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Originally Posted by Shyni
There's a ranking, and numbers for the market in it's entirety, but I don't see anything that says Precure itself makes 60 billion in a single year. (Although this is from looking at Google translate and searching for numbers in the same sentence as any phrases containing "プリ", though)
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There aren't any franchise specific numbers in the 2011 list. However, the 2012 list tells us that the character merchandising market was 1.534 trillion yen, and that Precure accounted for 4.14% of that total. This gives us the 63.5 billion figure.
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Originally Posted by Shyni
There are these paragraphs on page 2 that mentions numbers in the billions, but it doesn't seem to be about any franchise in particular:
Yeah, the ranking is definitely correct, just that there doesn't see to be any numbers about any specific media property.
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The part you quoted talks about the total size of the market - 1.606 trillion in 2011, 1.600 trillion in 2010, and so on. Do bear in mind that this is about
merchandising; not necessarily toy sales. I doubt that Anpanman sells all that many more toys than any other franchise, so it'd make up for it in other areas.
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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
More than from "superhero" comics they take inspiration from the "sentai" genre which has its main peculiarity in the fact that there's a group of heroes fighting as a team (usually color coded).
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Sentai = superhero team. Heck, one of the ancestors of the modern Super Sentai shows is Spiderman!