Bandai Namco has reportedly lost over a hundred staff in the last year.
As reported by Automaton, according to the online database of Japan’s Pension Service, the company’s staff headcount dropped from 1294 on 1st April 2024 to 1177 on 4th February 2025 – a decrease of 117 people.
It’s unclear which projects these employees were working on, or whether they left the company voluntarily or not.
The news follows a report from Bloomberg last year stating the company was cutting its Japanese workforce and cancelling a number of projects due to lacklustre demand.
What’s more, while staff had not been directly laid off, around 200 employees were sent to what’s known as “oidashi beya” – rooms where staff are left without a project to work on, often used instead for job hunting. These rooms are utilised in Japan due to strict labour laws making layoffs difficult to enforce.