Forum - View topicNEWS: Japanese Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, July 16-22
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walw6pK4Alo
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K-ON film really cleaned up, 100k BluRays in a week is pretty impressive, between the two editions.
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RyanSaotome
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140k if you count the DVDs, too. Here are the first weeks for the top selling non Ghibli anime movies: 640,333 Evangelion Shin Gekijouban Ha (2.0) 229,013 One Piece Strong World 219,315 Evangelion Shin Gekijouban Jo (1.0) 140,306 K-ON! Movie 122,775 Hagane no Renkinjutsushi Shamballa wo Yuku Mono 109,593 Summer Wars 107,090 Gintama Benizakura-hen 100,036 Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu *97,778 Kidou Senshi Z Gundam -Hoshi wo Tsugu Mono- *95,284 Kidou Senshi Gundam 00 -A Wakening of the Trailblazer- *83,894 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st Pretty impressive when only Evangelion and One Piece top it. |
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Megiddo
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Yep, with the 100k BDs sold and 40k DVDs sold, the K-ON movie in its very first week of release has passed the cumulative sales totals of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya thus making it the best-selling KyoAni movie and (I believe) the best-selling anime movie of a late-night anime franchise. Really impressive first week numbers, and I'm definitely curious to see how many more sales get added in the second week.
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Ryu Shoji
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FFFFFFUUUUUUUU K-ON! is selling a lot.
I would have imported the movie from Japan, but DAYUM is it expensive there. Hopefully Sentai will pick it up. |
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Panon
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Still behind the two Macross Frontier movies (both sold 190,000+) |
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Megiddo
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Those two movies were sold as software, not BD/DVD, so they are not counted in the movie sales for Oricon as far as I know.
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SquadmemberRitsu
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There was never any doubt in my mind that K-On would get number 1
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StormSky92
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Wow, K-ON! owned the chart this week, as expected. Hopefully the movie gets licensed for release in the US.
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Kutsu
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What a K-ONspicuous success.
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Fencedude5609
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Xard
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As mentioned before Macross Frontier movies outsold K-ON in first week sales and by now they're of course way ahead. I think it's stupid that they never get counted here because Oricon decided to designate them as "software" - though this means Sayonara no Tsubasa was IIRC the top selling anything in its category last year 
I'd like a source for Utahime and Sayonara now being in 190,000 range. It's entirely beliavable but I'd like a source nevertheless.
comparable sales for Macross films were: 173 040 combined first week sales for Utahime 170 980 combined first week sales for Sayonara |
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RyanSaotome
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They don't officially count since they also bundled full video games with them. The BD of the movie was just one part of the package. Its quite unfair to compare a pure movie to a movie/video game bundle, so you'll never see it officially listed among top selling movies. |
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Xard
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Only the BDs came with the game bundled with the whole Hybrid Pack thing though so it didn't have any impact on every sale. While the addition of the game definetly had some effect on both on sales (and price) for most peole the draw were the films given the overwhelming priority the film tends to get in japanese reviews, blog posts etc. about the Hybrid Pack. The discussion and hype surrounding the upcoming DYRL Hybrid Pack is also telling with the game adaptation bundled with the film not really coming off as of comparable importance next to the classic film. There's quite little talk about it, it's again more of a "bonus" than anything else. So yeah, while it's certain the game impacted the sales and as such it's reasonable to not count it as a film release it's still worth bringing up in these discussions even if one can't ust insert it into the chart as it is. Unfortunately it is impossible to determine just how much sales were bolstered by making them Hybrid Packs instead of plain BDs. Hypothetically speaking (and projecting the success of films based on their DVD/BD sales in tv format, general commercial presence in Japan etc.) I think Macross films would've probably been somewhere between 120-140k were they not Hybric Packs which would still rank them only under Eva and potentially K-ON as far as late night anime goes. In fact I was expecting this film to outsell Macross films. Perhaps the Hybrid Pack can account for the 30k between them - or then K-ON film was less well received in Japan than it might've (Macross films are highly praised and thus fared well in ticket sales and DVD/BD sales while Gundam 00 film fared better than Macross in ticket sales but somewhat crashed in BD sales thanks to lukewarm reception) but that doesn't seem to beliavable to me. Still, strong sales and just what I'd expect from K-ON. I guess this means I must wait for Madoka in hopes of having something other than Eva break the 200,000 barrier basically it's right to not enter them in film charts as they are but it's clear they'd be in this top selling chart nevertheless so mentioning them in addendum or something like that would be preferrable IMO. edit: it's pretty amusing the cultural and commercial monster that is Totoro only sold 8k but given the distinct consumer base from otaku and that DVDs are pretty much all over the place as it is it's not that surprising. |
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