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>>847
Made. I posted it in 4chan since it is apart of 4chan's old culture, but I'm getting Snack-tan into L4D2. Just need to finish getting Moot into L4D2 as well + /V/-tan and I'll try to post everything in /cre8/.
>>848
Full time hobby. It's why I'm a NEET for about a year now. Wanna get every personal ideas I want to do out of the way before I get a job.
>>850 >>851
Many thanks anons.
For the anons that want to know more about the Snacks model, I've created it in 2021 for a group of anon friends in VRC as a joke, but of course, my passion for the design got to me. Idk if I could post links, but it's up on /ic/ and /3/ if you want to get the model yourself there first before I repost it here.
On one hand there is absolutely nothing to look forward to in terms of entertainment next year (at least American, maybe)...
Dont really know what else to say, it doesn't seem to stop, even if that's simply how the world spins, I guess.
>>857
Haven't we been saying this for years? I don't doubt this, but hasn't been in the gutters for years?
>>858
I guess. It just really hurts me that I knew the reaction to a trailer I had no intention of watching would be more entertaining than the trailer itself..
I have finished another animation.
Or, more accurately, rushed an amateur one just for the joy of animating..
it all really went downhill the first time he was elected, didn't it? =_=
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>>1370
These past few days have been annoying =_=
>>1408
Ur mom is annoying. She isn't letting me lurk my 22chan
>>1179
I am the king of lur
>>1416
I'm the king of your mom!
>>1417
I'm your mum's humble servant, willing to satisfy her every fantasy
Since we now have a webm feature implemented here is a thread for random webms which is basically just a copy of the Youtube Hidden Gems thread >>305 but for webms. Please provide additional context for the webms that you are posting.
I remember finding this translated video from a Japanese show posted on a blogspot website on which I happen to have this downloaded. As I'm not that interested in making a thread for Japanese shows for now I'm posting it in this thread since it has been just sitting on my drive for some time and god damn who knows how many times I've rewatched it now and I want to finally share it with someone.
This particular episode is called "Foreigners' Opinions Of Japanese People" from "Arita and Matsuko and Men and Women" featuring Matsuko Deluxe which is the fat guy crossdressing and Teppei Arita, the guy standing besides him, both comedians and acting emcees for this show. The show as far as I know has since been cancelled. I think my favorite parts of this entire thing is Martin, the watermelon addict, asking if he's a monster or something with that face, and the italian guy called Carlo with his perverted comments.40 replies (and 47 file replies) omitted. Click here to view.
>>3407
I've been making quite a few of these however because of either over-simplicity or theming most aren't suitable to be posted here
>>3408
>however because of either over-simplicity or theming most aren't suitable to be posted here
You mean in this particular thread? You could always make your own thread for this topic/theme of the videos and see if anyone is interested to interact with it.
>>3409
There's no use in posting Hitler AMVs here when you can find them anywhere else on the internet, nor in vainly making a thread nearly identical to this one.
That's what I'm getting at.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9373403 [Play] Elements arranged in order of melting point
>I suddenly felt the urge to list the elements in order of how easily they turn into a liquid, so I went ahead and did it. I didn’t bother with the finer details, like whether helium actually has a melting point or the questionable values for radioactive elements.
BGM: https://w.atwiki.jp/hmiku/pages/4629.html
ITT: Books, Novels Short stories and anything related.
I was reading Killers of the flower moon recently and it was a good historical book. Secretly it was also a western thriller. (dispite it being nonfiction) It flipped perspectives to diffrent people which made it almost an anthology of sorts, and it was pretty refreshing to hear diffrent stories from diffrent people instead of a one sided narritive.
Another book i read was the irl adventures of a man exploring the wastes of chernobyle although i forgot the name it was a fun read, he was basically homeless and somewhat suffering but his willpower and attraction to the disaster is what kept him coming back over and over.35 replies (and 4 file replies) omitted. Click here to view.
>>3630
there was also some interesting stories and qoutes like the story about shaking the jar which i'm sure jusn't apply to ants, and the bokon qoute about drug stores
On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.
The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world.
Let us start our Republic with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution.
I read the short story, "The man who laughs" by Salinger. Personally i liked it, i like how the laughing man serial changed with the mental state of the storyteller, I like how elements was borrowed by Victor Hugos "The man who laughs" (which i'm still reading lol)
i srarted reading notes from underground. i like it, it felt nice to hear bitching about the whole "trust the science" nonsense, like how human beings can be boiled down to a mathematical algorithm and thus controled, that nature is "good" and nature has a law like a beehive and ants and if we adapt the law as our own we'll fucking ascend like if that wouldn't be boring as fuck, anyhow that shit doesn't make sense because shit like "morality" and "evil" are terms that we invented and if we die, they won't exist and animals and nature will do the same shit they always do.
it goes on and on atleast before the transition to where the underground man recounts some stupid shit he did in his '20s, which reminds me of elliot rogers manifesto for some reason (if you know you know)
i find this quite enjoyable but i was fortunate to do some historical and background research beforehand, and while i'm reading. it has context that isn't given (atleast with the translation i was reading) thats actually kind of important to understand otherwise most of the stuff mentioned or discussed would just fly over ones head. i feel like i should have read "what is to be done?" before this, since notes from underground was written as a direct responce and contains many jokes and references to it, but whatever i'll just do that later.
I was listening to the audiobook version of dead space: martyr.
the writing is campy and reminds me of something like jurassic park but sometimes it actually sucks hardcore like the author forgot about the timeline and somehow tech in deadspace exists in the modern era, (holopads and such) stilted dialoge and conversations and stupid shit like altman making jokes like "i'm totally not going to die" (insert snaredrum noise here) and a sequence that was fucking ripped from regular ass deadspace, literally issac with a ripper defending himself against the regenerator but get this, it was a bad dream that altman had and its written so fucking bad. honestly the chapter that was the fucking best hands down, the reason anyone should check this book out is that, a military man and a scientist enters a bathysphere to investigate a signal deep underwater and all hell brakes loose, the writing is fucking incredible in that chapter alone. also i thought it was cool in my opinion that the story takes place on earth, it uses mythology, and it also did something cool where the marker fucked with reality where it re-wrote a cultures religion and history where chicxulub translates to "tail of the devil" instead of "the devil's flea" and only a few people remembered the original translation.
I had read this thread https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/25143859/#25143859
a while back, and told myself "gotta read about this conan fellow". Well here is Robert Howard's Conan in chronological order, readable online. It was taken from https://web.archive.org/web/20120328032145/http://www.conan.com/invboard/index.php?showtopic=8618
The Frost-Giant's Daughter
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600751h.html
The God in the Bowl
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1501131h.html
1. The Tower of the Elephant
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html
Untitled Synopsis a.k.a. The Nestor Synopsis
https://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/TheHallOfTheDead.txt
2. Rogues in the House
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600781h.html
Untitled Fragment a.k.a. The Yaralet Fragment
https://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/TheHandOfNergal.html
4.Black Colossus
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600931h.html
6. A Witch Shall be Born
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600921h.html
7. The Man-Eaters of Zamboula a.k.a. Shadows in Zamboula
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600791h.html
3.Queen of the Black Coast
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600961h.html
Untitled Synopsis/Draft a.k.a. The Shumballa Typescripts
https://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/TheSnoutInTheDark.txt
10. Xuthal of the Dusk a.k.a. The Slithering Shadow
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601051h.html
5. Iron Shadows in the Moon a.k.a. Shadows in the Moonlight
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42188/42188-h/42188-h.htm
8. The Devil in Iron
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42209/42209-h/42209-h.htm
9. People of the Black Circle
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600941h.html
Untitled Fragment/Synopsis a.k.a. The Tombalku Typescripts
https://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/DrumsOfTombalku.html
The Vale of Lost Women
https://archive.org/details/MagazineOfHorror15V03n031967Spring/page/n21/mode/1up (guess they fucking copyrighted it so the only way to read the fucker is here)
13. The Servants of Bit-Yakin a.k.a. Jewels of Gwahlur
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42236/pg42236-images.html
11. The Pool of the Black One
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600951h.html
12. Red Nails
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32759/32759-h/32759-h.htm
14. Beyond the Black River
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600741h.html
The Black Stranger
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1501121h.html
Wolves Beyond the Border Typescripts
https://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/WolvesBeyondTheBorder.html
15. The Phoenix on the Sword
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600811h.html
16. The Scarlet Citadel
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600821h.html
17. The Hour of the Dragon
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42243/42243-h/42243-h.htm
Conan's final years.
http://www.barbariankeep.com/millerlet.html
EXTRA
Precursor to conan, Kull
The Shadow Kingdom
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603491h.html
The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603481h.html
Kings of the Night
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607311h.html
The King and the Oak
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1303801h.html
People of the dark, in which the main character's past life was conan
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607941h.html
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Cimmeria
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hyborian_Age
And i think that's it. I hope i didn't miss anything.
It can be just you playing your instrument, some music you're working on or anything really!
Here's a short thing I played on the kalimba: https://voca.ro/1er65ZKPXALe [Play]
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>>328
i like lv_0_2024, it feels retro like something from the 80's
>>329
Thanks, I did the outro vocals, or at least imitated Martin Gore to the best of my range. XP
Basically a hypothetical theme song for an animated/sitcom adaptation of FoxTrot, a comic strip I enjoyed. I tried going for an 80s feel, but never got good enough results, so I ultimately went for a 60s vibe instead.
>>343
For whatever reason i am reminded of the band The Royal Guardsmen
>>344
Ah cool, the ones that sang that Christmas Snoopy/Red Baron song. Yeah, I was definitely aiming for that post-Beatles effect, like '96 Tears' or 'Year 2525'.
This thread is for the anons who feel a deeper connection to the abyss. For those who understand everything and trust nothing. Basically, this is an /x/ thread where you can discuss anything you can think of from weird stuff to the paranormal. It doesn't really matter, from ghosts to aliens. Maybe you read a weird book or heard a strange rumour. Internet cults? check. Family horror stories? Weird memories? Anything you can think of applies here.
Conspiracies honestly need to be relabeled to something like "alternative information" since the glowies subverted its meaning and made it a bad thing. nevertheless, they apply too. (political or otherwise.) Do not be afraid to splinter off and make related threads about the similar subject matter or anything discussed herein. No larping or shilling your ARGs
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>>3865
I read the hero with a thousand faces because it was mentioned in "how to draw the marvel way" as an influence on comic books, (i bought his other books but havent read them yet) Another thing that comes to mind is Graham Hancock, His netflix series is pretty facinating especially with myths and stories having very similar backgrounds and how connected various cultures really are. Manly P Hall's America's Assignment with Destiny hits similar notes to graham.
The Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe is something i was listen to recently, although i can't agree with the way certian people are viewed the actual the theory and relation to jungian archetypes is facinating.
>>3864
Ok, so here are the actual tapes in decent quality
https://drive.filen.io/f/f192daec-140b-431f-be5a-a89dc01ed29c#h06guhg1xEl4qfXYE8jAFYTpacBWBPUS
It'll ask for a password, which is
journeys
I find it annoying that some nigger shilled his discord in the readme but atleast the audio is in decent quality, and there's some extras too. Also it took a long ass time to download.
I have a book suggestion related to the remote viewing and weird shit the government was doing at that time, The men who stare at goats by Ron johnson
Also here is the fucking First earth battalion manual
https://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_channon_0200.htm
I'm going to see if i can find the actual fucking video but here is the audio for now of one of those seminars they had. https://youtube.com/watch?v=AbLMthSvAbE [Play]
Another thing i'm going to do eventually is find a decent interview with an actual remote viewer who worked with the government that isn't glowop bullshit because i remember that a few of them are like, hardcore larpers. In the meantime here's something that was the result of related shit above, https://youtube.com/watch?v=4d9H_1ygEv8 [Play]
You see, the glowies did psychological warfare based on suggestions from the people involved in the groups i mentioned above, they sent helicopters mounted with speakers to go in areas heavily infested with vietnamese fighters and terrorise them. Later, the research done was re-used in the WACO siege, in which they played audio of rabbits getting murdered, the same abformentioned spooky ghost audio anx other shit to mentally break the branch davidians.
>>3884
so i couldn't find the video on remote viewing most likely because it was removed. it was an old coast to coast AM interview, and a decent one at that. anyhow ingo swann and ed dames aka "doctor doom" are basically untrustworthy LARPERs ed dames especially having nothing to do with the actual program and after the program was shut down all he did and make shit up and whore himself on coast to coast AM to popularise remote viewing. the thing is he pretty much in some cases leaked shit that he shouldn't have, in others spoke of things he would have no clue or access to in the first place. both ingo and dame push the alien psy-op, and ingo was a scientologist.
Also another stargate guy Harold E. Puthoff, was OT 7 in scientology, forgot to mention him. He also stated that his inspiration was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, And if you know that Wicca is a made up religion copy pasting other religions and making up shit, the same goes with the Theosophical Society.
I linked the files someone got off of a file hosting site they chose because one of the google drives i found was already gone, here's a google drive (prob a reupload) that contains the same stuff, even the shitty readme.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F0Y8In5bswU_K4qkASLw2Y0vpYip4yXy
This is good, because i can imagine the other thing must feel sketchy.
If i had to say my on thoughts on the matter, ever since i learned of the government doing remote viewing and hearing all of the stories as a boy i thought it was fucking wild, but i never realised the scale and all of the diffrent experiments and how connected it all actually was. The problem is, it tends to be a double edge sword. The cia is known for decimating disinformation and it can be said although a good chunk of research into the occult was actually used, others seems like it was used to fuck with the chinese and the russians. I mean stargate literally cost like 20 million dollars and a singular remote viewer was payed 50K, which seems like overkill for what basically was a few retards in a rotting shack near a military base writing shit on a piece of paper and checking if anything they could do was accurate to reality.
>>3864
Here is a video reading of the document
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HOFq3ruef7I [Play]
I have some questions about the document, like why the gateway tapes are so fucking expensive. Also, what did he mean by the holy trilogy being christian? I'm no theologist but i thought that was a catholic thing, and in older versions the trinity doesn't even exist. Also i dig the artwork, it's trippy as fuck.
>>3864
I am now remimded of Frank Long's Hound of Tindalos and H.P Lovecraft's From Beyond. Using Resonance to unlock the brain to perceive higher dimensions
that machine near the table will generate waves acting on unrecognised sense-organs that exist in us as atrophied or rudimentary vestiges. Those waves will open up to us many vistas unknown to man, and several unknown to anything we consider organic life. We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation.
and then the discription of time from the Hounds of Tindalos
"Time is merely our imperfect perception of a new dimension of space. Time and motion are both illusions. Everything that has existed from the beginning of the world exists now. Events that occurred centuries ago on this planet continue to exist in another dimension of space. Events that will occur centuries from now exist already. We cannot perceive their existence because we cannot enter the dimension of space that contains them. Human beings as we know them are merely fractions, infinitesimally small fractions of one enormous whole. Every human being is linked with all the life that has preceded him on this planet. All of his ancestors are parts of him. Only time separates him from his forebears, and time is an illusion and does not exist."
>>3865
I do enjoy it. I finished the section featuring jungs writings which was around 60 pages or so. I appreciate his (for lack of a better word) sensitivity for the subject matter he is writing about, he doesn't want things like dreams to be misunderstood or misinterpeted, for the subject matter to speak for itself and to be approached by those willing to learn, openly.
Dispite being a christian he does not take a bias to symbolism based on his personal beliefs. Also i did not realise how deep these types of things are, like the story of a doctor who saw ouroboros in a dream and realised how it aided him in finding a chemical formation he was researching. It's clear i have more research to do, especially about greek myths and other cultural stories, I didn't think of the homogeneous quality and how they operate as architypes.
"i has risen"
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>>3740
Storecat tried running away, They had to spray her with a water bottle to stay away from the front door. She seemed desperate, she meowed at me and when i left she pawed at the door. Such is the curse of wagecucking, you cannot leave. Perhaps that is why she sleeps on company time, to stick it to the man.
I wish my cat looked this intently at me.
I wonder why storecat tried running away, from what i understand she'll get the strong urge to flee sometimes and after it passes she just chills.
I was at a yardsale and i had to inspect a power tool, and as i was distracted a calico cat jumped at the table and put his front paws on me, and looked up at my face. When i noticed him i put the tool down and gave him a hug and he purred. Everywhere i go i make new cat friends it was never like this before.
This thread exists to explain to the anons browsing twentytwo on how to use the Japanese otaku video-sharing website Nico Nico Douga (Smile Video). So by the end of this I am hoping you will be able to upload videos, create mylists, and search for videos properly.
Nico Nico Douga's English variation platform was abolished recently although it wasn't really usable to begin with given how poorly it was maintained and nothing was explained to the user in the end.
I will also mention that the website best works with chromium based browser (I recommend ungoogled chromium, free of spyware) with Firefox there is tons of stuttering and slow loading times making it really unusable a lot of the times.
I will start off with Nico Nico Douga's Navigation Bar and explain what each of these tabs are.
Nico Nico Douga Icon: Click the Nico Nico symbol to return to the homepage.
Videos (動画): Browse all uploaded videos.
Images (静画): View user-submitted artwork.
Live Broadcasts (生放送): Explore a variety of available live streams.
Channels (チャンネル): A dedicated space where content creators, businesses, and organizations share videos, live broadcasts, and blogs.
Nico Nico Pedia (大百科): An extensive knowledge base featuring community-contributed articles on Nico Nico and Japanese internet culture.
Live Commentary (実況): Engage in sharing real-time danmaku (bullet comments) while watching TV or listening to radio broadcasts.
Nico Nico Douga Anime (Nアニメ): A comprehensive anime information and streaming platform, enabling users to share live danmaku comments during anime viewing.
Others:
Bloggers (ブロマガ): User-created blogs.
Contribution (ニコニ貢献): A service designed to visualize the contributions of supporters and the gratitude of creators.
Commons (コモンズ): A wide range of free user-created materials (BGMs, Sound Effects, Voice, Image/Video Materials, Character materials, Backgrounds & Wallpapers, Video Production Tools, Voice Synthesis, etc.) for versatile creative use like creating videos.
Nico Nico 3D (ニコニ立体): User-created 3D models many of which are available for download.
Partner Pass (NicoFT): Obtain personally signed digital items from creators in limited quantities, and support creators as "Partners."
Community (コミュニティ): A service where premium members can establish communities (groups) where participants can post, play, and comment on videos within the community (Newly uploaded or existing on Nico Nico Douga). You can use a community-specific comment thread, allowing for member-only conversations.
News (ニュース): A service that allows users to enjoy communication with each other triggered by news which receives news offerings from approximately 189 distribution media. There is also News Original for exclusive articles related to user-submitted videos on niconico and interviews with renowned users.
Nico Nico Q (ニコニコQ): A question submission service provided by niconico.
Premium Exclusive (特典コンテンツ): When you subscribe to their premium service, you also get the ability to enjoy premium-only videos like the ability to watch limited animes.
Search Bar:
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NicovideoDL is a web-based method used to download niconico video content, without having to futz with GUI and terminal-based programs, and also the headaches of attaching premium login cookies to your downloader.
As of the relaunch of Nico Nico Douga, you can insert the two letters "dl" after "nicovideo" on your current sm id URL. A message, like the first image attached, should appear, and it will refresh every 5 seconds. Once the video is ready to download, a blue hyperlink appears; simply just click and download the contents to your local filesystem, and you're done! The attached video is an example of the output of nicovideodl.
As of posting, the team is working on guaranteeing premium quality output using this method once those services are fully restored on DWANGO's end. Until then, this is a useful method to bypass content loading errors that might occur, and you simply just want to view and/or save the video locally for backup/safekeeping. (especially if another incident like this happens again!)
Holy fucking shit I thought that the past logs feature on nico nico douga to view old comments was gone for good but lurking this thread here: https://itest.5ch.net/egg/test/read.cgi/software/1716314151 someone managed to implement it here: https://github.com/darthlain/nicodl_release The output will be a .xml file which you can put into something like https://air.fem.jp/ (commeon) along side the video and it will display all of the comments. commeon by itself should be able to fetch past logs but I keep getting a bad request for some unknown reason.
Anyways the nicodl_option.json should look something like this:
{
"dl_dir": "", (put in the url where to save video, MAKE SURE IT IS DOUBLE BACKSLAHES \\)
"yt_dlp_path": (put in the url where yt-dlp.exe is located, MAKE SURE IT IS DOUBLE BACKSLAHES \\)
"comment_mail": "",
"comment_pass": "",
"user_session": "", (Press F12 in chrome and go to application and go to cookies and find the value of user_session.)
"is_video": "true",
"is_comment": "true",
"is_kakolog": "true", (make sure this is set to true to download past comments)
"is_kantan": "",
"comment_fileformat": "",
"end_presswait": "true" (press enter on finish)
}
then when this configuration is correct open nicodl.exe and press the "a" key put in a URL and then write "nico" to start downloading.
As of October 30th, 2024 (Unknown Time, JST), access to niconico content flagged as sensitive and explicit are geo-restricted if you are detected as a user (registered or not) outside of Japan. Attached to this post are two images: first is the restricted results, even with sensitive content displayed turned on in user settings; second image displays what it is like with a Japanese non-residential IP. The final image is a message when attempting to access flagged-as-explicit content as a non-Japanese IP. Side note: it's really interesting seeing the nicopedia content preview hidden when looking up tags as well under a foreign IP.
https://youtu.be/ptmZAsWev_0 [Play] You thought KADOKAWA was bad? I bet one of the first things sony will do with Dwango once they acquire KADOKAWA is to shut down nico nico for good due to it being such a drain on resources.
>>3744
It's official. Sony is now the largest shareholder of KADOKAWA under the white knight strategy.
Fuck you South Korea.
https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/News/Press/202412/24-1219/
KADOKAWA and Sony Agree to Strategic Capital and Business Alliance
Strengthening collaboration to maximize the global value of their IP assets
KADOKAWA Corporation
Sony Group Corporation
KADOKAWA Corporation (hereafter "KADOKAWA") and Sony Group Corporation (hereafter "Sony") have announced today that they have entered into a strategic capital and business alliance agreement. Under this agreement, Sony will acquire 12,054,100 newly issued shares of KADOKAWA for approximately ¥50 billion through a third-party allotment scheduled for January 7, 2025. As a result of this acquisition, Sony will become the largest shareholder of KADOKAWA, holding approximately 10% of the company's shares, including shares already acquired in February 2021.
KADOKAWA and Sony have collaborated on various initiatives in the past. This capital and business alliance will further strengthen their cooperation in maximizing the global value of their respective IP assets. The collaboration will include exploring joint investments in the content domain, co-discovering new creators, and advancing the media mix strategies of both companies’ IP assets. The companies aim to engage in more extensive and in-depth collaborations.
Future joint efforts will focus on the global live-action film and drama adaptation of KADOKAWA's IP, co-production of anime works, expanded global distribution of KADOKAWA's anime titles via Sony's networks, enhanced publishing of KADOKAWA's games, and the promotion and dissemination of virtual production technologies through talent development.
Comments from Key Executives
Takeshi Natsuno, President, CEO, and Representative Director of KADOKAWA Corporation
"I am delighted to announce this strategic capital and business alliance with Sony. This partnership will not only bolster our IP creation capabilities but also expand the range of media mix opportunities through Sony's support for global deployment. This will enable us to deliver our IP to a wider global audience, significantly enhancing its value while contributing to the medium- to long-term growth of our corporate value. We are committed to making this collaboration with Sony a great success in the global market."
Hiroki Totoki, President, COO, and CFO of Sony Group Corporation
"Through this capital and business alliance, Sony becomes the largest shareholder of KADOKAWA, a company known for its diverse IP, including light novels, comics, games, and anime. By combining KADOKAWA’s rich IP ecosystem with Sony’s strengths in global entertainment, including anime and gaming, we aim to maximize IP value. Together, we will work closely to realize KADOKAWA’s 'Global Media Mix' strategy and Sony's long-term 'Creative Entertainment Vision.'"