| Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for Apr 29th - May 5th Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles Blu-ray *1, 34,207 347,049 Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo *2, *3,661 *32,071 Girls und Panzer vol.4 *3, *2,866 *24,715 Sword Art Online vol.7 *4, *2,659 **2,659 GJ-bu vol.3 *5, *1,929 *15,386 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vol.4 *6, *1,883 *17,132 Love Live! School Idol Project vol.2 *7, *1,734 *33,030 Girls und Panzer vol.3 *8, *1,378 **8,831 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 6 - Road to Ninja *9, *1,222 *14,638 Macross FB7: Ginga Rukon - Ore no Uta wo Kike! 10, *1,153 **1,153 Kotoura-san vol.2 (cut-off 1153) DVD *1, 23,079 *,143,905 Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo *2, *2,870 *,*15,795 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 6 - Road to Ninja Limited Edition *3, *1,153 *,**8,250 New Prince of Tennis vol.7 *4, *1,053 *,**3,367 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 6 - Road to Ninja Standard Edition *5, **,994 *,**5,860 Sword Art Online vol.7 *6, **,962 *,**7,238 Hetalia: The Beautiful World vol.1 *7, **,935 *,***,935 Naruto Shippuuden Shinobigatana Shichinin Shu no Sho vol.2 *8, **,894 1,187,692 Tonari no Totoro *9, **,874 *,*59,819 MS Gundam UC vol.6 10, **,843 *,***,843 Ixion Saga DT vol.6 11, **,801 *,**3,927 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vol.4 12, **,766 *,**8,201 Gintama': Enchousen vol.3 13, **,672 *,*43,097 Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki 14, **,637 *,**3,174 Magi vol.5 Limited Edition 15, **,568 *,**9,484 Kamiusagi Rope 16, **,556 *,503,568 Majo no Takkyuubin 17, **,511 *,**9,572 Kamiusagi Rope 3 18, **,469 *,**1,157 GenkiGenkiNontan Spoon TanTanTan 19, **,455 *,**2,709 Amnesia vol.2 20, **,453 *,**8,807 Kamiusagi Rope tsuka, Natsuyasumi Rasuichi tte Maji ssuka!? (cut-off 452) CD Single *2, 79,182 79,182 Crayon Shin-chan Movie 21: Bakauma! B-Kyuu Gourmet Survival Battle!! theme song "RPG" *4, 22,193 22,193 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% character song "Idol Song: Syo Kurusu" *7, 12,155 12,155 Arata Kangatari OP "Genesis Aria" *8, 12,092 39,224 The IDOLM@STER Live Theater Performance vol.1 "Thank You!" *9, 11,777 62,622 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% theme song "MAji Love 2000%" 11, *8,854 26,236 Prince of Tennis musical stage "We are always together" 22, *3,936 35,165 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. OP "reunion" 23, *3,588 15,276 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W OP "Koi wa Chaos no Shimobee Nari" 26, *3,209 *3,209 Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 OP "Uchuu Senkan Yamato" 30, *2,445 22,492 Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. OP "Fantastic future" 33, *2,280 *9,173 Suisei no Gargantia OP "Kono Sekai wo Bokura wa Matteita" 34, *2,266 62,593 AKB0048 Next Stage OP & ED "Kono Namida wo Kimi ni Sasagu" 35, *2,110 *9,086 Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san "Nanatsu no Umi yori Kimi no Umi" 42, *1,754 *8,339 Yuyushiki OP & ED "Se-no!! / Affection" 44, *1,610 36,944 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% OP "Canon" 45, *1,601 *5,988 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's character song "Snow Rain ~unison~trilogy~" 48, *1,415 12,774 Detective Conan Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea theme song "One More Time" 50, *1,381 *8,558 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. OP "Yukitoki" 51, *1,353 *4,126 Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu ED "Itsumo Kono Basho de" 53, *1,329 *4,560 Hataraku Maou-sama! OP "Zero!!" 54, *1,318 *4,424 Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu OP "Anata no Eranda Kono Toki wo" 63, *1,070 21,944 Dokidoki! Precure OP & ED "Happy Go Lucky! Dokidoki Precure / Kono Sora no Mukou" (cut-off 1,000) CD Album 31, *2,394 *8,880 angela "Zero" 57, *1,559 *8,272 StylipS "The Lightning Celebration" (cut-off 1,000) Source: Oricon Youtaiju |
myanimelistllcFeb 22, 2016 8:02 PM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Oh my poor Kotoura-san... :'( Girls Und Panzer rolling over all else. |
| Girls und Panzer doing great! Over 32k BDs for v4, restock pushed v3 above 33k BDs... looks like it has no intention of stopping. Can't wait for yearly list in seven months where all the (future) restocks will be counted. 35k average might be possible. I'm happy to see GJ-bu didn't drop much. It should sell much better though, show was very nice. Kotoura lol. |
*2, 79,182 79,182 Crayon Shin-chan Movie 21: Bakauma! B-Kyuu Gourmet Survival Battle!! theme song "RPG" I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious...Kotoura sales are hilarious. I guess no one there liked how it turned out either. |
MellowJello said: That's like not knowing Doraemon or Sazae-san. Do it! Watch them!*2, 79,182 79,182 Crayon Shin-chan Movie 21: Bakauma! B-Kyuu Gourmet Survival Battle!! theme song "RPG" I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... |
Progeusz said: Maaaan I don't have time for long running stuff like that. But you got me; I have no idea what Sazae-san is...MellowJello said: That's like not knowing Doraemon or Sazae-san. Do it! Watch them!*2, 79,182 79,182 Crayon Shin-chan Movie 21: Bakauma! B-Kyuu Gourmet Survival Battle!! theme song "RPG" I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... |
bippo said: That much blasphemy, eh? This is quite the shocker. Yeah, they only really had it here as a gag dub during obscene hours (Adult Swim). Wasn't really interested in it as a kid back then.MellowJello said: I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... Woah....I was going to call you an anime noob but then you are from USA. And Shinchan was never really marketed there so I'll just say woah. |
symbv said: Blu-ray *2, *3,661 *32,071 Girls und Panzer vol.4 *6, *1,883 *17,132 Love Live! School Idol Project vol.2 *7, *1,734 *33,030 Girls und Panzer vol.3 GaruPan v3 @ 34,199, v4 @ 33,612. Amazing sales this week. Average moves up from 31,118 to 32,467. GaruPan has broken into the Top 20 best selling TV anime since 2000. What an achievement for something predicted to have an average of 3,500 before Fall 2012 season started, lol. It is also amazing since v1 is completely supply constrained @ 29,300 atm, and v2 may be heading down that path soon too @ 31,482. GaruPan relative to the best selling TV anime since 2000: Key: Rank / Average / Anime Title *17 *34,601 Gundam 00 S2 *18 *34,116 Angel Beats! *19 *33,812 Infinite Stratos *20 *32,467 GaruPan *21 *31,523 AnoHana *22 *31,019 Persona 4 Love Live! is tiny bit less than I expected (2.2k). Good to see it hit 17k. |
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bippo said: Poor soul. Shin-chan have aired here more than 10 years. Well I don't watch Sazae-san since it doesn't air here.MellowJello said: I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... Woah....I was going to call you an anime noob but then you are from USA. And Shinchan was never really marketed there so I'll just say woah. EDIT: Not even Sazae-san....welp that's it, noob. No offense. |
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bippo said: B-b-but... ):EDIT: Not even Sazae-san....welp that's it, noob. No offense. |
MellowJello said: Obviously, nobody sane expects you to watch it but it's stuff that one should know something about. Don't worry too much.bippo said: That much blasphemy, eh? This is quite the shocker. Yeah, they only really had it here as a gag dub during obscene hours (Adult Swim). Wasn't really interested in it as a kid back then.MellowJello said: I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... Woah....I was going to call you an anime noob but then you are from USA. And Shinchan was never really marketed there so I'll just say woah. Edit: better tell me secrets of having 14 favorite anime. |
Progeusz said: Oh that?Edit: better tell me secrets of having 14 favorite anime. |
| @symbv can you include the column names too? just like how snowical included the column names on manga weekly sales Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles sample http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=596275 |
| ^ The BD/DVD/CD list seems to never have the column names so I did not include them, but I see your point. I have added the line now. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: ^ The BD/DVD/CD list seems to never have the column names so I did not include them, but I see your point. I have added the line now. thanks that will lessen the questions about those numbers as for the sales i thought Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 6 - Road to Ninja will get more sales than that |
symbv said: CD Single *4, 22,193 22,193 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% character song "Idol Song: Syo Kurusu" *7, 12,155 12,155 Arata Kangatari OP "Genesis Aria" *9, 11,777 62,622 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% theme song "MAji Love 2000%" 22, *3,936 35,165 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. OP "reunion" 26, *3,209 *3,209 Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 OP "Uchuu Senkan Yamato" 30, *2,445 22,492 Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. OP "Fantastic future" 33, *2,280 *9,173 Suisei no Gargantia OP "Kono Sekai wo Bokura wa Matteita" 44, *1,610 36,944 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% OP "Canon" 48, *1,415 12,774 Detective Conan Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea theme song "One More Time" 50, *1,381 *8,558 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. OP "Yukitoki" CD Album 31, *2,394 *8,880 angela "Zero" 57, *1,559 *8,272 StylipS "The Lightning Celebration" Nice~ |
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NeoAnkara said: bippo said: Poor soul. Shin-chan have aired here more than 10 years. Well I don't watch Sazae-san since it doesn't air here.MellowJello said: I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... Woah....I was going to call you an anime noob but then you are from USA. And Shinchan was never really marketed there so I'll just say woah. EDIT: Not even Sazae-san....welp that's it, noob. No offense. If I remember, Sazae-san once aired in past yeaes though I forgot what year is it. Either way, those who don't know very classic anime (doraemon, Crayon Sinchan, etc)...feel sorry for them. XD |
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| BTW, might as well add the following since there is not a place for anime music BD/DVD in the original post: BD *2, 22,623 22,623 Nana Mizuki Live Grace -Opus II- x Union DVD *5, *6,060 *6,060 Nana Mizuki Live Grace -Opus II- x Union This is very close to her last live BD/DVD which sold around 23k for BD and 7k for DVD at the end. Also for yesterday BD/DVD daily sales: BD *1 Evangelion 3.33 *7 GirlPan v4 17 JoJo v4 18 LoveLive v2 DVD *2 Evangelion 3.33 27 Road to Ninja -Naruto the Movie- |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Arghh. New Album of angela is really good. It deserves more sales |
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Nachtwandler_21 said: Since a separate single for Valvrave's ED ("Boku janai") is not released, I would have expected people who want that ED, which is pretty good, to go and buy the album instead. And then there are 4 songs for anime "K" and 2 songs for the musical of "Soukyu no Fafner"....Arghh. New Album of angela is really good. It deserves more sales |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Nothing special this week on DVD and BD sales. |
| I'm quote happy to see GJ-Bu on nice roll this time to |
Rasen-No-Hikari said: *8, **,894 1,187,692 Tonari no Totoro am i seeing 1 extra digit? O.o Nope, over a million. 603 weeks on the chart... |
| How do the sales of reunion compare to the irony cd? Irony is an amazing song. I knew it would be hard to top it but I am still kind of disappointed in reunion. |
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shigeru212 said: The accumulated sales of "irony" came to around 50k. So far "reunion" has sold around 35k.How do the sales of reunion compare to the irony cd? |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
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| Not doing bad Hetalia. |
| This probably is kinda off-topic, but do anyone already have a (Very) rough prediction of Spring's upcoming sales? With a very good average quality in this season, I wonder if they are going to sell quite well, too. I honestly have no idea about which shows that will sell or not this time. >___< |
| GuP and GJ-bu :) Glad to see both selling. |
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| ^ It's Totoro, is it really so surprising? |
zeroyuki92 said: I have meant to do an overall study of the upcoming sales for this season's anime somewhere at the mid-point of the season, but I guess it is no harm doing it a bit earlier since the interest is there. This probably is kinda off-topic, but do anyone already have a (Very) rough prediction of Spring's upcoming sales? With a very good average quality in this season, I wonder if they are going to sell quite well, too. I honestly have no idea about which shows that will sell or not this time. >___< Jmal has given some guesses without using the Stalker projection sales data, so I think I would use the Stalker to shed some light on the performance of this season's anime so far, plus some observations I've made by tracking the Stalker projection figures since the season's beginning. As usual, caveats need to be taken for Stalker projection, in particular the aberration of over/underestimation because the sales of the title may be skewed towards online or storefront retailers. And one needs to understand that the projection data can change, sometimes drastically, as fans' impression of the show shifts as the season progresses. That said, the relative performances of the shows have pretty much settled down and so I believe we should get a good idea of how the sales of the shows will end up at the end. The following is the current ranking of VOLUME ONE for the titles of this season. Key is Total estimated sales / BD estimated sales / DVD estimated sales / Title 46.0k 30.9k 15.1k SnK (Shingeki no Kyojin) 27.7k 13.8k 13.9k UtaPrince2 12.2k 10.5k 1.7k Railgun2 12.2k 12.2k ---- Gargantia 8.7k 7.6k 1.1k OreImo2 8.2k 6.5k 1.7k HaMaou (hataraku maou-sama) 5.4k 5.0k 0.4k HenNeko 5.0k 4.1k 1.0k Valvrave 5.0k 4.1k 0.9k Date A Live 5.0k 1.7k 3.3k Karneval 3.8k 2.8k 1.0k Azazel-san2 3.6k 2.7k 0.9k OreGairu 3.4k 3.1k 0.3k Crime Edge 3.3k 2.5k 0.8k Nyaruko2 3.0k 1.7k 1.3k Devil Survivor2 2.7k 1.9k 0.8k RDG (red data girl) 2.2k 1.9k 0.3k Aiura 2.2k 2.2k --- Muromi-san 2.1k 1.2k 0.9k ZBL (zettai bouei leviathan) 2.1k 1.6k 0.5k PhotoKano 2.0k 1.6k 0.4k Samurai Bride 2.0k 1.5k 0.5k MJP (majestic prince) 1.3k 1.2k 0.1k Yuyushiki 1.0k 0.6k 0.4k Hayate5 0.7k 0.5k 0.2k Aku no Hana 0.4k 0.2k 0.2k Arata Kangatari Observations 1. SnK is doing very very strong now, but the projection has never been as high as now (>45k). A estimation of total sales of over 40k came only after the airing of the latest episode (with what happened to Eren and his team on his first mission). For a long while it was competing with UtaPrince2 for the top slot in the ranking with number varying around 30k. The jump of the recent week has been astounding. 2. UtaPrince2 has weakened slightly from over 30k to around 28k now but this is probably going to be an underestimation because this has been the case for the first season. The actual sales can easily be 30-40% more than the 28k estimation by Stalker. However, since vol.1 of the first season sold around 24k, if vol.1 of the second season sold 35k (adjusted for the likely underestimation by Stalker), this would mean a very rare occasion of a second season of an anime doing vastly better than its first season. It would be interesting to see how this will turn out. 3. Gargantia is, like SnK, reaching new height in terms of final projected sales of Stalker. And again like SnK, this is not always the case for Gargantia to have this >12k projected sales. For several weeks it had settled on a sales projection of around 9.5k, after debuting with an estimation of almost 11k. The big jump of the sales projection can largely be attributed to the very favorably received ep.5 (it got universal praises for the story, directing, animation and character arts) and to a lesser extent, ep.4, which prepared the ground for ep.5. 4. Railgun2's performance has been quite consistent at around 12k-13k. Its performance never gets much of a strong boost when an episode is aired, perhaps because the "real meat" of the story of the Sisters Arc has only just started to get moving by the latest episode. 5. By contrast, OreImo2 has seen more noticeable fall in sales projection. It used to be one of the Top Four of the season, but now lags behind the current Top Four so much that it is not likely for it to make it back unless something drastic happens to shows currently at top (always a possibility though, particularly fans' reaction to story twists in SnK or Gargantia could turn sour). It used to have projection of over 10k but now is settling on a figure of around 9k. Much will depend on how the series ends, which may provide its own surprises and twists (since the novel will also end at the same time as the anime which means nobody knows how the whole story is going to end) for the fans to react and decide if this is an anime they want to keep. 6. HaMaou has been gradually edging up in sales projection and ranking in the league since the start of the season. A true dark horse of the season I would say. It started with around 5.5k projection but now it is projected to be selling >8k, joining other titles as the top tier of this season's titles. 7. After that we see a cluster of titles with around 5-6k sales projection. HenNeko started strongly but that was probably due to fans of the LN buying early. It is settling at around 5.5k which still makes it one of the most successful shows this season. Valvrave, despite very split opinions on its story, manages to keep a stable position at 5k in terms of sales projection, only dropping slightly from its early estimation of 5.5-6k. Date A Live also manages to stay at 5k sales projection, even edging slightly upwards with the latest Yoshino arc. Karneval is even more stable - I think it has been at 5k since almost the beginning. 8. The next cluster is those between 3k to 4k, still above Manabi line but depending on the initial expectation some may be considered more as disappointment than success. Azazel-san2 has slipped from its early projection of over 4.5k but Nyaruko2 and Devil Survivor 2 slipped even further. Both started from 4.5k-5k but are now only at around 3k. Nyaruko may have suffered from franchise fatigue, and Devil Survivor 2 definitely suffers from adaptation choices and changes that some fans of the game do not agree. On the other hand, Crime Edge has shown real robustness and is doing better than many had expected, particularly considering the manga itself is not that well known and its fetish subject matter. Some say that the loli character design helps a lot here and although I agree it is a big factor I am not sure whether it alone can explain its good performance so far. By comparison, performance of OreGairu has roughly matched with expectation. The sales projection looks modest, but apparently the LN sales have been given a decent boost, so I'd say this should count as a success for this title. 9. Below Manabi line, RDG is doing slightly better than expected. Its reception has actually improved in the last 2 episodes as the world setting becomes clearer and the story gets more interesting in the view of the audience. After RDG, there is another fairly large cluster of 2k sales projection. Aiura and Muromi-san have improved, albeit very slightly, since the season's start. ZBL is doing better than many expected. PhotoKano and Samurai Bride have dropped slightly since season's start. MJP never gets good performance, even after the relatively well received ep.5. The character design and its juxtaposition of gags in seriously looking space combat do not seem to sit well with audience. The latest ep.6 is said to be an important episode that may change viewer's impression of the show. It would be interesting to see whether it really will turn the tide for the show, which currently is THE LOSER of the three original robot mecha shows (quite a rarity itself) of this season. 10. At the bottom we have the shows that do not even have 2k projection. Yuyushiki definitely does worse than expected. The show itself still gets quite a lot of attention, as testified by the many anime sites in Japan which cover the latest aired episode, but this does not turn into disc sales it seems. Character design may be a factor but it may also be the "Kill Me Baby" phenomenon: People enjoy it well enough to talk about it but not want to buy it for repeated viewing. Hayate5 is always presumed to sell badly, even though the character design (and story) seems to have improved significantly from the disastrous season 4. Arata Kangatari is another title deemed to sell badly, but still one wonders why it is performing this badly. Perhaps the female audience are all pulled away by UtaPrince. As for Aku no Hana it started from 1k and now it is 0.7k. Heated debates and discussions have died down but occasionally it is still being discussed, so at least it has not turned into an "air show" (meaning one that is ignored and not watched). Recently the live action footage of the show was shown after the anime, and it only fueled comments that the show would have been best made into a full live action show instead. |
symbvMay 8, 2013 2:06 AM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| SAO and Love Live! keep rock'n the charts!! Love'n it! bippo said: MellowJello said: I barely know what Crayon Shin-Chan is, but this makes me really curious... Woah....I was going to call you an anime noob but then you are from USA. And Shinchan was never really marketed there so I'll just say woah. EDIT: Not even Sazae-san....welp that's it, noob. No offense. Er...we have had shin-chan over here for years and years. Its marketed over here as much as any other anime, not counting the huge names of course (bleach, naruto, fma, geass, etc) |
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| "The big jump of the sales projection can largely be attributed to the very favorably received ep.5 (it got universal praises for the story, directing, animation and character arts)" Really? I haven't been following the Japanese reception, but its pretty much gotten hammered by Westerners from what I've seen since everyone is complaining about how its the "obligatory swimsuit episode". For the MAL Episode topics, these are the "Loved it" Percentages: Ep 1: 69.19% Ep 2: 80.13% Ep 3: 66.24% Ep 4: 72.40% Ep 5: 47.04% |
RyanSaotomeMay 7, 2013 10:57 PM
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RyanSaotome said: I did not read the episode discussion (too busy settling down from coming back from the trip) but the praise for the ep.5 in Japan is pretty universal. Of course the swimsuits and how sexy and arousing they are got a lot of attentions, but the story (about the Ghibli-ish feel of learning the ropes in a new environment), the directing (the pacing and how the various scenes get mixed together, for example how it even finds time to show Amy's brother making a fan to benefit him as well as the doctor and the little girl), the animation (the flying kites etc) and the balance of jokes and shedding light on every character (including Chamber, and ep.5 is the first time I saw him mentioned widely as a "moe character"). It is not an exaggeration to say that ep.5 pretty much establishes the series' high opinion by watchers in Japan. "The big jump of the sales projection can largely be attributed to the very favorably received ep.5 (it got universal praises for the story, directing, animation and character arts)" Really? I haven't been following the Japanese reception, but its pretty much gotten hammered by Westerners from what I've seen since everyone is complaining about how its the "obligatory swimsuit episode". As for the reactions by western fans as "obligatory swimsuit episode", all I can say is "can I expect fans in the west to look deeper and in more angles than becoming easily blinded by fan service scenes for their opinion about a show?" |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
RyanSaotome said: "The big jump of the sales projection can largely be attributed to the very favorably received ep.5 (it got universal praises for the story, directing, animation and character arts)" Really? I haven't been following the Japanese reception, but its pretty much gotten hammered by Westerners from what I've seen since everyone is complaining about how its the "obligatory swimsuit episode". For the MAL Episode topics, these are the "Loved it" Percentages: Ep 1: 69.19% Ep 2: 80.13% Ep 3: 66.24% Ep 4: 72.40% Ep 5: 47.04% The reception in the West doesn't matter at all though in the scope of BD/DVD sales. It is fairly obvious that is how they would react, since I think the majority of Westerners only care about "plot" anyway. Stalker shows that the reception in Japan is still good, or then the Amazon ranks would've stayed level or dropped off. |
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Ejc said: I would not say it is "still good" because it is much more than that. After ep.5 was aired on Sunday night, vol.1's Amazon ranking jumped abruptly from #45 to #12 in the next few hours and then stays above #15 even now, at one point breaking new height at #8 on May 7th. In terms of the extent of jump, ep.4, which also received general praise, is just as big (from #65 to #32) but we know how hard it is to move up near the top of ranking. Stalker shows that the reception in Japan is still good, or then the Amazon ranks would've stayed level or dropped off. Ejc said: And too many care only for the overarching plot and tend to ignore the small details, which fans in Japan are good at picking up. For example, they made comments about Amy being a heroine not commonly seen in late night anime these days because she is not just good at her work and taking care of people but also has good manner by wiping clean the "flute" she tried before returning it to Ledo. Observations like this got a lot of discussions in the Japanese forums. For viewers in Japan, the word "good balance" is often used to describe this episode. I am sure that just having sexy swimsuit galore on parade would not lead to such positive reactions from viewers in Japan. The fan service of course helps a lot, but as I argued before it also needs other elements to work as well, be it the directing, the animation or the screenplay, before getting people to really love a show. It is a shame that too many viewers in the west could not appreciate that their standard of what means a good balance and how much fan service is too much is not the only good standard to have. Fans in Japan can have very good reasons to enjoy a show that is beyond blindly falling for fan service.It is fairly obvious that is how they would react, since I think the majority of Westerners only care about "plot" anyway. |
symbvMay 8, 2013 1:49 AM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Thanks for the Spring estimates symbv and jmal. :P I'm happy that the estimated Top 5 are the ones I'm watching I hope they keep their positions until the actual sales. :) |
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symbv said: Ejc said: I would not say it is "still good" because it is much more than that. After ep.5 was aired on Sunday night, vol.1's Amazon ranking jumped abruptly from #45 to #12 in the next few hours and then stays above #15 even now, at one point breaking new height at #8 on May 7th. In terms of the extent of jump, ep.4, which also received general praise, is just as big (from #65 to #32) but we know how hard it is to move up near the top of ranking.Stalker shows that the reception in Japan is still good, or then the Amazon ranks would've stayed level or dropped off. You are right on that one. I had assumed it was the same recent episode rise as all the other weeks but it is indeed much more difficult to have similar rises into the Top 10 on Amazon. symbv said: Ejc said: And too many care only for the overarching plot and tend to ignore the small details, which fans in Japan are good at picking up. For example, they made comments about Amy being a heroine not commonly seen in late night anime these days because she is not just good at her work and taking care of people but also has good manner by wiping clean the "flute" she tried before returning it to Ledo. Observations like this got a lot of discussions in the Japanese forums. For viewers in Japan, the word "good balance" is often used to describe this episode. I am sure that just having sexy swimsuit galore on parade would not lead to such positive reactions from viewers in Japan. The fan service of course helps a lot, but as I argued before it also needs other elements to work as well, be it the directing, the animation or the screenplay, before getting people to really love a show. It is a shame that too many viewers in the west could not appreciate that their standard of what means a good balance and how much fan service is too much is not the only good standard to have. Fans in Japan can have very good reasons to enjoy a show that is beyond blindly falling for fan service.It is fairly obvious that is how they would react, since I think the majority of Westerners only care about "plot" anyway. That is the amazing thing about the fans in Japan. Sometimes i'm flabbergasted at how much attention to detail they have. For example, that Korean ad in the most recent HenNeko. episode... I didn't even pick that up at all until I rewatched the episode again. I noticed that flute wiping gesture as well by Amy! Yes, I agree with what the viewers in Japan says about the episode being good balance. The swimsuit part wasn't even the main focus of the episode. It was primarily the further development of Ledo's character, with him trying to find work... wouldn't you think? Also I quite liked the character interactions as always this episode. It is indeed a shame that some viewers in the West just can't appreciate all the other elements of an episode. I think some are immediately turned off when they see any sort of fan service. I mean the ones that are just focused on the "plot". |
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