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arena149 said:
So what are stalker's prediction for Madoka movie & Railgun S?

Madoka movies - 64.8k

Railgun2 vol.1 - 13.5k BD + 1.8k DVD = 15.3k

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.

Jul 23, 2013 7:24 AM

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^ You are right. To break it down

BD limited edition 64.8k
BD regular edition 3.9k
DVD vol.1 4.1k
DVD vol.2 4.1k

comes to around 77k....However...

Here it gets a bit tricky: because the two DVD volumes together form the contents of one BD, I guess in 2ch sales thread may choose to separate the BD and DVD sales and do not sum up the two.

symbvJul 23, 2013 7:29 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.

Jul 23, 2013 7:32 AM

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Raigrex said:
^Read my post again. It was sarcasm or whatever you call it.

I know it's disappointing but you aren't special enough to be widely recognized and nobody cares enough to memorize your animelist and notice "sarcasm" referring it.

Jul 23, 2013 7:39 AM

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symbv said:

arena149 said:
So what are stalker's prediction for Madoka movie & Railgun S?

Madoka movies - 64.8k (77k)

Railgun2 vol.1 - 13.5k BD + 1.8k DVD = 15.3k

Oh that is interesting. Thanks for the info. :)

Jul 23, 2013 7:42 AM

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Newhopes said:
Never understood why people are so obsessed with Madoka I found it boring as hell.

I really don't see how someone could say this then have AoT as one of their favourite animes. I really like AoT's manga but the anime adaptation is really sleep inducing.

Oh well, different strokes! Good to see AoT is doing well, I guess a second season may come around in 2 years or so.. depending on how long the source material takes to come out. Hopefully they work on the pacing, useless stills and don't cheap out on some of the action shots (lol shifting to a static background when people are going in for an attack.. so silly).

Jul 23, 2013 7:45 AM

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jmal said:

symbv said:
Here it gets a bit tricky: because the two DVD volumes together form the contents of one BD, I guess in 2ch sales thread may choose to separate the BD and DVD sales and do not sum up the two.

Yeah bit unusual, reminds me of concert CDs like the latest Hatsune Miku concerts, or a recent iDOLM@STER one, which have a version that combined multiple days/events, and other versions that cover just one of the events each.

Best way to handle something with formats like this is usually BD LE + BD RE + Avg(DVD1 + DVD2). If the goal is to determine how many unique instances of the full content (defined here as the two movies together) were sold, it'd be 64.8 + 3.9 + ((4.1+4.1)/2) = 72.8k for the combined set of movies, using Stalker's figures.

So... about the same as TV series. Nice. In first week! I wonder how long tail it's gonna have.

Jul 23, 2013 7:47 AM

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Lol Attack on Titan underperformed like hell. Still, at least it sold more than sword art online.

Jul 23, 2013 7:49 AM

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Progeusz said:
So... about the same as TV series. Nice. In first week! I wonder how long tail it's gonna have.

Chances are it will get a boost when the third Madoka movie is released to theaters near the end of October. The wave of Ghibli's DVD titles showing up in this week's DVD chart is one beneficial result from the premiere of Kaze Tachinu, the latest Ghibli film, for example:

*3, *1,875 1,197,056 Tonari no Totoro
*6, **,987 *,508,400 Majo no Takkyuubin
*7, **,853 *,354,139 Mononoke Hime
11, **,724 *,767,381 Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
13, **,595 *,121,603 Mimi wo Sumaseba
14, **,576 2,382,833 Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
15, **,515 *,656,263 Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa
17, **,439 *,190,493 Kurenai no Buta

EIGHT TITLES !!!

symbvJul 23, 2013 9:01 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.

Jul 23, 2013 7:50 AM

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Btw how many episodes does the first volume of AoT have? I can see anything less than 8 being one of the main reasons it didn't do better.

Jul 23, 2013 7:51 AM

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jmal said:
And hopefully a lot more in subsequent weeks, if it does indeed sell 72k wk1. I'm particularly hoping the third movie hits 100k. Fingers crossed.

I think it's quite likely considering it will have entirely new material unlike first two movies. 100k looks like a good goal to hope for.

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symbv said:
Chances are it will get a boost when the third Madoka movie is released to theaters near the end of October. The wave of Ghibli's DVD showing up in this week's DVD chart is one beneficial result from the premiere of Kaze Tachinu, the latest Ghibli film, for example.

Oh, right, old Evas also jumped when 3.33 was released so recap movies should get some boost when third one is out.

Jul 23, 2013 7:57 AM

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skudoops said:
Btw how many episodes does the first volume of AoT have? I can see anything less than 8 being one of the main reasons it didn't do better.

...8? o_O Heh, Japanese BDs have 1-3 episodes per volume on average. Shingeki v1 has 2 episodes on it. Some of the other volumes have 3 episodes. 9 volumes total, which is normal for a two cour show.

Yeah, I had no idea. I thought it would be around 4 like madoka.Then again I mostly own movies.

@Your edit, I didn't mean to imply it did badly in the slightest, but the way the show is I'm not surprised it didn't live up to the lofty sales expectations if the BD is only the first two eps.

Jul 23, 2013 7:59 AM

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skudoops said:
Btw how many episodes does the first volume of AoT have? I can see anything less than 8 being one of the main reasons it didn't do better.

I suppose all the TV anime DVDs you have seen are the bootleg ones? Because even the official release in US the BDs usually have 4 episodes, not 8, in one BD/DVD.

jmal said:

skudoops said:
Yeah, I had no idea. I thought it would be around 4 like madoka..

Madoka was two episodes per volume.

I think he may be talking about the US release.

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.

Jul 23, 2013 8:00 AM

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skudoops said:

jmal said:

skudoops said:
Btw how many episodes does the first volume of AoT have? I can see anything less than 8 being one of the main reasons it didn't do better.

...8? o_O Heh, Japanese BDs have 1-3 episodes per volume on average. Shingeki v1 has 2 episodes on it. Some of the other volumes have 3 episodes. 9 volumes total, which is normal for a two cour show.

Yeah, I had no idea. I thought it would be around 4 like madoka.Then again I mostly own movies.

@Your edit, I didn't mean to imply it did badly in the slightest, but the way the show is I'm not surprised it didn't live up to the lofty sales expectations if the BD is only the first two eps.

Madoka had 2 épisodes per volume. You're referring to the American release.

Jul 23, 2013 8:01 AM

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jmal said:

skudoops said:
Yeah, I had no idea. I thought it would be around 4 like madoka.Then again I mostly own movies.

Madoka was two episodes per volume.

Huh.. is the American version 4 episodes or something? I'm pretty sure my friend got 4 with his vol 1 O.O

symbv said:

skudoops said:
Btw how many episodes does the first volume of AoT have? I can see anything less than 8 being one of the main reasons it didn't do better.

I suppose all the TV anime DVDs you have seen are the bootleg ones? Because even the official release in US the BDs usually have 4 episodes, not 8, in one BD/DVD.

jmal said:

skudoops said:
Yeah, I had no idea. I thought it would be around 4 like madoka..

Madoka was two episodes per volume.

I think he may be talking about the US release.

Nah, I actually had no idea, I always used to think they were 4-8 depending on length of the series since I only really buy movies. I was waiting on the madoka set to go down in price more.

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Jul 23, 2013 8:03 AM

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skudoops said:
@Your edit, I didn't mean to imply it did badly in the slightest, but the way the show is I'm not surprised it didn't live up to the lofty sales expectations if the BD is only the first two eps.

The line of reasoning is deeply flawed here. The lofty sales expectation is held by many fans in Japan, and in Japan the standard is to have two eps per BD volumes (which means it is a common knowledge among fans in Japan), so why the BD having 2 eps should affect how much its actual sales lives up to its sales expectation?

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.

Jul 23, 2013 8:05 AM

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symbv said:

skudoops said:
@Your edit, I didn't mean to imply it did badly in the slightest, but the way the show is I'm not surprised it didn't live up to the lofty sales expectations if the BD is only the first two eps.

The line of reasoning is deeply flawed here. The lofty sales expectation is held by many fans in Japan, and in Japan the standard is to have two eps per BD volumes, so why the BD having 2 eps should affect its actual sales relative to its sales expectation?

With the way the show is I could see alot of people waiting for more batches to come out before getting them.

Jul 23, 2013 8:10 AM

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skudoops said:
With the way the show is I could see alot of people waiting for more batches to come out before getting them.

This is a speculation, but from my years of making observations about pattern of anime BD/DVD sales, I doubt the tail of vol.1 will extend far to 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.

Jul 23, 2013 8:14 AM

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symbv said:

skudoops said:
With the way the show is I could see alot of people waiting for more batches to come out before getting them.

This is a speculation, but from my years of making observations about pattern of anime BD/DVD sales, I doubt the tail of vol.1 will extend far to later volumes.

Yeah you are probably right.

jmal said:

skudoops said:
With the way the show is I could see alot of people waiting for more batches to come out before getting them.

Nothing you're saying is unreasonable if stated in a vacuum, but in the context of the JP market it's not how things end up going. If people have already seen the episodes on TV, they don't have a lot of incentive to wait to buy the BDs.

Things that cause a show to start selling more after the release has started are, say, a big plot twist that gets a lot of new fans interested, or some kind of fancy extra getting announced (especially if it requires buying all volumes to get), or sometimes a movie/sequel announcement. But most people who already decided they want to buy the show will start buying early on with volume one.

Ah ok, that makes sense. I guess I was thinking about it too much from my own POV.

Jul 23, 2013 8:18 AM

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Moving along, since we are on the topic of Madoka, how much are the movies are expected to sell?

Jul 23, 2013 8:27 AM

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skudoops said:
Moving along, since we are on the topic of Madoka, how much are the movies are expected to sell?

I think if you just go back a few posts we have already touched upon it: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=636219&show=60#msg23736281

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.

Jul 23, 2013 8:33 AM

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Aaaaawww yeah! SnK is #1 in sales! The OST and OP are doing good as well.

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Jul 23, 2013 8:40 AM

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symbv said:

*4, 16,078 *16,078 Senki Zesshou Symphogear G Character Song 1 "Fushichou no Flamme"
16, *3,653 *18,705 Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS OP "Get goal!"
20, *3,094 **3,094 Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS Character Songs 01 Minato Tomoka "Junjou Generation"

<3

Tomoka's character song seems to have sold lower than the previous season's character song of her. Can't wait for Hinata's for sure.

Jul 23, 2013 8:52 AM

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symbv said:

Progeusz said:
So... about the same as TV series. Nice. In first week! I wonder how long tail it's gonna have.

Chances are it will get a boost when the third Madoka movie is released to theaters near the end of October. The wave of Ghibli's DVD titles showing up in this week's DVD chart is one beneficial result from the premiere of Kaze Tachinu, the latest Ghibli film, for example:

*3, *1,875 1,197,056 Tonari no Totoro
*7, **,853 *,354,139 Mononoke Hime
11, **,724 *,767,381 Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
13, **,595 *,121,603 Mimi wo Sumaseba
14, **,576 2,382,833 Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
15, **,515 *,656,263 Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa
17, **,439 *,190,493 Kurenai no Buta

SEVEN TITLES !!!

You missed *6, **,987 *,508,400 Majo no Takkyuubin, so there's actually eight Ghibli films there,

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Jul 23, 2013 8:56 AM

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SnK dominating, not surprised.

Jul 23, 2013 8:58 AM

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Stark700 said:
SnK dominating, not surprised.

Who would be surprised by that, I wonder? Perhaps you can tell us whether you are surprised by the sales number.. Surprisingly high? low? Within your expectation? Or you never thought about it?

@FOE-tan
Thanks for pointing out. Just goes to show how many there are... I wonder when this last happened...

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.

Jul 23, 2013 9:40 AM

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Not bad SnK, not bad at all.

Jul 23, 2013 9:43 AM

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Maybe with the extra money, SnK can finally stop with the annoying still shots.

You think it'll get up to 70K by the second to third week?

Jul 23, 2013 9:45 AM

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symbv said:
*6, 15,487 *15,487 Free! OP "Rage on"

I know big part of the sales are because this is from Free!, but I can't help but being proud of OCD.

Also I was expecting a bit more of Shingeki sales afterall. This week was slow as last one.

「喜びも悲しみもあなたさえ五等分なんです！」

Jul 23, 2013 9:48 AM

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LucyNightray said:

symbv said:
*6, 15,487 *15,487 Free! OP "Rage on"

I know big part of the sales are because this is from Free!, but I can't help but being proud of OCD.

Yeah, previously the best record by OLDCODEX for first week sales is KuroBas ED which sold 7.2k in its first week, so this time it more than doubled its previous best record.

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.

Jul 23, 2013 9:57 AM

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symbv said:
Who would be surprised by that, I wonder? Perhaps you can tell us whether you are surprised by the sales number.. Surprisingly high? low? Within your expectation? Or you never thought about it?

I was a bit surprised, I was expecting it to be in 70's. May eventually end up there, but with all the PR around this (won't call it "hype"), I was expected historic, not just extremely good sales. This may sound funny given how well it did do, but that is my feeling.

Will be curious to see what the fall off is, if any, when V2 comes out.

Jul 23, 2013 10:10 AM

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I guess the interesting speculation now comes to AoT vs the Monogatari franchise. The first question is can AoT beat the number 1 seller (if I'm not mistaken) of 2012, Nisemonogatari.

The second question is can AoT outsell Monogatari season 2 and become the number 1 seller of 2013.

Of course, it's all speculation but we have significant new information, so it is interesting to revisit this question now.

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Jul 23, 2013 10:23 AM

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I thought Shingeki would sell 60k first week but this isn't bad either. This is very good. I think volumes 2-4 have some bonuses in them as well? So volume 5 onwards might drop...

symbv said:
*6, 15,487 *15,487 Free! OP "Rage on"

When I saw this I literally jumped out of my seat and shouted 'F*CK YES! YES!!!!!!!!!!'.
I'm soooo happy! For OCD, Tatsun AND for Free! This is a record for OCD isn't it? It so deserves it. I didn't like the song at first but it grew on me and now I love it.

I wonder how much the ED will sell. Probably more than the OP.

I hope this is a good sign for Free!'s BD and DVD sales as well. I hope it's a more storefront heavy title. It's been ranking really well at Tsutaya and I see volume 1 and occasionally volumes 2-4 rank on the Animate TOP 10 from time to time including this morning.

Rage on, Free!

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Jul 23, 2013 10:27 AM

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jmal said:

phoenixalia said:
When I saw this I literally jumped out of my seat and shouted 'F*CK YES! YES!!!!!!!!!!'.
I'm soooo happy! For OCD, Tatsun AND for Free! This is a record for OCD isn't it?

What I read elsewhere is that this is equal to the first week sales of all their singles since 2010 combined, including the Kurobas one. So yeah, definitely a good thing for them.

Ok, now I am amazed.

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「喜びも悲しみもあなたさえ五等分なんです！」

Jul 23, 2013 10:33 AM

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Spirited Away showing up and putting Totoro in its place for once.

And Saki <3. One more volume of that to come on the 21st August.

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Jul 23, 2013 10:36 AM

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jmal said:

I'm soooo happy! For OCD, Tatsun AND for Free! This is a record for OCD isn't it? It so deserves it. I didn't like the song at first but it grew on me and now I love it.

What I read elsewhere is that this is equal to the first week sales of all their singles since 2010 combined, including the Kurobas one. So yeah, definitely a good thing for them.

Not quite, but if we count from 2011 then it will be more than the combined total.

First week sales
10/03/10　**2,101　　[Blue]　OLDCODEX
10/06/09　**1,661　　flag on the hill　OLDCODEX
11/04/27　**1,524　　Harsh Wind　OLDCODEX
12/03/07　**1,610　　Cold hands　OLDCODEX
12/08/08　**7,198　　カタルリズム　(黒子のバスケ ED)　OLDCODEX
13/05/22　**3,732　　The Misfit Go　(アラタカンガタリ～革神語～ ED)　OLDCODEX

Total: 17,826

Counting since 2011, the total would be: 14,064

Ref:
*6, 15,487 *15,487 Free! OP "Rage on"

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.

Jul 23, 2013 10:38 AM

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symbv said:
2013 Spring Preliminary First Volume Sales

Key: Total - # Weeks Charted - Title - Format ranked - Release Date

65,465 *3 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% [BD+DVD]: 2013/06/26

This is why I hate Japan

Jul 23, 2013 10:42 AM

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Is there a reason why the DVD percentage share of some titles is very low like from the numbers symbv posted it was ~15% for Madoka while for some titles it's fairly high like for SnK it is ~34%.

Expected these numbers for SnK, it would be interesting to see how far the sales will fall for Volume 2.

Jul 23, 2013 10:49 AM

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Is there a reason why the DVD percentage share of some titles is very low like from the numbers symbv posted it was ~15% for Madoka while for some titles it's fairly high like for SnK it is ~34%.

The conventional thinking is basically the higher the proportion of male anime fans, who generally care a great deal about video quality, the greater the proportion of discs sold are BDs. For female oriented shows and family shows (Ghibli for example) we usually see much higher proportion of DVD in the disc sales. In SnK's case, we know the show is very popular with female audience so its high DVD percentage share of sales is understandable.

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.

Jul 23, 2013 11:11 AM

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Shuhan said:

symbv said:
2013 Spring Preliminary First Volume Sales

Key: Total - # Weeks Charted - Title - Format ranked - Release Date

65,465 *3 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% [BD+DVD]: 2013/06/26

This is why I hate Japan

Nobody believed me when I said (in a thread on the Anime Discussion forum) that UtaPri vol 1 might give SnK vol 1 a run for its money in terms of top sales of Spring.

SnK will get a higher average, though.

There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do.

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symbv said:

alanwake said:
Is there a reason why the DVD percentage share of some titles is very low like from the numbers symbv posted it was ~15% for Madoka while for some titles it's fairly high like for SnK it is ~34%.

The conventional thinking is basically the higher the proportion of male anime fans, who generally care a great deal about video quality, the greater the proportion of discs sold are BDs. For female oriented shows and family shows (Ghibli for example) we usually see much higher proportion of DVD in the disc sales. In SnK's case, we know the show is very popular with female audience so its high DVD percentage share of sales is understandable.

Are viewership numbers released for anime like they are released in the west for TV shows?

Shuhan said:

symbv said:
2013 Spring Preliminary First Volume Sales

Key: Total - # Weeks Charted - Title - Format ranked - Release Date

65,465 *3 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% [BD+DVD]: 2013/06/26

This is why I hate Japan

No reason to hate. Every country has it's 'Twilight' and '50 Shades of Grey'.

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alanwake said:

symbv said:

alanwake said:
Is there a reason why the DVD percentage share of some titles is very low like from the numbers symbv posted it was ~15% for Madoka while for some titles it's fairly high like for SnK it is ~34%.

The conventional thinking is basically the higher the proportion of male anime fans, who generally care a great deal about video quality, the greater the proportion of discs sold are BDs. For female oriented shows and family shows (Ghibli for example) we usually see much higher proportion of DVD in the disc sales. In SnK's case, we know the show is very popular with female audience so its high DVD percentage share of sales is understandable.

Are viewership numbers released for anime like they are released in the west for TV shows?

I only know of the list of the 10 most popular stuff by household rating. I'm not sure if any top seller on DVD/BR has even been on that list since Evangelion.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2013-07-21/japanese-animation-tv-ranking-june-8-14 <--this thing is what I'm talking about

There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do.

Jul 23, 2013 11:19 AM

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Laciie

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SnK dominating. I'm not at all surprised.

Jul 23, 2013 11:20 AM

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Newhopes said:
Never understood why people are so obsessed with Madoka I found it boring as hell.

Because SHAFT fans, at least in my experience, are extremely loud about the stuff they enjoy if you haven't already noticed. I found it to be a pretty good show but it's nowhere near the earth shattering all encompassing whatever that some make it out to be. It's not the kind of show I'd go on and on and on about and be constantly namedropping personally. I think that's probably what bothers people most about it's legacy.

As symbv mentioned though a major reason it's mentioned in this thread is because of it's record establishing Blu-Ray sales. Personally I don't like how some Madoka fanboys love to lord that distinction over other shows like it's supposed to mean anything more than the number it adds up to in terms of units sold, but that's a whole other can of worms.

Jul 23, 2013 11:21 AM

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kuuderes_shadow said:

alanwake said:

Are viewership numbers released for anime like they are released in the west for TV shows?

I only know of the list of the 10 most popular stuff by household rating. I'm not sure if any top seller on DVD/BR has even been on that list since Evangelion.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2013-07-21/japanese-animation-tv-ranking-june-8-14 <--this thing is what I'm talking about

All the shows on that list air on weekend and the target seems to be children so not that surprising that they will have high ratings.

Jul 23, 2013 11:21 AM

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symbv said:
It is also far from the first week sales of Madoka v1 52944 BD + 9097 DVD = 62041

Good. Just as it should be.

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Jul 23, 2013 11:23 AM

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Damn I owe someone 5 dollars, I just thought for sure SnK would hit the 60k mark. 56k is still boss as hell though. Can't wait to see what Railgun will do though.

Jul 23, 2013 11:23 AM

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alanwake said:
Are viewership numbers released for anime like they are released in the west for TV shows?

There are ratings like kuuderes_shadow said but only partial data are available and anyway for shows like Madoka and SnK which are aired in midnight time slots the rating would be low and not meaningful.

BTW, seems somebody indeed managed to get Aku no Hana v1 from some internet retailer (Rakuten in this case) - just goes to show how abrupt the suspension of sales was decided right before the official release date:

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.

Jul 23, 2013 11:27 AM

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That list is filled with super long runners that the more that I think of them the chances I'll try them due to the extreme length will be reduced. On the bright side Doki Doki Precure is on the list which is nice.

Jul 23, 2013 11:27 AM

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DraconisMarch said:

symbv said:
It is also far from the first week sales of Madoka v1 52944 BD + 9097 DVD = 62041

Good. Just as it should be.

A perfect example of what I'm talking about.

Yeah good job Madoka, you keep those lesser shows in their place. :/

Jul 23, 2013 11:30 AM

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