Top 10: While Re:ZERO Leads KADOKAWA’s Titles With $3.4M, It Comes Fifth to The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl in Anime-Only Revenue From the Spring

KADOKAWA published its earnings results for the first quarter of its 2025-26 fiscal year, covering the period from April 1 to June 30, which largely overlaps with the Spring 2025 anime season. The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl had the highest net sales under the Animation/Film category, followed by Once Upon a Witch’s Death and The Shiunji Family Children. Below, you can check out the full top 10 for anime-only net sales, followed by net sales for KADOKAWA’s titles overall. KADOKAWA earned 6,928 million yen ($34.9 million) from its animation business this spring, a 16.4% drop from the same period in 2024.

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KADOKAWA’s Best-Selling Anime Series of Spring 2025 (Net Sales):

1. The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl
2. Once Upon a Witch’s Death
3. The Shiunji Family Children
4. Please Put Them On, Takamine-san
5. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
6. OSHI NO KO
7. Overlord
8. KONOSUBA: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
9. The Eminence in Shadow
10. Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World

The above only considers money earned from the anime copyright, such as streaming revenue, anime merchandise, and money that went to KADOKAWA’s anime subsidiaries, such as Doga Kobo in the case of The Shiunji Family Children. The overall ranking of the top 10 best-selling titles for KADOKAWA, which includes sales from books, magazines, rights-licensing, anime and film sales, games, and other revenue streams, but excludes sales from non-consolidated subsidiaries (such as M12 Media (formerly J-Novel Club) and Yen Press), is below.

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1. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World (over 500 million yen / $3.38 million)
2. The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl (over 500 million yen / $3.38 million)
3. Once Upon a Witch’s Death
4. The Eminence in Shadow
5. The Shiunji Family Children
6. Overlord
7. Please Put Them On, Takamine-san
8. KONOSUBA: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
9. Delicious in Dungeon
10. Bungo Stray Dogs

You can read KADOKAWA’s full report here.

Featured image © 2025 Shirohi, Kamisu Mika / KADOKAWA / “Gorilla no Kami” Production Committee ©Tappei Nagatsuki,KADOKAWA/Re:ZERO PARTNERS