Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings for September 10th - 16th

phoenixalia said:


and its those shaky shonen which are fujoshi bait which make a lot of money for anime producers. XD ao no exorcist, code breaker, kurobas(I still think from time to time...is the mangaka really male? O_O), FMA(yes, fujoshi loved it too) samurai kyo like the person above said, black butler, DRRR and so on. so while they may not make the greatest shonens....they do attract the ladies. XD

I'll be honest. The reason I started really reading Code Breaker and Black Butler was for the bishies since I usually stay away from shonen manga since I find them boring. X3

Oh and I'm looking forward to Magi too. :D I was planning reading it but now I'll watch it instead.

SupremeZero said:
still wondering how the hell conan is still running after 7x volumes xD

jmal said:
Regarding the whole "anime is not just an advertisement" vs. "anime is just an advertisement"... the truth is somewhere in between, guys.

It's true that anime is almost always trying to push sales of something else. Manga, novels, visual novels, games, etc are pretty obvious examples. Even original anime usually hopes to push sales of figures and other merchandise. And of course anime aimed at younger audiences push this phenomenon to its limits, where home video sales are utterly beside the point and it's all about toys, toys, toys.

But I'd say a majority of anime still hope to at least recoup production costs through DVD/BD sales. And certainly a fair number of production committees have high hopes of making a hit. I don't think anyone involved with SAO intended the anime as a pure loss leader for the novels. A smash hit was expected in both formats, and plenty of other merch besides.

As for why creators don't just slap together a short one-shot anime as "enough" for the purpose of advertising? Because it's not enough. Viewers have certain expectations, and if they're not at least interested in the show, the chances of their buying whatever the anime is trying to drive sales of decreases. They don't have to be interested enough to buy it on BD, but still interested enough to watch some and seek out the source material (see Another or Kore wa Zombie Desu ka).

So yes, anime is often an advertisement, and a strategic investment, which may be treated as a loss leader or as an expected home video hit - it's taken on a case by case basis.

TrollMeAllOver said:
why SAO sell so good? anime is pretty average, i don't see anything special about it -_-
also Detective Conan only 49,087? shame

TrollMeAllOver said:
why SAO sell so good? anime is pretty average, i don't see anything special about it -_-
also Detective Conan only 49,087? shame