Legend Capital Portfolio: Japan’s NO.1 VTuber Operator ANYCOLOR Lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
HONG KONG, Jun 9, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - On June 8th 2022, Legend Capital's portfolio company ANYCOLOR, a leading Virtual YouTuber (VTuber) management company in Japan, was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. At the market close today, ANYCOLOR's share price rose more than 3 times compared to the issue price and its market capitalization exceeded 165.2 billion yen (about 1.239 billion US dollars).From left are Itochu Manager Takaki Yasuhiro, ANYCOLOR CEO Tazumi Riku, ANYCOLOR CFO Taurui Shinya and Legend Capital Managing Director Joon Sung Park.Established in May 2017, ANYCOLOR was founded by Tazumi Riku who was at that time a student at Waseda University in Japan. The company officially announced the launch of a VTuber project "NIJISANJI" in January 2018 as one of the first major VTuber agencies in Japan. After years of continued success, ANYCOLOR as of today is managing around 200 VTubers with over 35.72 million fans, making it the largest VTuber operator in Japan.According to ANYCOLOR's IPO Prospectus, in 2021 revenue reached 7.63 billion yen and operating income of 1.45 billion yen. This is over 100% growth from 3.5 billion yen revenue and 42.3 million yen op...
