Japan's Weekly Blu-ray and DVD Rankings for Apr 25 - May 1

Agafin said:


Why don't you count Enchousen? It's another season as well afterall. Also, Gintama's drop isn't that bad really. Bakemonogatari averaged 79k in 2010 while Owari is struggling to hit 25k, doesn't mean that Owari is doing bad, it(s just a natural fatigue that happens with all these anime as they lengthen.

Thing is, can you name any recent anime that is 300+ episodes overall and still averages 5k+? One Piece doesn't, Naruto didn't, Bleach (after 300 episodes) didn't either. I think Gintama is doing excellently everything considered.

bigivelfhq said:


The decrease from the previous season it is really drastic. Not counting Enchouzen that is majority reaired episodes(and it still sells more than this around 3k copies), this season declined from a 12,575 average to a 6,742. Almost half of the sales. This volume seems to continue that pattern.

Agafin said:
So why do people consider 5k+ first week sales for Gintama° as low? That's actually a lot for a series with 300+ episodes in total.

DarklordVor said:
Well well well... KonoSuba seems to be going strongly at 9k+ each months. I'm glad it's not just because people wanted the RPG game.
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tsudecimo said:

I meant more in general?

hpulley said:
No. The one in question, Osomatsu san is ¥7000 for BD and ¥6000 on DVD. ¥1000 difference. Who cares?

tsudecimo said:

Aren't BDs significantly more expensive?

hpulley said:
Seems too hard for people to understand so I wish these lists would just add them together so there is one single, simple list that won't make people forget to read the second list... Does it really matter anymore whether they are BD or DVD sales?

Ahoy_NATO said:
Everyone sitting here bitching about what sales mean what and I'm just happy KonoSuba sold around 8.5k again xD
Also really happy to see GochiUsa still selling since it's a favorite of mine, unfortunately the sales have dropped, but that's expected for later volumes.

Z4k said:

Konosuba volume 2 sold around 9.3k.

I don't understand why people ignore the DVDs lol.

Z4k said:
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I don't understand why people ignore the DVDs lol.

Ahoy_NATO said:
Everyone sitting here bitching about what sales mean what and I'm just happy KonoSuba sold around 8.5k again xD
Also really happy to see GochiUsa still selling since it's a favorite of mine, unfortunately the sales have dropped, but that's expected for later volumes.

Ahoy_NATO said:
Everyone sitting here bitching about what sales mean what and I'm just happy KonoSuba sold around 8.5k again xD
Also really happy to see GochiUsa still selling since it's a favorite of mine, unfortunately the sales have dropped, but that's expected for later volumes.

moodie said:
well ur being arbitrary and unnecessary since ur the only one who had this problem.

Face_Faith said:

So you excluded the DVD sales in order to leave out the sales acquired by female consumers so that you could look at the sales acquired by male consumers? In that case, Blu-rays are also being bought by female consumers, so I doubt you can compare while assuming the following:
"number of sold DVD copies ⇔ copies bought by female consumers" (and "number of sold Blu-ray copies ⇔ copies bought by male consumers", since the only ones left to purchase Blu-rays would be male consumers)

Even if you only try to get a rough idea of how the copies bought by male consumers may compare while being aware that there is a margin of error, that margin of error might as well be around 300 copies, which should not be unlikely for two series that sell more than 20.000 copies, but because that hasn't been taken into consideration, it seems that Blu-ray → male consumers, DVD → female consumers is assumed to be rather accurate.

As for female Blu-ray buyers, if I take utapri as an example, both the third season and the previous one sold more Blu-ray than DVD copies for each individual volume and in total (example) - and I doubt that all or even most of those Blu-rays have been bought by male consumers. The overall Blu-ray sales are even twice as high as the DVD sales for the third season, so I think it would be an understatement to assume that only a small amount of Blu-rays (much less an amount equal to the number of DVDs bought by male consumers) is being bought by female consumers nowadays.
When it comes to these two volumes, I can easily imagine that the number of Blu-rays aquired by female buyers is far higher for osomatsu than for owarimonogatari. As for the number of copies bought by male consumers, I wouldn't be surprised if osomatsu's is being lower (although it's impossible to know for sure).

Needless to say, there is nothing wrong with comparing sales acquired by male (or female) buyers only, however I cannot find anything that may be hinting at that in any of the three posts I quoted, if anything, noticing that a long-running series still sells as much as a series in its prime sounds like an observation you would make when looking at how a series' sales changed over time as a whole rather than just sales acquired by a single group of buyers.


That still seems to come down to this...