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NEWS: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, April 7-13

I ment that its very popular among females. Happy now? Jesus [expletive] christ, its just semantics. SnK is not a good example btw, its still more popular among men. Kuroko no basket and Haikyuu!! are better examples of this.

Rederoin wrote:

By looking at the fanbase?

Seriously, you're definitely confuse the terms "orientation on audience" and "fanbase". Hoozuki no Reitetsu wasn't designed for the female audience from the start and now - it became popular in the female audience cause of appealing things to them.

It's the same thing as calling a female audience-oriented "Attack on Titan" (which has a very large percentage of the female audience), "Gintama", "Tiger and Bunny" and other things that are popular among women. But that's silly.

For a large part, it's the seiyuu involved.

Surprised to see Tangled there, instead of Frozen.

TarsTarkas wrote:

Surprised to see Tangled there, instead of Frozen.

Frozen hasn't been released on disc in Japan yet. In fact, Frozen was just released in Japanese theaters a month ago (the last country to do so - now y'know why J-movie-goers are pissed they always have to wait longer than others). Yet it's already grossed over $90 million so far (already passed Arrietty and tracking better than Wind Rises) and doing a killing on the J-music Billboard charts (4 of the Top 21 are Frozen songs) - that's likely why ya see Tangled in this week's list (its resurgence popularity due to being the same lineage as Frozen). But now, Frozen going head-to-head with Conan.

Yeah, the whole world is globalized with entertainment from corporate America, so it isn't a surprise Disney films and the likes topple the domestic entertainment industry of many nations. I'm surprised how Japan though still manages to retain its own animation/film industry despite the global power many of America's Corporate media conglomerates have.

Going back on topic, I am pleased to see Madoka holding its ground against a Disney movie. However, it is probably a re-release of Tangled and the initial DVD release probably sold in the millions just as every Disney movie released in Japan has.

It seems only Studio Ghibli can hold its ground but the fact that Frozen overcame Miyazaki's latest film means that nothing can topple the Disney machine and the hype that accompanies with it.

Also happy that Noragami's volume 2 seems to be performing better than volume 1. I hope it sells well enough to compel the anime producers to do at least another season.

Noragami is a good, not great, show, but it will most likely be my favorite new anime series for the first half of 2014 (the current Spring season is weak in my opinion).

TarsTarkas wrote:

Surprised to see Tangled there, instead of Frozen.

Frozen hasn't been released on disc in Japan yet. In fact, Frozen was just released in Japanese theaters a month ago (the last country to do so - now y'know why J-movie-goers are pissed they always have to wait longer than others). Yet it's already grossed over $90 million so far (already passed Arrietty and tracking better than Wind Rises) and doing a killing on the J-music Billboard charts (4 of the Top 21 are Frozen songs) - that's likely why ya see Tangled in this week's list (its resurgence popularity due to being the same lineage as Frozen). But now, Frozen going head-to-head with Conan.

Japanese fans are pretty annoyed by that. Japan has to wait longer for Hollywood films to get released than virtually anybody else. Some films get released day-and-date with the rest of the world, others can lag behind for as long as a year.

Why? Well, there's simply no great rush on the part of the studios. Unlike the rest of Asia, Japan doesn't have much of a piracy problem. If you wait to release a movie in, say, India, the streets will be flooded with camcorder rips and pirated versions long before the movie opens in theaters. Japanese media consumers don't do that. They wait patiently. They generally don't pirate stuff.

Releasing a movie with a proper marketing push takes a lot of time and money, and Japan has a very crowded film market that sees the release of hundreds of their own movies domestically, in addition to localized releases of Hollywood and other foreign fare. In order to maximize a film's box office potential, releases are carefully timed around holidays and competition at the box office. And of course, this being Japan, I'm sure there are bucketloads of red tape and salaryman hand-wringing involved too.

It's certainly not an ideal situation from the consumer point of view, but the industry has no reason to change, and so it won't.

About the 3rd part: it's not only that, there's another reason why Hollywood premiere in Japan is dead last, it's because Japan's movie market isn't as big it used to be. I remember in the past, Japan (and Hong Kong) used to be where Hollywood do their Asian premiere, but that's no longer the case anymore. We've seen Hollywood films doing Asian premiere in Mainland China, but now the premiere for Hollywood films in Asia is in South Korea, that country became the 5th largest movie market worldwide. From what I observed, more Hollywood films are getting Asian premiere in South Korea not in Japan, Mainland China, or Hong Kong as they used to in the past. Yes South Korea is now where Hollywood film do their premiere, Japan's movie market is not as big as it used to hence why Hollywood films seem to premiere in Japan dead last. So if Hollywood want to target the Asian market, South Korea goes first, Japan and China goes later. It's no wonder why CNN said South Korea is the "Hollywood of the East". I believe Will Smith back in 2012 praise the Korean film market.