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Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for May 7th - 13th.

Blu-ray
*1, 6,352 *6,352 Mouretsu Pirates vol.3 Limited Edition
*2, 2,503 *2,503 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! vol.3
*3, *,768 53,939 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition
*4, *,541 20,948 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition
*5, *,367 *2,307 Kannagi Blu-ray Box
*6, *,322 *3,319 Amagami SS+ plus vol.2
*7, *,298 20,580 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon vol.5 Limited Edition
*8, *,296 *7,206 Mouretsu Pirates vol.2 Limited Edition
*9, *,263 *6,681 The iDOLM@STER vol.7 Limited Edition

DVD
*1, 2,694 *,**2,694 One Piece 14th Season vol.8
*2, 1,009 *,*16,782 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison movie Limited Edition
*3, *,959 1,136,165 My Neighbor Totoro
*4, *,824 *,***,824 Kuttsukiboshi vol.2
*5, *,476 *,651,107 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
*6, *,413 *,**3,856 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Standard Edition
*7, *,355 *,*10,649 Gintama' vol.10
*8, *,353 *,480,780 Kiki's Delivery Service
*9, *,351 *,***,351 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! vol.2
10, *,341 *,750,825 Castle in the Sky
11, *,326 *,**6,579 Detective Conan Bonus File Fantasita no Hana
12, *,291 *,**7,160 New Prince of Tennis vol.1
13, *,281 *,**8,591 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition
14, *,265 2,371,163 Spirited Away
15, *,265 *,***,265 Mouretsu Pirates vol.5
16, *,262 *,**7,247 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition
17, *,260 *,339,916 Princess Mononoke

Single CD
*7, 16,990 *16,990 Accel World "Chase the world"
12, *5,740 *27,201 Sakamichi no Apollon "Sakamichi no Melody"
14, *5,115 *51,960 Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker "Haruuta"
23, *3,050 *12,968 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau"
26, *2,740 *39,806 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "to the beginning"
27, *2,482 **2,482 Kuroko no Basket "Start it right away"
29, *2,403 168,781 Doraemon: Nobita and the Miracle Island - Animal Adventure "Ikiteru Ikiteku"
37, *1,825 **5,539 Hyouka "Yasashisa no Riyuu"
42, *1,620 **1,620 New Prince of Tennis "Still"
46, *1,328 *25,194 Natsuiro Kiseki "Non stop road" "Asu e no Kaerimichi"
50, *1,201 *65,051 Mouretsu Pirates "Mugen no Ai"

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

Temporal DVD + Blu-ray Sales Rankings for Winter 2012 (first volumes)
*1, 62,530 Nisemonogatari
*2, 15,158 Inu x Boku SS
*3, 10,793 Highschool DxD
*4, 10,345 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
*5, *9,306Aquarion Evol
*6, *7,694 Ano Natsu de Matteru
*7, *7,639 New Prince of Tennis
*8, *6,472 Mouretsu Pirates
*9, *5,098 Senki Zesshou Symphogear
10, *4,973 Brave 10
11, *4,888 Amagami SS+ plus
12, *4,391 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!
13, *3,694 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
14, *3,599 Rinne no Lagrange
15, *2,573 Another
16, *2,353 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai 2 Maku
17, *1,525 Zero no Tsukaima F (vol.2)
18, **,686 Kill Me Baby

Out of the rankings
Recorder to Randoseru Do♪
Thermae Romae

Not released yet
Black★Rock Shooter (TV)

62k for nise and keep increasing

sad to see papakiki not doing too good.

Look at dem Mouretsu Pirates Sales! GO GO GO! Second Season Please!

Why is Mouretsu Pirates kicking so much ass? is it that good?

its dialogue heavy from the reviews and comments i read, it has less action too and no ecchi so must be a new formula for it to get so much sales, im curious too but still i wont watch it

Is Moretsu sci fi and mecha? Cuz I can never get into those two genres no matter how good the anime is.

It's what people describe as a "space opera" essentially the fun sci-adventure with a focus on a detailed, realistic universe. Much of the appeal comes from how detailed and technical the show is about space-travel while still managing to appeal to a wide/not-scientifically-literate audience. Secondly, the show prioritizes setting, characters, and plot (in that order, I think) over constant action/lasers/explosions and the like. Essentially I would go as far as to say it's one of the more intelligent shows currently airing. It's hard to call any show that mentions "Lagrange Points" in the correct context as unintelligent. Of course, such technical background is not needed to understand and enjoy the show; it's just that these little details can really please the viewer that catches on to them.

It's not mecha, it's not that heavily scifi, but being set in space there are obviously scifi elements in there.

Or maybe shows without ecchi selling well just isn't weird? I don't think we need to invent completely unique reasons for why a show like Mouretsu sells well. I wouldn;t say it's low on action. It has action at the appropriate points. And non-action shows have sold well before. It's dialogue heavy, sure, but so is Bakemonogatari, so no that's not a deal-breaker either.

Mouretsu is character focused, and the cast is mostly attractive girls. Marika is a fantastic protagonist and she's surrounded by almost as awesome characters. It's about space pirates. It's got action, great music, fun stories... really Mouretsu has everything going for it. That doesn't mean it's an automatic success (and to keep things in perspective, it's selling ~7k... definitely good but not amazing by any means) but Mouretsu executes it so well, and I guess that's convinced people (like me) to buy it.

If anything is a bit unusual about Mouretsu it's how it's steadily increased over time. It also must have exceeded King Records' expectations because they had such problems pressing enough copies for Volumes 1 and 2.


Weren't you despairing back when Mouretsu Volume 1 had power sales that shows like it didn't sell? I assumed that meant you were actually watching it, or had some reason to want it to succeed at any rate. Watch it!

It's a sci-fi setting definitely. Mecha, no. There are spaceships of course (they're space pirates after all), but that's it.

Looking forward to Volume 1 also maybe ranking again in the full list at the end of this week (it was right behind Volume 2 in the Thursday daily rankings) which would fill in 4 weeks worth of data, from wk7 to wk10.

Good to see Gintama. It's too awesome to not be on the list.

I find it sad that Choucho does worse than May'n with those singles, Hyouka's OP is obviously superior even if against May'n.
Awesome to see Pirates kicking ass, i hope for next season.

Also

Wait for it.

Is Horizon that good to get 20k sales? o_O

Well I haven't seen it but the MC girl has humongous boobs.

I guess 20k people think so.

(The question to ask is, "Is Horizon that popular to get 20k sales", and of course the answer is yes.)

Chase the world is doing well.

It has good action, complicated plot and setting and awesome characters but a lot of people dropped it because of one of reasons:

1) To complicated seting. Most of people just get WTF effect first couple of episodes and didn't get it
2) A lot of girls with big boobs on the poster. Some people just think that the show is another ecchi harem

Actually, it's terrible.

The reason it sells good is because Japan and their bad tastes.

Mouretsu Pirates number 1, something is fishy: p I dropped it around the seventh episode. Bored me to hell, well guess there's still a market for that kind of anime.