Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Jan 27 - Feb 2

tsubasalover said:
*4.　*8,140　*8,140　Little Busters!: Refrain Vol.1 Limited Edition
*5.　*7,159　*7,159　Non Non Biyori Vol.2
*7.　*5,306　*5,306　Kiniro Mosaic Vol.5

AO968 said:
NNB's victory is assured, and justifiably so. Kiniro Mosaic needs a second season badly.

Mr_Gutts said:
if kuroko continue like this they will anime all the manga

tsubasalover said:
Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for January 27th - February 2nd

CD Single
*4.　36,925　*36,925　Love Live! School Idol Project/ "Takaramonos/Paradise Live" by μ’s
*6.　27,827　*27,827　The iDOLM@STER Movie: Kagayaki no Mukougawa e Theme Song "M@STERPIECE" by 765PRO ALLSTARS
*7.　20,986　*20,986　Nisekoi OP "CLICK" by ClariS
13.　12,705　*12,705　Saikin, Chotto Imouto no Yousu ga Okaishiinda ga. ED "Charming Do!" by Yui Ogura
16.　*6,598　**6,598　Miss Monochrome OP "Poker Face" by Miss Monochrome (CV: Yui Horie)
17.　*6,142　**6,142　Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. OP "Kyou ni Koiiro" by May'n
19.　*6,005　**6,005　Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda ED "Visumania" by Aoi Yuuki
20.　*5,894　**5,894　Tokyo Ravens OP "~Outgrow~" by Gero
21.　*5,498　**5,498　Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren OP "VOICE" by ZAQ
22.　*5,486　**5,486　Sakura Trick OP/ED "Won(*3*)Chu KissMe!/Kiss(and)Love" by SAKURA*TRICK
26.　*4,458　**4,458　Strike the Blood OP "Fight 4 Real" by ALTIMA
27.　*4,377　**4,377　Noragami OP "Goya no Machiawase" by Hello Sleepwalkers


Source: Oricon Youtaiju

tsubasalover said:

*1.　27,067　Infinite Stratos 2

tsubasalover said:
*3.　13,137　Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio
*4.　10,398　Non Non Biyori
*6.　*9,701　Little Busters!: Refrain
*7.　*6,524　Kyoukai no Kanata
*9.　*5,800　Machine Doll wa Kizutsukanai
10.　*5,583　Strike the Blood
13.　*3,374　White Album 2
14.　*3,010　Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta

tsubasalover said:
15.　*2,914　Nagi no Asukara
19.　*1,776　Tokyo Ravens
24.　*1,098　Golden Time
31.　**,721　Log Horizon

-ShadowClaw- said:
What the hell? how can Log Horizon sell that low, what sort of thing is that? I know it airs on NHK so it is not as important for most series but still WTF?

xJedz said:
Log Horizon sales.... WHY!!!!

symbv said:
I would say tsubasalover should have made it clear that the number for Log Horizon is only for DVD while the more important BD sales number is not yet available. Back when I compiled the BD/DVD sales for MAL I took care to point out in the first volume ranking those titles that have only partial number in. Not sure why tsubasalover abandoned this practice.

exile2013 said:


Any reason why Magi is listed twice? I was wondering why Magi was so low until I saw it higher on the list.

jmal said:
The real WTF this week is Tamayura selling ~2.5x more DVDs than any previous volume in the franchise (and no accompanying boost to BDs, which will sell the usual I assume). v1 of this season only sold 610 DVDs.

Assuming it's not just Oricon accidentally switching the two formats, the only thing I can guess is that Sakamoto Maaya fans were buying v4 for the Momoneko-sama Matsuri 2013 event footage, where I assume she would have performed. But it's still nuts. It also throws calculations of Tamayura's average out of whack, but oh well, I'm not going to complain about Tamayura looking better in sales...

symbv said:
It has been confirmed that Oricon made a rare and odd mistake in reporting the sales of Tamayura and it is not just a swap of BD and DVD sales data. While peviously the DVD sales for Tamayura was put at 2431, the BD sales for Tamayura is now put at 3480 and is not at #17 in the all-BD sales ranking. The entry for Tamayura in the DVD sales ranking is now gone. Everything below it move up one rank and the last slot is taken by Gundam BG v2 at 597.

dniv said:
I don't see why anyone is happy about Railgun S being in #1 with those poor sales. Those sales were terrible. Hopefully, it gets more sales next week so it at least gets to 15000...

Also, for people who don't know Index/Railgun future seasons are temporarily on hold until some time in the future... it may be a year or two away, but there was an announcement. Though they didn't say they were not having another one; they just said to be patient for the next seasons.

jmal said:

ClariS is supposed to be two singers. They've never shown their faces in public but did a concert where they appeared in silhouette behind a screen.

jmal said:

Another OVA was announced but I'll be surprised if it goes beyond that. While I could watch it forever, they'll eventually run short of ways for Fuu to have a sentimental meeting with some stranger who happened to know her father and all that.

I'd happily watch her go through her last year of school, go to college, become a professional photographer etc etc... but I doubt SatoJun has any plans to go there.

jmal said:

ClariS is supposed to be two singers. They've never shown their faces in public but did a concert where they appeared in silhouette behind a screen.

KhanhCPham said:


Same. I assume it all depends on viewer ratings since it airs on primetime. The show is also government funded. I remember hearing Phi Brain is another government funded show that also airs on primetime that doesnt even rank in BD/DVD sales but it got 3 seasons.

Still a shame it didnt get more sales because really enjoyed the show.

jmal said:
It's definitely dropped from s1's 24,495 average

Takuan_Soho said:


NHK broadcasts in high definition with no commericals, it is just too easy to record the shows from the broadcast, also NHK is the only channel that has national coverage, so there are no fans in the country who haven't had the chance to watch it on TV (as opposed to most other anime networks).

So it would be fair to say that a show trades off disc sales in order to be on NHK. The profits may not be as high, but the production company knows that they are going to have a profit. This in turn helps these company's speculate on other shows.

jmal said:

Mostly more people buying. That's why v2 sold 2.4x more in its first week than v1 did, which is roughly where v1 got by week 6.

There was some slowness in getting stock back once the show exploded (uh, in relative terms, it's still sub-4k) a month or so after the first volume originally came out, because I'm sure they didn't expect that to happen and had to make more. But the driving factor is more interest in the show rather then a lot of unmet week 1 demand.

jmal said:
Full weekly list: http://www.someanithing.com/?p=755

So much stuff gah. Kill La Kill v1 hits 10k, NagiAsu v1 adds yet more and v2 ranks in both formats, etc.

minimiau said:
Maybe when you put a vampire on a story it automatically sell

jmal said:


Not to mention it's quite consistent with the previous volume. Railgun S has been consistent in general:

Week 1 (Total) - Vol [#weeks ranked]
16,720 (18,801) - Vol. 1 [wk3]
16,008 (17,386) - Vol. 2 [wk3]
14,930 (16,712) - Vol. 3 [wk4]
14,465 (16,425) - Vol. 4 [wk3]
15,450 (16,303) - Vol. 5 [wk2]
14,715 (15,852) - Vol. 6 [wk3]
14,514 (**,***) - Vol. 7 [wk1]

It's definitely dropped from s1's 24,495 average, but across this season's discs it's been very consistent.

jmal said:

It didn't rank. It's also not a normal release (it wasn't even available at Amazon) but it definitely didn't do well. There's definitely no correlation between inclusion of vampires and good sales.

dniv said:
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I'm just stingy because I'm sad it isn't doing better than season 1. I know it's customary for sales to drop, but the Sisters arc was so much better than season 1... J.C. staff finally mostly adapted something from Kamachi's manga/LN's right... but still low sales...

Hahalollawl said:
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I guess that WA2 OST didn't do too good huh?

volare1 said:
^ You didn't saw Dandy around the 300th spot last week??

I just saw the Magical Warfare on ANN and wow....jabbed with a bamboo sword huh? I think the author didn't want an adaptation...

Kuudere was just pointing out a clarification and I was expanding on the idea.

hpulley said:

93.　*1,023　*,**1,023　White Album 2 Original Soundtrack
Yeah, not that good. I guess the main problem for WA2 the anime is that WA2 the game already has OST discs from last year. I am buying all the anime ones too because I like the updated versions but really, I already have 3-4 versions of some songs and I'll get another one next month when the vocal album comes out and then another copy when the live concert Bluray comes out! I don't mind, every little bit helps to make Closing Chapter's adaptation a possibility though I'm worried that 3K BD and 1K disc sales aren't going to do it. The PS Vita game didn't sell that well either but the VN is still ranked really high so maybe I'm not seeing all the PS3 Game sales or something? Hard to track this one as it has so much merchandise, hard to know if it is profitable or not.

I bought Rena Uehara's Emergence album too even though it is half WA2 songs. It is SACD so it sounds better than the OP/ED/IS CD I bought last fall but it really is a bit silly of me to buy the same songs over and over... except for the support factor I guess. Rena's album must have been under 1K, it was on the daily rankings but then either it didn't show up or people forgot to include it even though it contains many anime songs.

jmal said:

It ranked 107th and sold 899 copies.

tsubasalover said:

17.　*6,142　**6,142　Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. OP "Kyou ni Koiiro" by May'n