Forum - View topicNEWS: K-On!! T-Shirts, Tie-In Goods Bring in 1.8 Billion Yen
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JohnnySake
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Wow, that's not bad at all. Good for TBS, they need a moneymaker or two to help cover the shows that don't do as well.
I'll be curious to see if Bandai releases anything along with the dvd's themselves. However, I don't see K-On!! selling as much merchandise here. They could always post some stuff on their online store though. *goes back to drinking coffee from a Cospa K-On!! mug...* |
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l33tmeatwad
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Yeah...as much as I like K-ON! and drinking coffee, I wouldn't be caught dead using a K-ON! mug, lol...
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Takeyo
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That's 28,172 more units than it had any right to sell. Ugh. That song makes the first K-ON!! OP seem brilliant in comparison (great ED theme though, imo). |
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hissatsu01
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I think cash cow is the appropriate term. Even if BD/DVD sales are down some for the second season, they're still quite good, and merchandising is obviously through the roof.
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SirSlarty
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Yup, cash cow.
But I can't help but throw my American money at Japan for these things. I missed out on some of the awesome shirts. Like this one. |
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PetrifiedJello
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The next time I see discussions indicating how the anime industry is losing money regardless of reason, I'm pointing them to this article. *bookmarks
~$20 million. How many anime productions can this make when this amount doesn't even include other revenue streams? I wonder if the article's title is a misprint and should have been "NEWS: K-On!! T-Shirts, Tie-In Goods Lose 1.8 Billion Yen In Production Costs" just to match the rest of the news coming from the industry. Anyone from ANN want to do some investigative reporting to give us the real answer to the state of the anime industry by asking some tough questions? This is great news. It's just too bad it's going to fall between the cracks of the rest of the articles spelling doom for anime. |
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einhorn303
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Note: Not every show is like K-On, just as not every band succeeds the Beatles. |
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Sailor S
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The thing is, I just don't get the interest in K-ON. Granted, this is all my own personal opinion and I don't expect my opinion to be shared by everyone in the world but I just don't think it's that great a show. Yes, I can see the appeal, I love my moe shows as much as the next moe fan, but K-ON just doesn't stand out from any of the others to me. Well, whatever, I generally like the moe genre so as long as K-ON posts big numbers like this, then I can expect that the odds of shows I actually do like being made are higher. So, good for K-ON, as baffling as this is to me. |
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Daimao Raki
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wilson_x1999
 Posts: 182 Location: Monterrey, Mexico |
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Most of the time, when someone mentions how the anime industry is having problems, they're referring to the American side of the business, since they don't get the rights for all the merchandise and therefore, they have to get all their money back from just the show while in Japan the show as shown on TV is just an advertisement for the DVD/Blu ray release and toys/extra merchandising. |
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Draneor
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For perspective, K-On! character good sales for this quarter were about the same as FUNimation's net sales in the same quarter[1]. The US market is pretty small these days. Of course, K-On! merch is nothing compared to the titan that is Gundam. [1]Estimate of FUNi net sales for the first quarter of FY 2011 is no more than $18 million. To derive this estimate, subtract FY 2011 net sales for Navarre's publishing segment, 6.9 million (6.8 in 2010), which FUNimation is not included, from the first quarter of 2010's first quarter results ($24.9 million), at which time they were included. We know sales have declined from 2010 to 2011 but not by how much. Thus, FUNimation's net sales for the first quarter of FY 2011 must be less than $18 million. |
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configspace
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Merchandise sales in the US alone:
- $2.512 billion in 2007 from non-video character goods -vs- $318 million from DVDs This is probably why Crunchyroll offers semi-daily Woot! style deals on merchandise. I myself bought one of the Macross SDF figures here. For example this Sengoku Basara Revoltech Date Masamune - White Limited Version is their latest. Of course there are female figures as well like those from Ikkitousen. However, I have not seen any really high-end, uber-quality PVC (read: expensive) figure offered yet. I have also noticed that most--but not all deals--state:
Just like most of the above chart, our "local" merchandise sales, count directly towards Japanese ¥¥ and are not reflected in US industry $$, except for a few properties. I am positive this is the same situation around the world as well. edit: likewise, I'm sure the converse is true when it comes to US DVD and BD sales: everyone else who imports them outside the US contributes to the US industry. I bet this also occurs now more than ever with box sets. |
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kippy666
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Wow...maybe that company can use the money from K-On! to make a decent show
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PetrifiedJello
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Many people questioned the graph's data because the elements weren't really voicing what was actually happening. Christopher McDonald (tempest) called JETRO to figure out what's going on. Like most data we see: The graph does not reflect the accuracy of the industry. Most of the merchandise is derived from tent-pole (Pokemon, Dragonball, Naruto) titles and includes everything not called a DVD. This means the rest of the series we get are reliant on DVD sales for their revenue. Make sense. Thus, to me, this article is saying the same thing the graph states in that popular series drive most of the merchandise sales, leaving the rest to whine about failed sales because of [insert a media sensation term here]. Economics 101 The problem with the article shows there is only one company claiming this Brass Ring: TBS. Why hasn't anyone else claimed success of this amount? KyoAni, did employees get a raise? After all, they did the animation for K-On!!. Please. Someone tell us the money is going back to the artist, the primary beef about our piracy fights. So, we know TBS is responsible for quite a few other series outside of K-On!!. What does this mean? It means people are buying more of TBS sponsored products than others so the others whine about *crackle*, rather than competition being a factor of lost sales. Just look. After I posted my remarks, people were quick to dismiss them because "Oh, we're not in Japan, so this doesn't pertain to us." while completely disregarding all piracy discussions are about artist paychecks. KyoAni, care to comment? ~$20,000,000 in sales means while Japan is buying stuff, people are watching for free at "those" sites. Don't forget this amount doesn't include other forms of revenue and those are what we contribute when the product finally gets here. News like this probably isn't the best thing to release because it's getting me to question why I'm buying DVDs. Tell me the thought just didn't go through your head. Don't worry, though. I do know why I buy. Last edited by PetrifiedJello on Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:08 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Megiddo
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Well, that explains why they're even on the box of aircraft carrier models. link
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