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Happy about DxD since that means more chances of having season 2...

I am new to the keeping track of sales thing but as of today what would the DVD/Bluray points need to be to be decent? What would they need to be to be great as in uta pri great?

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. I'm counting them as in 58 k for nisemonogatari.

the 1- 3 means?....

I assume he means 1-3k.

He's counting in units of 1000 I assume. His categories are a decent ballpark, but maybe a little demanding. 10-18k is a lot better than "decent".

As for points, assume 1pt = 1 sale, roughly. Points are intended to be a sales estimate.

Off the top of my head I'd say:

0 to 1999 - Complete failure (Kill Me Baby) or wasn't intended to sell DVD/BDs (Fairy Tail). Maybe 15-20% of late night anime end up here.

2000-3999 - Generally not enough for a sequel, but if the title is mostly intended to sell manga or novels, you might in rare cases see sequels (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka), but only rarely would a third season be funded off this for a late night anime. Probably 25-30% of shows end up here.

4000-5999 - Approaching sequel territory if it wasn't an expensive show to make. Not good enough for most big budget action shows but works for smaller shows even at the low end of the range (Tamayura). Maybe another 15-25%.

6000-9999 - Solid sequel territory for most new shows. At the higher end of this, the production committee of an "average" show can break even on video sales alone, before CDs, licensing, figures, merchandising, etc. Figure 15-25% again.

10,000-19,999 - Major hits, almost certainly broke even on video sales alone, sequel practically guaranteed if there's any material left or if it's anime original. Often one of the top 3-4 best selling shows per season, probably about 5-10% in recent years.

20,000-29,999 - Huge huge success, guaranteed top 10 of the year, a few percent of shows tops.

30,000-49,999 - Monumental, run-away smash hits that dominate otakudom. Usually the #1 best seller of the year. A fraction of 1% of shows have gotten here - only 14 shows have made it here on their first release.

50,000-* - Legendary sales, only 6 TV anime show have ever averaged over 50k on their first release (Eva, Bake, Madoka, Seed Destiny, Seed, Code Geass). The next two to join this will be Nisemonogatari and probably Fate/Zero. A tiny tiny fraction of shows get here.

I didn't even bother to see if the percentages add to 100%, they're just very very quick estimates (I could check more precisely but maybe later) based on memory.

Can I ask, if the sales requirements are the cumulative total of all the volumes sold or they are per individual volumes?

No no.. You are misunderstanding my question..

I was asking, if the info jmal supplied was for the sale requirement per volume, or the total sales..

Average sales per volume. So for A Channel for example, the six volumes are 6,334 + 5,461 + 5,240 + 4,912 + 4,796 + 4,704 = 31,447 / 6 = 5,241.

Thanks. Got it.

Inu x Boku SS did a lot better than I thought it would, lol.

Natsume Yuujinchou Shi <3.

here all time top sales tv series anime (average above 40.000, no addition BOX and late started sales)

　111.559　1995　Evangelion
　*78.671　2009　Bakemonogatari
　*71.056　2011　Puella Magi Madoka
　*69.247　2004　MSG SEED DESTINY
　*58.589　2002　MSG SEED
*49.788 2011 Fate/Zero ......................ongoing
　*46.147　2008　Macross F
　*45.367　2006　Code Geass
　*43.830　2009　K-On !
　*42.690　2008　Code Geass R2
　*41.038　2006　Haruhi 1

from 2ch

Ah, it looks like the Code Geass season one BDs are being counted as "late started sales" in that list, hence the lower number. Geass released individual BD volumes 11 months after the DVDs finished (since BD wasn't much of a thing when it initially released), so I guess it's debatable whether they should be included, though various sources I've seen do count them (since it's a bit different from a boxset re-release). If you include the BDs (which we only have Vol. 1-4 data for) it's 50,551. Either works.

The Destiny numbers are ever so slightly higher than what I've seen before, but only by a few hundred, nothing remotely significant when we're talking 68k+.

Other than that, yeah, same numbers I've seen.