Bandai Namco Holdings reported on Wednesday that the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise earned 101.7 billion yen (about US$783 million) across the entire holding group’s subsidiaries in the fiscal year ending in March 2022.
The company’s sales for the Dragon Ball franchise is still higher at 127.6 billion yen (about US$983 million), but unlike Dragon Ball, Bandai Namco Holdings is the primary intellectual property rights holder for Gundam.
This marks the first time the franchise has earned more than 100 billion yen (about US$770 million) in one fiscal year.
The earnings are a 7% increase from the previous year, when it earned 95 billion yen earned in fiscal year 2021, almost a threefold increase from 2010’s 15 billion yen (about US$115 million) earnings.