Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & DVD Rankings for Oct 19 - 25

hoo...yahari and euph on top...good

but the serial experiments....nice nice nice

Akatsuki no Yona yeeeeeee

Also reminded me that I still haven't watched Omoide no Marnie, whoops.

Ah Yahari is doing great! Except the season 3 is so far away because season 2 ended with volume 11.

As for Gakkou Gurashi... *sigh* season 2 is dead by now.

Great to see Gakkou Gurashi and Arslan doing well. At least some shows that are good are doing well unlike others who deserve more sales (Rokka ;_;)

Nice, both Oregairu and Hibike! Euphonium are selling well. I'm still hoping we get a second season for the latter. Like, really hoping ... come on KyoAni ...

For Tex I'm predicting...less than 1/10 than Rokka no Yuusha sales.

If Charlotte has essentially been Joe Blow random anime with the exact same production just sans affiliation with Key/Visual Arts label I doubt it even achieves half it's first volumes first week sales. That was an extremely polarizing show by the end even among Japanese audiences and even some die hard Key loyalists I know had a hard time giving it their usual full marks let alone praise at times. We're talking a show where the early expectation was at least 20-30K first week for Vol 1 at the top of the season.

The simple reality I continue to think we're seeing (and I say this knowing some will just get angry and tell me what a horrible human being I am but whatever) is that aside from the absolute die hard collectors stuff like that attached to legacy franchises (Gundam, Dragon Ball Movies), big time moe/fujoshi pullers (Haikyuu, GochiUsa), idol/music must haves for fans (iDOLM@STER, Love Live, Symphogear) and big time eroge or light novel writers with ultra die hard loyal collector type fanbases (Monogatari series, Charlotte) in Japan is that the premium BD market is kind of dying out with increasing stream options, PVRing and just a really bad economy in Japan leading people to spend less money and tighten their budgets.

If you want to do original projects you're honestly going to be a little better off going into Live Action (chance at attracting mainstreamers) or trying some sort of crowdfunding thing to offset the loss if you really want to do it in animation unless you have some sort of plan to tie it to one of the established working formulas or personalities which even then are hardly guarantees when it comes to original anime.

Another example of something having strong ties to a largely established working formula and bombing in BD sales is Gakkou Gurashi. The franchise is immensely popular in the season it aired in getting rave fan reviews in Japan and is a Nitroplus work which is essentially a degree removed from saying it's affiliated to the mega popular Urobuchi brand and even then it's still doing poorly, though I think he has to have the specific credit of script or series composition for a whole product for that effect to take place. Not Norimitsu Kaihou, not Makoto Fukami, specifically Gen Urobuchi, but even then that doesn't explain how something can be so popular and well received yet sell so poorly unless maybe the packaging was bad.

Which is fine. But if we're at the level of one success per year that's still pretty darn low.

And in the end even Charlotte was basically brand success. Which I suppose still qualifies, even if it isn't particularly satisfying.

Personally I'd still rather see more original shows actually doing well on a quality side and on the sales side. A few every year or so is ok, but still a pretty low success rate.

Shirobako is the only one of those that achieved that not piggybacking off of already mega popular elements though. Shows like Comet Lucifer didn't start with some mega popular eroge authors name slapped on it as writer/creator or have a mega popular music artist and/or cast member to draw an audience in (well it does have Ayaka Ohashi, Inori Minase and Suzuko Mimori, but they aren't being taken advantage of at all in the packaging and promotion) and so far the package offers no must have collectors bonuses that I'm aware of like any of those franchises. If they want to drop some sort of concert event ticket and/or meet and greet type thing on it to take advantage of Mimori(Love Live), Ohashi (iDOLM@STER CG, Aikatsu) and Minase (Symphogear) that'd be a likely quick fix on at least the first volumes fortunes.

As of today though Comet Lucifer essentially offers absolutely nothing as a premium priced package to those that would spend money on Blu-Rays as of this moment in time which even Shirobako did before it started to catch on. Just an 8 page booklet and not even so much as a poster or music CD. It's like there's literally no confidence there (it's supposed to be a commercial for a cell phone game ultimately but it looks like it's headed down the Buddy Complex route already) and Rewrite should do several dozen times better easily as a Blu-Ray package for 8-Bit when it comes time for them to use the KEY brand and it's pre-installed loyal audience to their advantage .

God Eater will also be getting a game tie-in release next week which unlike the iDOLM@STER ones will not be just arbitrarily added to the total here let alone counted at all like past iDOLM@STER and Macross ones for what I can only call selective reasoning and I expect the same to be the case for the off shot packages containing the next sets of volumes which I get the sense people will be determined not to count like the Gravure For Your iDOLM@STER packaging. I plan on at the very least mentioning its sales though cause frankly I just hate selective and arbitrary reasoning and withholding information in those cases just because a show is polarizing. The only problem is there are like 6 different versions only 2 of which on the PS4 contain the anime so it'll be kind of hard to tell which is which, though given that the 2 anime tie-in ones seems to be selling the best of the 3 PS4 versions perhaps not quite so much.

Nice to see Kekkai Sensen and Diamon no Ace in the list, but I wish Gakko Gurashi could sell more.

Is also great to see IBO with these estimates.
*7.4k Gundam - Iron-Blooded Orphans

Hopefully these will get more sales.
*2.1k Noragami S2
*1.5k Sakurako-san
*0.4k Young Black Jack

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I know it still early to really take this into consideration....but still quite a lot of low sellers so far...even one punch man which is really hyped has quite a low start.

Huh but than again this pretty much represents how i feel about the fall season...while there are a few good ones almost all of them only rank 6 or 7/10. which while i like them i would no be upset if i don't see a sequel or something in the future.

Oregairu season 3 when?Gonna die !_!

No OVERLORD :'( "cries"
R.I.P.
Hope vol 2 next week makes a good run.

That's good I guess :P
*8.　1,332　**1,332　Wakaba*Girl Vol.2 Limited Edition

Isn't this the estimate after 1 week? It's almost 4 weeks now and the estimates for some series have increased much. For example. One Punch Man is around 5.5k now and Rakudai is around 3.5k now

Psycho-Pass and Shirobako, just to name two. Charlotte also sold well and Aldnoah.Zero somehow made it to the best anime list in a popularity contest, so there's that as well. That's 4, off the top of my head, from the past 4 years.

Those projections...

Well no shock on Monogatari, that series is just ungodly popular at this stage. Pretty darn good for GochUsa 2 though. The effort there will pay off nicely. Looking solid projection wise for Gundam and Utawarerumono.

Not huge sales or much separation for Asterisk and Cavalry. Around the 1.5-2.0 range is solid enough. Doesn't look like the spinoff for Aria is going to be so overwhelming that it could push a continuation of the original show there.

And damn....Comet Lucifer. You kind of hope original shows are going to find success at some point or we're just not going to be seeing much of them for a while.

I'm not buying this data, Gochiusa would at best stay at its S1 11K cumulative.
All SoL sequels earlier in the year is but a shadow of their former self, there is no way Gochiusa will sell more.

Woah osomatsu-san is really high up there and IBO seems to be doing fine so far.

Something like Ninja Slayer sells more than some other shows like Rokka No Yuusha :l

You know what to do, KyoAni. Give us a second season.



Whoa, didn't expect Osomatsu-san to be so high up. I hope Pierrot sees the signs and stops messing with action anime and stays with shorter, non-action series. They're much better at that than with action. Sad to see Noragami so low, though.



What is this, Japan? 400 for YBJ? Like, fucking seriously? Hopefully, they change for the better.