Manga Token Whitepaper

Published8/31/2021
Last UpdatedJanuary 2023
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VerifiedDigital manga distribution over the internet is a rapidly growing industry. In 2020 alone, the earnings of digital sales of manga in Japan soared to an all time high of 342.0 billion yen (about US$3.22 billion). This figure is expected to grow much larger as this growth is still in the beginning of an upward trend.
This highly valuable industry has generated a very strong subculture in collecting merchandise. Substantiated by the fact that merchandising alone garners the largest chunk of Japan's anime revenue at 44.36% of the 1.3 trillion yen earnings in 2019.