Skeb
👤 Kazunari Kida (Narugami) (Ex-Dwango and DMM engineer, deep in otaku/VTuber culture (handle Narugami); built Skeb solo, knowing exactly what artists feared.)🌐 site𝕏
A marketplace where fans commission one-shot art from Japanese illustrators - no chat, no revisions, no disputes.
Will it work? · our read
Creators first. Deliberately limiting the buyer experience - no chat, no edits, no guarantee - was the point: it made artists feel safe, and their fans came too.
01How the money moves
Fan pays upfront for a request; card money held in escrow
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Artist accepts, delivers one final piece - no edits allowed
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Skeb keeps about 10% commission + boost tips
02The numbers
$4.7M/mo
GMV, not revenue
co. 2025
3.5M+
registered users
co. 2025
$9M
2021 exit (¥1B)
founder
GMV is turnover, not Skeb's own revenue. Skeb Co. (official, 2025)
Company discloses GMV (¥700M/mo, about $55M/yr) and 3.5M+ users, not net revenue. Est. about $5M/yr at Skeb's roughly 10% take. Exit: ¥1B (about $9M) to a publisher, 2021.
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App Marketing Labo - founder interview: creator-first strategy, GMV, and the things we do not do.ITmedia - Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha acquires Skeb for a total of 1 billion yen (2021).Skeb client guidelines - no revisions, no disputes, one-shot request rules.J-N Forum - founder Kazunari Kida (Narugami) profile and background.Skeb Co. - official company page: monthly GMV (about ¥700M) and registered users (3.5M+), March 2025.
Revenue is EST, not disclosed. Skeb publishes GMV/transaction volume (¥700M per month, about $55M/yr) and user counts, not net revenue; I estimate about $5M/yr from its roughly 10% request commission plus 'boost' tips. The ¥1B (about $9M) 2021 exit is founder-stated and first-party. The no-revisions/no-dispute rules and fee structure come from Skeb's own guidelines and the founder's interviews. [inference]: my read that gutting buyer power was a deliberate supply-side play - though the founder frames it openly as 'creator-first' and 'deciding what not to do'. We never score you.