Foreign animation (such as Disney), also saw a huge drop to 750 million yen (US$6.8 million), only a mere fraction of what Japanese anime brings in.
Even anime wasn’t immune from this, with the anime portion of rentals dropping 52.2% to 1.253 billion yen (US$11.41 million).
The biggest drop was in sales to rental stores, with a 53.8% drop from last year for a total of 6.971 billion yen (US$63.47 million).
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