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NEWS: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, August 26-September 1

Wouldn't it make more sense to be baffled why Americans only love action shows for kids so much? The way you worded it makes it sound like America's taste supersede Japan's when it's more like the opposite logically Any time a humongous non-action series comes out here it fails or goes by unnoticed. Gintama, Shinchan, Conan, Keroro.. dead on arrival in America though I'm sure over-localization didn't help their cause... Plenty more big in Japan shows have never even seen the light of day here Me thinks it's more of a problem of the lack of variety in American anime fan tastes when only action shounen stuff like Naruto and Titan can do well. They need a bit more variety in their diet Bake and Free would be a good start for more casual American audiences to embrace

jet_ wrote:

CrowLia wrote: Blazaking wrote: Kinda sad that AoT isn't doing that great. Did you read the wrong chart? AoT's overall sales for this volume are well over 30K, how much more would be "that great" for you? Maybe he expected it to sell like Bake.

Japan posted the image of the top selling series' first vol bluray/dvd of all time couple year's back. it will take Aot to sell 50K+ to beat Bakemonogatari's first vol.

http://dalian.7thstyle.com/2012/02/top-selling-anime-blu-ray-all-time-001.jpg

Remember this is only the first vol of the series of the entire bluray's life cycle.(not just first week sales.)

Jave wrote:

Wouldn't it make more sense to be baffled why Americans only love action shows for kids so much? The way you worded it makes it sound like America's taste supersede Japan's when it's more like the opposite logically Any time a humongous non-action series comes out here it fails or goes by unnoticed. Gintama, Shinchan, Conan, Keroro.. dead on arrival in America though I'm sure over-localization didn't help their cause... Plenty more big in Japan shows have never even seen the light of day here Me thinks it's more of a problem of the lack of variety in American anime fan tastes when only action shounen stuff like Naruto and Titan can do well. They need a bit more variety in their diet Bake and Free would be a good start for more casual American audiences to embrace

No I'm saying Attack on Titan has managed to achieve worldwide popularity, something that Free and Bakemonogatari would never be likely too cause they just don't have that I guess "it" factor that Titan does. Like I can absolutely guarantee you the casual American audience that only really follows the licensing companies like Funimation or what is on TV is not going to be remotely interested in those shows similar to how Japan barely shows an interest in something like Call of Duty which is a smash hit almost everywhere else in the Western world.

I'll never get over how much absolute confidence the fans of shows like Free and Bakemonogatari have in the material though. Like they really seem to on average think that SoL type stuff is just a cut above anything with any sort of action or Shonen tendencies and that if your average "mature" person just watched them they'd instantly fall in love the same way they have. I almost never see this sort of thing from fans of any other genre or from beyond the shows of the two production companies that made those shows.