Konosuba season 3 will need insane profits just to break even

Can we get there once the bridge is in sight the first episode didn't even air yet and you are already on the Blu Ray release who are a after the airing. Also both series have a different production committee exactly for case like this konosuba being a more secure IP less producers were involved as opposed to the Megumin spin off and in both case drive is not a producer so it mean they only receive the animation fee regardless the result.

700bd sales for a spin off is good. s3 is already the most popular spring anime in MAL. I don't think it's gonna matter much.

@Anime_Skaddiel below 1k discs is pretty much cancelation levels unless you are a battle shonen from weekly Shonen jump with huge manga dales. Considering konosuba has 10k disc sales for s1 and 2, a 90% disc sales drop will make the megumin spinoff the biggest bomb of all time no pun intended.

Kadokawa spent a bunch to market the spinoff. Konosuba didn't get a noticeable sales and marketing jump after the spinoff and that hurts their bottom line.

Mal popularity doesn't influence reception. Dangers in my heart had lower mal membership than solo leveling and classroom of the elite but ended up dominating the polls.

The difference in productions committees doesn't guarantee success . Problematic decisions can be made by everyone . The problem with the spin off wasn't the production team but whoever decided to make a full 12 episode anime and not a simple 4-6 OVA instead from such a low quality source material and thought megumin's success on the internet can carry a TV anime.

The spin-off was mediocre as hell so I'm not surprised at its bad sales numbers. I'm hopeful for season 3's success though.

Blu rays don’t really mean that much anymore

Blu rays don’t really mean that much anymore

@Yubisoft this is basically partially why the flash bombed.

When you have the entire anitube hyping this spinoff as the anime of the season, best thing ever, and it didn't deliver the second coming of avengers endgame, this will severely sour expectations. And anitube not admitting the faults just worsens it. This happened in japan to where it was like the 2nd and 3rd most anticipated show.

@Gavinyeet It so important for the studios to sell blu rays in Japan to the point that they changed director for Chainsaw man anime due to how poorly blu ray sold etc. It is an extremely important factor when studios want to decide if they are gonna greenlight new seasons for an anime. And this is just one recent example of the importance of blu ray

@Gavinyeet It so important for the studios to sell blu rays in Japan to the point that they changed director for Chainsaw man anime due to how poorly blu ray sold etc. It is an extremely important factor when studios want to decide if they are gonna greenlight new seasons for an anime. And this is just one recent example of the importance of blu ray

do note that disc sales and profit decreases for anime sequels anyway this is true for most anime

plus check the source material sales boost and even the legal streaming ratings if they are high then chances are there will still be anime sequels

And that is because the hype was focused on Megumin not the anime itself (plot, animation quality etc). Because let's be honest if the anime didn't have megumin as the main character , light years less people would have cared to even watch the first episode of the anime unless it was yuri etc and mal and other site's ratings would have been 6.30 or less.The production team overestimated the hype I mentioned ... and we all saw what was the result . Also another big reason is that anime was padded so damn much that the pacing of the plot , comedy , character and world building were all over the place. If studios want to make spin off anime about certain characters they should follow Kakegurui Twin's example ... a little bit of unfair example but hopefully you understand my point .

@Anime_Skaddiel below 1k discs is pretty much cancelation levels unless you are a battle shonen from weekly Shonen jump with huge manga dales. Considering konosuba has 10k disc sales for s1 and 2, a 90% disc sales drop will make the megumin spinoff the biggest bomb of all time no pun intended.

Kadokawa spent a bunch to market the spinoff. Konosuba didn't get a noticeable sales and marketing jump after the spinoff and that hurts their bottom line.

Mal popularity doesn't influence reception. Dangers in my heart had lower mal membership than solo leveling and classroom of the elite but ended up dominating the polls.

@Gavinyeet It so important for the studios to sell blu rays in Japan to the point that they changed director for Chainsaw man anime due to how poorly blu ray sold etc. It is an extremely important factor when studios want to decide if they are gonna greenlight new seasons for an anime. And this is just one recent example of the importance of blu ray

@Gavinyeet It so important for the studios to sell blu rays in Japan to the point that they changed director for Chainsaw man anime due to how poorly blu ray sold etc. It is an extremely important factor when studios want to decide if they are gonna greenlight new seasons for an anime. And this is just one recent example of the importance of blu ray

"Cancelation" isn't really a thing that happens in the anime industry. Very rarely do you actually get cases in which a project is announced and then it is explicitly mentioned to be cancelled, and even when it does happen. it's usually because of inside production problems and not really sales.

Also, Vinland Saga sold incredibly poor in terms of BDs, and yet it still got a second season, so your logic falls flat on it's face.

@Yubisoft Ryu Nakayama is not continuing because he's already working with a different studio, and there was a direct comment from Otsuka that he still considered CSM a financial success. You people really need to stop living in the past and thinking BDs are the overlord of an anime's success.

Yeah some people still have the same mindset in 2024 that somehow mal represents the majority of the anime and manga community globally and how successful anime , manga etc are ...

much ado about nothing

@baldingcheeto If this ''nothing'' will suddenly becomes something important and you start waiting years and years for a new season or movie (if the new season fails in terms of profit) , I want to see your the reaction of you people who now act nice and cool.... Hopefully then you will understand why we are worrying now

@Yubisoft yep. They clearly thought Megumin on the cover would sell them an easy 5k discs at around 40000 yen per season. Newer hit animes often fall into the hype trap where they release to good reception and the internet hypes it through the roof saying it is the next citizen kane (despite not reading or comparing source materials). Tensura faced a similiar issue where they thought the franchise was ready to overtake SAO. So they greenlit a movie, Crunchyroll fast tracked its release, gave it a wide release, only for it to severely underperform and get slammed by critics.

The spinoff material itself is probably inferior than other ln spinoffs. Not sure how profitable the Konosuba movie was. Some articles say it is a cash cow, others say it underperformed since it didn't made that much despite wide amount of screenings. I myself believed season 3 and the spinoff got greenlit thanks to fantastic days (which looks to be struggling now).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Konosuba/comments/kq2hqt/so_did_the_movie_flop_did_it_fall_short_of/

But no one can deny the megumin spinoff flopped.

Not gonna lie, megumin spinoff was just mid. Konosuba is probably in my top 3 favorite anime, but I hadn't even finished megumin spinoff. It's just boring and felt mid.
Without all main cast and kazuma himself, it loses all charm.

@baldingcheeto If this ''nothing'' will suddenly becomes something important and you start waiting years and years for a new season or movie (if the new season fails in terms of profit) , I want to see your the reaction of you people who now act nice and cool.... Hopefully then you will understand why we are worrying now

@anomyn_ just no. People watching konosuba do not care for ecchi. People watching konosuba for its comedy, including scenes where it makes fun of ecchi. It's absurd comedy and darkness washing kazuma back is just that - absurd comedy scene.
I couldn't care less about "ecchi" in this show.

Fake news. The blue ray sales are not the only source of income for the studio and has almost nothing to do with profits. Their main source of income in from selling streaming rights and merch sales.

Don't pay attention to anything this account says. He made this account to shill for Oshi no Ko and shit on other anime.

Literally the title : Konosuba season 3 will need insane profits just to break even . Nobody said blu rays are the only most important source of revenue. Blu rays are important for studios in Japan because the Japanese market ... you know .. the priority market of Japan still buys them a lot mainly for collector's reasons etc . The western market where blu ray sales are not good is not important for Japanese studios . They most important source of revenue in general for Japanese studios is the Japanese market .


Can you give us where you got your info that blu ray sales are no longer important for Japanese studios ? All I see is you and other salty people like : @Ionliosite2 (''totally unexcepted'') , @Yuri_Niji , @MaisUmWeeb , @baldingcheeto being extremely rude to someone without providing absolutely nothing to prove him wrong and borderline cyberbullying him just because you know deep down the 'Konosuba season 3 will need insane profits just to break even' and 'Konosuba s3 will probably need oshi no season 1 sales just to continue. Since it has to cover for its spinoff doing so poor. It will need to make headlines in spring and probably be considered the best anime of all time.' might be true .


So users who don't agree with you should not comment on forums . Great mindset .

In other words if you want to counter someone , don't trash talk him but ''destroy'' with your info politely

@Yubisoft Blu-rays as a whole are a dying media. They just don’t sell as good as they used to as streaming platforms like Netflix and CrunchyRoll have taken over, especially in Japan where most big anime are just on Netflix or Prime. Or course they do take it into consideration when it comes to sequels, but it isn’t the make or break. Funding from producers and sponsors are the big thing now. Take Chainsaw Mam for example, it got clowned on for its Blu-ray sales and yet we still got a sequel.

People think Blu-ray sales bad = No Sequel but that’s just not the case anymore.

Also, you really need to stop being so soft if you think I was being rude. I’m just stating the obvious.

@Yubisoft Blu-rays as a whole are a dying media. They just don’t sell as good as they used to as streaming platforms like Netflix and CrunchyRoll have taken over, especially in Japan where most big anime are just on Netflix or Prime. Or course they do take it into consideration when it comes to sequels, but it isn’t the make or break. Funding from producers and sponsors are the big thing now. Take Chainsaw Mam for example, it got clowned on for its Blu-ray sales and yet we still got a sequel.

People think Blu-ray sales bad = No Sequel but that’s just not the case anymore.

Also, you really need to stop being so soft if you think I was being rude. I’m just stating the obvious.

@Yubisoft
I am still waiting for all the people I tagged (or not ) in my original comment to provide proof and info that blu ray sales in Japan is not a important factor when deciding to greenlight a second season


This is not a valid example because the manga is extremely popular and had 0% of not getting continuation for the anime adaptation . Can you say for certain that the blu ray sales didn't at least how affect it the production about fast a second season of the anime will come after season 1 . ? (And by fast I mean , studio prioritize other anime before Chainsaw man season 2 etc )

If you want to give an example choose a much less popular anime as an example because not all anime/manga is extremely popular like chainsaw man unfortunately ....