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Preliminary DVD & Blu-ray Sales Rankings for Winter 2014 (First Volumes)
*1.　17,303　Hoozuki no Reitetsu
*2.　*8,483　Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
*3.　*7,453　Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren
*4.　*7,437　Nisekoi
*5.　*6,939　Noragami
*6.　*6,156　Saki: Zenkoku-hen
*7.　*4,758　Witch Craft Works [BD]
*8.　*4,095　Seitokai Yakuindomo*
*9.　*4,057　Wake Up Girls! [BD]
10.　*3,962　Nourin
11.　*3,850　Tesagure! Bukatsumono Encore [BD]
12.　*3,766　Maken-Ki! Two
13.　*3,611　Super Sonico The Animation
14.　*2,768　Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda
15.　*2,704　Hamatora The Animation
16.　*2,691　D-Frag!
17.　*2,555　Sakura Trick
18.　*2,346　Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha.
19.　*1,742　Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga.
20.　*1,206　Nobunaga The Fool
21.　*1,169　Space Dandy
22.　*1,141　Buddy Complex [BD]
23.　**,822　Z/X: Ignition
24.　**,610　Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil
25.　**,443　Nobunagun [BD-Box/DVD-Box]
26.　**,301　Mahou Sensou
27.　**,229　Strange+

No Data
**.　**,***　Onee-chan ga Kita [BD-Box/DVD-Box]
**.　**,***　pupa [BD-Box/DVD-Box]

Not Yet Released
Tonari no Seki-kun [DVD-Box] (2014/5/28)
Robot Girls Z (2014/6/13)
Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta [BD-Box/DVD-Box] (2014/7/30)

Sources: Someanithing, Oricon Youtaiju

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May 6, 2014 4:23 AM

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I can't believe SAO EE and Nourin is still selling up to this point... 0.o
Err... IS is unexpectedly low this time.. what gives?

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May 6, 2014 4:24 AM

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34.　*2,857　**2,857　Selector Infected WIXOSS OP "killy killy JOKER" by Kanon Wakeshima

Too bad this didn't sell much.

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May 6, 2014 4:25 AM

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CD Single
*8.　15,854　*15,854　The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Master Shouko Hoshi "Doku Kinoko Densetsu" by Shouko Hoshi (CV: Satsumi Matsuda)
*9.　15,359　*15,359　Haikyuu!! OP "Imagination" by SPYAIR
18.　*4,803　**4,803　Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara OP "Cupi-Doo Revue" by Aoi Yuuki
19.　*4,758　**4,758　Kamigami no Asobi ED "REASON FOR…" by Apollon Agana Belea (CV: Miyu Irino), Hades Aidoneus (CV: Ono Daisuke), Tsukito Totsuka (CV: Yuuto Uemura), Takeru Totsuka (CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga), Balder Hringhorni (CV: Kamiya Hiroshi), Loki Laevatein (CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya)
23.　*4,508　**4,508　Kamigami no Asobi OP "TILL THE END" by Apollon Agana Belea (CV: Miyu Irino), Hades Aidoneus (CV: Ono Daisuke), Tsukito Totsuka (CV: Yuuto Uemura), Takeru Totsuka (CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga), Balder Hringhorni (CV: Kamiya Hiroshi), Loki Laevatein (CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya)
38.　*2,260　**2,260　Tamako Love Story ED "Principle" by Aya Suzaki
41.　*1,932　**1,932　Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou OP "Itsuka no, Ikutsuka no Kimi to no Sekai" by fhána
57.　*1,327　*19,436　Crayon Shin-chan Movie 22: Gachinko! Gyakushuu no Robo To-chan ED "Family Party" by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
92.　**,638　256,655　Shingeki no Kyojin OP "Jiyuu e no Shingeki (Guren no Yumiya/Jiyuu no Tsubasa)" by Linked Horizon

CD Album
19.　*3,381　**3,381　Sukima Switch 10th Anniversary "Symphonic Sound of SukimaSwitch" by Sukima Switch
38.　*1,749　213,191　Yuzu "Shin Sekai" by Yuzu
41.　*1,658　*57,524　Aki Angela "Tapestry of Songs - The Best of Angela Aki" by Angela Aki

Yay~, Kamigami no Asobi ED is more popular than OP!! I love ED more than OP, so I'm happy. Oh~~, interesting, one of the Matsuda Twins (who participated in Anisong Grandprix x2) is one of the Cinderella Girls!

I don't like "Cupido Review" being changed to "Cupi-Doo Revue", though.

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May 6, 2014 4:26 AM

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A shame about the Nourin v2 drop.

I just updated the spring sales estimates on my site. All of this is based on the current trends on Amazon. Things can still change.

Love Live! has a rather big estimated event ticket drop(50%+), but it that should not stop it from becoming the top seller of Spring.
No stalker data for JoJo P3 yet, but I think we can assume it'll reach 15k+ at worst, and maybe even 25k if part 3 really is as popular in Japan, as they say.
Haikyuu!! has a good chance at 10k+, if it has the same storefront affect as KnB, 20k+/- for v1 and v2? and then it'll drop down a lot with v3? But who knows by how much? The estimated drop, just like Love Live is rather big(50%+). I mean sure, it has 2 volumes with event tickets, but it also has 9 volumes in total.

Mushishi S2 has a decent chance at getting 10k, if you include w2+ and a slight underestimation or it getting a small sales boost. It has no event ticket, so I don't think we'll see a big drop.

And that does for series that I think have a decent chance at reaching 10k or more.

Mahouka and Sidonia are doing good, but we are talking about a 6-8k~ average, nothing huge. But still good.

Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? and Date A live II are also doing rather good, just as good as the previous 2. 4-6k~ average, maybe? I'm ofcourse hoping for a higher average for Gochiusa.

Ping Pong The Animation, Kenzen Robo Daimidaler, Mekaku City Actors, Isshuukan Friends, No Game No Life and Black bullet are doing decent(2k-4k~??). But these kind of sales are nothing special.

Kamigami no Asobi has a big estimated v2 drop of more than 85%, so make sure to remember that when v1 comes out.

Aside from(not on Amazon stalker yet),
Mahou Shoujo Taisen
Selector Infected WIXOSS
Kiniro no Corda Blue♪Sky
Baby steps
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii

All of the series that I did not mention, excluding shorts, are performing horrible on Amazon.

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I can't believe SAO EE and Nourin is still selling up to this point... 0.o

Nourin v2 just came out, whats so strange about it?

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May 6, 2014 5:02 AM

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rederoin said:

julyan04 said:
I can't believe SAO EE and Nourin is still selling up to this point... 0.o

Nourin v2 just came out, whats so strange about it?

Opps. My bad. I thought it was v1.

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May 6, 2014 5:42 AM

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Was JoJo's opening single missed *again* or did it really not rank this time (which I doubt)?

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May 6, 2014 5:48 AM

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*9.　15,359　*15,359　Haikyuu!! OP "Imagination" by SPYAIR

Awesome.Always good to see SPYAIR selling decently.

May 6, 2014 6:38 AM

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Rachmaninow said:
Was JoJo's opening single missed *again* or did it really not rank this time (which I doubt)?

It was missed again:
*20　*4,597　*14,463　Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OP "ＳＴＡＮＤ　ＰＲＯＵＤ" by Jin Hashimoto

May 6, 2014 7:11 AM

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See, Sword Art Online is so damn popular, fuck all the haters ahahaha.

May 6, 2014 7:31 AM

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@rederoin

What about Captain Earth? You don't think it will sell a couple thousand at least?

May 6, 2014 7:49 AM

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hpulley said:

Rachmaninow said:
Was JoJo's opening single missed *again* or did it really not rank this time (which I doubt)?

It was missed again:
*20　*4,597　*14,463　Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OP "ＳＴＡＮＤ　ＰＲＯＵＤ" by Jin Hashimoto

Sorry about missing it. Added it.

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What about Captain Earth? You don't think it will sell a couple thousand at least?

I missed it, it should be among the 2-4k sellers(for now).

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May 6, 2014 8:43 AM

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@tsubasalover: "Takaramonos/Paradise Live" by μ's is also missing. It sold 1411 in this week's report.

May 6, 2014 8:47 AM

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A small mistake on no 11 of the CD singles, it's Sae Kobayagawa not Saki.

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hpulley said:

Rachmaninow said:
Was JoJo's opening single missed *again* or did it really not rank this time (which I doubt)?

It was missed again:
*20　*4,597　*14,463　Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OP "ＳＴＡＮＤ　ＰＲＯＵＤ" by Jin Hashimoto

Thank you, good sir. Very glad about those numbers.

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May 6, 2014 9:25 AM

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*1.　2,234　*,**9,720　Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season Vol.4

when are they gonna announced the third season

May 6, 2014 9:26 AM

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Happy to see Monogatari Series: Second Season and KnB on the top 5 again :3

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*9.　15,359　*15,359　Haikyuu!! OP "Imagination" by SPYAIR

Awesome.Always good to see SPYAIR selling decently.

THIS THIS. I hope the number raises next week too.

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To be honest,i don't have nothing to say about this sales... I see many works that i like doing well... others,not so... but ever will have animes that sold more,and the others that sold less... it's normal... i can't do nothing about this...

May 6, 2014 10:11 AM

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IS blu ray breaks 10K, needs more Charl :D

IdolM@ster doing good <3

May 6, 2014 11:08 AM

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ThangLong said:
@tsubasalover: "Takaramonos/Paradise Live" by μ's is also missing. It sold 1411 in this week's report.

Added.

Hoppy said:
A small mistake on no 11 of the CD singles, it's Sae Kobayagawa not Saki.

Fixed.

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May 6, 2014 11:25 AM

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rederoin said:

Hahalollawl said:
@rederoin

What about Captain Earth? You don't think it will sell a couple thousand at least?

I missed it, it should be among the 2-4k sellers(for now).

Brynhildr might sell a decent amount of boxes too. Maybe if there's another episode like episode 4 people like hpulley might buy it lol.

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Hahalollawl said:

rederoin said:

Hahalollawl said:
@rederoin

What about Captain Earth? You don't think it will sell a couple thousand at least?

I missed it, it should be among the 2-4k sellers(for now).

Brynhildr might sell a decent amount of boxes too. Maybe if there's another episode like episode 4 people like hpulley might buy it lol.

Anyone know if VAP does uncensored Blurays? Were the Berserk movies uncensored? Seiki Dai and Oppai Dai may well be the price of a Bluray box...

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NeoAnkara said:
34.　*2,857　**2,857　Selector Infected WIXOSS OP "killy killy JOKER" by Kanon Wakeshima

Too bad this didn't sell much.

yes i absolutely love this song :P and the akuma no riddle OP ;P
ooh well :P 🙉

May 6, 2014 1:21 PM

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Seiki Dai and Oppai Dai may well be the price of a Bluray box...

I don't consider myself easily impressed by ecchi/harem shows, but even I enjoyed that episode quite a bit. Especially Schlieren-whatever her name is (her seiyuu might become one of my favorites in the future lol she has a great teasing voice). So much hilarity in one episode!

And apparently one of my other favorite seiyuu Mamiko Noto is going to be in it too =)

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Hahalollawl said:

hpulley said:
Seiki Dai and Oppai Dai may well be the price of a Bluray box...

Ichimichi Mao is fairly new but she has a great voice and does a wonderful job there. I liked her as Flamenco Ruby.

Satellizer and Vermillion among many other roles for the veteran Noto Mamiko.

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hpulley said:

Hahalollawl said:

I don't consider myself easily impressed by ecchi/harem shows, but even I enjoyed that episode quite a bit. Especially Schlieren-whatever her name is (her seiyuu might become one of my favorites in the future lol she has a great teasing voice). So much hilarity in one episode!

And apparently one of my other favorite seiyuu Mamiko Noto is going to be in it too =)

Ichimichi Mao is fairly new but she has a great voice and does a wonderful job there. I liked her as Flamenco Ruby.

Satellizer and Vermillion among many other roles for the veteran Noto Mamiko.

Hmmmm I wonder if she (Mao) has a natural Kansai accent or if she's just good at it.

And yeah Mamiko is quite prolific. She has a kind of sing song quality to her voice (not sure how else to describe it) that I've liked.

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iLostReason said:

*9.　15,359　*15,359　Haikyuu!! OP "Imagination" by SPYAIR

Awesome.Always good to see SPYAIR selling decently.

I love that OP! :D

May 6, 2014 6:58 PM

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See, Sword Art Online is so damn popular, fuck all the haters ahahaha.

Haters is blind, they're subjective because they hate some stuff in SAO.
SAO is very good afterall and very entertaining of course.

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I don't usually get to say many positive things in these threads, but it's really nice to see Knights of Sidonia doing well in preorders. To me it exemplifies what the sci-fi/mecha genre really should be while (M3 and Captain Earth do not so far) and what it needs to continue trying to get back to and hopefully along with Unicorn can continue to help send the message by doing well.

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As for Haikyuu I do believe it'll probably reach 10k as it's a sports shonen, which is popular. Now for Mahouka I do believe it'll reach 10k+ since it's really early out of like 26 episodes. And since the anime has been a introduction with no real action yet. Which I believe when it starts showing off its action and plot since it's starting to open up sales will increase. Since the adaption is done by MadHouse battle scenes will look great but I do hope they don't mess up. Just my thoughts.

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I'm really rooting for haikyuu. I love it soooooooo much and I want it to have more season!

May 6, 2014 10:38 PM

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Yooosh! KNB is selling well! XD Third Season is to be expected :)

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Superfaraway said:

Tengai said:
See, Sword Art Online is so damn popular, fuck all the haters ahahaha.

Haters is blind, they're subjective because they hate some stuff in SAO.
SAO is very good afterall and very entertaining of course.

SAO is not that good, but it's entertaining for me.

May 7, 2014 11:54 AM

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I had some time to waste, so I put a number as to what KlK v5 would sell if it was underestimated as much as v4 was.

So it migth hit a 10k first week with v5, but remember it also had a w0, as one retailer shipped a bunch of copies early last week. I have no idea what retailer did it though, so I have no idea how many copies where sold last week.

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May 7, 2014 1:32 PM

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Anyone think Sidonia has a shot at 10k?

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Neowing is my bet for the early release. They were closed May 3-6 so them shipping out on the 2nd makes sense. They often ship stuff earlier than prerelease day but rarely enough to show up but that was a dead week. They are a small shop compared to Amazon.

Sidonia getting 10K? Definitely has a shot. It is hot hot hot right now.

May 7, 2014 3:23 PM

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hpulley said:

Sidonia getting 10K? Definitely has a shot. It is hot hot hot right now.

Sidonia, so hot right now. Please tell me you've seen zoolander lol.

But yeah, what's up with the release date being so early anyways? Especially since IIRC it has relatively few episodes out. Why not give people a little more time to decide?

Aren't most of the spring v1s releasing in mid to late June or later? Why is Sidonia set for May?

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Hahalollawl said:

hpulley said:

Sidonia getting 10K? Definitely has a shot. It is hot hot hot right now.

It happens sometimes, for a series to be released late in the 2nd month of the season.

Free in Summer, Coppelion in Autumn, SyD* in Winter, Sidonia/Puchimass in Spring.

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rederoin said:

It happens sometimes, for a series to be released late in the 2nd month of the season.

Free in Summer, Coppelion in Autumn, SyD* in Winter, Sidonia/Puchimass in Spring.

Perhaps, but it seems weird (or perhaps nonsensical) for a series that started relatively late to release so early. Maybe it makes sense to someone somewhere...

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It will have had a lot of episodes out by then. Certainly most minds are made up by this point aside from GaruPan type stories and even that one was on the up after episode three. A Nagi Asu is very rare.

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hpulley said:
It will have had a lot of episodes out by then. Certainly most minds are made up by this point aside from GaruPan type stories and even that one was on the up after episode three. A Nagi Asu is very rare.

Perhaps, but not as many episodes as other series will have out by the time their release date comes around right? I guess I just don't get why you would do that. If a show started later wouldn't you expect its first volume to be released later too? What's the advantage?

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Get them to buy your series instead of others and lock it in.

May 7, 2014 11:49 PM

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hpulley said:
Get them to buy your series instead of others and lock it in.

Ehhhhhh I'm skeptical of that. Do people take into account the release date when preordering? You can still buy it after it's been released...right?

Although that does seem like a good reason to start airing a show early.

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Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for April 28th - May 4th

Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles

Blu-ray
*1.　9,047　**9,047　Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova Vol.5
*6.　1,428　**1,428　Nourin Vol.2

DVD
*1.　2,234　*,**9,720　Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season Vol.4
*2.　*,888　*,***,888　Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova Vol.5

go go aoki ars nova :D okay for kuroko and nourin too :>

tsubasalover said:
Preliminary DVD & Blu-ray Sales Rankings for Winter 2014 (First Volumes)

20.　*1,206　Nobunaga The Fool

25.　**,443　Nobunagun [BD-Box/DVD-Box]

really sad for nobunaga series, especially nobunagun. it has good story development and plot :\

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Hahalollawl said:

hpulley said:
Get them to buy your series instead of others and lock it in.

You are writing this on the sales thread. Look at past results and you know that almost all releases sell the majority of discs in the first week they go on sale, most on prerelease and release day. Again I remind you that NagiAsu cases are very rare.

So people are not going to wait for July to buy Sidonia. Most will buy it May 27-30. The vast majority will have preordered it beforehand but some may pick it up on a whim that weekend.

Now, that said, aside from the small list of shows that are not yet solicited, you can pre-order most other shows already. So it may not bump other shows out, people likely have put their other orders in by now as well. But they do need to make up their mind sooner for Sidonia.

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I am surprise that Infinite Stratos 2 Vol. 6 is still in the list...

May 8, 2014 12:33 PM

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So to confirm, you do think there is an advantage to Sidonia releasing on May 28 instead of late June or early July? And if that is the case why are almost all of the other shows releasing later? Shouldn't they want to release earlier too? Or are they just not able to finish their first volumes fast enough to release earlier?

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