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NEWS: AKB0048's Opening Song Sells 47,000 to Rank #3




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Sylontack



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:45 am Reply with quote
I have this CD (Type-B, Regular Edition because I was ordering with other things so the Limited Edition would make the price higher than I wanted).
It's fantastic and deserves to be high on the charts Razz
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:28 pm Reply with quote
After being ignored by American licensors for season one, I wonder if we'll see season two on Crunchyroll when it appears next year?
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Fencedude5609



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:30 pm Reply with quote
yuna49 wrote:
After being ignored by American licensors for season one, I wonder if we'll see season two on Crunchyroll when it appears next year?


Considering the music situation, almost certainly not.

CR even said that AKB0048 was not even possible.
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:31 pm Reply with quote
Odd that there's no mention of Nana Mizuki's "Bright Stream" single from the Nanoha A's movie sold an even far more impressive 75k copies.
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Fencedude5609



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:37 pm Reply with quote
Megiddo wrote:
Odd that there's no mention of Nana Mizuki's "Bright Stream" single from the Nanoha A's movie sold an even far more impressive 75k copies.


Its only news if one of her singles does under 50k
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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:00 pm Reply with quote
Fencedude5609 wrote:
yuna49 wrote:
After being ignored by American licensors for season one, I wonder if we'll see season two on Crunchyroll when it appears next year?


Considering the music situation, almost certainly not.

CR even said that AKB0048 was not even possible.


Man, it seems like the only way of AKB0048 would ever get brought over here is if the AKB48 producers plan to bring over the group here and use the anime as a vehicle.
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Kit-Tsukasa



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:40 pm Reply with quote
darkchibi07 wrote:
Fencedude5609 wrote:
yuna49 wrote:
After being ignored by American licensors for season one, I wonder if we'll see season two on Crunchyroll when it appears next year?


Considering the music situation, almost certainly not.

CR even said that AKB0048 was not even possible.


Man, it seems like the only way of AKB0048 would ever get brought over here is if the AKB48 producers plan to bring over the group here and use the anime as a vehicle.

Well they did show up at Anime Expo...whether that was well received is another issue.

This single is amazing though. Fantastic songs. Type-B music video is crap though whereas Type-A is very well done.
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aereus



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:58 am Reply with quote
I never know what to think of these AKB sales numbers. Since AKB48 is unashamedly an artificial group, both in roster and songs. And more importantly -- things like meet-n-greets, hand-shaking, autographs, etc. are used to "bribe" better sales of the music quite often.

(Most recently there was that story with pictures showing thousands of copies of the music just sitting in the garbage in various places, stripped of the extra coupons. Stores selling the singles for 50yen each, etc.)
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