Gundam The Witch from Mercury Volume 1 copies sold BD 4822+DVD 471

-Knox- said:
That's outdated and was only three days of sales. It's passed 7k already.
https://erzat.blog/japan-top-10-weekly-anime-blu-ray-and-dvd-sales-ranking-march-27-april-2-2023/

deg said:
its above the manabi line aka break even profit that is 3000 disc sales at least

deg said:
source https://twitter.com/Fajji_Hanji/status/1640706701086130177

just sharing since there is no thread about this yet afaik

icefirestone23 said:
That was a metric about 10 years ago so it is less relevant today, especially if your show already has a ton of merchandise announced before airing. So the easier way to check is do a search on Ami Ami.

https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9238/is-the-manabi-line-a-correct-way-for-estimating-anime-profit-loss

Even KnY cannot hit 50K+ disc sales and today and 30K is pretty much the threshold.

As for WFM sales, relatively they are not as strong as seed and 00 that were in the past. Seed had the highest sales of the decade. Sunrise has very high standards and never made an AU into a long running series. Only Cosmic Era got considered.

icefirestone23 said:
If you look at the list, Bungou Stray Dogs disc sales bombed yet they ae getting a 5th season. Spy Room Vol 1 also bombed but we they have announced a 2nd cour and it was one of the highest selling ln volumes for Kadokawa in January.

When it comes to Sunrise, it pretty much makes no difference how well an AU sells because they will force it to end at the 50 episode mark.

deg said:


nah its been confirmed that Witch From Mercury is only 2 cour so not 50 episodes

icefirestone23 said:


U sure. Legit every gundam au is around the 50 episode mark. Even after war and turn a that flopped

deg said:
yes im sure Witch From Mercury is plan to be 2 cours only

here sources
https://www.siliconera.com/gundam-the-witch-from-mercury-will-have-two-separate-cours/
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:FortressMaximus/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_-_the_Witch_from_Mercury_Will_Air_In_Two_Cours

deg said:


here is some reliable sources
an average 13-episode anime season costs around 250 million yen (or $2 million) https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-08-13/anime-insiders-share-how-much-producing-a-season-costs/.91536

ranked them with a "success percentage" based on how many series created by a studio in that time span averaged at 3,000 discs sold or more https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-05-27/anime-studios-success-calculated-based-on-10-years-of-disc-sales/.88558

BluRay discs cost around 90 dollars per 2-3 episodes each disc http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=296000

so lets say 150,000 per episode x 2 episodes each disc will equal to 300,000 dollars, then divide that by 90 dollars (the cost per BluRay disc) and you will get around 3500 total disc sales to break-even, so even anime that sold an average of 4000 and above disc sales per volume is considered profitable already

same calculation if we go for total cost of producing a 1 cour show, 2,000,000 dollars divided by 13 episodes results to around 150,000 dollars per episode then multiply that by 2 (total number of episodes per disc) then we get 300,000 dollars and then divide that by 90 dollars (the cost of each disc) and we get around 3400 total disc sales per volume to break-even

Danpmss said:
That stuff drastically changed with the increase of streaming marketshare and dominance. That article is from 2015, it's quite outdated to how anime committees have been working lately. BD sales are barely relevant nowadays when it comes to covering production costs, and have been more of a collectors item as of late ever since 2017-2018 or so.  You can find some talk on the matter on ANN as well, there have been even some good old Answerman trivia in regards to this. 

These could have disastrous sales and still get multiple seasons anyway, they have long stopped being reliable metrics for success, BD/DVD sales.

Danpmss said:
That stuff drastically changed with the increase of streaming marketshare and dominance. That article is from 2015, it's quite outdated to how anime committees have been working lately. BD sales are barely relevant nowadays when it comes to covering production costs, and have been more of a collectors item as of late ever since 2017-2018 or so.  You can find some talk on the matter on ANN as well, there have been even some good old Answerman trivia in regards to this. 

These could have disastrous sales and still get multiple seasons anyway, they have long stopped being reliable metrics for success, BD/DVD sales.

deg said:


yes im sure Witch From Mercury is plan to be 2 cours only

here sources
https://www.siliconera.com/gundam-the-witch-from-mercury-will-have-two-separate-cours/
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:FortressMaximus/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_-_the_Witch_from_Mercury_Will_Air_In_Two_Cours

FlamingMangos said:
I don't really get it, but how did such a big IP like gundam get only 5000 user votes toward the rating for season 2? Is it some kind bug because season 2 of smartphone isekai has more people giving scores. 

FlamingMangos said:
I don't really get it, but how did such a big IP like gundam get only 5000 user votes toward the rating for season 2? Is it some kind bug because season 2 of smartphone isekai has more people giving scores.