Japan's Weekly Blu-ray and DVD Rankings for Sep 5 - 11

by tsubasalover
Sep 13, 2016 1:58 AM | 38 Comments

Here are the weekly Blu-ray and DVD rankings for September 5 - 11

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

Blu-ray

*1.　4,958　**4,958　Hibike! Euphonium Movie: Kitauji Koukou Suisougaku-bu e Youkoso
*2.　1,610　**1,610　Musaigen no Phantom World Vol.6
*3.　1,556　**1,556　Arslan Senki: Fuujin Ranbu Vol.1 Limited Edition
*4.　*,796　***,796　Fukigen na Mononokean Vol.1
*5.　*,768　**5,965　B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious Vol.1 Limited Edition
*6.　*,622　*20,504　Osomatsu-san Vol.8 Limited Edition
*7.　*,418　***,418　Ano Natsu de Matteru Blu-ray BOX
*8.　*,379　***,379　Kiznaiver Vol.4 Limited Edition
*9.　*,357　197,817　Girls und Panzer der Film Special Limited Edition
10.　*,294　**8,498　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol.3

11.　*,278　*42,422　Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen Limited Edition
12.　*,250　***,250　One Piece 17th Season "Dressrosa" Vol.27
(cut-off 250)

DVD
*1.　1,417　**1,417　Arslan Senki: Fuujin Ranbu Vol.1 Limited Edition
*2.　1,371　**9,525　B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious Vol.1 Limited Edition

*3.　1,336　**1,336　Fukigen na Mononokean Vol.1
*4.　*,955　*22,169　Osomatsu-san Vol.8 Limited Edition
*5.　*,891　***,891　One Piece 17th Season "Dressrosa" Vol.27
*6.　*,839　**9,229　Doraemon Movie 36: Shin Nobita no Nippon Tanjou
*7.　*,753　*58,190　Youkai Watch Movie 2: Enma Daiou to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! Special Price Edition
*8.　*,617　***,617　Naruto: Shippuuden "Jiraiya Ninpouchou: Naruto Gouketsu Monogatari" Vol.4
*9.　*,558　*69,442　Tonari no Totoro
10.　*,442　***,442　Hibike! Euphonium Movie: Kitauji Koukou Suisougaku-bu e Youkoso

11.　*,344　**9,045　One Piece Log Collection "Laboratory" (eps.595-611)
12.　*,308　*22,507　Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
13.　*,292　***,292　Musaigen no Phantom World Vol.6
14.　*,255　*34,202　Boruto: Naruto the Movie Limited Edition
15.　*,215　**7,671　Byousoku 5 Centimeter
16.　*,195　*24,066　Osomatsu-san Vol.7 Limited Edition
17.　*,192　*34,317　Majo no Takkyuubin
18.　*,186　*10,946　Mononoke Hime
19.　*,162　*24,069　Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
20.　*,156　***,156　Kiznaiver Vol.4 Limited Edition
(cut-off 156)

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

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That Hibike! Euphonium movie is getting me hyped for the second season tbh

Osomatsu-san's numbers still impresses me each week.

Sep 14, 2016 11:25 AM by Stark700

maikeru3 said:

RedaJaNai said:
wow... I'm a noob when it comes to the industry/relevance of sales but I often hear that a series selling 10K copies does great so +200K copies seems fucking outstanding.

It is great but not extraordinary for a movie.
Spirited away sold 4 million
My neighbor Totoro sold 4 million including VHS
Frozen sold 3 million
EVA sold 800k

You're comparing to mainstream (Ghibli and Disney of all things) Anime movies, which is just silly. 200,000 copies for a late-night Anime Movie is outstanding, no doubt about it at all.

Sep 14, 2016 2:45 AM by Ejc

maikeru3 said:

RedaJaNai said:
wow... I'm a noob when it comes to the industry/relevance of sales but I often hear that a series selling 10K copies does great so +200K copies seems fucking outstanding.

It is great but not extraordinary for a movie.
Spirited away sold 4 million
My neighbor Totoro sold 4 million including VHS
Frozen sold 3 million
EVA sold 800k

Yup and now I'm exited to see how much Kimi no na wa will sell. Probably over a million in disk sales. It probably will accumulate incredible results in digital distribution too (anyways, it's more important than disk sales nowadays). I heard merchandise is already rocking

Sep 14, 2016 1:58 AM by TapuTapuu

I'm glad that Fukigen na Mononokean is pretty high on the list (:

Sep 13, 2016 9:36 PM by hirahira

maikeru3 said:

RedaJaNai said:
wow... I'm a noob when it comes to the industry/relevance of sales but I often hear that a series selling 10K copies does great so +200K copies seems fucking outstanding.

It is great but not extraordinary for a movie.
Spirited away sold 4 million
My neighbor Totoro sold 4 million including VHS
Frozen sold 3 million
EVA sold 800k

Only the last one might be considered late-night anime related. If you discount all the Disney and Ghibli family movies then GaruPan is right up there.

Sep 13, 2016 12:20 PM by hpulley

RedaJaNai said:
wow... I'm a noob when it comes to the industry/relevance of sales but I often hear that a series selling 10K copies does great so +200K copies seems fucking outstanding.

It is great but not extraordinary for a movie.
Spirited away sold 4 million
My neighbor Totoro sold 4 million including VHS
Frozen sold 3 million
EVA sold 800k

Sep 13, 2016 12:18 PM by maikeru3

@Fappa from the number of unread LN on my shelf I know that many are for collecting. Sadly I can buy them faster than I can read them... maybe one day I will read them all but it is unlikely. Ah well, I buy to support, to collect, and to read them in that order.

@RedaJaNai GaruPan movie is one of the best selling late night anime related movies of all time. 200K+ copies is indeed outstanding.

@amare95 Shokugeki no, Souma S2 v1 isn't out until September 28th for BD and strangely a DVD Box on November 23rd so we don't know its sales numbers yet but its Stalker sales prediction is low. That said, S1 only sold 2K copies and yet it got S2 so who knows? As we've mentioned time and time again, sequel decisions are complicated and cannot be determined from disc sales alone. You'll just have to wait and see if there is an announcement for S3.

Sep 13, 2016 12:13 PM by hpulley

does any one know about shokugeki no souma sales ?
i heard they were bad and no hope for 3rd season

Sep 13, 2016 11:56 AM by amare95

wow... I'm a noob when it comes to the industry/relevance of sales but I often hear that a series selling 10K copies does great so +200K copies seems fucking outstanding.

Sep 13, 2016 11:54 AM by RVDA

[quote=hpulley message=47751775]

RedaJaNai said:

@Fappa I see... I didn't look back far enough. Indeed at the start they were released monthly. Thanks for the explanation. I do wonder at times if the 4th arc being already more refined in the web novels will hurt the sales of the actual light novels. Already the novel sales are a bit odd, you would have expected them to be caught up by now but the later volumes are still lagging even though they have now been covered in the anime.

No problem. I got to say that tracking the release dates of this series is rather tedious lol.

I don't think so. There still will be changes and a big part of purchasing a LN volume in the first place is the collector instinct. Yeah the sales are rather focused on the very first volumes but if recent LN adaptation taught us anything then that a big chunk of people seem to buy the whole LN series after the anime adaptation is done. I also think that the very frequent releases of new volumes will boost other volumes as well.

Sep 13, 2016 11:48 AM by Fappa

RedaJaNai said:
Girls und Panzer der Film sold nearly 200K copies ?!

223,947 actually if you include the DVDs which didn't rank this week.

@Fappa I see... I didn't look back far enough. Indeed at the start they were released monthly. Thanks for the explanation. I do wonder at times if the 4th arc being already more refined in the web novels will hurt the sales of the actual light novels. Already the novel sales are a bit odd, you would have expected them to be caught up by now but the later volumes are still lagging even though they have now been covered in the anime.

Sep 13, 2016 11:25 AM by hpulley

hpulley said:
v7 came out in September 2015, v8 came out 6 months later in March 2016, v9 in September 2016, 6 months later again but v10 is coming out in October, just a month later. It was every 6 months before the anime but since the material is there from the web novels they could certainly accelerate the release cycle and seem to be doing so now. If they could release several at one month apart then it would greatly move up the date for any anime season 2 if they chose to fund it. May depend on what happens to the novel sales once the anime ends. Perversely, if the novel sales continue to be high without anime they may delay season 2; novel sales dropping may increase the chance of a quick second season.

You just named all of the volume releases that were affected by the anime production. He released the first two arcs back to back monthly but the slowed down because he wanted to change a lot in the third arc where he made several "mistakes" in his opinion. We shouldn't forget tho that he also released the Ex Novels, Tanpenshuu and several side stories at the same time. The upcoming 4th arc is already extremely refined as it is since this is the first arc that Tappei wrote with the knowledge of where he wants to go with the story and where he applied his gathered knowledge from the rewriting process. So because of that we can certainly expect a volume to drop every month - every 2 months which would make the 4th arc and with that the season 2 content finished in the midst of 2017.

Sep 13, 2016 11:13 AM by Fappa

Girls und Panzer der Film sold nearly 200K copies ?!

Sep 13, 2016 10:57 AM by RVDA

Fappa said:

Gattmartna said:

AS far as Material goes..RE:zero has proven to be a success in japan...not only in dvd/blu ray sale but it has made a lot of money from the merchandise..cd tracks...ln volumes published..so as a franchise as whole..it is very succesfull.

The Author already stated he wants to make more of the anime...he even haltes his writing to work close with the studio to help in it's development..as for material..officaly only 9 volumes are out with vol 9 ending the third arc right were the anime will finish.

However there is enough content in the web novel that it is up to the current sixth arc...the fourth arc alone is worth another 2 cour. Also seeing as how Emilia is the focus on that arc and has had the least amount of development..i think it is safe to say that a s2 is almost garunteed. It could be annouced at the end or between 1 to 2 years just as when the volumes for the fourth arc come out. The volumes are released quite fast like once every four months..so it will take less than 2 years.

Really good explanation on how things are at the moment. The only small thing I'd like to correct is that the volume release pace is monthly and according to Tappei he plans to let the release pace slow down to 2 months at worst but he tries to keep up the monthly pace.

v7 came out in September 2015, v8 came out 6 months later in March 2016, v9 in September 2016, 6 months later again but v10 is coming out in October, just a month later. It was every 6 months before the anime but since the material is there from the web novels they could certainly accelerate the release cycle and seem to be doing so now. If they could release several at one month apart then it would greatly move up the date for any anime season 2 if they chose to fund it. May depend on what happens to the novel sales once the anime ends. Perversely, if the novel sales continue to be high without anime they may delay season 2; novel sales dropping may increase the chance of a quick second season.

Sep 13, 2016 10:52 AM by hpulley

Gattmartna said:

ColdBreeze said:

That would be an extreme flop if it sales that much..

If every single Vol. would sell that much it would be a mega-hit.

Re:Zero has an average of ~10k so far (3.Volumes) which is still (very) successful.

AS far as Material goes..RE:zero has proven to be a success in japan...not only in dvd/blu ray sale but it has made a lot of money from the merchandise..cd tracks...ln volumes published..so as a franchise as whole..it is very succesfull.

The Author already stated he wants to make more of the anime...he even haltes his writing to work close with the studio to help in it's development..as for material..officaly only 9 volumes are out with vol 9 ending the third arc right were the anime will finish.

However there is enough content in the web novel that it is up to the current sixth arc...the fourth arc alone is worth another 2 cour. Also seeing as how Emilia is the focus on that arc and has had the least amount of development..i think it is safe to say that a s2 is almost garunteed. It could be annouced at the end or between 1 to 2 years just as when the volumes for the fourth arc come out. The volumes are released quite fast like once every four months..so it will take less than 2 years.

But how are they going to sell the novel, if it is like Martin would agree to an earlier adaptation ?

Sep 13, 2016 10:43 AM by RobertBobert

dosens said:
You have some very low expectations of sales if this is what you consider "selling well", "impressive" and "not bombing".
As a comparison, Chuunibyou's recap movie sold over 11k copies, more than twice as much as Euphonium.
And Phantom World is the 2nd worst selling Kyoani production in history.

I said the movie sold 'relatively' well as a recap film compared to the volumes which is right no? I did not say it sold well / sold impressively in general which you have taken from misreading what I put. The Chuuni comparison, I'm sure the Chuuni BDs sold much more than Hibike so I don't see your point.

As for Phantom World, second worst selling it may be but compared an average of 2k at least across the seven volumes is not something I'd consider a bomb. Below expectations? Maybe. Something I'd consider a bomb is Kiznaiver.

Sep 13, 2016 10:03 AM by VulgarLife

jc9622 said:
Yea, the average sales per volume right now for Re:Zero is 10k. Volume 1 sold about 10k and Volume 2 sold 10.8k copies. This might reduce depending on how much the future volumes will sell but the average is 10k per volume right now. Volume 3 surprisingly hasn't broke that 10k line.

Volume 1 should have broken 12k by now and Volume 2 should break the 11k in the next week or two ( we will have to wait for extended rankings to know for sure ). What we do know is that neither volume 1 or 2 have ever left the top 200 which is pretty much always a guarantee for at least 200 sales per week.

Well you have to consider that volume 3 is only in its 3rd week right now and that it's the first volume to suffer from a missing event ticket. Usually the overall drop in sales is about 50% but volume 3 shows to have close to no drop at all. This shouldn't be confused with the common decrease that happens the more volumes have released. So in that regard volume 3 is doing fantastic. So it will eventually break the 10k and probably even the 11k over the course of another 5 months.

Volume 4 already shows promise to even have a stronger first week than the third volume. It's currently sitting at 6.1k estimation and it doesn't show any sign to leave the top 50 rankings. At this point it's likely to have a 1k+ higher estimate than the third volume.

If the volume 1-3 add another 1k in 5 months and the other volumes reach at least 8.5k-9k a 10k average will be reached. Then again we have to realize that BD/DVD sales are not the main priority which makes these solid numbers appear even better.

Sep 13, 2016 9:41 AM by Fappa

Sep 13, 2016 9:31 AM by Fappa

Ejc said:

jc9622 said:

If you want to know the total sales of Re:Zero v1-3 then it's about 29k copies. Season 2? I hope.

Average sales per volume is a more meaningful metric to use than total sales, because not every anime has equal number of volumes. However, the lowest selling volume of an anime is an even better metric to use, since it indicates how many people actually bought all volumes of an anime, provided there are no stock issues of course.

In the case of Season 2, it is more complicated than just looking at disc sales. It all depends on who is on the production committee, as the higher ranked members will have more of an influence than the lower ranked ones since they have a higher investment into the project.

Yea, the average sales per volume right now for Re:Zero is 10k. Volume 1 sold about 10k and Volume 2 sold 10.8k copies. This might reduce depending on how much the future volumes will sell but the average is 10k per volume right now. Volume 3 surprisingly hasn't broke that 10k line.

Sep 13, 2016 8:44 AM by jc9622

ColdBreeze said:

rederoin said:
*0.2k Orange

That would be an extreme flop if it sales that much..

RobertBobert said:
29k? I heard that 30+ BD sold is index of most successful title

If every single Vol. would sell that much it would be a mega-hit.

Re:Zero has an average of ~10k so far (3.Volumes) which is still (very) successful.

Sep 13, 2016 8:42 AM by Gattmartna

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