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NEWS: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, June 30-July 6

Love Live has officially sold over 100k BD in the space of three weeks. It's officially the best selling TV anime on Blu Ray ever and if I'm not mistake I believe it may also be the best selling TV anime overall ever as well. But I think I may be wrong, unless someone else wants to clarify.

For how determined people like yourself seem to be to prove the worth of this show through its meaningless Blu-ray sales, I still don't care about it.

It may be the best selling TV anime ever but that doesn't affect my enjoyment of it or all of the other anime out there in any way.

Another point of interest, why does it seem as though a majority of fans are more obsessed with pointing out sales of a particular product rather than the quality or the actual anime itself? Why are we (a blanket term by the way) seemingly so much more interested in trivial things such as that, rather than what sets it apart from the rest of the sludge inhabiting the industry? My tone is mostly negative, and for that I apologize. I'm just a heavily cynical person, that's all.

"Kill la Kill 7 (Limited Complete Pressing) 7,185 7,185"



Is that good or bad for Kill la Kill?

Meaningless, do you have any idea how many profits LL got from those disc sales?

Why are you in this thread if you don't care about sales? Is it such a crime for us of those who do to discuss it? Why is it so strange to want shows you like do good? No matter what medium, be it anime or western, or even sports you like. i.e, if football suddenly become unprofitable(will never happen, since its the most popular sport in the world), a lot of people would be pissed off/unhappy.


It may be the best selling TV anime ever but that doesn't affect my enjoyment of it or all of the other anime out there in any way.

Quality is subjective, sales are objective. Sales also aren't as trivial as you seem to think. Without them, we would see a lot less anime get produced.

If something has an engaging story, with colorful characters, not to mention great acting, direction, visuals, art, music, then regardless how much it sells, it becomes something OBJECTIVELY noteworthy. As Love Live lacks all of these, bar perhaps snippets of animation, it cannot be called good.
It's a farce Escaflowne(at least in it's first run) and Big O failed in Japan, while Love Live and crap like Aikatsu are Sunrise's/Bandai Visual's top IPs after Gundam.

I'm going to have to back Jayhosh here. Sales do not determine the quality of something.

it becomes something OBJECTIVELY noteworthy. As Love Live lacks all of these, bar perhaps snippets of animation, it cannot be called good.

Oh and sales=/=less anime. Sales in 2004 were something like 400 billion yen, now it's not even 100 billion, yet there's more anime being made.

Also, if pandering is what makes anime popular rather than quality, the industry deserves to take some kind of hit. If you're not going to put any effort, don't even try.

Second Fire Shadow wrote:

Love Live has officially sold over 100k BD in the space of three weeks. It's officially the best selling TV anime on Blu Ray ever and if I'm not mistake I believe it may also be the best selling TV anime overall ever as well. But I think I may be wrong, unless someone else wants to clarify.

For how determined people like yourself seem to be to prove the worth of this show through its meaningless Blu-ray sales, I still don't care about it. It's almost as if you're just trying to legitimatize the existence of it solely because of its impressive Blu-ray sales. Acting as if that is any indication of quality, because I've seen a lot of movies and TV shows, and let me tell you, shit sells. And it wouldn't have even sold HALF that much if it weren't for the obvious incentives made to buy, and I'm sure more than a few crazed "otaku" bought more than one copy for that exact reason. It may be the best selling TV anime ever but that doesn't affect my enjoyment of it or all of the other anime out there in any way.

Another point of interest, why does it seem as though a majority of fans are more obsessed with pointing out sales of a particular product rather than the quality or the actual anime itself? Why are we (a blanket term by the way) seemingly so much more interested in trivial things such as that, rather than what sets it apart from the rest of the sludge inhabiting the industry? My tone is mostly negative, and for that I apologize. I'm just a heavily cynical person, that's all.

I'm going to have to back Jayhosh here. Sales do not determine the quality of something.

As Love Live lacks all of these, bar perhaps snippets of animation, it cannot be called good.

Oh and sales=/=less anime. Sales in 2004 were something like 400 billion yen, now it's not even 100 billion, yet there's more anime being made. Also, if pandering is what makes anime popular rather than quality, the industry deserves to take some kind of hit.

The ones who put in effort should be rewarded, while the ones who put in zero effort should take the biggest hit.