Japanese industry denounces pirated comics as threatening innovation, annual losses exceed total sales

Today, December 30, according to Japanese media reports, the Japanese comics industry once again protested against repeated prohibitions on pirated comics, directly endangering the creation of outstanding comic works in the future, and today’s estimated loss due to piracy has far exceeded the total sales of comics in 20202 Over 100 billion yen.

•According to statistics, in 2020, due to the outbreak of “Demon Slayer: Blade”, the domestic legal manga market in Japan will reach its peak, with total sales of approximately 612.6 billion yen. However, due to the epidemic, more and more people cannot live at home, and the pirated manga industry It also breeds crazily. According to statistics as of October this year, the loss caused by piracy is as high as 780 billion yen, which is three times higher than that of 210 billion yen last year, and it exceeds the income of genuine comics.

• Although the previous leading website of pirated comics “Manga Village” has been banned, and a group of people have also been jailed and severely punished, there is no delay in the rapid rise of new regulations for more comic pirate sites, according to the Japan Anti-piracy Countermeasures Association According to the statistics of ABJ (Authorized Books of Japan) last month, it has tracked about 400 pirated comics sites of all sizes, of which only one “Manga Bank”, which was established in December 2019, has accumulated more than 1 billion visits. Secondly, it caused a loss of more than 200 billion yen in the original comics market.

• Cartoonist Akamatsu Ken said that today’s pirated comics have almost the same high-definition picture quality as the original electronic comics, and they are almost simultaneously launched at the same speed. They have seized countless original copies of the market. If the government does not strictly control it, authors will be in the future. The desire to create will completely disappear.