What this is
What can be known of Creatures’ recent finances: its last visible accounts are for the year to March 2020; nothing later has been found online.
How it’s built
- Last visible accounts: profit ¥3.87bn, retained profits ¥29.3bn, total assets ¥31.3bn, from catr.jp’s transcription of the official gazette.
- Searches of catr.jp, Creatures’ website and Japanese web searches found no later notice; only the gazette itself remains.
- If an unexplained ¥29bn Pocket cost in The Pokémon Company’s accounts were Creatures’ share, Creatures’ profit would be ¥14–18bn after tax, 3.6–4.6 times 2020.
What we assumed
- The ¥29bn unexplained cost is estimated from The Pokémon Company’s accounts, holding its non-Pocket gross margin at the pre-Pocket level.That figure is itself a model; other margin assumptions give lower values, down to about ¥15bn.
- Creatures’ own costs are 274 staff at ¥10–15m each, with 1–2 times for overhead, taxed at 31%.Working assumptions; the research gives no direct evidence on Creatures’ cost base.
- That cost is Creatures’ share at all.It rests only on Creatures’ co-developer credit and the arithmetic; it cannot be tested until a newer notice is read.
Sanity check
The only visible change since 2024 is headcount (274 to 296), with no jump around Pocket’s launch. That is weak evidence either way.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Show the working
- 14/3.872=3.6
- 18/3.872=4.6
Where it’s used
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