versefediJapanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+
Yet another reason to use and support open fonts.
Idk how many fonts are typically in a game but at $20k a pop, I suspect you could hire your own designer or collaborate with a few other small studios to design a few open game fonts.
At that point you could spend 10k to make a procedurally generated font and spend another 10k on quality control. Still doable since there is a database of stroke order for Japanese Kanji