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Jan 22, 2013 5:44 AM
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Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for January 14th - 20th.

Blu-ray
*1, 12,322 12,322 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! vol.2
*2, *4,888 *4,888 Yuru Yuri♪♪ vol.5
*3, *3,853 *3,853 Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita vol.5
*4, *1,035 *1,035 Kamisama Hajimemashita vol.2
*5, **,720 *4,625 K vol.4
*6, **,542 28,984 Sword Art Online vol.3 Limited Edition
*7, **,469 *7,570 Tari Tari vol.5
*8, **,463 19,176 Girls und Panzer vol.1

DVD
*1, 2,141 *,**8,675 Initial D Fifth Stage vol.1
*2, 1,799 *,**1,799 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! vol.2
*3, 1,537 *,**1,537 Kamisama Hajimemashita vol.2
*4, *,913 1,177,448 Tonari no Totoro
*5, *,734 *,*62,376 Kokurikozaka kara
*6, *,636 *,***,636 Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita vol.5
*7, *,504 *,497,663 Majo no Takkyuubin
*8, *,501 *,**9,280 Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi
*9, *,472 *,***,472 Cardfight!! Vanguard: Asia Circuit-hen vol.6
10, *,455 *,**2,167 K vol.4
11, *,449 *,**2,263 Ixion Saga DT vol.2
12, *,404 1,222,060 Howl no Ugoku Shiro
13, *,357 *,760,171 Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa

Single CD
*8, 12,783 *12,783 Hanazawa Kana "Silent Snow"
*9, 10,292 *52,215 Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge "Reason"
14, *6,107 **6.107 Uchuu Kyoudai "Goodbye Isacc"
16, *4,932 **4,932 Naruto: Shippuuden "Moshimo"
26, *2,952 *14,162 Ginga e Kickoff!! "Jinsei Wahaha!"
33, *2,454 278,609 Magi "Yubi Boenkyo"
34, *2,293 *54,470 Ao no Exorcist Movie "Reversi"
37, *1,832 **1,832 Shirokuma Cafe "Rama-san no Ramamanbo"
47, *1,346 *23,522 Tanken Driland "Bunbun Nine9'"
49, *1,287 *10,409 Taketatsu Ayana "Jiku Tours"
50, *1,223 120,953 Nerawareta Gakuen "Hikaru Monotachi"

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Jan 22, 2013 5:48 AM
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Temporal Blu-ray + DVD Sales Rankings for Autumn 2012 the first volumes
*1, 19,176 Girls und Panzer
*2, 17,129 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
*3, 12,674 To LOVE-Ru Darkness
*4, 11,723 Gintama' Enchousen
*5, 11,405 Little Busters!
*6, *9,928 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
*7, *8,792 K
*8, *8,675 Initial D Fifth Stage
*9, *8,043 Psycho-Pass
10, *6,249 Kamisama Hajimemashita
11, *2,497 Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne!
12, *2,494 Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
13, *2,392 Jormungand: Perfect Order
14, *2,184 Busou Shinki
15, *1,759 Ixion Saga DT
Jan 22, 2013 5:49 AM
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holycrap Girls and Panzer sold 19k? lol wow.
Jan 22, 2013 5:52 AM
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Its good to see K rank a second week in both formats ^_^ KamiHaji sales dropped sales from the 1st volume oh well at least the 1st still got 6k :p
Jan 22, 2013 6:03 AM
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As much as we know KamiHaji vol.2 will drop in sales because it no longer has event ticket, the drop is just much bigger than expected.

Chuunibyou does not drop much. Initial-D is making a strong 2ne week performance and now overtakes Psycho-Pass (which also performed well earlier in subsequent weeks of sale) in the vol.1 ranking.

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holycrap Girls and Panzer sold 19k? lol wow.
As restocks keep arriving to be delivered at the end of this month and in subsequent weeks, the guess is it may go beyond 22k. It may even give KuroBas, the current 4th bestselling TV series in 2012, a run for its money. At the moment, the demand for GirlPan v1 is not yet fully satisfied as it has been out of stock in Amazon for quite some time already -- every time Amazon got restock it was sold out quickly.
symbvJan 22, 2013 8:09 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.
Jan 22, 2013 6:06 AM
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Oh wow. Would be stoked if this meant another season of GuP could be possible.
Jan 22, 2013 6:29 AM
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Kamisama Hajimemashita sells really great for a Shoujo very nice for it :D

Three Studio Ghibli films? Mmm...Its so random when those films pop up on the list suddenly.
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OnT: Seems like I really need to watch Chuunibyou...
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Ouch, ouch and ouch Oooh my aching heart.
KamiHaji second volume...I thought it would make AT LEAST 3k but 2.5k? OUCHIE!!!!
What a great way to end the day...
On another note, hasn't K volume 1 exceeded 9k? Or am I wrong?
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koleare said:
OnT: Seems like I really need to watch Chuunibyou...
Yea . Seems like you've been missing one of the great animes last year .The only disappointing thing about it that I can remember was it's

well on topic , never thought K would be doing unexpectedly well .

And I guess I really need to continue watching panzers again .looking at those high sales all this time .
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Woohoo!
Nice Chuunibyou, 14k first week. I was worried about maintaining 10k average before we got vol1 data but now it looks like it will do more by half. I wonder if changes in mood of series in later episodes will affect further volumes' sales.

YY2 and Jinrui deserve bigger numbers in my opinion but they're nothing surprising considering previous vols. Should be enough for next seasons.

GuP is getting nearer to 20k, the only question is - when will it finally fully restock?

Five Ghibli movies in DVD rankings? Crazy.

Wasn't K v1 over 9000? It seems you missed something dtshyk
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Like everyone said we all expected a drop on KamiHaji, but the drop is too big. It's such a shame, I really enjoyed this Anime and I would love to see more love for it.

I'm still amazed at the GirlPan phenomena, I think we'll just need to wait for the next volumes to actually see how consistent their sales are.

At this point, I'm going to get a little sad when Tonari no Totoro doesn't rank in the DVDs. And this particular week got 5 Ghibli movies on the DVD list with almost 4 million units sold together, that's why Ghibli is the power house it is.
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I didn't expect such a big drop for Kamisama. It makes me sad, because I doubt it'll stay on the chart next week.
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dtshyk said:

Single CD
*8, 12,783 *12,783 Hanazawa Kana "Silent Snow"
*9, 10,292 *52,215 Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge "Reason"
34, *2,293 *54,470 Ao no Exorcist Movie "Reversi"
37, *1,832 **1,832 Shirokuma Cafe "Rama-san no Ramamanbo"

Wow @ Silent Snow for getting 8th.
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Yay! Chuunibyou!
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Jan 22, 2013 9:17 AM

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Fk yes for Chu2.
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jmal said:
Progeusz said:
Nice Chuunibyou, 14k first week. I was worried about maintaining 10k average before we got vol1 data but now it looks like it will do more by half. I wonder if changes in mood of series in later episodes will affect further volumes' sales.
Probably not. If a show turns fans off, even late in the season, they generally just don't buy it at all.
I agree that if a show really annoys fans very much, they will not buy it at all. Yet from the history of BD/DVD sales we know people do drop out in the middle of series. Many people who bought vol.1 of a show would not complete the full series. And the rate of drop from volume to volume is not always consistent. Sometimes we see sharper drop in certain volume than others. To take an extreme example, Haruhi's Endless Eight arc resulted in a drop of 30% in sales for the volume that starts the arc compared to the one before. Clearly many people bought the earlier volumes but decided to drop off as soon as it reaches Endless Eight. I am interested to see if the rather unexpected change of mood from ep.7 in Chuunibyou might lead to any effect on the show's sales for its later volumes.
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.
Jan 22, 2013 9:27 AM

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dtshyk said:
Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for January 14th - 20th.

Blu-ray
*1, 12,322 12,322 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! vol.2
*2, *4,888 *4,888 Yuru Yuri♪♪ vol.5
Nice. Chuunibyou's vol 2 first week sales are near identical to vol 1. That's a great sign and I hope it gets ~3k 2nd week :P

As for Yuru Yuri, I'm a bit sad to see a drop from previous vols. It should be enough to green light a season 3 hopefully.
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jmal said:

I think E8 is very different for a few important reasons:
1. It was a much much much larger controversy than anything in Chuunibyou ever was.
2. Haruhi is divided into discrete story arcs; Chuunibyou is not, and the drama is inextricable from the overall story (and hinted at before ep 7) rather than an easily excised arc (it's not like, say, how you can just buy the Amagami or Yosuga no Sora or Bakemono disc that features your favorite girl [or Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody for that matter] and skip the rest.)
I accept point 1 and hence I won't expect a drop of >30% for Chuunibyou starting from vol.4 but it would still be interesting to see if there is a more noticeable drop from vol.3 to vol.4 (compared to, say, vol.2 to 3)

As for point 2, in fact I would argue that it is possible to ignore the overall drama and treat the earlier episodes as a slice-of-life comedy (which is what many watchers have expected it to be) up until ep.7. It is entirely possible to appreciate the comedy (as well as the marvels of the technical achievements by KyoAni on art, sakuga and music department) for those early episodes. The question is how many would decide to enjoy the show this way instead of taking it whole.

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3. I'd argue it is actually an example of what I mentioned, i.e. that a turn-off would affect sales from the beginning or very very early on. Sales were cut 40% from season one right out of the gate (Vol. 1 sold 40k, yes; but 13k of that came a month and a half later and afterward, when copies were being discounted at retailers, even down to ¥990 at Amazon) and the later non-E8 volumes (Tameiki) sold the exact same amount as the E8 volumes.
While this is true, we still have the fact that the vol.1, before Endless Eight, sold significantly more than vol.2, when Endless Eight starts. What we are seeing may be that if fans start to drop a series, they may not want to pick it up again for its later part. We are not sure how this may apply to Chuunibyou, because we do not have any episode after ep.7 where there is no more drama.

jmal said:
If something comparable happened with Chuunibyou, there's no way Vol. 2 would be selling just 2% less than Vol. 1. Not unless its real sales potential were like 30k and the latter half chopped it to ~15k - which is really quite impossible, considering it ranked about the same later on as it did early on. That sort of discrepancy doesn't happen.
It is still possible that the show has kept its appeal to the watchers/buyers pretty consistently from vol.1 to vol.2 so roughly the same number of people are still buying vol.2 after they bought vol.1. I am not sure how it proves that such consistency will be maintained for later volumes.

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Maybe the argument was more plausible before Vol. 2 numbers came out, but it seems less so now. If there's any drop (and there easily could be, I'm not saying every volume will be exactly the same sales), I think it'll be somewhat small, assuming it's distinguishable from typical sales attrition.
I guess my point is the extent of drop from vol.1 to vol.2 does not really say much for how much drop it may occur for later volumes. I think we just have to see how it does when the data for vol.4 comes out. Personally I am neutral towards the postulation that sales may drop more from vol.4 onwards -- I do not necessarily agree with it but I also don't think we can reject it at this stage yet.
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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Probably not. If a show turns fans off, even late in the season, they generally just don't buy it at all. Almost perfectly consistent numbers for the second volume (first week at least) would be highly unusual if a lot of people planned on dropping it eventually. Double so for a one cour series, plus Vol. 7 should see a decent uptick with the bonus episode. In general, I think anime is expensive enough that if a show really turns you off, the money is going to be spent on a show you ended up liking better.
If I had resources to import anime (sadly, I don't but I'll surely catch up when I get more money in future) I would probably concentrate on buying only vols I enjoyed. Thing is, there are usually two episodes on each disc and one of those should be great enough to make buyer forgive flaws of other and that's probably why sales are quite consistent. I'd like to think there are more people with such mindset even if actual numbers seem to say otherwise.

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I have to wonder about Jintai (it's borderline enough that that it will come down to novel sales), but Yuru Yuri♪♪ is guaranteed to average over 7k even if the next volume drops significantly, so it should be pretty safe for a third.
I grouped them together because I get the feeling that producers are more likely to create second season to anime A than third season to anime B if their sales are similar. YY2 does better than Jintai but not by too much so I think their chances are roughly the same. This might be some wishful thinking from me though, it's just that getting more of YY is easy thanks to manga which isn't the case for Jintai. Let's hope producers see boost to LNs as big enough to guarantee sequel.

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I believe there were two more restocks after then one reflected here. One rumored to be bigger (closer to 1,000) and one smaller (300 or so?) I have no idea whether the numbers are legitimate, but this one was rumored at 500 and what we have here isn't far off.
So I guess it wouldn't be unwise to expect additional 1.2k next week seeing how rumors rounded up this week's data? They're slowly teasing us with more and more reports. Are restocks usually this small? I'd imagine it should be easy to make several thousands of BDs in one week. Unless there's a problem with factory's busy schedule...

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Heh, slow weeks tend to do that. They're selling this much every week, we just don't usually see DVD thresholds this low. Any time we do, it's Ghiblipalooza.
Right, that's usually the case but I never saw five of them at once, even when thresholds were lower. Or maybe I didn't pay enough attention? I almost missed Kokurikozaka kara today after all, I'm not used to their Japanese names which MAL prefers.
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So I guess it wouldn't be unwise to expect additional 1.2k next week seeing how rumors rounded up this week's data? They're slowly teasing us with more and more reports. Are restocks usually this small?
Bear in mind copies sold in Amazon may not be delivered immediately as the restock may just be allowing order to be placed (with that rumored 1.3k quota) but not yet ready to be delivered. In this case, although orders have been placed (and GirlPan v1 goes out of stock again), the sales may not yet be reflected until they are finally sent out. I was not able to check the shipping date in the brief span of time when the restock was available for order so I do not know when Amazon promises to send the BD for those restock.
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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Eh, wait. A pretty big drop of sales is certainly possible, but why some of you are expecting that?

It's not like every Japanese buy KyoAni's work because of slice of life/comedy, right? Sure, the drama in Chuunibyou is far from a masterpiece, but I think if I already buy the vol. 1 and vol.2, I think there's no additional reason for me to stop buying the rest. It still has a pretty balanced comedy in most episodes (probably much less in the last two, but the last disc has bonus episode, right?), it has a lot of sakuga and it's a... well, climax for the story. Wouldn't buying all of the buildups but skipping the climax left a pretty bitter taste?
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If Haruhi 2k9 is the example we're relying on, then I feel it wouldn't. Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody is very explicitly self-contained, with a discounted MSRP, and covers very important material tied closely to deply popular story material from elsewhere in the franchise. It's impossible to find anything comparable in Chuunibyou.
By similar token, I also cannot find anything comparable in Chuunibyou from the lack of any jump for the Tameiki arc volumes in Haruhi. Besides, as I said, it is still possible to treat the early episodes separately from the heavier, more dramatic episodes. My point is that as much as Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody is self-contained, it may still give some hint about how sales can drop much from volume to volume, even if the situation for Chuunibyou is not precisely the same case.

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It's not so much that I think I have a crystal ball and know for sure that a sharp drop absolutely positively cannot happen. Sales can be unpredictable, and there are so many factors at play beyond the one we're discussing. What I really want to say is that we just don't have any reason, right now, with our limited knowledge, to believe it will happen. If it's going to be a black swan event then we'll only really find out if and when it happens. I'd rather make guesses based only on the evidence we have.
But you are still saying it is a "black swan event", so you lean towards the possibility that a bigger drop is not going to happen, right? My point, on the other hand,is that this confidence may not be as warranted as you have indicated so far. I want to stress that I am not saying that such drop will definitely happen either. But I also think that the chances of such drop happening is not as unlikely as a "black swan event".

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(Granted I don't even know what each of us has in mind when we say "a significant drop" or similar. 2k? 5k? 50%? I wouldn't consider the first a big deal, the second yes, the third would be downright shocking.)
I would say we can look at the drop from vol.2 to vol.3, and then the drop from vol.3 to vol.4. If the latter is substantially bigger then we can reasonably say that we are seeing "an extra drop" which is probably caused by the change of mood in the series from ep.7 onwards.
symbvJan 22, 2013 11:43 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.
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I think if I already buy the vol. 1 and vol.2, I think there's no additional reason for me to stop buying the rest.
If you look at a full record of every anime series sold, you will see that almost always fewer copies were sold for later volumes. This shows that plenty of people stop buying the rest of a series after they get vol.1 or vol.1&2. And this situation is not limited to slice-of-life shows where you can pick or choose individual episode without worrying about disconnection of the story.

Yet in Chuunibyou's case, what we are talking about here is whether we may see a drop of sales at the middle of the series that is caused by more than the natural attrition I stated above.
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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Yes of course. When virtually all available evidence points in one direction I feel pretty much obligated to lean (heavily) in that direction when making predictions. Otherwise I might as well just flip a coin or consult tarot cards and stop pretending to be data-driven.
This is what I do not agree. I do not see much evidence from what we have that point to an extra drop in vol.4 is not going to happen. I would say that this confidence looks a bit misplaced, even though we all know KyoAni has a lot of dedicated fans and so may be more immune to such mid-series drop off. To quote a bit of what you said, I would say that we just don't have any reason, right now, with our limited knowledge, to believe it will NOT happen.
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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How are the sales for the JoJo blurays?
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How are the sales for the JoJo blurays?


Starting on January 30th I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I probably regret this post by now.
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]This is what I do not agree. I do not see much evidence from what we have that point to an extra drop in vol.4 is not going to happen. I would say that this confidence looks a bit misplaced, even though we all know KyoAni has a lot of dedicated fans and so may be more immune to such mid-series drop off. To quote a bit of what you said, I would say that we just don't have any reason, right now, with our limited knowledge, to believe it will NOT happen.


I think the show you should compare Chuunibyou's to is something like Kannagi. That moved from comedy to drama in the last few episodes. If that had a dramatic drop in sales for the last few volumes then you might have some evidence that you're going to get a big droppoff from vol 4 in Chuunibyou.
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Chu2byou dominating the sales. What a great sight.
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Sakurasou, Zetsuen, and Robotics;Notes next week?
Ohhh.... Things don't look go for all of them.

Oh the other hand, Magi looks like it is getting good sales (for a golden time anime)
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I severely doubt that Chuunibyou is going to suffer any sort of severe drop off even if people in Japan didn't like the last set of episodes. Kyoani fans are the hardest of the hardcore and the most devoted of the most devoted and little seems to phase them as it pertains to quality vs spending. They'll still buy it simply to support the company and people will see this is a good thing. I'd bet any money on it.

Frankly though I'm about as stunned as I've ever been in reaction to the anime scene that Kyoani fans would even be harshly critical of the ending to Chuunibyou, not because I don't think it was kind of hackneyed myself, but because I just didn't know that as a whole had even a single critical bone in them as it pertains to that company. I always figured they could do literally anything and people would call it a masterpiece or stroke of genius so to hear this is indeed very surprising...dare I say encouraging even. Nothing should be without at least some scrutiny and everything should be held to at least a certain standard and expectation after all.
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Kyoani fans are the hardest of the hardcore and the most devoted of the most devoted and little seems to phase them as it pertains to quality vs spending. They'll still buy it simply to support the company and people will see this is a good thing. I'd bet any money on it.

They'll buy every copy of a KyoAni show to feed their ULTRA-KAWAII GENGA GIRLS . Hahaha.
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It almost frightens me how well Girls und Panzer is doing.
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Chuunibyou sold well, not surprising.
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Psycho-Pass is doing fine, fuck yeah!!!
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Kaioshin_Sama said:
I severely doubt that Chuunibyou is going to suffer any sort of severe drop off even if people in Japan didn't like the last set of episodes. Kyoani fans are the hardest of the hardcore and the most devoted of the most devoted and little seems to phase them as it pertains to quality vs spending. They'll still buy it simply to support the company and people will see this is a good thing. I'd bet any money on it.
I don't really see how you could still say that given KyoAni indeed has made series that failed to sell, like Nichijou. Assuming every single "hardest of the hardcore fan" felt it to be his/her duty to buy every KyoAni BD/DVD, and every single copy of Nichijou was bought by these "hardest of the hardcore fans"(which is a really big IF), you still get at most 2k of these "the most devoted of the most devoted fans". As I said before, sales beyond 10k would entail that the appeal of a work extends well beyond just the hardcore fans. This applies to KyoAni's works even if KyoAni may have more hardcore fans. This is something all the KyoAni haters/detractors fail to see or realize or willing to face because of their deep-seated dislike of the studio.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
Frankly though I'm about as stunned as I've ever been in reaction to the anime scene that Kyoani fans would even be harshly critical of the ending to Chuunibyou, not because I don't think it was kind of hackneyed myself, but because I just didn't know that as a whole had even a single critical bone in them as it pertains to that company.
I think you have mixed up about the reactions of watchers and KyoAni fans. As I said above, the vast majority of those who buy KyoAni works are not really the hardcore fans, and when I said there were divided opinions about the direction of the series and the balance of drama vs comedy, I am talking about a broad section of anime watchers who came to online forum to discuss the series, and naturally not everyone there is a KyoAni fan -- in fact, from the comments I read, they are as much a minority as their proportion of BD buyers.

To be honest, if you keep sticking to your impulsive and entrenched dislike of KyoAni studio and its works with the view that all its works are nothing but only moe and people just buy them for the moe, you are not going to get any closer to understand the anime industry and its consumers.

And the thinly veiled sarcastic style you are prone to use does not really help if the aim is to have an even-minded discussion.
symbvJan 22, 2013 10:39 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.
Jan 22, 2013 10:19 PM

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I'm loving to see chuunibyou on top of the list.
Jan 23, 2013 1:02 AM

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lol, fuck the retarded haters. Their loss.
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Jan 23, 2013 9:39 AM

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I'm surprised with all the stock issues that the Girls und Panzer Blu-ray has had that there haven't been more people just buying the DVD instead.

Incidentally, is G&P the highest ever selling series with both DVD and BR where only BR has ranked?
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Anyone know how are the sales of Btooom's BD??
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-Ikki said:
Anyone know how are the sales of Btooom's BD??


Not well, sadly... hasn't ranked yet. I am importing it and love it and the manga but this sort generally sells poorly.


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hpulley said:

Not well, sadly... hasn't ranked yet. I am importing it and love it and the manga but this sort generally sells poorly.


BTOOOM123 by hpulley, on Flickr


Unfortunately this is just like i expected, i like Btooom! and i hoped that the sales went good D:
At least the sales of the manga are good.

Thanks for the info ;)
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I dont like this list that much.
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jmal said:
New additions: here
Full weekly list: here

Full list is up. More data for:
Chuunibyou 1
SAO 1-2
K 1-3
Psycho-Pass 1
Little Busters 1

Even the Bakemono BD box is back, and another week for Horizon II 4 as well.

Also, we finally have the Final DVD500/BD200 Yearly Ranking. Mostly small gains except Hyouka which piled on a lot. Now the first 4 volumes are all over 10k, Vol. 1 jumps all the way from 9.4k to 11.3k. Vols. 5-6 are just short since they came out near the end of the year and thus had less time to sell. Hyouka's volume numbers are now:

Vol. 1: 11,319
Vol. 2: 10,258
Vol. 3: 10,243
Vol. 4: 10,507
Vol. 5: *9,971
Vol. 6: *9,419
Vol. 7: *9,376
Average: 10,156


Wow K and psycho-pass are on a roll at this point those two will reach 10K in a few weeks if this keeps up :p
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