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5196064 No.5196064 [Reply] [Original]

How much money does ZUN make with Touhou?

>> No.5196070

Very little. This picture is really inaccurate.

>> No.5196075

>>5196070
No it's accurate, you just have to remember this is in yen and each of those bundles is like 1$

>> No.5196076
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>> No.5196081

The price of each disk multiplied by 10000. A year.

>> No.5196088

ZUN has a passion.

That passion is little girls.

>> No.5196091

Do you buy Touhou? Do you think he gets money from the fanworks? It's popular, but that doesn't mean he's loaded with cash.

>> No.5196109

I bet he only makes a few bucks off of each official Manga and each official game CD.

>> No.5196110

>>5196091
People in Japan buy Touhou.

>> No.5196116

How much money does Nasu make with TYPE-MOON?

>> No.5196123

None. ZUN is fucking poor, he was fired from his job, and the secondaryfags on here will never buy his games. Everyone on /jp/ is a secondary fan. Deal with it.

>> No.5196125

>>5196075

>I don't know how Japanese money works

He probably makes a decent amount from game sales, but I'm not sure about other fan works or licenses. Presumably they have to pay royalties to him for using his characters, or they just give him a portion of whatever they make out of respect.

>> No.5196129

>>5196116
A fucking lot, and he doesn't do much compared to ZUN. That fucker...

>> No.5196133

>>5196123

Maybe he should spend less money on beer? Touhou isn't a living, but it helps. It's the equivalent of a guy getting a position as an IT guy at a large company but running his own small business building computers on the side. He might get stuff, but he still needs a steady job.

>> No.5196135

>>5196125
No. Stop making stuff up.

>> No.5196150

>>5196123
>he was fired from his job

When was this?

>> No.5196163

He gets a percentage from his guidebook and manga sales, but that's about it.

>> No.5196165

>>5196150
He kept asking his bosses at Taito if they needed him to draw any little girls for them and it was creeping everyone out.

>> No.5196176

ZUN fucked my mother last night. My mother is a cheap whore, so I don't think he has much money...

>> No.5196187

>>5196176
I'm pretty sure that's your father fucking her. Unless ZUN is your father.

>> No.5196190

>>5196135

>presumably

Never said it was fact. And "decent amount" means different things to different people. To me, it means a portion of living expenses, possibly paying for one food bill.

>>5196165

Source?

>> No.5196194

>>5196165
you can't be serious

>> No.5196201

Protip: J-List sells Touhou.

>> No.5196204

>>5196190
Shut the hell up if you're just going to constantly make retarded posts.

>> No.5196206

>>5196194
Yukari is actually a portrait of a coworker. He commented that she should wear clothing like how he envisioned, and she started mouthing about sexual harassment.

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>>5196201
Protip: J-List makes all this junk themselves.

ZUN sees no money from it.

>> No.5196221

>>5196212
Yea because they are stealing his copyrighted work am I right?

>> No.5196227

At Reitaisai he sold 10k copies of Double Spoiler for 1000 yen apiece. He can't be losing more than a small fraction of that in CD pressing costs, so that's like a year's good salary from that one game. Unless there's some money hole that I'm not accounting for here.

>> No.5196237

Little do we know that Zun is using his money for research and development of a beer like no other. A beer that will immortalize Zun not as the creator of touhou, but as the creator of the best beer ever will be, never will be, and possibly will be.

>> No.5196246
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>>5196227

>some money hole I'm not accounting for here

For the record, it's totally worth it. Probably the best beer I've had in a while.

>> No.5196252

>>5196237

He's gonna need a loli mascot for it.

>> No.5196250

kok

>> No.5196257

>>5196252
He already has 100+ to choose from.

>> No.5196484

>>5196252
Suika.

>> No.5196504

Didn't he work with Taito or whatever company did Graffiti Kingdom? I remember seeing Reimu with the title "Flying Maiden" instead.

>> No.5196511

>>5196227
Assuming these figures are right, and the cost of the CDs cost about 500 yen a piece to produce (which doesn't seem right) then he'd make some 5,000,000 yen. If the CDs cost more, or he sold less, or charged less, he can't be that rich.

>> No.5196520

His main games sell quite good actually

>> No.5196527

>>5196511

He also has to book the table or whatever at the conventions and ship his product to sellers after those are over. Those fees can add up to be a lot, but he still walks away with a decent amount.

>> No.5196536

The figurine business probably draws some cash

Two professional fig companies make Touhou models, i'm fairly sure they would have a contract or deal with him due to it being commercial, which he doesn't really want Touhou to become generally.

>> No.5196551

>>5196511
The figures are, indeed, right, you just have to remember it's not a total, just one day of pre-retail sales.

>> No.5196562
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Net income $57.663 billion (GD)(2009)

>> No.5196574

I think making any money from something he enjoys doing is good

He's living the dream man

>> No.5196583

>>5196536

Royalties for likeness rights.

>> No.5196599

I heard he gives a big chunk of his income to a charity for victims of fetal alcohol syndrome.

>> No.5196615

>>5196574
You guys are getting me wrong, I didn't make this picture nor I am saying he making money out of it is something negative.

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>> No.5196940

Touhou has gone much more mainstream in the last couple years, and you'll find a shelf of Touhou games and other products, if not an entire aisle, in pretty much any major anime goods store. When I last checked the local Gamers they had all the Windows games for around ¥1500 apiece. If ZUN is selling even a mere one game per store per week, that's a pretty healthy income just right there. And that completely ignores all the sales from Comiket, as well as royalties for other official ZUN material like the various books.

He obviously has to deal with all the usual business expenses the self-employed have, but I suspect he makes a very comfortable living for himself while working entirely at his own discretion, doing what he enjoys, and being a minor celebrity. Not a bad deal for an alcoholic solo game designer.

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5196947

Asahi is a shit tier beer by the way.

>> No.5196953

>>5196206
You're gonna have to PROVE IT FAGGOT.

Cus' that shit better not be fake, it's hilarious.

>> No.5196969

Don't forget, Japan has lax copyright laws in regards to the doujin market, and Touhou itself is a doujin game. He most likely doesn't make very much money (if at all) from merchandise beyond his official games.

>> No.5196991

>>5196969
dont forget the official merchandise etc.

>> No.5196994

>>5196940

Since when has Zun sold his games in stores? I thought they were strictly limited to cons.

>> No.5196997

>>5196994
well, they arent

>> No.5197031

>>5196994
There are some stores which sell doujin games

>> No.5197047

I always thought he had unlimited monis with all the hype around toehoes.

>> No.5197064

So many posters ITT and only one or two that aren't completely talking out of their ass. Impressive.

>> No.5197069

>>5196994
http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/ZSTH0002

>> No.5197085

>>5196212
is that dude wearing a skirt

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