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Here are the weekly DVD & CD rankings for February 13th - 19th.

DVD
*1, 2,591 *,**2,591 Hellsing Ultimate vol.9 Limited Edition
*2, 1,925 *,**1,925 Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World Deluxe Edition
*3, 1,455 *,**6,037 Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Seinaru Hoshi Standard Edition
*4, 1,324 *,**1,324 Yuru Yuri vol.6
*5, 1,144 *,**8,358 Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Seinaru Hoshi Limited Edition
*6, *,983 *,***,983 Cardfight!! Vanguard vol.7
*7, *,781 1,123,587 My Neighbor Totoro
*8, *,635 *,*24,216 One Piece Log Collection "Rocket Man"
*9, *,597 *,***,597 Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! vol.4
10, *,535 *,*39,509 Usavich IV
11, *,403 *,***,403 Hanasaku Iroha vol.8
12, *,396 *,*63,714 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn vol.4
13, *,384 *,901,594 Gake no Ue no Ponyo
14, *,376 *,***,376 Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World Standard Edition
15, *,363 *,***,363 Ai no Kusabi vol.2
16, *,339 *,*19,208 Pokemon Best Wishes! the Movie: Victini to Kuroki & Shiroki Eiyuu Reshiram
17, *,319 *,475,738 Kiki's Delivery Service

Blu-ray
*1, 6,796 *6,796 Yuru Yuri vol.6
*2, 6,157 *6,157 Hanasaku Iroha vol.8
*3, 3,379 *3,379 Shinryaku!? Ika Musume vol.3
*4, 3,217 *3,217 Hellsing Ultimate vol.9 Limited Edition
*5, 2,306 *2,306 Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! vol.4
*6, 1,726 *1,726 Ben-To vol.3
*7, 1,251 11,381 Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Seinaru Hoshi Limited Edition
*8, *,844 **,844 Yuri Seijin Naoko-san (2012)

Single CD
*3, 23,354 23,354 Aquarion Evol "Kimi no Shinwa ~ Aquarion Dai 2 Sho"
*9, *7,967 *7,967 Toriko "Sabrina"
16, *4,586 48,732 Nisemonogatari "Naisho no Hanashi"
20, *4,264 *4,264 Inazuma Eleven Go "Ohayo! Shining Day"
23, *3,263 17,323 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! "Happy Girl"
27, *2,912 11,377 Thermae Romae "Thermae Roman"
31, *2,429 *2,429 Love Live! "Mogyutto 'love' de Sekkinchu!"
38, *2,139 11,738 Ano Natsu de Matteru "sign"
39, *2,134 *2,134 Beelzebub "Only you ~Kimi tono Kizuna~"

Album CD
22. 5,392 *5,392 Yuru Yuri Uta♪Album
48, 1,783 15,704 Tiger & Bunny Best of Hero

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

Temporal Blu-ray + DVD Sales Rankings in Autumn 2011 (first volumes)
*1, 41,369 Persona 4 The Animation
*2, 24,605 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon
*3, 19,613 Working'!!
*4, 12,137 Guilty Crown
*5, 11,984 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
*6, *4,524 Sekaiichi Hatsukoi 2
*7, *4,333 gdgd Fairies
*8, *4,240 Shakugan no Shana III (vol.2)
*9, *4,077 Tamayura: Hitotose (Blu-ray data only, DVD *,920 ~1,131)
10, *3,421 Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!
11, *3,379 Shinryaku!? Ika Musume
12, *3,199 Maken-Ki! (Blu-ray data only, DVD *,920 ~1,131)
13, *3,026 Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam
14, *2,336 Mirai Nikki
15, *2,333 Chihayafuru (vol.2)
16, *2,325 Mashiroiro Symphony: The Color of Lovers
17, *2,101 Ben-To
18, *2,038 C³
19, *1,991 Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
20, *1,853 Kimi to Boku.
21, *1,546 UN-GO
22, **,954 Morita-san wa Mukuchi 2

out of the rankings
Hunter x Hunter
Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle

Not released yet
Fate/Zero (Mar 7)

Nice to see that Persona 4 is the top seller of this Fall season. That gives me some hope that its amazing predecessor may get animated in a near future. (Though it's still just my hopeful thinking.)

It's damn great seeing Hellsing Ultimate at the top spot.

Well, theres a chance Fate/Zero can top it when it finally goes on sale in a couple weeks. Its projected about 40k atm.

nice that Hellsing is there!!! as well as Guilty Crown getting 12k sales
and as usual Gundam Unicorn tops them all lol

i watch the first episode of persona 4 and the animation quality very much like a naruto filler episode visual experience lol, why do people like this show if it has that kind of pathetic animation? anime should be watch mainly for its animation since anime just means animation in japanese language anyway

Nisemonogatari and Ano Natsu de Matteru? （　´∀｀）

Because clearly that story and plot isn't worth watching for if the animation is bad.

But seriously, if everyone should watch anime because solely of animation, then Guilty Crown should have sold 50k+. But it didn't happen, so your regular anime fan appreciates a good plot as much as good animation, thank you very much.

you mention Guilty Crown, so that means Persona 4 has way better story and story execution than Guilty Crown?

I should have added "so far" to my post... Anyway, not like I'd complain about that^^ Up until now, ufotable did a great job adapting the best thing I've ever read.

Yay~

Just to say that Guilty Crown has better animation than the rest, but it didn't sell like hotcakes if people watch because of animation. Even Working'!! outsells Guilty Crown. Could be because the plot and story isn't executed very well.

As I have never watched (or even played) Persona 4, I have no comment on that. My point simply is that anime fans loves good story executed well even if it has standard animation more than top-notch animation without a good story.

Ouch, Anime Bunko. I'm scared to find out how much Minori Scramble and Gyo actually sold.

you should know an anime made from a popular game that have 300,000+ Sales in japan would have Guaranteed Success

Bullshit. Having fans is one thing, having an adaption succeed is a completely different one.

A good example would be Umineko. Yeah right, look at aaaaall those fans and how the anime flopped. P4 simply is a VERY good adaption. That's why it sells. Its writing basically. (Because fans know the story and the visuals seem to be not too good either..)
Guilty Crown is the complete opposite. It looks nice, but the writing is apparently atrocious. (Writing, not story mind you. The story is very much a matter of taste. The writing.. not so much)

you have no point unless you both watch Guilty Crown and Persona 4 then, just try watching the first episode of Persona 4 and first episode of Guilty Crown then tell me who has the better plot and plot execution later on, because for me Persona 4 is no way have a better plot nor better plot execution than the hated Guilty Crown

so for me Persona 4 has low visual quality and have mediocre story

so yuruyuri doing good. from the title imply, like the mild yuri anime.

Winter season shows, not out yet. Nise comes out April 25, AnoNatsu on March 23.


This is demonstrably false and I really wish people would stop perpetuating this misunderstanding. The correlation between the sales of source material and sales of the anime adaptation is fairly poor. It helps, but does no come close to guaranteeing, success.

If original medium sales and anime sales followed some sort of consistent, direct relationship, Moshidora would be one of the best selling shows in history. Instead it sold maybe 500 copies a volume. If you object that we should restrict it to otaku-centric properties, then just look at almost any visual novel adaptation. Top 10 VNs regularly get adapted only to sell less than 4k a volume, often much worse. And of course there's a large graveyard of poor-selling video game and manga and light novel adaptations. Persona's success was not guaranteed, even less so it being a 30k+ smash hit.

Wow, I never expected Yuru Yuri to be doing well. That's nice to see.