIE is, Sony is still based and HQ'd in Japan and the Japanese branch runs a lot differently than the US one, in fact 99% of the problems people have with Sony is because of the US branch. For the anime sector, Sony of Japan, under SMEJ, already owns Aniplex and Aniplex produces Frieren, Dandadan, the Monogatari series, all of the Fate series except Prisma Illya and Demon Slayer among other anime they produce. In regards to censorship, it's not decided by Sony, since Sony of Japan likes to be hands off, it's decided by the studios; it's why MAPPA, who wants to keep their shows age ratings low, censors Ranma 1/2 but ScienceSaru, who doesn't care, does not censor Dandadan even though both anime are produced by Sony. In terms of games, Sony of Japan owns two studios, Team Asobi and Sony XDEV Japan, everyone knows Team Asobi now however Sony XDEV Japan is a dev studio designed, since both are just a reorganized Japan Studio, to help Asian devs make games for PlayStation, for example they helped make Stellar Blade. With all that out of the way, Sony won't try to influence Kadokawa since 1, it's Sony of Japan and Sony Group and 2 they really don't want to micro-manage everything they own since they do more than just games and anime.
HOLY SHIT, THANK YOU. The man was just fear baiting for views without understanding what goes on behind the scenes and the difference between Sony in California and Sony in japan. The fact that this all started with Sony wanting to censor shit when they have aniplex was one of the weirdest things of fearbait misinfo I've ever seen, and his censorship misguided warlord comments ( 80% don't watch anime, they come from those channels, you know the ones) just didint do a deep dive and carried on
I’m still nervous and people better buy the dark or sexy manga/anime now before they censor it with a re-release or reprints with change of dialogue and censor scenes that doesn’t fit “modern audiences”
@ no they have been censoring Japan already haven’t you seen what American bank companies doing to Japan demanding they censor themselves or they won’t let customers use their credit cards to purchase Japan items.
We already are. Because even these anime industries are anti-fan, and no ones challenging kadokawa etc enough. The days of 'Dagger of kamui' are looong, past and they dont do amazing work anymore for the fans like they used to.
@@Satyr42 continues to believe that if you want, doesn’t change the fact that Sony of America is still just a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, which is still Japanese.
Kadokawa loathes its western fans the same as they will tomorrow though, so it doesnt matter. Theyre joining a black rock company, and so the cold hearted vitrol from them will be even worse now.
Sony did not buy the company. They increased their shares. Being the largest shareholder does not give you control of a company being the majority shareholder gives you control of a company. They are not the same thing
I'm certain they definitely will keep to their word. LEt's no forget that Tokyo Keizai said that Kadokawa's likely too expensive for Sony to buy and that it'll lead to biding wars.
How did Kadokawa get in this position in the first place? With all the anime and manga properties the company has under it's belt they should be in the black, why not buy all the shares back and go private?
Because they didn't let Kakao buy them like they should have, because their dated Showa era standards don't want Kadokawa going into a foriegner's hands even though said foreigners will leave the company as it is for the most.
@hoppy8008 😂. Dude, Google Kakao K-Pop scandal. Kakao legit rigged stocks of a K-Pop label to inflate share prices just as a competitor was about to make an offer. Kakao execs ended in jail over the whole mess, and the label in question closed shop shortly thereafter. Those are the mofos you think would "largely leave things as they are"?
I guess it's only bad when a massive company that people don't like buys out another company and Kakao wanted to do a hostile takeover of Kadokawa and those generally don't turn out too well for those working in the company that's getting taken over.
From what I've read it all started with a leak of the company's employees which made their stock go down. Then they went public... that's the real problem. The shortest explanation: greed.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here. I thought Sony already prior to this owned around 10% prior to this. As well as Tencent and the South Korean company, I keep forgetting its name. If I recall correctly, then would mean this would give them a 20% share in Kadokawa. In many nations, when someone or some company owns over 15%, they can not only guarantee usually one if not a few seats on the board of said company, but also decide to buy outright if an agreement is met later by the other major shareholders.
Sony owning 10% doesn’t mean they will make the rules it just mean they have a seat at the table and Kadokawa is still making the decisions…Sony need 51% if they want to control and make the decision
I'm ok with this result as long as they don't have enough control to censor stuff at the source. My favorite genre is fantasy and my favorite types of fantasy are isekai and tensei and I don't want those to change at all. I like them as they are. I don't want series like Redo of Healer, The Rising of the Shield Hero, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Overlord, Mushoku Tensei, The Eminence In Shadow, ToAru, and Interspecies Reviewers to get censored
@jase276 Sony has already censored multiple anime when they release them on Crunchyroll and previously when they released them on Funimation. Bofuri, World's End Harem, Dogeza, and Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World just to name a few examples. They have also been known to deliberately mistranslate anime like Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and Prison School in order to shove an agenda into it. They canceled the distribution of Interspecies Reviewers on their streaming service Funimation after only 3 episodes because it supposedly "went against their standards" Then we have the absolute garbage anime that they produced like the woke western cartoon posing as anime called High Guardian Spice and Ex Arm the anime so bad it got it's source material canceled.
Yo, Chibi, Ik this question is highly unrelated to the topics talked about in the video, but I just wanted to ask if you're gonna review the first chapter of Monsters We Make anytime soon.
From atransactional lawyer, Sony isn't limited by a contract in being able to buy more shares. They could come in tomorrow and demand an ownership share be sold to them or they will go to the shareholders and offer above market prices for their shares. Thays a hostile takeover, and there's nothing stopping this from happenning. A 10% share does t give them much pull to be honest. Share holders often band in clicks, I guarentee there's probably a 30% faction that holds greater sway. Also, shareholders have no say in managerial direction. Legally speaking, a shareholders is just a finna dial backer, they have no say in the direction the company takes. In exchange they are protected from liability the company may take on. When a company slowly buys another company, there's a threshold at 20% where reporting automatically kicks in. Basically a purchase becoming substantive and meaningful at that percentile. Monopoly is more of a mergers and acquisition thing and less a shareholders purchase thing. M&A kicks in at 50% and yes that would still require government approval. But this is an internationnal buyout, so it requires multiple government agencies to sign off.
if kadokawa is a publicly traded company then Sony can buy more shares at anytime at market price, this 10% bought is just to put Sony at the leading position of ownership over the other chinese buyer. Probably to give some breathing room and negotiate some more between kadokawa and sony.
Since Sonly holds the most shares in the company, I fear that with 10% is enough to control the creative decision of whatever content Kadokawa is releasing from games to anime.
We all expected Sony to buy at least 100%, but I'm pretty sure because they saw we were all up in arms about it, they changed the deal to own only a certain percentage just to down play everyone's fear thus far. So there's still the looming threat that Sony can still buy them out completely in the future. And with the 10% ownership of the company, they can still influence a great deal of the company. And whatever goes through Sony of Japan to come here, the Western branches can and will demand changes. While this is not necessarily the worst outcome, it's still not enough to put any fears to rest. Think of the feeling equivalent to that of a death row inmate. You're relieved for now, but you know they only pushed back the inevitable at a later date. Not to mention there's still the problem of the payment processors. If something's not done about that then this thing about Sony might not even matter anymore.
The only two ways I can see Sony not buying more shares is if the other shareholders block it or there's some kinda antitrust, antimonopoly thing that stops them
I do find it funny how so many are focused on the elden ring stuff, when its clear this is down to the anime publishing which sony already has a large vested interest in. And honestly I think its going to be more an aniplex situation where they don't really interfere too much overall, just want that stake as part of their portfolio
10% is a lot to own. Sony can very easily throw it's weight around to force other shareholders into playing along with them. This means that their influence is more than 10%.
@@jaideepshekhar4621 Sony will continue to invest here and there.. It's the nature of the buzz, they will fail on some, win on some. Bad publicity is still publicity
Of course America is the only one panicking over this. Japan doesn't have to deal with it... for now. But 80% of Japanese media leaving Japan into the West is controlled by Sony America. It wouldn't be so bad if localization was abolished.
@ yeah it’s a side tier vs just being on top, although it would most likely be part of something like a TV pass. I can see them doing that once game pass really plateaus super hard.
Not many companies would be willing to clean up their own mess. If Firewalk studios made anything of actual worth then sure they should have been kept around but they made Concord and then the devs whined when people started calling the game trash so firing the whole studio was an extremely rare moment of someone at Sony using a tiny bit of intelligence of which I'm certain was a strange and unique experience for that individual using something they've never used before.
For now I think if Sony wanted to get Kodakawa as a whole we be panicking and also somehow Some other who don't know about the situations at the moment well we are to be scared of it. But if this mean they know what is happening thankfully they ain't trying to make things worse.
Wait did they buy a percentage and added onto their already existing percentage to equal 10% or did they buy a whole 10% and added that to their already existing percentage?
I think the average age of Kadokawa board members is somewhere around 65 with the youngest being 47 and the oldest being 81. Makes sense on why there is so much going on there right now, a lot of the board members are likely going to be leaving and need to be replaced. A lot more shares will be moving into Japanese hands as Kadokawa loses its current board members. As board members leave, Sony will likely begin to acquire a larger share than 10% just to keep the majority control in Japanese hands.
I'm glad Kadokawa accepted to settle without selling all of their IPs to Sony directly, it's still kinda concerning that Sony will have so much influence over it tho...
I mean this wasn't sony kadokawa drama that's a bit of a misleading disingenuous statement 😅 this is very much more so a kadokawa trying to avoid a hostile takeover from a corporation that belongs to a country that yes essentially hates Japan cuz there is a very big rift between South Koreans and Japanese
Respect every native culture regardless how dark it is especially Meso-America's Human Heart Sacrifice past Yet wanted to colonise Japanese Markets & altered into more "Kids Friendly" even though kids don't watch them
Me personally, I wouldn't care if they brought the video game division. But when they are going for the anime, manga and light novels, that's when it becomes a problem.
Don't worry Kadokawa is likely too expensive for Sony and Sony would have to deal with the other pitfalls like bidding wars if they tried to buy Kadokawa.
As majority stake owner Sony Corp are pretty much on the know about every major decision on top of overseeing which companies are investing thus are in a better position to grow their own ownership to avoid hostile takeovers
We got the best worst solution, a partial buyout is much better than a total acquisition of the entire company, they are just trying to prevent another company from outside Japan from taking over Kadokawa.
If Sony did not do that Kadokawa may be brought by Korea's KaKao or China's Tencent That is similar to the Nissan case, is a way to prevent acquisition from foreign company.
@@tiergeist2639 you're jumping too far in conclusions and worrying too much. I'm certain that Sony will be content with their strategic capital and business alliance and having 10% of Kadokawa's shares.
As long as Sony California keeps its filthy, tainted, toxic, virtue signaling hands OFF of Japan's culture, and legacy, and is only Sony JAPAN buying Kadokawa, THEN I'll be less concerned.
Yup, it’s so over… Buy old, physical printings, everyone. Reject what’s coming to Japanese entertainment. And better: create your own entertainment against the ideals of Sony and similar companies
You're forgetting that Sony doesn't have that much money to do a full buyout of Kadokawa and it would have to deal with biding wars. Tokyo Keizai pointed that out.
@@ProfessorDreamer How? Sony is a much larger company. How do they not have the money to buy Kadokawa? They have approximately 90 billion US dollars in revenue.
@@svx43 they do not have the money to buy Kadokawa because fo the recent purchases Sony has made including with music company and with the loss of money from Concord and Firewalk Studios as well as Bungie. The Tokyo Keizai articles have it in there and written in there.
I said it once and I'll say it again everyone needs to sort out their top 100 anime of all time then archive it into a hard drive and that is it call it a day if you ever have an itch for anime you just whip out your hard drive and then focus on other things in life like going to the gym or getting a job or saving money for a trip and then that's it you don't you know you're going to be good with just 100 top animes of yours and then maybe play another video pretty much just archive your top 100 anime
@@ProfessorDreamer Are you a bot, bro, quit gaslighting people. Everything they'd touched lately has become soul-less and trashy because Sony America calls the shots while Sony Japan does nothing
@@jase276 I'm not gaslighting them I'm just reassuring and saying that Sony ( the one in Japan not America) is going to be wise about this and let Kadokawa do their thing. Also I don't think Sony Japan is going to let Sony America get in the way of making great video games, anime, manga, light novels, movies and comics.
This is sad to hear (Sorry in advance for saying this right now) but at the same time which is worse, Sony buying Kadokawa or Tencent (Who is part of the CCP) buying Kadokawa both are bad but Tencent is even worse knowing there track record.
Chibi I think you'd missing the point. I just finished watching an lawyer who specializes M&A. He believes Sony doesn't have the cash on hand to fully buyout the company as a whole. And thinks this is the safer route. And some in his comments section sumed it up as this. Why buy farm when the milk is much cheaper comming from the cow.
Not to mention the bidding war that'll happen if Sony tries to buy Kadokawa. I read full articles about the pitfalls of Sony supposedly buying Kadokawa from Tokyo Keizai.
@ I did they literally have 14 billion on cash they put aside 10 billion for buyout for the year he is saying what Sony put aside for the year they still have 14 billion cash on hands Sony has been using that money for music industry so he is talking about the money Sony put aside for the year you do know Sony makes a profit of 10 billion a year
@@Red_Nanaki What Tokyo Keizai articles aid about the Sony Kadokawa deal is that Kadokwawa is likely too expensive for Sony to buy and cost 640 billion yen. They posted them the weeks before and I've read them much more fully than you did.
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The dark timeline has been pushed back, but not averted
Why do you keep doom posting? Is that the only way to bring views now? All that hype about censorship just for you to make this video saying it's good news now.
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Didn't Sony have prior 10% already? I was certain Sony had at least a percentage already. As well for the South Korean company and Tencent.
I hope it does happen - Hope both kadowkawa, and sony go UNDER: They are two of the most meaningless, ruthless anti-anime-fan companies you will EVER see in your lifetimes, and no one needs them anymore.
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As long they don't censor anime, manga and video games and don't make Future fromsoftware games ps exclusive then I don't care what happens
Agreed!
you know very well, they will
Thou speak facts
They won't this is Sony Japan not SIE
I told you guys chibi has no idea what he's talking about and was just fear baiting for views.
They better not touch our fanservice and Otaku culture
we’re cooked
it's over.
Well said
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318for the wokies its over
Yeh well said, except with sony's proven track record with their heavy handed approach to censorship, it's not if, it's when. Which is why they can't be allowed to get a controlling stake in kadakawa or own them outright.
So long as Sony California has no hold in it and Sony Japan owns it,then I'm hopeful for it.
Considering sony JP ceo stepped down its not really good news
lol you fool
Except anything anime-related owned by Sony Japan gets localized by Sony California.
So in the its Localization fault... can we have fansub as official sub?? Kekw
Wait for it
Hope it'll be just that.
It'd be a shame if Subaru's 10 seconds death loop gets nerfed.
Their gonna put him in a infinite cuck rewind if *that* part of Sony takes over
Sony as long as it’s more Sony Japan side in this….hopefully we should be fine
Blackrock owns similar shares in a lot of companies and still are a terrible influence.
True
You know what they say :
"Keep the rifle by your side."
From what I've been hearing, its Sony Japan and not Sony American which has different values than Sony america. They holds ownership of Crunchyroll and Funimation
I heard the two were different
Yea it is, that's why these videos have already been debunked weeks ago and chibi is tryna to come out and say it's good news now. He's a little late to the party lmao.
If sony Japan had any sense they'd take those and playstation back. America should be distributing and that's it not making decisions.
@Frostyboii7 he's not entirely wrong, Sony Japan is affected by Sony America's actions and vise versa. It's still something to be wary of, but Chibi is exaggerating.
Regardless I'd still be worried of an acquisition from Sony.
@@Sky-7a7 clearly you didn't listen his major gripe was that it would be a major monopoly which is bad regardless of the values of a company. So actually no he didn't walk it back, it's good news cause they aren't actually taking full ownership.
I hope this actually is good news, also remember Sony Japan is not quite the same entity as Sony America.
I'd really like to see Legal Mindset go over this for some insight, though.
But Sony Japan does throw anything they can to Sony America for the global version.
@@TheRibbonRedfrom my view, it mean only us EN Audience dat get affected by it (like Localization). So the source will be still safe. I mean they didn't Censor Madoka at all kekw
@@RyukagiRen the fact they got their hands on any form of it is already dangerous enough.
Legal Mindset is busy following the Johnny Somali drama.
@@TheRibbonRedNo they don't lol. Many shows are either distributed by Crunchy roll or Aniplex USA.
Ok only 10%(“only”, it’s still quite a lot considering the size of kadokawa), is good to hear, but let’s hope it stays that way.
The chances of that? Ehhhhhh
For real, for companies at this scale we are talking about billions of $
You do realise it could have stayed 100% Tencent or Kakao instead, right?
I have a feeling not many people here know how either of those two companies operate and thus can't really see how this really is the brightest possible timeline.
I just hope Sony either purges the Californian bs or will be too broke to buy more %.
@mappybc6097 weren't they at risk of being taken over by Kakao hence why they approached Sony to start with but that somehow resulted in the "Sony better stay away from Kadokawa" crowd cropping up applying that famous lack of logic they appear to be known for.
@tribopower Kadokawa stock isn't even worth that much. The problem is that it is not public stock. If it was public, fans could easily buy it and short the stock and force the anime community to bend to their will. Now only companies that make deals with Kodakawa will be the only ones able to do that.
when i first heard of Sony buying Kadokawa and owning fromsoftware, i remembered of what Sony did to japan studio.
elden ring is over..
feel like I should comment just because a lot of people don't really understand Sony, or really just view it as SIE/Sony of America, but Sony is not based in California, just SIE is, Sony is still based and HQ'd in Japan and the Japanese branch runs a lot differently than the US one, in fact 99% of the problems people have with Sony is because of the US branch.
For the anime sector, Sony of Japan, under SMEJ, already owns Aniplex and Aniplex produces Frieren, Dandadan, the Monogatari series, all of the Fate series except Prisma Illya and Demon Slayer among other anime they produce. In regards to censorship, it's not decided by Sony, since Sony of Japan likes to be hands off, it's decided by the studios; it's why MAPPA, who wants to keep their shows age ratings low, censors Ranma 1/2 but ScienceSaru, who doesn't care, does not censor Dandadan even though both anime are produced by Sony. In terms of games, Sony of Japan owns two studios, Team Asobi and Sony XDEV Japan, everyone knows Team Asobi now however Sony XDEV Japan is a dev studio designed, since both are just a reorganized Japan Studio, to help Asian devs make games for PlayStation, for example they helped make Stellar Blade.
With all that out of the way, Sony won't try to influence Kadokawa since 1, it's Sony of Japan and Sony Group and 2 they really don't want to micro-manage everything they own since they do more than just games and anime.
Demon Slayer is owned by shueisha though because the manga has been published through shonen jump which is not owned by Sony
Freiren is under Toho/Shogakukan. Dandadan is under MBS/Dentsu.
HOLY SHIT, THANK YOU. The man was just fear baiting for views without understanding what goes on behind the scenes and the difference between Sony in California and Sony in japan.
The fact that this all started with Sony wanting to censor shit when they have aniplex was one of the weirdest things of fearbait misinfo I've ever seen, and his censorship misguided warlord comments ( 80% don't watch anime, they come from those channels, you know the ones) just didint do a deep dive and carried on
most of the animes are owned by the publisher of the original source (manga/LN/games).
@2NeoNeoNambuAniplex was in the production committee for demon slayer.
I’m still nervous and people better buy the dark or sexy manga/anime now before they censor it with a re-release or reprints with change of dialogue and censor scenes that doesn’t fit “modern audiences”
Don't worry I'm pretty sure they won't and are prioritizing king great anime, video games, light novels, manga and anime than censoring them.
@ no they have been censoring Japan already haven’t you seen what American bank companies doing to Japan demanding they censor themselves or they won’t let customers use their credit cards to purchase Japan items.
Fan scanlation groups still exists
I thought we were cooked 😅😅
We are, just not yet
we still kinda are, this shit is not over until kadokawa somehow goes private (will not happen)
We boiling, son.
We already are. Because even these anime industries are anti-fan, and no ones challenging kadokawa etc enough. The days of 'Dagger of kamui' are looong, past and they dont do amazing work anymore for the fans like they used to.
@@plasmafonk Exactly. +
This was done to keep Kadokawa in Japan, as opposed to it being owned by a foreign company outright.
Sony might as well be a foreign company at this point. Commiefornia has swallowed Sony whole.
@@Satyr42 continues to believe that if you want, doesn’t change the fact that Sony of America is still just a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, which is still Japanese.
Kadokawa loathes its western fans the same as they will tomorrow though, so it doesnt matter. Theyre joining a black rock company, and so the cold hearted vitrol from them will be even worse now.
Racism!
@@gookawild5543 No one knows who your talking to.
Better than a complete takeover but it's the beginning of the end for Kadokawa
Uff that was a close one.
Sony did not buy the company. They increased their shares. Being the largest shareholder does not give you control of a company being the majority shareholder gives you control of a company. They are not the same thing
great vid chibi
Thank the Maker, let's hope they keep to their word.
I'm certain they definitely will keep to their word. LEt's no forget that Tokyo Keizai said that Kadokawa's likely too expensive for Sony to buy and that it'll lead to biding wars.
How did Kadokawa get in this position in the first place? With all the anime and manga properties the company has under it's belt they should be in the black, why not buy all the shares back and go private?
Because they didn't let Kakao buy them like they should have, because their dated Showa era standards don't want Kadokawa going into a foriegner's hands even though said foreigners will leave the company as it is for the most.
@hoppy8008 😂. Dude, Google Kakao K-Pop scandal.
Kakao legit rigged stocks of a K-Pop label to inflate share prices just as a competitor was about to make an offer.
Kakao execs ended in jail over the whole mess, and the label in question closed shop shortly thereafter.
Those are the mofos you think would "largely leave things as they are"?
I guess it's only bad when a massive company that people don't like buys out another company and Kakao wanted to do a hostile takeover of Kadokawa and those generally don't turn out too well for those working in the company that's getting taken over.
From what I've read it all started with a leak of the company's employees which made their stock go down. Then they went public... that's the real problem. The shortest explanation: greed.
Fingers crossed the worst doesnt come. Love ya vids chibi!
It won't Kadowka's price is way too much for Sony to buy and it'll have to deal with biding wars if Sony tries buying Kadokawa.
So basically they did a cash infusion. With the option to buy later without the prospects of it being broken up because of Monopoly talks.
Shut up... The truth is Sony cant afford to make the full acquisition!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here. I thought Sony already prior to this owned around 10% prior to this. As well as Tencent and the South Korean company, I keep forgetting its name. If I recall correctly, then would mean this would give them a 20% share in Kadokawa.
In many nations, when someone or some company owns over 15%, they can not only guarantee usually one if not a few seats on the board of said company, but also decide to buy outright if an agreement is met later by the other major shareholders.
it was only 2% back in 2021. now its 10%. you prob confused kadokawa with fromsoftware (sony owned 14% of it)
@@KevinSatron You are right. I was thinking of the shares already owned for FromSoftware.
The only anime I can think of that I really like from kadokawa is ishura so hopefully nothing is going to happen to ishura
Sony owning 10% doesn’t mean they will make the rules it just mean they have a seat at the table and Kadokawa is still making the decisions…Sony need 51% if they want to control and make the decision
I'm ok with this result as long as they don't have enough control to censor stuff at the source. My favorite genre is fantasy and my favorite types of fantasy are isekai and tensei and I don't want those to change at all. I like them as they are. I don't want series like Redo of Healer, The Rising of the Shield Hero, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Overlord, Mushoku Tensei, The Eminence In Shadow, ToAru, and Interspecies Reviewers to get censored
I'm ok with that as well.
As far as I know, only games get censored at the source but that's less of a Sony thing
@@jase276 I'm certain Sony isn't going to censor and will be she about this choice.
Redo of healer is probably gonna get censored and other animes too
@jase276 Sony has already censored multiple anime when they release them on Crunchyroll and previously when they released them on Funimation. Bofuri, World's End Harem, Dogeza, and Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World just to name a few examples. They have also been known to deliberately mistranslate anime like Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and Prison School in order to shove an agenda into it. They canceled the distribution of Interspecies Reviewers on their streaming service Funimation after only 3 episodes because it supposedly "went against their standards" Then we have the absolute garbage anime that they produced like the woke western cartoon posing as anime called High Guardian Spice and Ex Arm the anime so bad it got it's source material canceled.
As long as it's not Gaijin , I'm content .
This is probably the best outcome of this situation......I hope😅
Absolutely, i can't expect any results but this one 👍✨️
At least for now anyway.
@@TTen-schir53b9 I can expect the best results a swell.
Not all hope is lost
Already existing shareholders have priority in a company purchase. Concern I work in is in talks to get purchased too.
Yo, Chibi, Ik this question is highly unrelated to the topics talked about in the video, but I just wanted to ask if you're gonna review the first chapter of Monsters We Make anytime soon.
From what other Tubers have said Sony only wanted to buy Fromsoft not the whole company but Kadokawa wante to be bought as a whole.
We’ve been given time. Now all we need is for someone to pull a business version of Gohan going ssj2 for the first time to save us all.
This does not stop any foreign company to buy-in at even higher % and become bigest shareholder.
What does this mean for Cote future anime, light novels etc.?
From atransactional lawyer, Sony isn't limited by a contract in being able to buy more shares. They could come in tomorrow and demand an ownership share be sold to them or they will go to the shareholders and offer above market prices for their shares. Thays a hostile takeover, and there's nothing stopping this from happenning. A 10% share does t give them much pull to be honest. Share holders often band in clicks, I guarentee there's probably a 30% faction that holds greater sway.
Also, shareholders have no say in managerial direction. Legally speaking, a shareholders is just a finna dial backer, they have no say in the direction the company takes. In exchange they are protected from liability the company may take on.
When a company slowly buys another company, there's a threshold at 20% where reporting automatically kicks in. Basically a purchase becoming substantive and meaningful at that percentile.
Monopoly is more of a mergers and acquisition thing and less a shareholders purchase thing. M&A kicks in at 50% and yes that would still require government approval. But this is an internationnal buyout, so it requires multiple government agencies to sign off.
if kadokawa is a publicly traded company then Sony can buy more shares at anytime at market price, this 10% bought is just to put Sony at the leading position of ownership over the other chinese buyer. Probably to give some breathing room and negotiate some more between kadokawa and sony.
Since Sonly holds the most shares in the company, I fear that with 10% is enough to control the creative decision of whatever content Kadokawa is releasing from games to anime.
U can’t control with 10% u need 51% to make the rules there are other share holder too
It’s what it is but let’s see how the future plans out
Nothing will happen, chibi has been saying the end of anime and Manga will happen for years now
@@Sky-7a7 just because it hasn’t doesn’t mean it won’t. Sony is known for censorship, especially in regards to stellarblade.
@@Holy_Crusader stellar blade didnt get censor. and they're still promoting the game left and right showing some eve's "features"
@@KevinSatronIt did. 0.5 cubic inches of cloth were added to an outfit.
@@Sky-7a7 true he did and he really does prove himself wrong when ti happens.
We all expected Sony to buy at least 100%, but I'm pretty sure because they saw we were all up in arms about it, they changed the deal to own only a certain percentage just to down play everyone's fear thus far.
So there's still the looming threat that Sony can still buy them out completely in the future. And with the 10% ownership of the company, they can still influence a great deal of the company. And whatever goes through Sony of Japan to come here, the Western branches can and will demand changes.
While this is not necessarily the worst outcome, it's still not enough to put any fears to rest. Think of the feeling equivalent to that of a death row inmate. You're relieved for now, but you know they only pushed back the inevitable at a later date.
Not to mention there's still the problem of the payment processors. If something's not done about that then this thing about Sony might not even matter anymore.
The only two ways I can see Sony not buying more shares is if the other shareholders block it or there's some kinda antitrust, antimonopoly thing that stops them
I do find it funny how so many are focused on the elden ring stuff, when its clear this is down to the anime publishing which sony already has a large vested interest in.
And honestly I think its going to be more an aniplex situation where they don't really interfere too much overall, just want that stake as part of their portfolio
its definitely not good, the darkness is getting closer
I'm certain that the Kadokawa Sony alliance will remain and that the full buyout isn't going to happen.
@@ProfessorDreamer Kadokawa definitely wants to sell, but Sony doesn't have the kind of scratch to invest right now, plus too much heat
@@jase276 exactly Sony would have to buy the entire of Kadokwaka with costs 640 billion yen and Sony doesn't have that much money to do so.
10% is a lot to own. Sony can very easily throw it's weight around to force other shareholders into playing along with them. This means that their influence is more than 10%.
Don't stop talking about it. Ever. Unless they back off, which they won't, so why should we?
For real
@@THETRIVIALTHINGS cuz all the doomposting amounts to nothing. In the end, nothing changes. Kadokawa continues to operate normally under Japan.
America is the only one panicking over this. xd .. Japan will continue to do their thing
I hope so.
Sony was the one who created Concord with a known history of zenzourship (Crnchy).
@@jaideepshekhar4621 Sony will continue to invest here and there.. It's the nature of the buzz, they will fail on some, win on some. Bad publicity is still publicity
No
Of course America is the only one panicking over this. Japan doesn't have to deal with it... for now. But 80% of Japanese media leaving Japan into the West is controlled by Sony America. It wouldn't be so bad if localization was abolished.
Imagine Microsoft creates some service called anime pass alongside gamepass, I'd find that pretty funny.
I mean if they just added that along with the current Gamepass that would be pretty sick
But also yeah that is a funny thought
@ yeah it’s a side tier vs just being on top, although it would most likely be part of something like a TV pass. I can see them doing that once game pass really plateaus super hard.
What does this mean about the other companies trying to buy them
How’s is this good? You know Sony literally took down a whole game studio because of concord 🐱 nothing goes good with Sony except astorbot
Not many companies would be willing to clean up their own mess. If Firewalk studios made anything of actual worth then sure they should have been kept around but they made Concord and then the devs whined when people started calling the game trash so firing the whole studio was an extremely rare moment of someone at Sony using a tiny bit of intelligence of which I'm certain was a strange and unique experience for that individual using something they've never used before.
Can you cover the Blue Lock Season 2 lack of animation?
It's Records or RAGNAROK PowerPoint slideshow all over again.
For now I think if Sony wanted to get Kodakawa as a whole we be panicking and also somehow Some other who don't know about the situations at the moment well we are to be scared of it. But if this mean they know what is happening thankfully they ain't trying to make things worse.
I'm sure they won't make things for the worst and will be wise about this.
Wait did they buy a percentage and added onto their already existing percentage to equal 10% or did they buy a whole 10% and added that to their already existing percentage?
maybe Kodokawa don't need to out source their franchise to Bandai to make their games?
but.....Sony so woke that i don't trust em either....
This is a monopoly. Plain and simple.
10 years from now eh? Damn… were really cooked slowly but surely. 😢
imo this is still enough to influence anime studios and force censorship etc
I don't think that'll happen and that both companies are going to focus on making great games anime, light novels, movies and manga.
I think the average age of Kadokawa board members is somewhere around 65 with the youngest being 47 and the oldest being 81. Makes sense on why there is so much going on there right now, a lot of the board members are likely going to be leaving and need to be replaced. A lot more shares will be moving into Japanese hands as Kadokawa loses its current board members. As board members leave, Sony will likely begin to acquire a larger share than 10% just to keep the majority control in Japanese hands.
but just like Tokyo Keizai said Kadokawa is likely too expensive for Sony to purchase.
@@ProfessorDreameryeah he never said they couldn’t afford it they literally have 14 billion cash Kadokawa is worth 3.1 billion
I'm glad Kadokawa accepted to settle without selling all of their IPs to Sony directly, it's still kinda concerning that Sony will have so much influence over it tho...
Dark timeline pushed back. Continue to sail the high seas until the monopoly is destroyed.
It'll be pushed back indefinitely since Sony would have to deal with how high Kadokawa's cost is and biding wars which Tokyo Keizai pointed out.
as long as its not disney buying a major animation industry business, I'm good.
So Am I. This could actually be a good thing with the alliance.
I mean this wasn't sony kadokawa drama that's a bit of a misleading disingenuous statement 😅 this is very much more so a kadokawa trying to avoid a hostile takeover from a corporation that belongs to a country that yes essentially hates Japan cuz there is a very big rift between South Koreans and Japanese
Hello there :D
Respect every native culture regardless how dark it is especially Meso-America's Human Heart Sacrifice past
Yet wanted to colonise Japanese Markets & altered into more "Kids Friendly" even though kids don't watch them
Me personally, I wouldn't care if they brought the video game division. But when they are going for the anime, manga and light novels, that's when it becomes a problem.
At least, this happened sooner rather than later. Let’s keep our prayers up.
Don't worry Kadokawa is likely too expensive for Sony and Sony would have to deal with the other pitfalls like bidding wars if they tried to buy Kadokawa.
@@ProfessorDreamerno lmao this is how they literally are able to buy the company and prevent it from someone else buying them
I mean I would be pretty unsure of what this outcome would be. Maybe Sony won't go further or maybe they will, only time will tell.
I'm sure they won't go further than that.
So is 10% enough to prevent Kakao from doing a hostile takeover of Kadokawa?
I have no idea how any of these thing work
As majority stake owner Sony Corp are pretty much on the know about every major decision on top of overseeing which companies are investing thus are in a better position to grow their own ownership to avoid hostile takeovers
Yes they would add woke and lgbt content on anime for future just to fullfils western audience demanding
yes 100% would
We got the best worst solution, a partial buyout is much better than a total acquisition of the entire company, they are just trying to prevent another company from outside Japan from taking over Kadokawa.
if sony is the largest shareholder then We ARE COOKED.
Yup
If Sony did not do that
Kadokawa may be brought by Korea's KaKao or China's Tencent
That is similar to the Nissan case, is a way to prevent acquisition from foreign company.
let’s see what’s up today chibi
Nice pfp
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Buying a 10% Stake is merely delaying the Inevitable
I'm certain that the Sony Kadokawa alliance will remain as that and that Sony is going to keep it that way.
That's how you get your foot in. Inch by inch
@@jase276 I'm positive and certain that Sony and Kadokawa will stick with the deal.
@@jase276Yes..... Especially when you are broke 😂😂😂
The first domino has fallen
you're being a negative Nancy and a Debbie Downer here as this will actually be a good thing or both of them.
@@ProfessorDreamerdefinitely not...
@@tiergeist2639 you're jumping too far in conclusions and worrying too much. I'm certain that Sony will be content with their strategic capital and business alliance and having 10% of Kadokawa's shares.
@@ProfessorDreamer you will see what i mean. they never disappoint in my fortellings.
@@tiergeist2639 Not all of your foretelling are going to be true since while you can predict they can be proven wrong.
Just keep having hope. Because I know that Kadokawa got a plan!
I know that Kadokawa is going to have a plan as well.
"it's good news actually"
>PSN requirement for future collabed games
yeah good news...
This is terrifying
you're over panicking I'm pretty sure that the future for both companies is going to be great one.
Would it be 12% considering they already own 2% before buying an extra 10%
Im not so worried about sony, but this Korean company
As long as Sony California keeps its filthy, tainted, toxic, virtue signaling hands OFF of Japan's culture, and legacy, and is only Sony JAPAN buying Kadokawa, THEN I'll be less concerned.
Don't worry they will.
Here starts the slow roll into censorship
.............but the future refused to change...
This also gives time for a management or cultural shift that could change Sony from what it is now. Hopefully for the better.
It'll definitely be for the better.
Its better than if the korean company was able to buy them out
They have a share... so expect a lot more steam for Gushing S2 😂
Yup, it’s so over…
Buy old, physical printings, everyone. Reject what’s coming to Japanese entertainment. And better: create your own entertainment against the ideals of Sony and similar companies
What stage of grief is this, acceptance?
We have been given time to shore up our defenses. Hopefully we have contingencies when the threat rears its head again.
You're forgetting that Sony doesn't have that much money to do a full buyout of Kadokawa and it would have to deal with biding wars. Tokyo Keizai pointed that out.
@@ProfessorDreamer How? Sony is a much larger company. How do they not have the money to buy Kadokawa? They have approximately 90 billion US dollars in revenue.
@@svx43 they do not have the money to buy Kadokawa because fo the recent purchases Sony has made including with music company and with the loss of money from Concord and Firewalk Studios as well as Bungie. The Tokyo Keizai articles have it in there and written in there.
they're not even trustworthy on gaming side, they'll make licensed products without putting any effort at all
Does this mean anything for bloodborne 2, who knows
I said it once and I'll say it again everyone needs to sort out their top 100 anime of all time then archive it into a hard drive and that is it call it a day if you ever have an itch for anime you just whip out your hard drive and then focus on other things in life like going to the gym or getting a job or saving money for a trip and then that's it you don't you know you're going to be good with just 100 top animes of yours and then maybe play another video pretty much just archive your top 100 anime
Isn't it 10%+ whatever they already had? maybe more than 20% total.
Hoping Sony better not ruin this or people gonna be livid and they might get hacked because dire hard anime fans are scary
I'm pretty sure they won't and are mostly prioritizing making amazing products including anime, manga, video games and light novels as well movies.
@ hopefully
@@samuelfoster7790 I'm sure they won't and it would all work out for the best.
@@ProfessorDreamer Are you a bot, bro, quit gaslighting people. Everything they'd touched lately has become soul-less and trashy because Sony America calls the shots while Sony Japan does nothing
@@jase276 I'm not gaslighting them I'm just reassuring and saying that Sony ( the one in Japan not America) is going to be wise about this and let Kadokawa do their thing. Also I don't think Sony Japan is going to let Sony America get in the way of making great video games, anime, manga, light novels, movies and comics.
This is sad to hear (Sorry in advance for saying this right now) but at the same time which is worse, Sony buying Kadokawa or Tencent (Who is part of the CCP) buying Kadokawa both are bad but Tencent is even worse knowing there track record.
Sony is going to do a full buyout of Kadokawa since Kadokawa is likely too expensive for Sony and biding wars could happen if Sony tires to buy it.
Hopefully Kadokawa won't make woke activist anime bs like the west.
From concord to kadokawa
Chibi I think you'd missing the point. I just finished watching an lawyer who specializes M&A. He believes Sony doesn't have the cash on hand to fully buyout the company as a whole. And thinks this is the safer route. And some in his comments section sumed it up as this. Why buy farm when the milk is much cheaper comming from the cow.
Not to mention the bidding war that'll happen if Sony tries to buy Kadokawa. I read full articles about the pitfalls of Sony supposedly buying Kadokawa from Tokyo Keizai.
He never said they don’t have the cash they literally have 14 billion cash on hands Kadokawa is worth 3.1 billion
@@Red_Nanaki Tokyo Keizai said they didn't have that amount of cash not Chibi Reviews. They have articles on Wikipedia news you should check them out.
@ I did they literally have 14 billion on cash they put aside 10 billion for buyout for the year he is saying what Sony put aside for the year they still have 14 billion cash on hands Sony has been using that money for music industry so he is talking about the money Sony put aside for the year you do know Sony makes a profit of 10 billion a year
@@Red_Nanaki What Tokyo Keizai articles aid about the Sony Kadokawa deal is that Kadokwawa is likely too expensive for Sony to buy and cost 640 billion yen. They posted them the weeks before and I've read them much more fully than you did.
Chibi check Yandere dark elf chased me from another world. It's an interesting "manga" which is coming in anime
Sony: We won't touch the anime, manga, and LN creativity of Kadokawa.
Every east and west weeb and otakus: Are sure about that?