Japan's Weekly Blu-ray and DVD Rankings for May 30 - June 5

I was hoping G&P could break 200k this week, but it's only a matter of time. I bet no one expected it to become that massive even after the huge unexpected success of the TV series.

Most anticipated 2016 Summer Anime Top 20 from charapedia.jp:
http://www.charapedia.jp/research/0123/

I'm not surprised to see Love Live! SunShine!! at the top, considering how well liked it is for both genders, and how much of a social phenomenon Love Live! was in 2015.

Voters: 10,000
Voting period: 2016/06/02~08
Voters breakdown: male (53.7%), female (46.3%), teenagers and 20s age group (70.2%), 30s age group and older (29.8%)
Number of anime in survey: 45

Overall
*1　548　Love Live! SunShine!! (ラブライブ！サンシャイン！！)
*2　453　Shokugeki no Souma Ni no Sara (食戟のソーマ 弐ノ皿)
*3　308　Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan (斉木楠雄のΨ難)
*4　292　Arslan Senki Fuujin Ranbu (アルスラーン戦記 風塵乱舞)
*5　284　Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!! (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ ドライ!!)
*6　283　D.Gray-man HALLOW
*7　262　Nanatsu no Taizai Seisen no Shirushi (七つの大罪 聖戦の予兆)
*8　253　Handa-kun (はんだくん)
*9　240　ReLIFE
10　225　Danganronpa 3 -The End of Kibougamine Gakuen- (ダンガンロンパ３-The End of 希望ヶ峰学園-)
11　191　Rewrite
12　177　NEW GAME！
13　176　Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! (この美術部には問題がある！)
14　166　Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION (ツキウタ。THE ANIMATION)
15　159　Qualidea Code (クオリディア・コード)
16　152　Mob Psycho 100 (モブサイコ100)
17　147　Active Raid -Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Dai Hachi Gakari- 2 (アクティヴレイド -機動強襲室第八係- 2期)
18　140　Amaama to Inazuma (甘々と稲妻)
19　131　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! LOVE! (美男高校地球防衛部LOVE！LOVE!)
20　129　orange

Male Voters
*1　343　Love Live! SunShine!! (ラブライブ！サンシャイン！！)
*2　324　Shokugeki no Souma Ni no Sara (食戟のソーマ 弐ノ皿)
*3　219　Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!! (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ ドライ!!)
*4　166　Danganronpa 3 -The End of Kibougamine Gakuen- (ダンガンロンパ３-The End of 希望ヶ峰学園-)
*5　153　Arslan Senki Fuujin Ranbu (アルスラーン戦記 風塵乱舞)
*6　146　Qualidea Code (クオリディア・コード)
*7　142　NEW GAME！
*8　130　Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! (この美術部には問題がある！)
*9　126　ReLIFE
10　117　Active Raid -Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Dai Hachi Gakari- 2 (アクティヴレイド -機動強襲室第八係- 2期)

Female Voters
*1　220　Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan (斉木楠雄のΨ難)
*2　205　Love Live! SunShine!! (ラブライブ！サンシャイン！！)
*3　179　D.Gray-man HALLOW
*4　176　Nanatsu no Taizai Seisen no Shirushi (七つの大罪 聖戦の予兆)
*5　166　Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION (ツキウタ。THE ANIMATION)
*6　149　Handa-kun (はんだくん)
*7　139　Arslan Senki Fuujin Ranbu (アルスラーン戦記 風塵乱舞)
*8　129　Shokugeki no Souma Ni no Sara (食戟のソーマ 弐ノ皿)
*9　114　ReLIFE
10　*98　SERVAMP

I haven't seen any news article on it, so I have no idea how much it made at the Box Office. It also showed on 23 screens, so it was a limited opening.

Wow, Girls und Panzer took over the sales charts. Maybe I should actually get around to watching the first season now.


This is incredibly satisfying to see. Phantom World was unbelievably shitty and KyoAni should know by now what a mistake it was to animate it in the first place. They have a lot of talent that they quite frankly forgot how to use properly.
Here's to hoping they'll redeem themselves with Violet Evergarden. Or Koe no Katachi.


Glad to see Flying Witch above the 2k mark. Hopefully this means there'll be another season in the future. It's honestly my favorite show this season.

Yass with how well the manga was selling plus the early disc sales I had a feeling Studio Deen would make a sequel now I'm dying of Happiness :>)

Look who was right!
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1519343

Any info on how the Garo movie is doing?

Guess I have to check that out sometime soon



I fear that it will drop by quite a bit because I can't see Kabaneri pulling off a satisfying ending even if it's only for the first season.




I heard that we're in the tamer part of JoJo right now and it takes some time until it gets really bizarre. I think the sales will go up once we hit that point.



Well talk about an increase. If I see it correctly than it has the highest increase rate of all the shows. It doubled its numbers. For a 9 volume series this is looking pretty good! I looked at the estimates yesterday and it already was at 5.9k, so it seems to rise at a really fast speed. I think it can break the 7k mark until the end of june, especially with the prescreening event and the new cast announced.

I'm also really confident that once we're a little bit into arc 3 the sales will go up even after the first volume has been released.




Oh damn. That's way lower than I expected it to be. Guess the anime's main + was the manga boost.



Glad to see that healing anime also gets some love!

By all acounts the ones that i think deserve to have good sale are having good sales this season nothing to complain about.

Re:zero have improved to a stable level..could still go higher as the rate it is improving is the same as the story.

Kabernari is also going strong ..i will admit that at times the writing is a bit off but it still a very entertaining show to watch and probably the best steampunk anime to come out of japan in years so props to wit.

Highschool Fleet: Well this i am in love/hate relatshionship..the navy setting, combat, warfare and historical knowledge are great..but the cute,,moe and full young teen girl personal is off putting...but still doing ok.

Netogem is the only i am a little dissapointed cause i find it enjoyable but i am not too suprised..the sales are on the okish sides so not bad per say but i doubt we will see more of it later..but im not oto bothered with it.

as for the rest that i am watching: Mayogia, Big Order, Joker Game, Sakamato..... well don't really bother much.

the first two are so bad..they there funny bad so no worries if they dont sell..joker game is an interesting series but it has its issues and for Sakamato it is entertaining but it is a full adaptation and most of it is stand alone stories so no probs either.

Souji and Stray Dogs i dropped them...hero academia is on hold so i can marathon it.

Nice it's still somewhat selling but I wonder if it'll be enough for a 3rd season D:


Anyways a bit disppointed Delta's sales went down a bit I find the anime amazing !!


Though this makes me super duper happy. A second season seems likely for Super Lovers. Thank you Japan !!!

Seeing Phantom World sell like shit makes my day. KyoAni could be so much more these last few years but they keep putting up the same crap anime after anime. Hope their next project does well.

This post was supposed to be just a 2D fist pump with me saying "Panzer Vor!" (tanks forward!) but that would just be a "Yay!" post according to the board sticky so I guess I'll make it an impromptu attempt at "why I think GuP is doing so well" post.

There is a longish thread entitled What's with the appeal about this show? started by someone for which it didn't appeal to (and it's about the pre-quel TV series back in 2012 when it was airing) with an ensuing argument but since something should be attempted at explaining these amazing(?) sales figures I'll just jot a few thoughts of my own here.

Before I do here's a couple of exerpts from that thread on why the appeal. This one by @Takuan_Soho
By @Okanagan
IMO GuP really is a quantum leap in CGDCT-type shows. I think the key is it adds action while maintaining the innocence and cuteness of the girls. The marriage with WWII-period tanks (I mean how many males did't like tanks or build models of them when they were kids?) I always thought would be a home run as long as both sides of the equation were filled in properly: lots of cute girls without excess fanservice (ubiquitous short school skirts and the occasional, rather tame bath scenes notwithstanding) while heaping lavish attention on the detail and accuracy of the tanks and then having the girls actually doing something active by engaging in interesting battles with said tanks. And keeping it relatively realistic (I'll elaborate later on).

So let's look at similar shows: as much as I like K-On, Non Non Biyori and Aria for their characters, cuteness and healing atmosphere (Iyashikei anime) they do lack the action element and can be borderline boring at times.

On the other hand Strike Witches and other girls-with-guns action shows veer too far on the fanservice side (substituting moe with fanservice). And while KanColle steered clear of the fanservice both it and Strike Witches strayed too far from reality.

GuP may take a few liberties here and there (some physics being bent ie. tank drifting, etc) and also with the safety aspect (girls with exposed heads and limbs while explosive shells are whizzing around (although the shells are supposed to be safer with a chip inside to determine penetrating hits with only a pyro charge for effects)) I think that part of it was largely jettisoned in favor of the explody effects side of things (I guess paintball shells splattering was judged to be not flashy enough and the producers decided that that trumped the safety aspect) in what is supposed to be a "safe-ish" sport) nevertheless it's still fairly close to just having normal girls operating normal, recognizable vehicles.

It's not anthropomorphic (by not turning into guns (Upotte) or too science-fiction-y (mecha) or the magical aspect of Strike Witches (and all magical girl shows) or KanColle's seriously fictional "naval outfits" that defy suspension of disbelief. With GuP you could substitute girls with young men and almost call it 90% realistic (but of course why not marry it with moe to appeal to the kawaii segment).

Perhaps we need to add a sub-category to CGDCT, call it CGDCAT (Cute Girls Doing Cute Action-y Things) as we already have Iyashikei for the sedentary (healing) ones, and girls with guns for the action-y fanservice-y ones, mahou shoujo for magical girl ones and shoujo-ai for mild gl ones, idol anime, etc.

Fin :)

Wow OPM couldnt see that 10k average mark. I thought this was going to be a megahit but i guess that was just western hype.

FUCK YES

My Jyuushibabe looks so happy <3Good

Shitty shows deserve shitty sales

Aww yea! Still first!

Where do you get those numbers from?
Edit: Sure, it's from stalker, but they don't specify the exact number of sales.

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Never before have I been so glad to see a show fail. I love you to death KyoAni, but please never do anything like this again.

GuP still raking it in and Gochuumon <3

And good riddance, that studio house too much talent to waste it on somewhat charming Otaku-pandering nonsense. Now I enjoyed Amaburi but I would trade that and a thousand Phantoms for something like the upcoming Violet Evergarden. Hopefully this signals a new direction for Kyoani, I still haven't seen anything on the level of Hyouka from them. It's been 4 years and I know they're capable, Hibike had glimpses of real quality at times.