CATDOLL: Domestic bullet comment website Bilibili will open a Japanese branch

Bilibili has been plagued by copyright lawsuits since the end of 2014. The latest case was on February 2, when iQiyi and other domestic video copyright holders sued Bilibili. Copyright seems to have become one of Bilibili's weaknesses in 2015. However, on the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, netizens revealed that Bilibili has already started to build a Japanese branch, which will officially open in late March and has chosen the famous Rajio Hall in Akihabara to open its own store.

According to the website address of the Japanese branch of B Station announced by netizens, the official website of B Station in Japan will be open in late March 2015, and the B Station store on the 9th floor of Akihabara Radio Hall will also open its doors to welcome customers. The website introduces B Station Japan as being registered and established on November 26, 2014, with Yoshikazu Maeda as the legal representative, with a registered capital of 50 million yen (more than 2.63 million yuan), and its main business is the production of animation and image works, the acquisition of the broadcasting rights of animation and image works, the planning and operation management of offline activities and concerts, the production and sale of copyright peripherals, the sale of original character products, and the related business of online games, mobile games, and game consoles. It seems that the registered business scope is more bluffing, but it can be interpreted in another way: buying the broadcasting rights of Japanese animations, inviting Japanese artists to perform, selling 22 Niang and 33 Niang peripherals, selling Chinese animation peripherals in the Japanese market, and co-operating mobile games and web games. This is basically the same as B Station’s current business in China. The greatest significance of B Station’s Japanese branch may be to allow more domestic animations to enter the Japanese market.

Currently, about half of the ninth floor of the Radio Hall is vacant, but the size of the B-station's physical store in Japan is equivalent to the eighth floor of "Hobby Square", the largest scale model store in eastern Japan. The Japanese branch of B-station has allocated most of the area to the event area. It seems that B-station wants to directly invite Japanese singers and dancers to participate in the event in the Japanese branch and broadcast it directly to China, which is the same as the routine of Nico Animation. It also saves the travel expenses and venue approval costs required for holding offline events in China. Although there are a lot of complaints about the business, it is not a bad thing to be able to go beyond China and go to Japan. I hope that the Japanese branch of B-station can really do it. It seems that the idea of ​​B-station listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 2016 is not impossible?

B station Japanese branch website link: http://www.bilibili.co.jp/index.html