Licensing and DistributionLicensing, distribution, and acquisition deals across the anime business, each with the operator angle on why it matters.TOHO: Financial Reports for FY ending 2027-02-01Crunchyroll and Sony take Shinkai's next film global.KADOKAWA: IR NEWS Consolidated Earnings Results for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 （350KB）Crunchyroll bets on Shinkai's name alone.Crunchyroll grabs Shinkai's next, but Asia stays out.HIDIVE bets its next phase on MBS's slate.‘RWBY’ Film And TV Projects In Development At Gotham Group, Viz MediaCrunchyroll and Starz bundle lands on Prime Video.Crunchyroll and Starz bundle on Prime, $16.99 a month.Kuro Games opens an anime studio for Wuthering Waves.Five small publishers just built their own distribution machine.BookWalker bets on Western manga with Abrams' Kana imprint.Kuro Games builds its own animation pipeline.Seven Seas bets on weird Ultraman.Seven Seas puts Umezz's Ultraman in a hardcover coffin.Crunchyroll bets big on Indian dubs, not subtitles.‘Solo Leveling: Beyond the System’ anime feature now in productionCrunchyroll Co-Founder, Former CEO Kun Gao Launches AniBiz Platform for Anime LicensingSeven Seas bets 15 new titles on physical.Inklore Licenses Tomoko Yamashita's Ikoku Nikki MangaFrom AnimeSignal, the anime business intelligence brief.