Independent Research on the Business of Trading Card Games
How we researchKonami Digital Entertainment in Yu-Gi-Oh!; mostly in product development.
Konami Digital Entertainment
IP Holder
IP holder: Yu-Gi-Oh! source works and TCG-used IP
Publisher
Publisher
TCG and OCG territories
Others on this stage
IP holder:
Publisher
Konami Digital Entertainment has no documented role on this stage.
Others on this stage
Wholesaler
Konami Digital Entertainment
Content Marketing
Operates official channel: Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Instagram, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Twitch
TCG regions
Digital Platforms
Digital platform: Yu-Gi-Oh! Latin America event portal, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, Yu-Gi-Oh! NEURON
Organized Play
Konami Digital Entertainment has no documented role on this stage.
Others on this stage
Marketplace operatorSupports marketplace category for game
Dark: Konami Digital Entertainment in Yu-Gi-Oh!. Below it, other businesses on the same stage of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Acting in the same game or stage is not a business relationship; documented partners are shown in orange.
Its group. No relationship with another business is documented yet.
5 platforms and channels Konami Digital Entertainment runs itself.
Parent of 1 company.
Company family
This company
Konami Digital Entertainment
1 published figure, exactly as the companies state them.
Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME cards sold since 1999 (Guinness World Records certification)
25,175,567,833 cards
Mar 2011
Figures as the companies publish them in investor-relations and corporate documents. They describe the reporting company or segment, not the size of the trading card market; segments may include non-TCG business. Nothing is converted, combined or estimated.
7 series it organizes or whose program it governs.
The latest 3 briefs naming Konami Digital Entertainment.
2 people named in a role by the cited sources.
Distributor
Governs program: Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship, Yu-Gi-Oh! Organized Play
Others on this stage
Governs program: Yu-Gi-Oh! Korea Championship Series
Governs program: Yu-Gi-Oh! National Championships
Worldwide
Cardmarket's October recap reports eight card games added at once as sealed-only listings, bringing it to 25 active games, an upgraded card search, and over 4,800 new catalog products from sixteen games in the month.
From December 16, 2026, Hiroshi Fukuda moves from Production Department 5 to lead Konami Digital Entertainment's Card Business Development Department, and Ken Kanetomo takes charge of the US subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. as president.
Hideki Hayakawa, president of Konami Digital Entertainment, becomes representative director and senior executive officer, while Kagemasa Kozuki moves from representative director to director and chairman. Shareholder and board meetings on June 25, 2026 are to confirm the change.
