Toho suddenly acquires Ghibli's North American distributor to compete with Sony

Last month, Japanese film and television giant Toho suddenly announced that it had begun to acquire Ghibli's North American distributor GKIDS, sparking heated discussions. Industry analysts believed that this move was intended to compete with Sony and did not want Sony's expansion plan to become more and more extensive.

As an important market for the overseas export of Japanese culture, the United States has always been a must-go for major Japanese film, television and animation giants. Sony has successfully acquired Crunchyroll, one of the largest animation video distribution stations in North America, which inevitably caused dissatisfaction and panic among its peers.

In October this year, Toho suddenly announced that it had begun to acquire Ghibli's North American distributor GKIDS, which caused the industry to exclaim "Godzilla (Toho's IP) has raided North America!", and then speculated that they were worried that Sony's big hand would also reach out to GKIDS, so they took action as soon as possible.

Indeed, being acquired by a world-class giant like Sony is probably the dream of many small, medium and even large companies. In the future, there will still be many unicorn companies that will become the prey and target of these giant companies.