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Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for September 24th - 30th.

Blu-ray
*1, 9,211 *9,211 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai: Add-on Disc
*2, 7,082 *7,082 Hyouka vol.4 Limited Edition
*3, 6,666 *6,666 Dog Days' vol.1 Limited Edition
*4, 6,601 *6,601 Accel World vol.3 Limited Edition
*5, 5,312 *5,312 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse vol.1 Limited Edition
*6, 5,131 *5,131 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb Fan Disc
*7, 4,880 *4,880 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san vol.4 Limited Edition
*8, 4,567 *4,567 Guilty Crown vol.9 Limited Edition
*9, 4,330 *4,330 Inu x Boku SS vol.7 Limited Edition
10, 4,024 *4,024 Aquarion Evol vol.6
11, 3,732 44,853 Fate/Zero 2nd Season
12, 3,539 *3,539 Joshiraku vol.1 Limited Edition
13, 3,351 21,176 Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon II vol.1 Limited Edition
14, 3,068 *3,068 Jormungand vol.4 Limited Edition

DVD
*1, 3,719 *,**3,719 Inu x Boku SS vol.7 Limited Edition
*2, 3,536 *,**3,536 Hakuouki Reimeiroku vol.1 Limited Edition
*3, 3,156 *,*10,810 Kuroko no Basket vol.3
*4, 2,530 *,**2,530 Dog Days' vol.1 Limited Edition
*5, 2,337 *,**2,337 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai: Add-on Disc
*6, 2,228 *,**2,228 Arcana Famiglia vol.1 Limited Edition
*7, 2,069 *,**2,069 Bleach Shingami Daiko Shoshitsu Hen vol.2
*8, 1,478 *,**1,478 Accel World vol.3 Limited Edition
*9, 1,464 *,**1,464 Tsuritama vol.4 Limited Edition
10, 1,338 *,**1,338 Chouyaku Hyakuninisshu: Uta Koi. vol.1 Limited Edition
11, 1,321 *,**1,321 Guilty Crown vol.9 Limited Edition
12, 1,208 *,**1,208 Campione!: Matsurowanu Kamigami to Kamigoroshi no Maou vol.1 Limited Edition
13, 1,196 *,**1,196 Aquarion Evol vol.6
14, 1,110 *,**1,110 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse vol.1 Limited Edition
15, 1,091 *,**1,091 Hyouka vol.4 Limited Edition
16, 1,085 *,**1,085 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san vol.4 Limited Edition
17, 1,035 *,**1,035 Shirokuma Cafe vol.3
18, 1,018 *,**1,018 Queen's Blade: Rebellion vol.4
19, 1,007 *,**1,007 Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate vol.1 Limited Edition
20, *,905 *,***,905 AKB0048 vol.4
21, *,805 *,***,805 Beelzebub vol.16
22, *,765 1,161,301 Tonari no Totoro
23, *,747 *,***,747 Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! vol.1
24, *,685 *,***,685 Kimi to Boku. 2 vol.4 Limited Edition
25, *,682 *,***,682 Joshiraku vol.1 Limited Edition
26, *,669 *,***,669 Hagure Yuusha no Estetica vol.1

Single CD
*3, 24,886 24,886 kuroko Character Song Duet Series vol.3 Shintaro & Kazunari
*4, 17,173 17,173 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 1000% Duet CD Reiji & Ranmaru, Ai & Camus
*9, *9,407 *9,407 onod "Lunar Maria"
16, *3,697 15,181 Tiger & Bunny Movie 1: The Beginning "Linear Blue wo Kikinagara"
17, *3,655 68,612 Colorful "Boku ga Boku de Arutame Ni"
18, *3,595 *3,595 Sengoku Collection "Darling to Madonna"
23, *3,039 *3,039 Tiger & Bunny Movie 1: The Beginning "Earth Diver"
35, *1,886 75,069 Sword Art Online "crossing field"
36, *1,875 *1,875 Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust "Tsubasa"
37, *1,850 45,316 Joshiraku "Nippon Egao Hyakkei"
45, *1,524 25,849 Kuroko no Basket Character Song Duet Sereis vol.2 Tetsuya & Ryota
49, *1,403 48,102 Kagero Project "Children Code"

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

Temporal Blu-ray + DVD Rankings for Summer 2012 (first volumes)
*1, 17,825 Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon II
*2, *8,760 Tari Tari
*3, *7,728 Yuru Yuri ♪♪
*4, *4,876 Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
*5, *4,852 Oda Nobuna no Yabou
*6, *1,900 Moyashimon Returns

Temporal Blu-ray + DVD Sales Rankings for Spring 2012 (the first volumes)
*1, 41,121 Fate/Zero 2nd Season
*2, 21,997 Kuroko no Basket
*3, 10,424 Accel World
*2, *9,455 Hyouka
*4, *9,200 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
*5, *7,990 AKB0048
*6, *6,966 Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A
*7, *4,887 Eureka Seven AO
*8, *4,698 Natsuiro Kiseki
*9, *4,494 Tsuritama
10, *4,206 Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna
11, *3,759 Queen's Blade: Rebellion
12, *3,588 Nazo no Kanojo X
13, *3,499 Jormungand
14, *3,302 Sengoku Collection
15, *3,192 Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead
16, *2,520 Acchi Kocchi
17, *2,180 Hiiro no Kakera
18, *2,059 Tasogare Otome x Amnesia
19, *2,037 Sakamichi no Apollon
20, *1,487 Sankarea
21, *1,282 Upotte!!
20, *1,133 Shirokuma Cafe
21, **,882 Kimi to Boku. 2
22, **,785 Medaka Box (vol.2)
23, **,612 Zetman
24, **,389 Ginga e Kickoff!! (vol.3)

Out of the rankings
Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan
Ozma
Saint Seiya Omega

yuru yuri, jinrui, and fate/zero kicking ass as expected

So happy that YRYR s2 was underestimated. It has an awesome start. Hope it can get a second week as well and then we'll have to see how much the event ticket inflated sales. I have much higher hopes of a season 3 now than I did before though. Also hope Jintai can manage to get a 2nd week as well to get over 5k.

Fate/Zero II tops as expected. How close was it to the 1st BD-BOX 1st week sales?

Horizon II ended up being overestimated on Stalker.

Both Yuru Yuri ♪♪ BD & DVD were underestimated as expected. How does it compare to Season 1?

How does Saki Achiga-Hen's sales compare to the previous volumes? :O

YRYR & Jintai won't get second week (at least in numbers). The reason?
12/09/26 Joshiraku Vol.1
12/09/26 DOG DAYS´ Vol.1
12/09/26 Campione! Vol.1
12/09/26 Uchuu Kyodai Blu-ray DISC BOX 1
12/09/26 Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! Vol.1
12/09/26 Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate Vol.1
12/09/26 Hagure Yuusha no Estetica Vol.1
12/09/26 Uta Koi. Vol.1
12/09/26 Hakuouki: Reimei-roku Vol.1
12/09/26 Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai Vol.1
12/09/26 Arcana Famiglia Vol.1
12/09/28 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Vol.1
That's gonna be hell of a week.


16,349 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon v1 -> 17,825 Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon II v1
42,690 Fate/Zero BD Box v1 -> 41,121 Fate/Zero BD Box v2

Did they kinda decide to release Fate/Zero on BDs only? o.o

Not surprised to see F/Z.

I'd be surprised more than 2 or 3 out of this list ranked on the Tuesday BD list next week. They're all doing pretty poorly and not showing much improvement with this week being the week they're released.

Thanks for the numbers. So they are actually quite close to the 1st Season and 1st BD-BOX respectively.

Yes, next week is gonna be a monster week. I'm curious about Dog Days' sales personally...

Meddigo
So you want to say that YRYR & Jintai 2nd week sales would be better than their numbers?
Oh well, we'll see.

It's possible. I'd say Campione and Dakara H will beat YRYR's second week. Jintai would depend on how supply constrained stores were during its release week. It was sold out on Amazon for awhile but I see now it's in stock. If it was heavily constrained I think it could make it.

But as you say, we'll see.

Chipp12, now that's unfair... I want to see Jintai easily going over 5k and YY above 8k mark. At least Horizon's second week should be safe, it'll probably sell more than half new shows on their first week... Good to see better vol 1 sales, they should stay on similar level for remaining volumes too. I'm OK with 20k+ average, I was afraid it would get less than 20k overall.

Fate/Zero as expected lol but it did not sell 60K on its first week this time
Horizon In the Middle of Nowhere did not sell 20K on its first week too unlike before but with that sales i think a season 3 will be possible

and Eureka 7 AO drats its not selling well since people love Character-Driven Story more than Plot-Driven Story
Lupin 3 The Woman Named Mine Fujiko did not sell so well i guess because people are deceived by its ending

Does this mean we'll see Heaven's Feel animated?

And Kuroko is doing awesome, as usual.

I am so so so happy that I placed my confidence in Yuru Yuri fans and trusted them to buy the BD on storefront (which means the Amazon stalker will grossly underestimate the final sales). This is what I said a week ago:
"I am a bit more optimistic and I'd put my guess above 5k (assuming DVDs rank) with some chance that it may get close to 6k or even goes slightly beyond that."
It turned out that it sold almost 8000 !!!! It is not "as expected" but far better than expected !!!
Who could have predicted that Yuru Yuri 2 can fight Tari Tari to a draw in the first week sales?? (7728 vs 7758) Everyone thought that even if YY2 did not follow the Ika-Milky Course, TT will beat YY2 hand down easily.

The Jinrui's figure is interesting, because if we follow the monthly BD sales ranking in Amazon, Jinrui is only a bit lower than TT but it turns out Jinrui only sold a bit less than 60% of what TT sold. This matches will the observation that Jinrui has a lot more buyers (proportion-wise) making their purchase in Amazon instead of storefront.

Now I can answer the questions I raised a week ago about this week anime BD/DVD sales:

- Is Yuru Yuri really going to sell a lot more than the Amazon stalker suggests? Will it be able to squeeze into the "top 4" of the summer season? After the airing of the final episode all 6 volumes have jumped in ranking in Amazon, but it cannot compare with Jinrui...

A: A most affirmative YES, and much better than most dared to expect even taking into account the adjustment from 1st season's behavior. A very high chance that YY2 will be among the "top 4" of the summer season, and the fight is not between YY2, DD2, Oda Nobuna and TE (total eclipse) but is between TT, YY2, DD2 and TE now.

- Jinrui jumps spectacularly in Amazon ranking after the airing of the "godly" final episode. Its volume 1 is now at #10 (all genres) and #5 (anime) of the BD ranking. And a whole "flotilla" of all the 6 volumes have made it into the top 25 of the anime BD ranking. A dark horse in the race for the "top 4" of the summer season -- will it spring a surprise?

A: A dark horse that sells better than expected certainly, but not enough to squeeze into top 4. Interestingly, while YY2 fights TT to a draw, here Jinrui is at a level near Oda Nobuna (4876 vs 4278). Initial estimate of Jinrui was below 2000 so at 5000 Jinrui is a huge success (by contrast Oda Nobuna was estimated to be 3000 or slightly above, at around 5000 after 3 weeks the jump is not as impressive)

- Is Kuroko no Basuke going to sustain the upward momentum displayed so amazingly by its first 2 volumes?

A: Yes. The drop from vol.2 to vol.3 is very very small. Vol.3 still sold around 15000 copies in its first week.

- Will season 2 of Rinne no Lagrange keep up with the sales of its 1st season? Or perhaps sell even more given its reception seems to be better for this season?

A: We need to wait until Friday and hopefully we will have an answer.

- Can Fate/Zero second season sell as well as its first season?

A: Most definitely. The drop in terms of first week sale is less than 5%.

- Same question for Horizon season 2. Fans now deem it will sell less than Sword Art Online but who knows for certain?

A: Most definitely. In terms of first week sale vol.1 of the 2nd season even outsold vol.1 of the 1st season.


A drop of slightly more than 20% compared to vol.1 of Season 1.

For first week sales, vol.4 has around 44k versus vol.2 at around 42k.

Even the first box did not sell 60k after weeks.

And Horizon season 1 vol.1 did not sell more than 20k in its first week either.

YuruYuri Volume 1-3 come with event tickets so that'd boost sales a bit. I'm waiting to see what sales will be for volume 4.

Fate Zero 2 sells 41k first week. may sell 45k in two more weeks?
Horizon II was overestimated. :O
KuroBas volume 3 sells 14784 copies in first week. will it do so well to reach 20k? How will the second week go?

Jinrui sells less than I thought.

Let's see...next week we have:
Reimeiroku
Dog Days 2
Muv Luv
Joshiraku

Reimei and Dog Days....I'm very interested to see how these do especially Reimei. The rest are not gonna sell well, some may not even rank at all so...

Fate/Zero's obscene sales don't surprise at all.

Who cares about that when TOTORO

I have been tracking the Amazon BD sales ranking over the past week, Campione and Boku H never came above either YY2 or Jintai since they went on sale. So I think if we look at only sales in Amazon YRYR2 and Jintai in their 2nd week will still beat Campione and Boku H but given a significant amount of sale in its first week comes from storefront, more likely we shall see Campione and Boku H above YY2 and Jintai in 2nd week.

For the minor title this season, so far the ranking in Amazon is pretty consistent over the past few weeks. It is like
Campione > NakaImo > KoiChoco > Hagure and Boku H
The Amazon stalker figure, which accumulates throughout the season has the following order
Campione > Boku H > Hagure > KoiChoco > NakaImo
What seems to be clear is that Campione should outsell the other 4 titles, but among the 4 titles which sells best would be hard to tell.