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NEWS: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, June 15-21

Also very happy that Blood Blockade Battlefront is selling this well. I would love to see more anime content.

I am surprised, but not shocked, with Sound! Euphonium's numbers. I was convinced that the first volume was going to sell 15k+.

Mr. Oshawott wrote:

I thought Sound! Euphorium would sell at higher numbers than what I saw, but they're not that bad...

I agree, but it is very unlikely that it will get a season two.

Bravo Bones. Bra-vo. All excellent job by Matsumoto and staff. 15k+ for a Bones anime. Just wow. The last 10k+ anime was DTB 2 almost 5 years ago. This is looking to be a great year for Bones and Kekkai Sensen Season 2 is basically confirmed with these sales and the great manga boost.

Ah, Euphonium, not bad sales but this is worse than Amagi and this volume had an event ticket which is usually a good sales booster. It'll probably do better than KnK and Tamako but fall short of Amagi and way below Chuu2 or Free. Hope KyoAni goes back to more Kadokawa light novels. Need more stuff like Amagi.

Are you sure about that?
I am super curious why BBB, a series that takes place in a supernatural version of New York City, based off a manga by the creator of Trigun, animated by Bones (one of my favorite animation studios), with an episodic nature and majority adult cast, gotten so popular in Japan? If this was the U.S, then that's obvious but almost never the other way around. Maybe, anime fans were just looking for something fresh?

There are literally not enough male fans that would buy KyoAni products anymore to go past the ~6k sales at most for a show that features an almost all-girls cast.
Why are some people acting surprised, what numbers did you expect from it?

Maybe because KyoAni's betrayal in 2013 a certain sect stopped buying their products.

There are literally not enough male fans that would buy KyoAni products anymore to go past the ~6k sales at most for a show that features an almost all-girls cast.
Why are some people acting surprised, what numbers did you expect from it?

Look at Death Parade. Japan's usually crappy tastes is why we can't get original shows more often.

Going by how boring Death Parade was, I think Japanese buyers made a wise decision.

Some people say boring; some people say noir.

Congrats to Mizuki-san. Any guess as to why she seems to do so well on the Oricon charts when other seiyuu like Yukari Tamura and Yui Horie are also popular singers?

...Also she seems to thrive on giving very demanding performances (included being suspended in the air for some songs, playing instruments such as harmonica, piano and harp).

Whoa, Nana performed a concert while in mid-air??? That's pretty epic- I don't recall any other singer in the world performing that sort of stunt.

Calculus20 wrote:

Bravo Bones. Bra-vo. All excellent job by Matsumoto and staff. 15k+ for a Bones anime. Just wow. The last 10k+ anime was DTB 2 almost 5 years ago. This is looking to be a great year for Bones and Kekkai Sensen Season 2 is basically confirmed with these sales and the great manga boost. Ah, Euphonium, not bad sales but this is worse than Amagi and this volume had an event ticket which is usually a good sales booster. It'll probably do better than KnK and Tamako but fall short of Amagi and way below Chuu2 or Free. Hope KyoAni goes back to more Kadokawa light novels. Need more stuff like Amagi.

Kekkai Sensen not follow the manga, it shows that you can get to make successful without following the source material.

There are literally not enough male fans that would buy KyoAni products anymore to go past the ~6k sales at most for a show that features an almost all-girls cast.
Why are some people acting surprised, what numbers did you expect from it?