Japan's Weekly DVD & CD Rankings for Apr 2 - 8

here all time top sales tv series anime (average above 40.000, no addition BOX and late started sales)

　111.559　1995　Evangelion
　*78.671　2009　Bakemonogatari
　*71.056　2011　Puella Magi Madoka
　*69.247　2004　MSG SEED DESTINY
　*58.589　2002　MSG SEED
*49.788 2011 Fate/Zero ......................ongoing
　*46.147　2008　Macross F
　*45.367　2006　Code Geass
　*43.830　2009　K-On !
　*42.690　2008　Code Geass R2
　*41.038　2006　Haruhi 1

from 2ch

Inu x Boku SS did a lot better than I thought it would, lol.

Natsume Yuujinchou Shi <3.

Thanks. Got it.

No no.. You are misunderstanding my question..

I was asking, if the info jmal supplied was for the sale requirement per volume, or the total sales..

Can I ask, if the sales requirements are the cumulative total of all the volumes sold or they are per individual volumes?

I assume he means 1-3k.

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. I'm counting them as in 58 k for nisemonogatari.

the 1- 3 means?....

I am new to the keeping track of sales thing but as of today what would the DVD/Bluray points need to be to be decent? What would they need to be to be great as in uta pri great?

Happy about DxD since that means more chances of having season 2...

Its updated hourly

thanks so very much again. is it updated regularly?

*3, 10,345 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
Yay Natsume!

*7, *4,588 Mouretsu Pirates
10, *3,387 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
Moretsu did pretty good. I was honestly expecting Danshi to have more sales.


26, *1,984 *57,618 Mouretsu Pirates "Mugen no Ai"
Surprisingly, the CDs are doing fairly well. :O

14, *,425 *,*11,580 Gintama' vol.9 Limited Edition
Aw. Was hoping Gintama did better. :(

Well haters are gonna hate I for one can't wait for a second season of Highschool DxD, will pick this up when funimation release it over here...

Yes, I hope it'll sell more than that eventually though. I think it deserves it.


True indeed. I'm thrilled to see that it's selling well.

at least some anime r doing ok

Thanks for the links guys. Now I can check it out myself. Thanks very much.

@RyanSaotome

where did you get those figures? did you try on amazon itself or?

You're not even close. The series is based off a popular series of light novels which already has a large fanbase set. It's the same reason Horizon sold so well. Purposes of enjoyment are irrelevant as there is no direct correlation to sales and amount of sexual content.

good.
danshi koukousei no nichijou ftw

yes, sometimes it can give two links - one is usually schedule for publication and second one are sales

@jmal (won't quote because the wall of text would become annoying soon ^^)

My fault on the sales part, I was actually thinking of the MAL viewers when I wrote that. And as I said, fanservice is not the only thing that sells, but it's constantly within the top sales each season. (There is also the Guilty Crown type of show and mecha series who often do well, but also often with unnecessary fanservice).

And unnecessary is the keyword for me here (Similar to degrees, but not the same). First of all if the fanservice is the main aspect of the show, like in 90% of the shows with ecchi and harem tags, I will always hate those shows. Highschool DxD is exactly that for example, or Kiss X Sis and enough other shows. I just avoid these, their superstitiousness makes me a bit sad when they have a lot of fans who don't seem to care about substance, but I generally don't bother with those shows except maybe poking here and there in the news forums like I just did.

Then there's fanservice that cou would call "well done", I would just consider it "fitting fanservice". When it's totally fitting in with the genre (which is NOT mainly a fanservice genre) and characters, doesn't make you bang your head against the wall because of how forced it is etc.. It is indeed well integrated in the whole complexity of the series. Lupin is such a case, but also the Monogatari stuff (sometimes borderline though, but I don't see the fanservice as the main aspect, but the dialogues. I wouldn't enjoy it otherwise). If I can enjoy or will give those shows a try depends on what they are about, though I only have few genres that I generally avoid.

And then there is fanservice in shows where I know that I would enjoy the premise and setting etc... of the show much more of some of the fanservice (or all of it) was substituted by more mature ways of depicting them. Highschool of the Dead is a classic case for that, but I would also put Inu X Boku somehow in this category. The whole supernatural mansion thing was interesting and I would have loved it if the tone of the show had been different. But as I said it's not mainly because of some fanservice, but because I personally can't stand that kind of character relationship/chemistry, so even if you say it's very well handled and developed throughout the series, that doesn't change much for me. Same would go for an incestuous relationship or any kind of harem, well portrayed or not. I don't feel obligated to go into further detail about why, it's just how it is.

It's all about if I get the feeling that the fanservice is included only because they think they NEED that to attract viewers or if it is included because they CAN add some to an already decent show to spice things up. I'm not a fan of either, but the latter just doesn't seem so desperate and it doesn't immediately throws me out of the "world" of the anime because it makes it so obvious that the people behind it are just fishing for sales with cheap methods. As for master/servant, incestious or harem relationships I can't shake off the thoughts that that's the main reason they're doing it, even if that may not be the case. It may be a prejudice, but one based on experience and even if I miss out a small number of good shows because of it, it protects me from a far larger number of crap I'd never want to touch. That plus the fact that I'm already open to and able to enjoy a wider range of genres than most other people, make me not very worried about that small, prejudical character flaw.