Performance trend of Fujishoji Co., Ltd. <6257>

2. Sales situation of pachinko and pachislot gaming machines.

The sales volume of pachinko gaming machines for the fiscal year ending March 2024 was 61.0 thousand, a decrease of 8.9% compared to the previous year. As new main spec titles, the company released "P Goblin Slayer" (released in April 2023), the company's first smart pachinko (hereinafter referred to as Smart Pachi) "Smart Pachi RAVE Tatsushige Loop" (released in June of the same year), "P Ring Curse of 7 days 3" (released in August of the same year), "P Gegege no Kitaro Shishi Funjin" (released in October of the same year), "Smart Pachi Gegege no Kitaro Shishi Funjin SP" (released in October of the same year), and "P Toaru Majutsu no Index 2" (released in December of the same year), and sold additional specs for other series models. With the exception of the sales volume of "P/e Gegege no Kitaro" being below expectations, all of them seem to have achieved or exceeded their planned operational results. In particular, the popularity of "P Hidan no Aria ~Hihii God Descends~ Lucky Trigger Ver." increased due to the new wave of pachinko balls with the "Lucky Trigger," to the point of additional production capacity being necessary. As for Smart Pachi, there was little difference in specs compared to conventional models, so the industry as a whole did not perform well and did not spread, and the same was true for the two models released by the company.

On the other hand, the sales volume of pachislot gaming machines increased by 28.1% compared to the previous year to 29.2 thousand. In addition to the highly operational performance of the Smart Suro machine "L Goblin Slayer" (introduced in April 2023) released at the end of the previous year, which had the highest payout performance in the industry and a strong content force※, market sales were increased by introducing "Pachislot Sengoku-koihime" (released in June 2023), "Smart Suro Toaru Majutsu no Index" (released in October of the same year), and "Pachislot Ryujin-30 Watermelon Version" (released in November of the same year). Of these, "Smart Suro Toaru Majutsu no Index" also had strong content force similar to that of the pachinko gaming machines and high operational performance, and earned a certain level of recognition from pachinko halls.

※The original light novel had a total circulation of over 9 million copies, and the manga and anime also became popular.

(Written by FISCO guest analyst, Jo Sato)