What is the most profitable anime franchise?

>Love Live, Idolmaster, by far, far, far, far, far

If we're going by total profit across their lifespan then gundam outdoes them by far, they're too recent to have amassed the same overall profit it has.

Pokemon. How is this even a question? Someone already answered before me it seems

>Total revenue: est. $90 billion
>Revenue breakdown: Licensed merchandise – $61.1 billion
>mfw

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Pokemon was popular with a wide age group across the entire world and has been around getting regular new games, anime, manga, and toys since the mid 90s. The thing even had fucking pop tarts at one point. Are you really shocked at how profitable it is as a franchise?

Watching Ash blow ass at the league is a pastime many generations partake in.

>since the mid 90s
user, Pokemon has only existed since 1996. The way you word it sounds like it was popular the very first years after it came out. .
>Are you really shocked at how profitable it is as a franchise?
I'm shocked at how the games, anime (including movies), cards and other mediums are blown the fuck out of the water in terms of revenue by freaking merchandise.
It may be, but that's not the meat of the franchise, clearly.

Were you not a kid in the 90s? Pokemon was popular as fuck and basically THE thing to have on the playground at school.

Maybe if you're American or from a Western country. Video games weren't a thing in my early childhood for the vast majority of kids.

I'd say something that's sup popular and super profitable in most of the first world countries and asia in general counts as being super popular and profitable.

>I'm shocked at how the games, anime (including movies), cards and other mediums are blown the fuck out of the water in terms of revenue by freaking merchandise.
Pikachu plushies alone would probably tower over most franchises by themselves

Pokemon already had trading cards from the start, in fact it was one if not the reason WotC got so much money and why Hasbro brought then

>Maybe if you're American or from a Western country.

What third world crap hole did you grow up in that you were a kid in the 90s but didn't know about pokemon? Even if you didn't have a gameboy there was the anime, comics, and cards.

Iraq

Fate

>Neon Genesis Evangelion
>est. $16.3 billion
>Pachinko sales – $11.585 billion

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Those 2 shows are less than a shitstain compared to the big franchises.

Is this not a question with a definitive answer? Why is it up for debate?

Pokémon and a ton of other anime destroy this old man. You’re not taking into account video games, figures and merch. Madoka brings in more money than Eva these days by quite a bit.

Read my post again friend, and see if you can guess what my smug reaction image was referring to.

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You people saying Pokemon are retarded. The anime for it has made 863 million and the movies have made around a billion in box office.

DRAGON BALL anime has made over two billion and 809 million in cinema box office.
I don't know why any of you think this is up for debate. We're not talking about media franchises. Pokemon is the singular highest money earning media franchise but Dragon Ball utterly mogs it in terms of anime.

Reminder that Latin America has an entire industry of Dragon Ball "goods"

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You could probably conquer a small nation with Gundambux but it'll still be paltry compared to any serious multimedia franchise like Pokemon.

I could understand the uninformed thinking that Monogatari is up there, but I don't know how anyone actually thinks GuP is in consideration.

Bakemonogatari is the best selling anime of the 21st century nigga.

The GUP movie destroyed Kizumonogatari.

Gundam is just as multimedia as pokemon, pokemon is just far more successful on all fronts.

GuP had a really successful anime and made bank on the movie.

The most successful entry in a franchise being moderately above the least successful entry in another doesn't say anything flattering.

Touhou.

Touhou is a weird case where being super popular does not equate to being super profitable. Or at least not profitable on the same scale as the stuff discussed above.

What's it like to be this pathetic as a place? If America became majority spic expect the national anthem to be changed to a Dragon ball OP.

It' still nothing to all the money the other franchises make, you retard.

Probably Dragon Ball or Naruto since they're baby's first anime and they get a lot of video games and shit. Evangelion would be up there if any of the merch released in the west was worth buying.

It's already been answered. It's pokemon.

I have never watched a monogatari, should I?

Dragon Ball anime has made more than Pokemon. The OP's question was for anime franchises not multimedia franchises.

Bakemonogatari is one of the best anime ever made. If you like it you can watch the rest too

>one of the best anime ever made
that's a high claim, I'll try it then

Pokemon anime has higher lifetime sales than dragonball though.

Fate

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The one that gets popular among pachinko players.

>precure
Precure isn't even the most profitable franchise for its studio.

It's surprising how much Japanese media really dominates this list. A quick google search estimates spongebob squarepants's yearly revenue to be around 4 billion USD, which seems at odds with the figure in this list. If I had to guess SB is about as recognizable as Pikachu, though the merchandise isn't nearly as strong.

Japan has a lot of children's franchises that it markets and merchandises the hell out of in general.

Its Dragonball easy.

The people saying idol franchises have their heart in the right place but they are too new, and in cases like Love Live, just not as long lasting to even compare. Love Lives newest movie did well, but not comparable, and its mobage barely ranks top 50 in monthly profit rankings anymore.

True as the sun rises, shounen is the most popular genre.

Either one of the big shonen or idolshit