Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Dec 8 - 14

tsubasalover said:
CD Single
*3.　29,399　*29,399　Sword Art Online II EDs "Shirushi/No More Time Machine" by LiSA (incl. in "Shirushi")
20.　*4,320　**4,320　Hoozuki no Reitetsu OVA ED "Enma Daiou ni Kiite Goran" by Sumire Uesaka
35.　*1,961　*25,863　Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso OP "Hikaru nara" by Goose house
37.　*1,927　*14,396　Kono Danshi, Sekika ni Nayandemasu ED "glitter wish" by Shouta Aoi (incl. in "Himitsu no Kuchizuke")
46.　*1,555　**1,555　Fairy Tail (2014) OP "Mysterious Magic" by Do As Infinity
50.　*1,415　*19,411　Nanatsu no Taizai ED "7 -seven-" by FLOW x GRANRODEO
57.　*1,230　*24,160　Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV) ED "believe" by Kalafina
89.　**,660　*19,858　Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV) OP "ideal white" by Mashiro Ayano
94.　**,630　**5,611　Magic Kaito 1412 OP "Kimi no Matsu Sekai" by LAGOON

CD Album
*7.　13,364　13,364　Nagi Yanagi "Polyomino"
40.　*2,585　59,663　Mai Kuraki "Mai Kuraki BEST 151A -LOVE & HOPE-" (incl. older Detective Conan theme songs and new OP "DYNAMITE")

tsubasalover said:
27.　*2,725　**2,725　Aikatsu! Movie ED "Kagayaki no Etude" by STAR☆ANIS

Moodie said:
this is what u get when u make fun of the only ppl buying anime

Moodie said:
ha at the ghibil film

this is what u get when u make fun of the only ppl buying anime

Zee530 said:
Wow, there's barely any TV anime on the list.

Paulo27 said:
Expelled From Paradise up there as expected, still funny they only wanted to ship 10k when they sold 30k copies on day 1, won't be suprised if it breaks 100k, if the copies printed allow it.

Those projections look good too.

Kaioshin_Sama said:


I thought these were for first week sales not first day sales.

Paulo27 said:


They are first day sales if the anime was only sold during the first day, which is the case.

rederoin said:

It was released on 10 December.

Paulo27 said:


And it sold out on day 1.
They haven't restocked since I don't think.

Ejc said:


I doubt it's going to sell 100K. This is first week sales not first day sales. It's been in stock at Amazon. It is ranked 1 place above the Love Live! 4th concert BD on the 2014 Amazon Yearly Rankings which did ~42k sales. It is not far off this, so 100K is so unlikely. I doubt it is much more storefront biased than the Love Live! concert BD.

Daily Rankings don't indicate much of a stock issue at all. Maybe at storefront, but it still ranked well on release day (which is the major storefront sales day).

BD総合デイリー
**8 **9 *10 *11 *12 *13 *14　 週
**2 *16 **6 **6 **4 **4 **3 | -- | アナと雪の女王 MovieNEX
*** **4 **3 **4 **1 **2 **4 | -- | 楽園追放 Expelled from Paradise

rederoin said:
Nice to see strike witches doing so well.

I was a bit busy for the last month(WoW), so I had no time to check thee sales projections. But I was curious about them, so here is the updated list. Below 2k is ommitted.



*Only the amazon version is on stalker, so I have no idea what the projections for the non-amazon version is.

Kaioshin_Sama said:


It ranked 5th for December 15 which is it's lowest yet while Frozen franked #1 again with it's insane longevity. I find it funny that EFP's Oricon rank seems to have been about 3rd place for the weekly average even though it's Amazon ranking has consistently been either #1 or #2 for about a week now. Maybe it just has an extremely heavy Amazon bias. Also it's taking off popularity wise with only 3 weeks to go to release seems to have caused it's initial sales estimate from Amazon to be overestimated since Stalker works by essentially just adding a flat rate of points to something which is less accurate the higher up in the amazon charts it goes. I think it's something like:

1st place (2800)
2nd place (1200)
3rd place (800)

or some such thing. Could be totally off about that though. Also I'm not sure but I wonder if maybe people are confusing stock issues with this special version of the disc that went up on Amazon a couple weeks ago that has an added poster and will ship on December 19th instead and is estimated at about 2,000 stalker points or so. I remember hearing Animate and some smaller retail stores were selling out on day 1 in any case, but if Amazon sold out I have yet to see any indication of it. I remember when it happened with Love Live volume 1 there was a special notice and apology about it shipping a bit later.

Ejc said:


I did also heard from symbv that it was out of stock in a lot of places at storefront, but I would think that the majority of people would shift to buying off an internet retailer such as Amazon, since it actually in stock. Seems ridiculous they would wait it out, unless they don't have a credit card or something to order online, or they pre-ordered at storefront and haven't gotten they copy yet.

Hoppy said:
Not much is selling decently, this season is a complete failure in the sales department and just as bad as Winter. I'm glad Cross Ange is selling though, but G Reconstituted shit should not be selling 20k, it's dreadful made worse by Tomino acting unprofessional, you don't talk down to your fanbase no matter how famous you are, keep it to yourself. Gundam is in decline when it comes to the anime, you may want to stay away from any future series that's not UC, my recommendation is to stick with the games, from what I seen, Gundam Breaker 2 looks excellent and has some kickass new features.

Kaioshin_Sama said:


IMO you have it backwards, it's the fanbase that's actually the one in decline. Then again I think a lot of the points Tomino have actually have merit even if I don't agree 100% with him and I never felt he was talking down to his fanbase so much as saying how he sees the current state of popular culture and what people are spending their time on. It's the anime fanbases inability to self-reflect and insistence on burying itself in supporting and championing things that really just flatter them and their limited world view more than anything else that are the biggest crises facing anime and why so many shows are so crappy and kind of pointless now.

And if anything Cross Ange is one of the worst works Sunrise has ever put out in so many ways from themes, to scripting to characterization and just bad art. I don't understand anime fandoms current hatred of and rejection of shows like G-Reco other than it just so happens to present a set of themes and ideas based in current Japanese politics that they can neither understand nor want to take any interest in because it has nothing to do with typical otaku themed stuff that comprises the vast majority of current late night anime which I will say I think you are correct in saying is just doing horribly for a Fall season and IMO justifiably so. This is a pretty damn tepid fall season if not year for anime that has shown me just how badly the medium has stagnated and become reliant on advertising and big brand names to keep itself propped up as being even so much as a relevant sub culture. The same old standby's will do okay at best but everything else is pretty much doomed as per usual.

And anyway I definitely agree at least that video games are doing a hell of a lot better than anime, but not because any particular franchise is in decline, there's just a whole lot more going on of interest. If anything is in decline it's the anime industry and the effort level it's willing to put into actually creating new and fresh content, but that's not entirely it's fault so much as any time it makes any attempt at it it's pretty much guaranteed to blow up in investors faces. The 80's and 90's were a good era for experimentation with anime and getting new ideas out there with an audience that was starting to become more open minded but monopolies and an ever shrinking audience of non-hardcore otaku types who will even bother to take an interest in anime have seen the industry turn to Light Novels, Visual Novels and a handful of popular staffers that seem to have the eyes and ears of the hardcore otaku audience to even have a hope in hell at accomplishing much of anything. Meanwhile you have games like Bravely Default and Dark Souls 2 that just about anyone from any walk of life can approach and enjoy despite being made by Japanese companies.

Hoppy said:

It's sad to see the casuals and normal fans go away for the hardcore crowd, the anime industry would be balanced and would make more money if there were more anime for casual fans along with anime meant for Otaku.

Cross Ange is so-so very hit or miss on the execution and the characters (I have a hard time liking a good number of the characters as they are batshit insane or bitches) but the worst anime from Sunrise, that's a stretch. Cross Ange suffered from the first 3 episodes being weaksauce overall and slow pickup of quality overall, also the rehashing ideas from Gundam Seed, it's like they were running out of ideas in parts. However it's nowhere near as bad as Valvrave, that show was abysmal compared to Cross Ange.

As for the industry turning to LNs and VNs, I find it disappointing myself but not because of the mediums themselves, but what they are adapting from those mediums. Finding something that isn't a harem, ecchi, some Otaku-orientated action LN (most likely with a ton of ecchi), or with little sister themes is almost impossible today from LNs and any variety is almost non-existent for VNs, they just adapt the most popular VN at the moment whither it's shit or not instead of the many good ones out there.

ichii_1 said:
Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :(

G-Reco is like Gundam AGE, made to attract new people into gundam especially young people and only the filthy elitists and alzheimic dinosaurs complain about them, G reco is pretty good but of course the bais prevents them too admit it.
And other gundams series with more mature content is being made along with these new ones, but let's ignore that right?

Cross Ange and the other anime are perfectly fine, if you want masterpiece level writing and fate stay level of animation in every anime your f*cking stupid, just go watch reality TV and leave anime to the real fans.

moonnya said:


well I made this average setimate + guess chart, a little different from you

this season selling like shit ...

Zapredon said:


OMG. Cross Ange is going to sell 5k - 7k? YES! Didn't expect that at all. LOL!

Kaioshin_Sama said:
[So basically your whole baiting confrontational shtick and trying to use the most inflammatory language and framing conceivably possible in this situation doesn't really hold much water so much as you are making these wild assumptions that I think and look at things exactly the same as your average MALer or "real fans" as you seem to be implying. Like you could not have conceivably come up with more of a stock response that just does not fit the situation whatsoever if you had tried man.

moonnya said:


If you see the summer and spring this year average sale chart, you will realize that there are at least 6 anime each season that have higher sale than Cross Ange. This fall even seems to sell less than last year winter
(well of course it won't sell less than last year winter )

Moodie said:
Lol at ppl taking estimates seriously when every single time it turns out to be a gross overestimation or underestimation

ichii_1 said:

I've gotta cut off all the bs you're spouting before some people believe it.
That gundam thing has been said alot of times they're focusing on new fans and old fans, how have you not heard of it? :Odoubtful:O
Go complain to american cartoon creators please, cause the art style and animation SUCKS, that's the real tragedy.

Kaioshin_Sama said:


Only when a show ranks really high for a long time against other popular titles or when there just isn't that much popular being preordered period. Other than that stalker can be surprisingly accurate with it's predictions.

Watashi20 said:
And EFP is sold out yet again on Amazon. Oh boy this just keeps getting better and better.

Watashi20 said:
And EFP is sold out yet again on Amazon. Oh boy this just keeps getting better and better.