BANDAI NAMCO : Fact Book 2023

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FACT BOOK 2023

1 Bandai Namco Group Outline

Results of Operations

01 Consolidated Business Performance / Management Indicators

02 Sales by Category

Products / Service Data

1. Sales by IPs / Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)
2. Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)

1. IP Production Unit / Amusement Unit

2 Related Market Data

Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)

07 Game App Market / Home Video Game Market

Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)

08 Toy Market

1. Plastic Model Market / Figure Market / Capsule Toy Market / Card Product Market
2. Candy Toy Market / Children's Lifestyle (Sundries) Market / Babies' and Children's Clothing Market

IP Production Unit

1. Visual Software Market / Music Content Market
2. Animation Market

Amusement Unit

11 Amusement Machine Market / Amusement Facility Market

3 ESG Data

12 FY2023.3 Segment Activity Report by Material Issue

14 Environmental Data

1. Personnel Data
   Number of Employees by Type of Employment / Employee Data / Data on Female Managers / Annual Paid Leave Utilization Rate /
   Other Personnel Information / Employee Training-Related Data
2. Governance Data / Compliance Data

4 Bandai Namco Group's History

History

1. BANDAI's History / NAMCO's History

1. Bandai Namco Group's History

Printed in Japan

1	Bandai Namco Group Outline

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

For the Fiscal Years Ended March 31

Note: Figures in this fact book have been rounded down.

CONSOLIDATED BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

MANAGEMENT INDICATORS

SALES BY CATEGORY

NET SALES

(¥ million)					990,089
1,000,000
					889,270
800,000			732,347	723,989	740,903
			678,312
600,000	565,486	575,504	620,061
	507,679
400,000

ROE (PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF PARENT / AVERAGE TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY)

(%)

20
			15.5
15			14.7
13.2	13.3	13.1
		11.2
10	9.7
		10.2

16.9

14.6

SALES BY SEGMENT (CONSOLIDATED)

• FY2023.3		• FY2022.3		• FY2022.3
(NEW SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION)		(NEW SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION)		(PREVIOUS SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION)
Elimination of internal transactions		Elimination of internal transactions		Elimination of internal transactions
and corporate		and corporate		and corporate
¥60,748 million		¥52,504 million		¥64,045 million
Net sales (after eliminations)		Net sales (after eliminations)		Net sales (after eliminations)
¥990,089 million		¥889,270 million		¥889,270 million

200,000
0	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
(FY)

OPERATING PROFIT

(¥ million)
150,000
									125,496	116,472
120,000
90,000						84,045	78,775	84,654
					75,024
60,000		56,321		63,239
	49,641
	44,673
30,000
0	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
(FY)

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21

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ROA (RECURRING PROFIT / AVERAGE TOTAL ASSETS)

(%)

20
				16.7
15	14.0	14.7	15.1	14.3
13.5	12.9	13.0
	12.2
	11.4

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(FY)

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16

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	Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)				Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)				Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)
	¥385,681 million	36.7%			¥378,173 million	40.2%			¥378,173 million	39.7%
	Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)			Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)			Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)
	¥447,491 million	42.6%			¥373,625 million	39.7%			¥373,625 million	39.2%
	IP Production Unit				IP Production Unit				IP Production Unit (Visual and Music Business)
	¥81,748 million	7.8%			¥79,964 million	8.5%			¥53,941 million	5.7%
									IP Production Unit (Creation Business)
									¥37,564 million	3.9%
	Amusement Unit				Amusement Unit				Amusement Unit
	¥104,602 million	10.0%			¥82,344 million	8.7%			¥82,344 million	8.6%
	Other				Other				Other
	¥31,313 million	2.9%			¥27,667 million	2.9%			¥27,667 million	2.9%

Note: Percentages are calculated based on sales before elimination of intersegment transactions.

PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF PARENT

(¥ million)
100,000			92,752	90,345
80,000
			63,383
60,000		54,109	57,665
		48,894
		44,159
40,000	37,588	34,583

OVERSEAS SALES PROPORTION

(%)

30

22.4

22.3

	20.6	20.5	20.0
20	16.7		18.7
16.0

29.7	28.5

SALES BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION
	• FY2023.3			• FY2022.3
	Sales to external customers	¥990,089 million		Sales to external customers	¥889,270 million

	25,054
20,000
0	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
(FY)

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	0
(FY)	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

	Japan	¥707,531 million	71.5%			Japan	¥625,460 million	70.3%
	Americas	¥99,344 million	10.0%			Americas	¥99,204 million	11.2%
	Europe	¥94,458 million	9.5%			Europe	¥82,544 million	9.3%
	Asia, excluding Japan	¥88,757 million	9.0%			Asia, excluding Japan	¥82,063 million	9.2%

Note: Percentages are calculated based on external sales. Figures are estimates based on management accounting.

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1	Bandai Namco Group Outline
PRODUCTS / SERVICE DATA
SALES BY IPs
Groupwide Sales by IPs (Worldwide)		(¥ billion)
			FY2022.3	FY2023.3
Ultraman series		16.8	19.5
KAMEN RIDER series		29.5	32.1
Gundam series		101.7	131.3
Super Sentai series		5.0	6.5
Anpanman		9.3	9.9
DRAGON BALL series		127.6	144.5
NARUTO			23.0	18.7
PRETTY CURE! series		5.8	5.6
ONE PIECE		44.1	86.3

Note: Sales before elimination of intersegment transactions

Sales by IP for Toys and Hobby Business (Japan)

		(¥ billion)
	FY2022.3	FY2023.3
Ultraman series	8.0	9.2
KAMEN RIDER series	22.8	23.0
Gundam series	44.2	60.5
Super Sentai series	4.4	5.6
Anpanman	8.7	9.3
DRAGON BALL series	19.7	22.5
PRETTY CURE! series	5.7	5.6
Pokémon	5.9	8.8
ONE PIECE	10.0	31.9

Note: Sales before elimination of intersegment transactions

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (DIGITAL BUSINESS)

• Sales by major category

		(¥ billion)
	FY2022.3	FY2023.3
Network content	185.5	194.0
Home video games	174.4	159.8

• Number of network content titles in Japan (As of the end of March 2023)

Social media	3 titles
Game apps (Google Play)	26 titles
Game apps (App Store)	26 titles

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

•  Major home video game titles: Cumulative total number of shipments by series (including PC versions)

· Super Robot Wars series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
April 1991 to March 2023	20.24 million units
· TEKKEN series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
March 1995 to March 2023	55.00 million units
· Tales of... series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
December 1995 to March 2023	29.29 million units
· NARUTO-related series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
January 2009 to March 2023	32.52 million units
· DARK SOULS series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
September 2011 to March 2023	35.18 million units

Note: Total for overseas sales for which Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. was the original seller (excluding domestic sales by FromSoftware, Inc.)

•  Major network content titles: Cumulative total number of downloads

• ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise

Cumulative total number of downloads,
May 2014 to March 2023	100.00 million downloads

• DRAGON BALL Z DOKKAN BATTLE Cumulative total number of downloads,

January 2015 to March 2023

350.00 million downloads

• THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS: STARLIGHT STAGE Cumulative total number of downloads,

September 2015 to March 2023

25.00 million downloads

• NARUTO X BORUTO NINJA VOLTAGE Cumulative total number of downloads,

November 2017 to March 2023

100.00 million downloads

• DRAGON BALL LEGENDS

Cumulative total number of downloads,
May 2018 to March 2023	70.00 million downloads

• ONE PIECE Bounty Rush

Cumulative total number of downloads,
January 2019 to March 2023	80.00 million downloads

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (TOYS AND HOBBY BUSINESS)

BANDAI CO., LTD.

Toys

• Ultraman soft figures (heroes and monsters) Cumulative shipment volume,

1983 to March 2023

107.31 million units

• Super Sentai series (shape-changing model robots) Cumulative shipment volume,

1979 to March 2023

31.21 million units

• Digital Monsters (Digimon portable LCD games) Cumulative shipment volume,

June 1997 to March 2023

14.41 million units

• KAMEN RIDER transformation belt (HEISEI/REIWA RIDER) Cumulative shipment volume,

February 2000 to March 2023

15.76 million units

• First-generationTamagotchi (including overseas) Cumulative shipment volume,

November 1996 to March 1999

40.00 million units

• Tamagotchi (including overseas) Cumulative shipment volume,

March 2004 to March 2023

51.53 million units

• Donjara series

Cumulative shipment volume,
1984 to March 2023	4.02 million units

• Anpanman PC series (including tablet devices) Cumulative shipment volume,

1999 to March 2023

2.51 million units

Capsule Toys: Gashapon

• Gashapon (¥100-¥2,000) Cumulative shipment volume,

1977 to March 2023

3,900.99 million units

• Capsule-lessproduct series Cumulative shipment volume,

October 2015 to March 2023

62.05 million units

Cards, Trading Cards

• CARDDASS series

Cumulative shipment volume,
1988 to March 2023	12,029.20 million units

• DATA CARDDASS series

Cumulative total card shipments,
March 2005 to March 2023	3,051.30 million units

Candy Toys

· Candy toys (all lines)
Cumulative shipment volume,
1995 to March 2023	2,742.64 million units

Confectionery / Foods

· Crayon Shin-chan Chocobi series
Cumulative shipment volume,
March 2005 to March 2023	258.16 million units
· Charapaki series
Cumulative shipment volume,
October 2017 to March 2023	122.62 million units

• Tabemasu (Japanese-style confection) series Cumulative shipment volume,

April 2015 to March 202315.29 million units

Apparel

· Transformation suits
Cumulative shipment volume,
1991 to March 2023	11.65 million units

• Glow-in-the-darkpajama series Cumulative shipment volume,

October 2007 to March 2023

7.84 million units

Lifestyle (Sundries)

• Bikkura Tamago bathing salts Cumulative shipment volume,

March 2002 to March 2023

181.84 million units

• The Rose of Versailles Liquid Eyeliner series (including overseas)
  Cumulative shipment volume,

September 2007 to March 2023

6.99 million units

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1	Bandai Namco Group Outline

PRODUCTS / SERVICE DATA

BANDAI SPIRITS CO., LTD.

Collectible Figures

• SOUL OF CHOGOKIN

Cumulative shipment volume,
December 1997 to March 2023	3.69 million units

• SAINT CLOTH MYTH

Cumulative shipment volume,
November 2003 to March 2023	5.66 million units

• SOUL OF ROBOT

Cumulative shipment volume,
October 2008 to March 2023	6.35 million units

• S.H. Figuarts

Cumulative shipment volume,
February 2008 to March 2023	17.61 million units

Plastic Model Kits

· Gundam series plastic models
Cumulative shipment volume,
As of the end of March 2023	761.11 million units
Gundam (Real) series plastic models
Cumulative shipment volume,
July 1980 to March 2023	577.05 million units
Gundam (SD) series plastic models
Cumulative shipment volume,
July 1987 to March 2023	184.06 million units
· Figure-riseseries
Cumulative shipment volume,
December 2009 to March 2023	8.81 million units

Prizes

· Number of items developed into prizes in FY2023.3
Total number of items	1,539 items
Formed products (figures, etc.)	703 items
Sewn products (stuffed toys, etc.)	606 items
Sundries	230 items

Overseas

• SAINT CLOTH MYTH

Cumulative shipment volume,
October 2003 to March 2023	9.15 million units

• Gundam action figures Cumulative shipment volume,

January 2000 to March 2023

17.17 million units

• Gundam plastic model kits Cumulative shipment volume,

January 2000 to March 2023

108.52 million units

• Web service "GUNDAM.INFO" Visual product viewing results,

March 2011 to March 2023

2,245.18 million views

MegaHouse Corporation

• Othello series

Cumulative shipment volume,
1973 to March 2023	26.04 million units

• Rubik's Cube series

Cumulative shipment volume,
1980 to March 2023	15.82 million units

CCP Co., Ltd.

• SWEEPLUS vacuum cleaner series Cumulative shipment volume,

August 2011 to March 2023

1.97 million units

• Cordless rotating mop cleaner series Cumulative shipment volume,

July 2015 to March 2023

1.35 million units

SUN-STAR STATIONERY CO., LTD.

• Nurie (coloring book) series Cumulative shipment volume,

July 2009 to March 2023

101.74 million units

• STICKYLE (stick-type stationery) series Cumulative shipment volume,

November 2010 to March 2023

11.54 million units

HEART CORPORATION

• Results in shipments of products for seasonal events Confectionery for

2022 Christmas	83 items, 2.69 million units
Confectionery for
2023 Valentine's Day	153 items, 4.00 million units
Confectionery for
2023 White Day	92 items, 1.94 million units

IP PRODUCTION UNIT

• Sales by category		(¥ billion)
	FY2022.3	FY2023.3
Packaged products	12.4	11.5
Productions, license, distribution,	67.5	70.2
events, etc.
Total	79.9	81.7

Note: Certain changes were made to the segment classification from FY2023.3. Accordingly, for results for FY2022.3, the segment classification has been reorganized.

Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc.

•  Cumulative total sales of visual packaged products

·  Gundam series
Cumulative shipment volume,
December 1987 to March 2023	21.31 million units
·  Ultraman series
Cumulative shipment volume,
January 1988 to March 2023	8.56 million units
·  FY2023.3 visual packaged products overall
Cumulative total number of shipments,
April 2020 to March 2023	1.27 million units

•  Cumulative number of fee-based viewings for on-demand delivery of animations (Total for TVOD and SVOD, excluding free distribution)

Cumulative total,
October 2002 to March 2023	600,691,461 viewings

•  Number of animation productions available for on-demand delivery

Number of productions delivered as of
March 31, 2023	5,095 productions

Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. / Bandai Namco Pictures Inc. /

SUNRISE BEYOND INC.

Number of copyrighted products and total number of hours

(As of the end of March 31, 2023)
·  Number of copyrighted products	1,113 products
·  Total number of hours	5,834 hours

Bandai Namco Music Live Inc.

•  Total number of musical works (As of the end of March 2023)

·   Number of works
with master license recordings	Approx. 70,000 works
·  Number of works published	Approx. 37,600 works
Note: From FY2017.3, number of works managed in-house

AMUSEMENT UNIT

• Sales by category					(¥ billion)
				FY2022.3		FY2023.3
Amusement machines		20.8	31.0
Amusement facilities		61.5	73.5
Amusement Facilities
• Number of facilities at the end of FY2023.3
		Directly	Revenue-sharing
Region	managed facilities		facilities*		Other
Japan		243	683		10
Overseas		21	15		0
Total		264	698		10

* Revenue-sharing facilities: Revenues from the operation of amusement machines are shared.

• Existing-store sales (YoY)

	FY2022.3	FY2023.3
Japan	115.5%	114.9%
HANAYASHIKI CO., LTD.
•  Number of customers entering
ASAKUSA HANAYASHIKI in FY2023.3	540,000 customers

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2 Related Market Data

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (DIGITAL BUSINESS)

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (TOYS AND HOBBY BUSINESS)

GAME APP MARKET (JAPAN)

GAME APP MARKET SCALE TREND

HOME VIDEO GAME MARKET (JAPAN)

HOME VIDEO GAME MARKET SCALE TREND

TOY MARKET (JAPAN)

[Toy Market Scale]

(Unit: ¥ million, manufacturer's suggested retail price basis)

(¥ billion) 1,600

		1,316.4	1,300.1	1,243.3
1,200	1,166.0	1,214.0

800

400

(Year)	0
2018	2019	2020	2021	2022

(¥ billion)

600

480

360

240

120

0

(Year)

434.2

88.2

175.9

170.0

2018

436.8

110.4

166.9

159.5

2019

580.7

213.4

181.7

185.6

2020

570.5

209.2

158.5

202.8

2021

599.1

224.3

165.0

209.7

2022

Major Categories

FY2022.3

FY2023.3

Games	18,151	18,028
General games (including mini electronic games), 3D puzzles, others (including party games, humorous games, magic tricks)
Cards, trading cards	177,646	234,891
Jigsaw puzzles	14,644	12,965
High-tech-related trendy toys	9,037	10,507
Interactive toys, robots, PC-related products
Character products	68,734	62,883
TV character toys, movie character toys, etc.
Toy vehicles	47,973	50,291
Mini cars, railroad toys, RC toys, electric, others (racing, spring, metal toys, etc.)

Source: "Famitsu Game White Paper 2023 " (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.)

Note: Prepared based on information as of July 2023

Game apps: Games provided for smartphones and tablets

(Includes games for feature phones that operate on social media platforms)

Hardware  Software  Online

Source: "Famitsu Game White Paper 2023" (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.)

Note: Prepared based on information as of July 2023

Dolls, products for playing house	38,031	35,230
Dress-up dolls, dollhouses, products for playing house, arts and crafts, collection toys, cuddly dolls, others (including accessories, children's
makeup kits)
Stuffed toys	28,331	32,041
Character stuffed toys, non-character stuffed toys

GAME APP MARKET (GLOBAL)

SALES BY REGION (2021)

Central and South	The Middle East
America	127,631
140,917	1.4%
1.5%

Oceania	Africa
150,001
25,745
1.6%
0.3%
Europe	Global Sales
1,312,894	¥9,169.7 billion
14.3%
	Asia
	4,833,910
North America	52.7%
2,578,646
28.1%	Top: Regional sales (¥ million)
	Bottom: Percentage of global sales

Source: "Famitsu Mobile Game White Paper 2023" (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.) Airnow Data

UNIT SALES SHARE BY MANUFACTURER (2022)
FromSoftware	Other
1.8%
14.6%
Koei Tecmo Games
1.9%		Nintendo
Capcom		36.1%
2.0%
Microsoft Japan
2.2%
KONAMI
3.0%
Sony Interactive
Entertainment
3.0%

Bandai Namco	SQUARE ENIX
Entertainment	6.3%
3.5%	Pokémon
	25.6%

Collection period: December 27, 2021, to December 25, 2022

Source: "Famitsu Game White Paper2023" (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.)

Note: Company names are as of the collection date.

Educational
Blocks, wooden products, preschool, infants' characters, babies' products (babies' toys, bath toys, baby products), transportation-related (including	171,428	177,458
baby carriages, child seats, tricycles), others (including musical instruments, telephones, picture books, playground equipment, children's videos,
electric animals)
Seasonal products	49,618	49,874
Small sparklers, summer toys, summer goods, small toys, sports toys, sports supplies, outdoor products
Sundries	104,984	90,747
Variety goods, gifts, interior goods, housewares, stationery, apparel, others (including Christmas goods, Halloween goods, etc.)
Hobby products	153,303	166,800
Plastic models, RC hobby products, model trains, figures, others
Other	10,733	10,787
Total	892,613	952,502

FY2022.3				FY2023.3
	Other	Games			Other	Games
Hobby products	1.2%	2.0%	Cards, trading cards	Hobby products	1.1%	1.9%	Cards, trading cards
17.2%			19.9%	17.5%			24.7%

Sundries		FY2022.3 Toy Market
11.8%		¥892,613 million
Seasonal products
5.6%
	Educational	Stuffed toys
	3.2%
	19.2%

Jigsaw puzzles				Jigsaw puzzles
1.6%				1.4%
High-tech-related	Sundries			High-tech-related
trendy toys	FY2023.3 Toy Market
9.5%	trendy toys
1.0%
		¥952,502 million	1.1%
Character products
7.7%	Seasonal products			Character products
Toy vehicles	5.2%			6.6%
5.4%				Toy vehicles
Dolls, products for				5.3%
playing house		Educational		Dolls, products
4.3%		Stuffed toys	for playing house
		18.6%	3.7%
		3.4%

Notes: 1. In principle, the market created by the original products and own-brand products of member companies of the Japan Toy Association and of exhibitors at the International Tokyo Toy Show

1. Excluding drugstore distribution
2. Hobby products include distribution of models Source: Research by the Japan Toy Association

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