Toho Sets Bold Goal to Double Anime Output by 2032 Amid Global Demand

The anime industry is growing fast all around the world, and Japanese entertainment company Toho is ready to take advantage of that. Toho, known for popular shows like My Hero Academia and The Apothecary Diaries, has announced a big plan — it wants to more than double the number of anime series it helps produce by the year 2032.

Right now, Toho is involved in about 14 anime “cours” (a cour is a three-month season of TV episodes) each year. By 2032, the company hopes to increase that number to 30. This shows just how confident Toho is in anime’s strong and lasting popularity.

But this big goal doesn’t come without challenges. Toho is not an animation studio. It doesn’t draw or animate the shows itself. Instead, Toho helps with funding, planning, and selling the shows. That means it depends on working closely with other studios that do the actual animation work.

The problem is, the anime industry is already facing a shortage of animators and other production staff. So how will Toho reach its target?

Toho says it will grow its own staff by adding more people to handle planning and coordination. This way, they can take on more projects without having to animate them directly. By building strong partnerships with studios, licensors, and distributors, Toho hopes to keep things running smoothly.

Even so, the company’s success will depend a lot on the studios it works with. Making more shows means needing more animators, writers, and other creative workers — and many of these people are already overworked. Finding enough skilled studios to keep up with the growing demand will be one of Toho’s biggest challenges.

Still, with the anime boom showing no signs of slowing down, Toho is betting big that the world will keep watching — and loving — anime.