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Originally Posted by bhl88
Nah. The minimum license fee goes to the NA distributors I guess. Any extra is paid as royalty to the Japanese company.
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I am not sure if I quite understand but what NA companies paid Japanese companies to license certain properties were pretty hefty.
Now that the bubble has burst in NA I am not sure if those licensing fees would be quite as high these days but Japanese companies do make something from the US anime companies essentially buying the rights to sell the series over here.
I expect Japanese companies make more money off of that than royalties since a lot of series don't even sell that well here. Although that is just for BR/DVD, not sure how streaming works.
For the record this is a list of licensing costs for various ADV series.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...icensing-Costs