Solo Leveling Studio A-1 Pictures Returns to Profit in Fiscal 2026

What was reported

A-1 Pictures returned to profitability in the fiscal year ending March 2026, according to a financial notice the studio published in Japan's Official Gazette, known as the Kanpo, on June 29, 2026. The Solo Leveling studio recorded a net profit of about 91.6 million yen (roughly 564,000 US dollars), as reported by Anime Corner and Outlook Respawn.

The result reverses a difficult prior year, when the Aniplex subsidiary posted a net loss of around 178 million yen. Against that backdrop, a return to the black, even a modest one, reads as a meaningful recovery for the studio.

The numbers

The Kanpo filing sets out A-1 Pictures' balance sheet as of March 31, 2026. Total assets stood at about 2.34 billion yen against total liabilities of roughly 1.57 billion yen, leaving net assets of around 768 million yen. The exact net profit figure cited in the reporting is 91.649 million yen. The gazette notice reports only summary financials, and it does not break out revenue by title or explain what drove the turnaround.

The studio behind Solo Leveling

Founded in 2005, A-1 Pictures is one of Aniplex's in-house animation studios and the team behind Solo Leveling, the action fantasy adaptation that became one of the biggest streaming hits of its debut season. Anime Corner reports that the studio's fiscal-year slate also spanned titles including Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Fate/strange Fake, and Uta no Prince-sama.

Aniplex context

The disclosure lands alongside figures for fellow Aniplex studio CloverWorks, which the same reporting says booked a net loss of 38.5 million yen for the period, a slight widening from its prior year. Read together, the two filings offer an uncommon public window into the finances of two studios that share a corporate parent, and a reminder that even a studio with a marquee streaming hit operates on famously thin margins.