Forum - View topicNEWS: Witchblade Has Best 1st-Week Sales in 2007 U.S. Anime
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teh*darkness
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Wow... so people wanna see an anime about a weapon, which can only be used by females, that makes its user orgasm while fighting... interesting...
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RadicaLElly
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Now what was all that nonsense about the R1 anime industry collapsing?
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Brians9824
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I'm pretty surprised to hear this myself. I ended up buying the box w/ soundtrack on day 1 because I was a big witchblade fan back when it was showing on TV.
I'd love to know how many people bought it just for the witchblade name, i know theres a pretty large cult following of it. Maybe this will make TNT consider releasing the series on dvd after all these years now. |
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GATSU
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Yay for an anime based off an anime knock-off comic book.
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samuraiwalt
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Of which anime was The Witchblade comic a knock-off? |
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Brians9824
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Closest I can think of is Guyver but the 2 really arent even remotely similar. Plus i think Witchblade was first
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Vortextk
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Very surprising. Did these people not see the fansubs or just not care and bought it off the name I wonder. Then again, it did start about 100 times better than it ended up.
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Cool how an ecchi anime made it to the top of the 1st-week sales charts. This also shows that anime based off American comics can do also have a bit of success.
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v1cious
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that's surprising. i suspect a lot of the sales came from comic fans/collectors.
anyone know what the highest ever is? |
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KabaKabaFruit
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I've seen one fansub group attempt it but I think they ceased early on in the series. Witchblade was a Media Factory production, wasn't it? |
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Vortextk
Posts: 892 Location: Orlando, Fl |
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I watched the whole thing fansubbed, atleast one english group finished.
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KabaKabaFruit
Posts: 1871 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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I see. My anime club showed only three episodes before we moved on to other stuff.
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Polly E.
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I picked it up the day it came out on a whim. I didn't see it fansubbed and I haven't had any experience with the comics, but the first volume was fun enough. I'll be picking up volume 2 when it's released.
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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I don't have any interest in seeing Witchblade, but I'm glad Funi managed to find some (relative) sales success with it and wish them the best. Hopefully this draws more people into the anime fold. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Whatever are you implying? We all know the vast majority fansub veiwers who watch a particular series will buy it in the end to give support for the show they finished. It's one of the main reasons why fansubs help the industry. We're told that all the time on these forums. [/sarcasm]
I am not sure about first weeks, but I know Appleseed did very well for itself. Selling at least 85,000 units by 2005.
I am sure it certainly had a big effect. Witchblade has quite a following. I am sure the fact that the anime was officially named part of the Witchblade canon helped a lot too. |
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