Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Apr 13 - 19

tsubasalover said:
CD Single
*3.　28,814　28,814　Uta no☆ Prince-sama♪Maji Love Revolutions OP "Shine" by Mamoru Miyano
*5.　24,882　24,882　Detective Conan Movie 19: The Hellfire Sunflowers ED "Oh! Rival" by Porno Graffitti
*6.　24,735　24,735　Crayon Shin-chan Movie 23: Ora no Hikkoshi Monogatari - Saboten Daisuugeki ED "OLA!!" by Yuzu
12.　*8,676　41,081　Uta no☆ Prince-sama♪Maji Love Revolutions ED "Maji Love Revolutions" by ST☆RISH
28.　*1,699　*6,897　Pankis! 2-jigen ED "Coffee ga Nomemasen" by M!LK
53.　**,880　*4,418　Kuroko no Basket 3rd Season OP "ZERO" by Kensho Ono
72.　**,623　53,592　Kantai Collection: KanColle ED "Fubuki" by Shiena Nishizawa
89.　**,430　*1,925　Kuroko no Basket 3rd Season ED "Ambivalence" by SCREEN mode

CD Album
*4.　31,537　*31,537　ClariS "ClariS ~SINGLE BEST 1st~"
*6.　11,087　*11,087　"noitaminA FAN BEST" by Various Artists
40.　*1,356　**6,573　Nisekoi BEST SONGS by Various Artists
82.　**,716　***,716　Yun*chi "Ani*Yun ~anime song cover~"

tsubasalover said:
*3.　3,386　*3,386　Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road Vol.4
*4.　2,397　*2,397　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! Vol.2

*1.　3,553　*3,553　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! Vol.2
*2.　3,247　*3,247　Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road Vol.4

*3.　28,814　28,814　Uta no☆ Prince-sama♪Maji Love Revolutions OP "Shine" by Mamoru Miyano
*5.　24,882　24,882　Detective Conan Movie 19: The Hellfire Sunflowers ED "Oh! Rival" by Porno Graffitti
12.　*8,676　41,081　Uta no☆ Prince-sama♪Maji Love Revolutions ED "Maji Love Revolutions" by ST☆RISH
19.　*3,621　*3,621　Prince of Tennis Character Song "Empty Sky" by Kuranosuke Shiraishi (CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya)

Stark700 said:
Mm, not surprised by the music stuff listed this week. Wonder how many copies of Uta Prince CD singles will sell by end of this year.

*9.　*,494　**,494　Etotama Vol.1

10.　*,333　**,333　Anime de Wakaru Shinryounaika Vol.1 "Muchimuchi Kikkou-hen"

49.　**,912　**,912　High School DxD BorN OP "BLESS YoUr NAME" by ChouCho

tsubasalover said:

*4.　2,397　*2,397　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! Vol.2
*1.　3,553　*3,553　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! Vol.2

tsubasalover said:

*3.　28,814　28,814　Uta no☆ Prince-sama♪Maji Love Revolutions OP "Shine" by Mamoru Miyano

tsubasalover said:

31.　*1,900　*19,951　Suzuko Mimori "Fantasic Funfair"

Paulo27 said:
Fujoshis strong in Binan.

Barion-Zara said:
When's Akatsuki no Yona???

Paulo27 said:
In the trash.

Paulo27 said:
In the trash.

rederoin said:
Next week v1 releases.

16.5k Kuruko Basket S3

Paulo27 said:
In the trash.

Shadow-Chan said:

May 27

tsubasalover said:

49.　**,912　**,912　High School DxD BorN OP "BLESS YoUr NAME" by ChouCho

Yvese said:
Wait why did Etotama release so early? Ep 3 hasn't even aired yet so the show just pretty much suicided sales-wise.

How odd.

belatkuro said:
It actually went on sale before episode 2 aired and the BD contains both episodes.

Hoppy said:


It was the worst idea too, it didn't sell well, so now I won't get a season 2.

rederoin said:
Next week v1 releases.

16.5k Kuruko Basket S3
10.9k Idolmaster - CG(underestimated, does not include the G4U bundle)
*9.8k JoJo P3 - part 2
*2.1k Koufuku Grafiti
*1.5k Shounen Hollywood S2

Shadow-Chan said:

May 27

Kaioshin_Sama said:


I feel like you can't realistically count a video game release with an anime tie-in against other anime releases without some sort of major asterisk. It's such a bigger market that it's not even a realistic comparison between an industry that regularly sells it's media in the 5-6 digit numbers against one that sells it's media typically in the 3-4 digit numbers. Plus when you have people purchasing for the software and with an event ticket no less...craziness. If other anime titles were in a position to do this (which I guess any of Bamco's titles are looking back on the Macross Frontier movie/game tie-in and the like) it'd change the landscape of the industry pretty much overnight.

Kaioshin_Sama said:


I feel like you can't realistically count a video game release with an anime tie-in against other anime releases without some sort of major asterisk. It's such a bigger market that it's not even a realistic comparison between an industry that regularly sells it's media in the 5-6 digit numbers against one that sells it's media typically in the 3-4 digit numbers. Plus when you have people purchasing for the software and with an event ticket no less...craziness. If other anime titles were in a position to do this (which I guess any of Bamco's titles are looking back on the Macross Frontier movie/game tie-in and the like) it'd change the landscape of the industry pretty much overnight.

Paulo27 said:
Do these type of games even sell that much anyway? I have seen screenshots and it's not like this up there quality wise.

Kuruba said:


Hardly anyone will buy it for the "game" (lets players photograph idols). People will buy it for the anime, G4U is just a bonus. When Vol.1 (Imas 2011) bundled with Idolmaster 2, sales have not been taken into account because people buy it really for the game.

Kaioshin_Sama said:


You'd be surprised, particularly when they have lots of extras. 30-50K is hardly out of the question here. A lot of the time it's not about the quality of the game but the character brand too, something that Bandai Namco Games has really ridden to the bank of late though they get a tremendous amount of negative feedback for DLC schemes and quality control among other things as well.

Let me put it this way though, I worked out the math and the Sword Art Online game tie in by them generated more revenue for Lost Song than the anime stands to make by the time all 9 of it's volumes are out over the course of the next few months. The difference between the game and anime media markets are that stark.

Here's the math which isn't going to be 100% accurate since it uses predictive estimates for the last few anime volumes:

Lost Song
139,298 (units) x 12,000 (yen) = 1,671,576,000 yen
55,090 (units) x 6,290 (yen) = 346,516,100 yen
Total=2,018,092,100 yen or 16,872,683 USD

Vs.

Season 2

15,000 (assumed average BD unit sales given the first 5 volumes) x 9 x 6,610 (yen) = 892,350,000 (yen)
3,000 (assumed DVD average sales given the first 4 volumes) x 9 x 4,980 = 134,460,000 (yen)
Total= 1,026,810,000 (yen) or 8,583,115 USD

That was for release week for the game too. It's well over 200,000 copies sold by now.

Paulo27 said:
I feel like you're overestimating the video game that focus just on taking pictures, I won't deny that this help, it doesn't even seem like the price will be that much higher with the game there either, it'll obviously help some people who were thinking wether or not they should buy it but it's not like it'll bring in people who never buy BDs or were not interested just because the game is there.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
I feel like you're overestimating the video game that focus just on taking pictures, I won't deny that this help, it doesn't even seem like the price will be that much higher with the game there either, it'll obviously help some people who were thinking wether or not they should buy it but it's not like it'll bring in people who never buy BDs or were not interested just because the game is there.

Kuruba said:


This just a game on taking photo, if you think that's why people bought it, i don't care. Sales are recorded ( Oricon+Famitsu) FACT.

巻数　　　初動　　　　　 累計　　　 発売日
　　　　　BD(DVD)　　　BD(DVD)
01巻　3,915(1,549)　4,772(*,***)　11.10.27 ※G4U版初動 **,***枚、合計 *6,321枚
02巻　5,375(1,420)　6,207(*,***)　11.11.23 ※G4U版累計 16,069枚、合計 23,696枚
03巻　5,132(1,314)　6,513(*,***)　11.12.29 ※G4U版累計 26,453枚、合計 34,280枚
04巻　5,703(1,357)　6,732(*,***)　12.01.26 ※G4U版累計 22,433枚、合計 30,522枚
05巻　7,159(1,895)　8,684(2,527)　12.02.23 ※G4U版累計 20,030枚、合計 31,241枚
06巻　5,834(1,353)　6,453(*,***)　12.03.29 ※G4U版累計 20,181枚、合計 27,987枚
07巻　5,602(1,271)　6,819(*,***)　12.04.26 ※G4U版累計 19,834枚、合計 27,924枚
08巻　5,723(1,277)　6,876(*,***)　12.05.24 ※G4U版累計 19,133枚、合計 27,286枚
09巻　6,769(1,479)　7,530(*,***)　12.06.28 ※G4U版累計 17,849枚、合計 26,858枚

Kaioshin_Sama said:


If you want to go out and ask every single individual person why they bought it or conduct some sort of exit survey at storefront you might have something to work on, but other than that again when something is classified as a game, released by a video game publisher, has the Playstation logo on it and is categorized as a game then it's a game. I think that simple fact trumps pure speculation and spin does it not?

Kuruba said:



I think it helps but it isn't the main reason.
I bet the G4U sales will be much lower than Imas 2011 because cinderella girls don't have a strong fanbase as 765 pro but it will be compensated by BD/DVD higher sales.

belatkuro said:
It actually went on sale before episode 2 aired and the BD contains both episodes.

Yvese said:
That's one of the dumbest things anyone could do in the industry so bravo to the production committee I guess. I mean why even fund the project if you're essentially telling viewers that you're not confident it could sell? Shame really.. I enjoyed the first two eps :(

Hoppy said:


The production committee needs to be fired, they didn't even give the anime a fighting chance.

Yvese said:
That's one of the dumbest things anyone could do in the industry so bravo to the production committee I guess. I mean why even fund the project if you're essentially telling viewers that you're not confident it could sell? Shame really.. I enjoyed the first two eps and I think it had potential to at least average 2-3k.

Paulo27 said:
What does releasing it earlier have to do with them thinking it won't sell? It's a bad move to release it so soon though.

Hoppy said:


You can't gauge if an anime is worth buying in 2 episodes. The bare minimum for 1 cour anime is 3 episodes with 5-6 being the limit (if you aren't confident in buying an anime within 6 episodes, you may want to not buy it).

Kaioshin_Sama said:
Also the G4U costs 9,698 while the anime costs 5,494 yen. This is not a case of them being similarly priced, it's a different overall package in a different market set by a different publisher than the anime disc. Anime discs typically do not sell for this kind of money unless they are part of a special package, but premium collectors edition video game packages do indeed.