Kaneban Corporation and BALS Co. Kaneban Corporation and BALS Co.

Kaneban Corporation (Head office: Ome, Tokyo; President: Hiroyuki Kaneko; hereinafter "Kaneban"), a Japanese producer of character goods, and BALS Corporation (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Norikazu Hayashi; hereinafter "BALS"), an XR content planning, production, and management company, have decided to produce the first official scale figure of the popular virtual music unit "MonsterZ MATE" belonging to BALS. (headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Norikazu Hayashi, President; hereinafter "BALS") has decided that Kaneban will be in charge of manufacturing the first official scale figure of the popular virtual music unit "MonsterZ MATE" from BALS and will sell it on SPWN, an online store operated by BALS.

Kaneban, which will be in charge of the entire manufacturing process, will take on all manufacturing risks including quantity, while BALS, as the IP owner, will be in charge of copyright management and sales contact.

This new scheme enables us to bring small- and medium-scale IPs to the market in as little as six months from the time of order, making it possible to deliver IPs to end users without missing the "season" of the IPs.

Another important feature of this project is that all processes of scale figure production (design, molding, molding, coloring, packaging, etc.) are done in-house by Kaneban in Japan.

Kaneban will continue to promote the domestic production of scale figures with "minimized risk for IP holders" and "short lead time.

The figures will be sold on SPWN, which is operated by Bals.

For more details, please wait for the announcement on the official YouTube channel of MonsterZ MATE and the official X account.

SPWN : https://spwn.jp/

MonsterZ MATE official YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@MonsterZMATE

X official account ： https://x.com/monsterzmate

■About Bals Corporation

Bals is developing two businesses: "SPWN Portal business," an integrated platform that realizes all businesses related to entertainment such as tickets, distribution, and product sales, and "XR Live By developing two businesses, "SPWN Portal Business" and "XR Live Business", which provides comprehensive support for all the necessary functions (planning, production, operational support, and monetization) as an infrastructure for the entertainment industry.

BALS official website: https://balus.co/

About Kaneban Inc.

Kaneban was founded in 1997 by Kaneko, the current president of Kaneban.

Backed by the high level of technology cultivated in the sheet metal coating business, in 2011 the company began manufacturing character goods, mainly for animation and video games. Currently, the company is engaged in integrated domestic production of high-quality goods on a scale of more than 10 million pieces per year.

Since 2020, the company has been actively engaged in M&A and has acquired domestic manufacturing companies that specialize in molds, molding, etc. under its umbrella, and is developing its business around the completely domestic production of plastic models, figures, and other three-dimensional character goods.

Kaneban's official website: https://www.kaneban.jp/