×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
NEWS: Top-Selling Anime CD Albums: 2018




Note: this is the discussion thread for this article
Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
mercury_star



Joined: 12 Nov 2014
Posts: 12
PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:53 am Reply with quote
Kenshi Yonezu just killed every charts huh. Kudos to the man, he deserves it!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Aca Vuksa



Joined: 22 Mar 2018
Posts: 643
Location: Nis, Serbia
PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:41 am Reply with quote
Kenshi Yonezu is getting an mass appeal so much, i like his style style dude!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
RegSuzaku



Joined: 08 Jul 2018
Posts: 267
Location: Ikebukuro
PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 6:28 am Reply with quote
I like Yonezu's songs way more than his singing voice, so I keep finding good covers of them...

But wow, HypMic... wow!

Does Egoist count as 2D/2.5D? I feel like other 2D/2.5D artists should do openings for anime that aren't about them...

There was another chart about the top earning franchises, from Oricon, and it ranked books and DVDs, basically, but not CDs (or games or lives or merch), and the franchises on this list are exactly the ones conspicuously absent from that one - HypMic, EnStars, Bang Dream, UtaPri, A3. Fate and TouRabu are on both, and IM@S and Love Live are very low down on this list, but they were at the top of the other list.

Between CDs, books, DVDs, Comiket presence, Pixiv rankings, Twitter trends...? (Lives and merchandise obvioulsy can't be tracked in a way that you could compare franchises by) There doesn't seem to be any one way of tracking what the top anime franchise is. It actually really feels like the anime sphere is too diverse and too spread out for the concept of "most popular" to mean anything - what does that mean? With whom? There are too many different sorts of fans nowadays.

There are top movies rankings, but that's because they're tracking one thing - a movie, one movie at a time. "Anime" franchises aren't like that. They don't center on one anime, or one manga, or one novel series, or anything like that in some sort of uniform way. And even if you're comparing video games, like, how would you compare Touken Ranbu, Kingdom Hearts, Idolm@ster, and Pokemon? Those.. aren't comparable.

I'm not trying to reach a conclusion, just musing. It's interesting.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group