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Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Jul 29 - Aug 4

by symbv
Aug 6, 2013 4:06 AM | 266 Comments
Here are the weekly Blu-ray & CD rankings for July 29th - Aug 4th

Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles

Blu-ray
*1, 7,483 *7,483 Zoids - Limited Edition
*2, 7,262 *7,262 Little Busters! vol.8
*3, 5,001 85,054 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 1: Hajimari no Monogatari / Movie 2: Eien no Monogatari BD Set
*4, 3,209 *3,209 Zoids - Regular Edition
*5, 2,570 *2,570 Urusei Yatsura BD Box vol.2
*6, 2,537 19,041 Love Live! School Idol Project vol.5
*7, 2,081 23,953 Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 Movie 6: Toutatsu! Dai Magellan
*8, 1,922 13,363 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vol.7
*9, 1,914 15,612 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% vol.2
10, 1,790 *1,790 Chokkyuu Hyoudai Robot Anime vol.3
11, 1,782 13,832 Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:1 Ghost Pain
(cut-off 1,782)


DVD
*1, 3,492 *,*20,115 One Piece Log Collection "SABAODY"
*2, 2,381 *,**6,449 Peeping Life: Tezuka and Tatsunoko Production Wonderland
*3, 1,831 *,*11,394 Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% vol.2
*4, 1,734 1,200,590 Tonari no Totoro
*5, 1,723 *,*51,929 One Piece Film Z - Regular Edition
*6, 1,654 *,*10,738 Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 Movie 6: Toutatsu! Dai Magellan
*7, 1,480 *,**1,480 Little Busters! vol.8
*8, 1,463 *,**1,463 Amnesia vol.5
*9, 1,452 *,**6,709 Precure All Stars New Stage 2: Kokoro no Tomodachi
10, 1,233 *,**6,016 Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge
11, 1,112 *,*22,964 Shingeki no Kyojin vol.1
12, 1,089 *,769,312 Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
13, *,994 *,510,382 Majo no Takkyuubin
14, *,861 *,***,861 Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited - Hyoubu Kyousuke vol.5
15, *,811 *,355,781 Mononoke Hime
16, *,762 *,**3,561 Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:1 Ghost Pain
17, *,755 *,*58,167 One Piece Film Z - Limited Edition
18, *,599 *,172,445 Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo
19, *,577 *,**3,000 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic vol.8
20, *,572 2,384,016 Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
(cut-off 572)


CD Single
*3, 61,648 *61,648 Senki Zesshou Symphogear G OP "Vitalization"
*8, 18,215 *18,215 Cardfight!! Vanguard: Link Joker-hen OP "Itsumo Dakishimete / Mugen∞Rebirth"
11, 14,575 *14,575 ~Nanamori-chu☆Goraku-bu~ in My Little Pony "Magical Dai☆Dai☆Dai-Bouken!"
16, *9,600 182,379 Shingeki no Kyojin OP "Jiyuu e no Shingeki"
17, *9,266 **9,266 Gin no Saji: Silver Spoon ED "Hello Especially"
18, *8,933 **8,933 Brothers Conflict ED "14 to 1"
19, *8,651 **8,651 Tamayura: More Aggressive OP "Hajimari no Umi"
20, *8,250 **8,250 One Piece theme song "Hands up!"
22, *5,307 *26,109 Senki Zesshou Symphogear G Character Song 1 Maria x Tsubasa "Fushichou no Flamme"
23, *4,833 **4,833 Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-hen OP "God only knows -Secrets of the goddess-"
27, *3,681 **3,681 Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya OP "starlog"
31, *2,964 *24,281 Free! OP "Rage on"
32, *2,895 **2,895 Tiger & Bunny Single Relay Project Circuit of Hero Vol.6 "Kataku Kedakaki Hokori to Tomo ni ~Rock Bison no Thema~ / Moeru Jounetsu no Karneval"
33, *2,879 **2,879 Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS Character Songs 03 Nagatsuka Saki (Hikasa Youko) "Reisei Strategy"
34, *2,854 *47,382 Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Shinsoku no Genosect - Mewtwo Kakusei theme song "Egao"
35, *2,848 *19,466 Love Live!: BiBi ~Eri, Maki & Niko from μ's~ "Cutie Panther"
37, *2,705 *10,880 Monogatari Second Season ED "Ai wo Utae"
38, *2,691 *11,548 Senki Zesshou Symphogear G Character Song 2 Hibiki "Seigi wo Shinjite, Nigiri-shimete"
43, *2,241 167,658 Kakumeiki Valvrave OP "Preserved Roses"
46, *1,960 *24,272 Jewelpet Happiness theme song "Hikari no Hate ni"
49, *1,686 *31,475 Gintama: Kanketsu-hen - Yorozuya yo Eien Nare theme song "Genjou Destruction"
56, *1,506 *25,339 Toriko Movie: Bishokushin no Special Menu ED "ShiawaTheory"
60, *1,428 **6,280 Rozen Maiden (2013) OP "Watashi no Bara wo Haminasai"
63, *1,257 **5,231 Kiniro Mosaic OP/ED "Jumping!! / Your Voice"
64, *1,232 **6,208 Blood Lad OP "ViViD"
67, *1,149 **1,149 Uchouten Kazoku OP "Uchouten Jinsei"
68, *1,172 **8,633 Brothers Conflict OP "Beloved x Revival"
69, *1,167 *10,614 Aikatsu OP/ED "Daimond Happy / Hirari/Hitori/Kirari"
70, *1,181 *15,799 Zettai Bouei Leviathan ED "Truly"
73, *1,130 **4,012 Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist OP "Believe My Dice / a shadow's love song"
77, *1,081 **5,671 Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi ED "Owaranai Melody wo Utaidashimashita"
78, *1,065 **3,971 Choujigen Game Neptune the Animation OP "Dimension tripper!!!"
81, *1,035 **4,297 Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya ED "Prism Symphony"
(cut-off 1,000)


CD Album
10, 8,373 *8,373 The IdolM@ster Live The@ter Performance 04
12, 6,707 *6,707 Yuumin x Studio Ghibli - 40th Anniversary Album "Hikouki-Gumo"
24, 3,912 *3,912 IS:_Infinite_Stratos Original Drama Series Vol.4 feat. Charlotte Dunois "~Orimura-ke de Choushoku wo~"
29, 3,705 *3,705 Diabolik Lovers Do-S Kyuuketsu CD "More, Blood Vol.4 Azusa"
37, 2,841 39,134 Shingeki no Kyojin Original Soundtrack
41, 2,573 *8,974 Kaze Tachinu Soundtrack
49, 2,099 *2,099 Amnesia Character CD Ikki & Kento
60, 1,513 12,191 Aikatsu "Fouth Party!" by Star☆Anis
(cut-off 1,000)


Source: Oricon Youtaiju

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Hahalollawl said:
rather just putting something like "possible spoilers" in the title would warn anyone who might click on the thread that inconsiderate people may spoil whatever series for you. Edit: Or maybe do the opposite, and put NO SPOILERS in the title to remind people? Just some suggestions.
Since every thread can have someone writes some spoiler in it, should I put "possible spoiler" in the title of every thread here? It would look rather crowded and unseemly for the top page of News Board, don't you think? As for "no spoilers", there is already MAL rules specifying that spoiler discussion should be placed inside spoiler tags, don't you think the user needs to be a good citizen here instead of mods babysitting them about the rules at every turn?

Hahalollawl said:
The problem with the report button is I have to see the spoiler in order to report it, and I'd rather just avoid seeing it at all. Also, maybe if they gave news mods the ability to put the spoiler tag in other people's posts then you could fix it.
User in MAL should read the rules and follow them when they post. It is a forum that people are free to post, so we put a substantial amount of trust on the users here to follow the rules. Mods resource is limited and so it is unlikely they can police every thread around. This is why we encourage users to report problematic posts by using the "report" button.

Aug 13, 2013 6:17 AM by symbv

symbv said:
Hahalollawl said:
If this is acceptable/going to be a regular thing, I think it might help if Symbv put SPOILERS in the title of the thread.
Not sure what you want me to do.. Since spoiler can easily be posted by anyone here, should I put SPOILERS on the title of each thread? Think how ridiculous it would look if I put "Monogatari Spoilers" or "Shingeki Spoilers" in the title of this "Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Jul 29 - Aug 4" thread. I am not sure if you have really thought the idea through...

And a news mods has no authority of editing other people's post (except the very first one that starts the thread) so even if I want to add spoiler tag in someone's post I can't. For this kind of thing, you have to use the "Report" button that comes with every post to report the post to a forum mods and ask him/her to do it.


It was just a possible suggestion, and I didn't mean that you would have to specify the series being spoiled, rather just putting something like "possible spoilers" in the title would warn anyone who might click on the thread that inconsiderate people may spoil whatever series for you. Edit: Or maybe do the opposite, and put NO SPOILERS in the title to remind people? Just some suggestions.

The problem with the report button is I have to see the spoiler in order to report it, and I'd rather just avoid seeing it at all. Also, maybe if they gave news mods the ability to put the spoiler tag in other people's posts then you could fix it.

Regarding SnK, I've fallen behind and didn't even realize there was a going to be a female titan. Thanks for that...

Aug 13, 2013 6:07 AM by Hahalollawl

VioLink said:
rederoin said:
VioLink said:
jmal said:
Thanks for the fucking spoilers, people. How utterly inconsiderate a person do you need to be, seriously? Since when was the weekly sales thread a series discussion thread?

What anime did they spoil? I am too scared to look.

SnK(the identity of the female titan).

I reported it 6 or so hours ago, so maybe it got removed by now.

Oh, well I read the manga so I'm good. I notice it has been spoiled in the episode threads as well.


Well, it was really obivous, even without reading the manga. I'm surprised there are people who haven't immediately noticed the identity of the female titan...

Aug 12, 2013 10:34 PM by Romedbaumann

Hahalollawl said:
If this is acceptable/going to be a regular thing, I think it might help if Symbv put SPOILERS in the title of the thread.
Not sure what you want me to do.. Since spoiler can easily be posted by anyone here, should I put SPOILERS on the title of each thread? Think how ridiculous it would look if I put "Monogatari Spoilers" or "Shingeki Spoilers" in the title of this "Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Jul 29 - Aug 4" thread. I am not sure if you have really thought the idea through...

And a news mods has no authority of editing other people's post (except the very first one that starts the thread) so even if I want to add spoiler tag in someone's post I can't. For this kind of thing, you have to use the "Report" button that comes with every post to report the post to a forum mods and ask him/her to do it.



taketori said:
but I'm pretty surprised by how low Servant x Service's projected sales are with the comparisons to Working!! (and the same mangaka) which sold really well.
Don't forget the manga of SerSer sold less than one third of Working!! manga though. So from the beginning the fanbase of SerSer is much smaller than Working!! although I do agree that it could have performed better -- I wonder if this is a general malaise that affects almost all titles in this cour.

Aug 12, 2013 9:26 PM by symbv

VioLink said:
rederoin said:
VioLink said:
jmal said:
Thanks for the fucking spoilers, people. How utterly inconsiderate a person do you need to be, seriously? Since when was the weekly sales thread a series discussion thread?

What anime did they spoil? I am too scared to look.

SnK(the identity of the female titan).

I reported it 6 or so hours ago, so maybe it got removed by now.

Oh, well I read the manga so I'm good. I notice it has been spoiled in the episode threads as well.

Thanks for the warnings, I haven't read the manga yet so the surprise really would have been ruined for me.

Not sure if this has been said already since I'm now too afraid to look at the other posts, but I'm pretty surprised by how low Servant x Service's projected sales are with the comparisons to Working!! (and the same mangaka) which sold really well.

Aug 12, 2013 7:11 PM by taketori

rederoin said:
VioLink said:
jmal said:
Thanks for the fucking spoilers, people. How utterly inconsiderate a person do you need to be, seriously? Since when was the weekly sales thread a series discussion thread?

What anime did they spoil? I am too scared to look.

SnK(the identity of the female titan).

I reported it 6 or so hours ago, so maybe it got removed by now.

Oh, well I read the manga so I'm good. I notice it has been spoiled in the episode threads as well.

Aug 12, 2013 6:10 PM by VioLink

^^^ Still there, don't look!

Speaking of don't look, I am afraid for Kotoura-san vol. 5 sales tomorrow...

Aug 12, 2013 5:04 PM by hpulley

VioLink said:
jmal said:
Thanks for the fucking spoilers, people. How utterly inconsiderate a person do you need to be, seriously? Since when was the weekly sales thread a series discussion thread?

What anime did they spoil? I am too scared to look.

SnK(the identity of the female titan).

I reported it 6 or so hours ago, so maybe it got removed by now.

Aug 12, 2013 5:00 PM by rederoin

jmal said:
Thanks for the fucking spoilers, people. How utterly inconsiderate a person do you need to be, seriously? Since when was the weekly sales thread a series discussion thread?

What anime did they spoil? I am too scared to look.

Aug 12, 2013 4:56 PM by VioLink

symbv said:
Kaioshin_Sama said:
symbv said:
And we know a shift to serious tone does not always lead to drop in sales -- Chu2byo is a good example.
I know I'm going to get flack for this, but you're citing a Kyoani example and from everything I seen they practically don't play by the same rules as any other label out there. It's almost like they have a near limitless amount of leeway whereas others would get nailed to the wall by their respective core fanbases for pretty much the same thing.
You should and you knew you should get flak about this, because we have been discussing it for some time and still now you could not get rid of the thought that even KyoAni could not really sustain any "loyal buying" behavior. As I said, the sooner you are rid yourself of those association of sales performance or popularity measurement (in Japan) with those behavior and comments (presumably irritating to you) from western fandom, the better you are able to give fair comment to the performance of anime shows in Japan.

As I said repeatedly before, what KyoAni could do at most is to raise expectation higher for its coming show but once the show starts they do not really get much leeway in terms of getting people to buy even if they are disappointed. What happened to Chu2byo just proved that people usually make the buying decision for the whole series instead of dropping abruptly in the middle, and it takes some really abrupt and unpopular change in the middle of series (for example the animation took a sharp turn for the worse) for sales to drop abruptly in the middle of the series (instead of the whole series getting less sales).


I didn't mean that as a like, "Oh those Kyoani fans will buy anything" but more as it seems that their releases don't suffer things like 2nd season fatigue or post 1st volume dropoff all that much. An example would be like jmal is always pointing out with the consistency of the Hyouka volumes. One of the only other examples I can think of is Sunrise where second seasons trend up in sales as often as the other way around and stuff like Love Live just seems to have never ending tales.

So yeah I was talking about consistency not blind buyer syndrome. Also Love Live is literally the number 1 DVD now. Who would have thunk it? Sunrise, much as I love their output more often than not there's another company that could share the wealth around sometimes for all the stuff they seem to produce seemingly magicing itself into the top 100 that you wouldn't expect to see there (Tiger and Bunny with it's 30 year old protagonist is just...wow even with Fujoshi support)......though I suppose they contribute back to the industry in their own ways by helping out on a lot of projects like Madoka (though they could have just smelled money and opportunity there all the same) and being one of the few studios I see in a position to and actively trying to develop interest in anime outside Japan first handed instead of through licensing.

Anyway I'm starting to notice a trend where with the 5th episode of a lot of stuff there's a tremendous jump from obscurity to top 100 levels. It's curious, but it's been happening with more than a few things this summer. It's good that a lot of stuff is starting to pick up steam now even if I'm not all that fond of the offerings this season. People gotta feed those families and what not.

bippo said:
season anyways so I guess shaft will abandon it and finish that SZS ending. SZS was sacrificed for bake anyway so karma I guess.


I think your definition of good vs. bad is more than a little off there. Anything above 10K is generally considered great. 20K indicates significant popularity. 30K+ you start to get golden. The problem is there's only a small handful of companies that regularly seem to be able to reach these numbers coughSunriseA1KyoanimaybeShafttoobutnotreallyconsistentlycough which is to borrow a term from Hockey culture "tough".

Aug 12, 2013 2:13 PM by PeacingOut

jmal said:
Thanks for the fucking spoilers, people. How utterly inconsiderate a person do you need to be, seriously? Since when was the weekly sales thread a series discussion thread?


Thanks for the warning, now I'll try not to go back to the older pages. Seriously, it can be astonishing how oblivious people can be to their own inconsiderate actions... If this is acceptable/going to be a regular thing, I think it might help if Symbv put SPOILERS in the title of the thread.

Aug 12, 2013 12:43 PM by Hahalollawl

bippo said:
aiou said:
bippo said:


Chou,Nagi,Tia,Claris,Deco,Haly,Kuroneko etc...We got a bunch of them now. Hope they chart on oricon more.


Not familiar with Tia... She sang some EDs already from a show I didn't watched perhaps?


She sang the wooser ED. Just a short anime. But the song/show is well-known. They have doujins of the wooser girls at comiket the other day *winks*
I love Wooser and the song! Super cute voice!

Aug 12, 2013 10:20 AM by hpulley

aiou said:
bippo said:


Chou,Nagi,Tia,Claris,Deco,Haly,Kuroneko etc...We got a bunch of them now. Hope they chart on oricon more.


Not familiar with Tia... She sang some EDs already from a show I didn't watched perhaps?


She sang the wooser ED. Just a short anime. But the song/show is well-known. They have doujins of the wooser girls at comiket the other day *winks*

Aug 12, 2013 8:57 AM by bippo

aiou said:
bippo said:


Chou,Nagi,Tia,Claris,Deco,Haly,Kuroneko etc...We got a bunch of them now. Hope they chart on oricon more.


Not familiar with Tia... She sang some EDs already from a show I didn't watched perhaps?


ClariS sings the Opening theme for Exstetra, I was squealing when I found out.

Aug 12, 2013 8:57 AM by Hoppy

bippo said:


Chou,Nagi,Tia,Claris,Deco,Haly,Kuroneko etc...We got a bunch of them now. Hope they chart on oricon more.


Not familiar with Tia... She sang some EDs already from a show I didn't watched perhaps?

Aug 12, 2013 8:55 AM by aiou

@hpulley I think we were talking about different thing. The drama CD may be not new but the AMAZON special extra, the recitation CD, seems to be new. Perhaps that explains the big jump today?

【Amazon.co.jp限定特典】
原作「有頂天家族」朗読CD「第一章 納涼床の女神」
朗読:能登麻美子

ultimatemegax said:

Bandai Channel's episode 1-6 free to watch marathon yesterday.
Perhaps that explains, though re-run of other series did not seem to have produced as drastic an effect on sales ranking. Perhaps the deadline of preorder also contributes to the boost as well.

Aug 12, 2013 8:53 AM by symbv

symbv said:
hpulley said:
I looked for new extras for Uchoten Kazoku but found none. A keyword for this weekends show revealed only a new desktop image, no event ticket or other big bonus. The drama CD isn't new or big news.
It is the preorder deadline and the last episode did reveal a lot of information but it wasn't world changing IMO.
So what could explain the astounding jump then? By the way, the CD is NOT a drama CD though...

Bandai Channel's episode 1-6 free to watch marathon yesterday.

Aug 12, 2013 8:53 AM by ultimatemegax

symbv said:
hpulley said:
I looked for new extras for Uchoten Kazoku but found none. A keyword for this weekends show revealed only a new desktop image, no event ticket or other big bonus. The drama CD isn't new or big news.
It is the preorder deadline and the last episode did reveal a lot of information but it wasn't world changing IMO.
So what could explain the astounding jump then? By the way, the CD is NOT a drama CD though...

From the Bandai listing for volume 1:
有頂天家族 第一巻
発売日2013年09月25日ジャンルTVアニメ
...
■ドラマCD「冬の女神と毛玉たち」


The amazon exclusive listing calls it a 朗読のCD instead, recitation not drama.

Aug 12, 2013 8:43 AM by hpulley

aiou said:

Didn't know they're utaite. Wow.


Not exactly utaite. More like producers. Ryo/Jin kind of producers. The girl (towana) is one but not that popular unfortunately.

Chou,Nagi,Tia,Claris,Deco,Haly,Kuroneko etc...We got a bunch of them now. Hope they chart on oricon more.

Aug 12, 2013 8:36 AM by bippo

bippo said:
^ Dating? More like kidnapped lol. ED was sung by those niconico utaite bands again.

Underground getting recognition. Shows you how bad current mainstream jpop is imo.

Monogatari will explode if she really got accepted...Again... XD


Didn't know they're utaite. Wow.

Aug 12, 2013 8:31 AM by aiou

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