Kadokawa employees are reportedly in favour of a Sony takeover due to ongoing issues with current management with the Elden Ring parent company.
Sony was reportedly eyeing up a takeover of Kadokawa last month, and the industry giant itself admitted that it had been in talks about a possible buyout, but no decision had been reached at the time. However, Takahiro Suzuki, an economic analyst, told Bushun that employees at Kadokawa are eager to see a change in leadership, but believes the company itself would have little to gain.
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Kadokawa will lose its independence, and management will become stricter. If they want to keep developing their business as freely as they have until now, [the acquisition] would be a bad choice. They’d have to be prepared for publications that don’t lead to IP creation being put under scrutiny.
Elsewhere, an anonymous employee who works at Kadokawa added:
The people around me are thrilled at the prospect of an acquisition by Sony. That’s because there’s a certain number of employees who are dissatisfied with the Natsuno administration, which didn’t even bother to hold a press conference after peoples’ personal information was leaked in the cyberattack. They expect that if Sony were to acquire the company, they would get rid of the president first.
[Source – Automaton]