Japan's Weekly Blu-ray and DVD Rankings for Apr 2 - 8
Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles
Blu-ray
*1. 5,019 **5,019 Violet Evergarden Vol.1
*2. 2,034 **2,034 Digimon Tamers Blu-ray BOX
*3. 1,888 *58,819 Girls & Panzer Saishuushou Episode 1
*4. 1,705 **8,734 Sora yori mo Tooi Basho Vol.1
*5. 1,413 *36,386 Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season Vol.4 Special Limited Edition
*6. 1,124 **1,124 Citrus Vol.1
*7. 1,015 *12,599 Yuru Camp△ Vol.1
*8. *,888 **4,816 Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san Vol.1
*9. *,821 **9,579 The iDOLM@STER SideM Vol.4 Limited Edition
10. *,714 **4,891 Osomatsu-san 2nd Season Vol.4
11. *,696 ***,696 Aikatsu Stars! "Hoshi no Tsubasa Series" Blu-ray BOX 3
12. *,686 *14,221 IDOLiSH7 Vol.2 Special Limited Edition
13. *,667 ***,667 Dragon Ball Super Blu-ray BOX 10
14. *,653 **8,501 Mary to Majo no Hana
(cut-off 653)
DVD
*1. 1,457 *16,277 Mary to Majo no Hana Regular Edition
*2. 1,117 *15,010 IDOLiSH7 Vol.2 Special Limited Edition
*3. *,738 **4,621 Osomatsu-san 2nd Season Vol.4
*4. *,720 ***,720 One Piece 19th Season "Whole Cake Island-hen" Vol.8
*5. *,675 ***,675 Dragon Ball Super DVD BOX 10
*6. *,559 ***,559 Violet Evergarden Vol.1
*7. *,372 **5,346 Girls & Panzer Saishuushou
*8. *,345 119,935 Tonari no Totoro
*9. *,337 *26,350 Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.7 Limited Edition
10. *,325 *24,566 Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.6 Limited Edition
11. *,320 ***,320 Crayon Shin-chan "Kitto Best☆Tokudai! Satou Masao"
12. *,309 **2,442 The iDOLM@STER SideM Vol.4 Limited Edition
13. *,266 **1,338 Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san Vol.1
14. *,253 ***,253 Citrus Vol.1
15. *,217 *10,513 Sore Ike! Anpanman: Buruburu no Takarasagashi Daibouken!
16. *,199 *20,538 Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.5 Limited Edition
17. *,182 *27,593 Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.1 Limited Edition
(cut-off 182)
Source: Oricon Youtaiju
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I don't know why some try to make a case out of Citrus sales. The show was bad.
If Yuri doesn't sale, obviously bad Yuri sells even less, ... like Citrus.
As for Violet Evergarden, they made it quite high despite all the flaws of the show.
Actually has a small market in japan once the anime is released in more countries it will sell way more and it wasn't bad
Every one is different, velvet evergreen? Oh please it's meah
Violet evergarden was actually pretty much just as overhyped in Japan.. It was popular but a lot of people didn't feel like it met the praise it got/was getting.
Why it didn't become a huge hit salewise makes sense tbh
Apr 16, 2018 7:36 AM by JudoJD
I don't know why some try to make a case out of Citrus sales. The show was bad.
If Yuri doesn't sale, obviously bad Yuri sells even less, ... like Citrus.
As for Violet Evergarden, they made it quite high despite all the flaws of the show.
Actually has a small market in japan once the anime is released in more countries it will sell way more and it wasn't bad
Every one is different, velvet evergreen? Oh please it's meah
Apr 15, 2018 7:27 PM by fddsite11
If Yuri doesn't sale, obviously bad Yuri sells even less, ... like Citrus.
As for Violet Evergarden, they made it quite high despite all the flaws of the show.
Apr 15, 2018 1:57 PM by Ysad_Ziwezhan
Apr 12, 2018 8:32 PM by GoddessofMayhem
Also happy to see more numbers added to Sora yori.
@CG: It's much, much more than just a CGDCT. Branding it as just another CGDCT is an insult to a potential anime of the year and we are just in April 2018. Yes. It was THAT good.
Apr 11, 2018 5:52 AM by shanimebib
(Well, unless you want to consider "Takaki-san" ,which doesn't even feature a single kiss scene, a serious love story about a normal couple.)
Citrus could at least get an anime adaptation and sell more than 1k, despite its shoujo-like story and art-style, just because it's about two girls falling in love(?) with each other instead of a boy and a girl.
A trash story like "Slow start" could get an anime adaptation just because it's all about yuri-vibes.
And the reason why "serious" lesbo shows don't sell like queer-bait "slice of life" shows is kind of simple. Yuri-pigs(Yeah, they actually call lesbo-lovers "Yuri-buta" in Japan) in Japan, unlike western lesbo lovers, doesn't want to see 2D lesbo couples get serious and thus get a little dirty, like real world lesbo couples, most of which consist of angry dykes and fatties.
They just wanna see pretty girls doing pretty things and giving off just enough dose of lesbo vibes in beautiful 2D world.
It seems that anime industry these days is all about giving off as much queer vibes as possible and I'm a little sick and tired of this trend.
Apr 11, 2018 1:11 AM by hanipot2020
*6. 1,124 **1,124 Citrus Vol.1
So, can we say that the adaptation of Citrus failed?
Wouldn't say so. Looking at the production committee low sales in terms of BD/DVD sales shouldn't hurt too much as they aren't exactly high on their priority list.
Also in japan yuri isn't a huge niche in japan anyway?
They got the some of the budget from cruncyroll to do S1 and did very well there.
Theses sales are not the only factor For S2
To be ever being done in future.
Apr 11, 2018 1:09 AM by fddsite11
Those are some bad sales for Citrus. I kind of expected it to do better even though it's not my cup of tea at all.
Evergarden barely hanging on... as expected.
Stop yuri dosnt have a huge niche in japan
Anyway did ok least manga sales are up that helps a lot.
Apr 11, 2018 1:04 AM by fddsite11
Glad to see Sora Yori is rising.
Apr 10, 2018 6:59 PM by Stripes
Yup, alot of people said it already, actual yuri shows never sell well. Yuri bait shows in other hand are succesfull in sales.
Apr 10, 2018 6:41 PM by PolarCyrus97
Nice. Didn't expect them to sell this many.
It's close to what hibike euphonium sold and i don't think it's considered a flop as a franchise.
Anyway it's an opinion but may it be possibile that being on netflix reduces the appeal of owning the phisycal copy?
Yeah I thought the same thing.
I could think of a few possible reasons:
-It didn't actually get a big hype like in the west
-First few episodes didn't live up to the PV, 3 ep rule people went away
-Too many anime original episodes and changes, this drives off the original Violet novel fans
-Overall content doesn't appeal to many people
That said 5.5k in wk1 is good. Could surpass 6k in week 2, and 7k in week 3 if lucky.
Apr 10, 2018 6:25 PM by JJHRTD
Yorimoi still selling while yuru camp comes to a halt. Interesting.
Could it be because Sora Yori did not have enough stock to meet initial demand, so this week people who couldn't get a copy are grabbing theirs now?
Apr 10, 2018 6:17 PM by ituhata
Yup, alot of people said it already, actual yuri shows never sell well. Yuri bait shows in other hand are succesfull in sales.
Apr 10, 2018 6:14 PM by EGOIST
Apr 10, 2018 3:00 PM by PolarCyrus97
Apr 10, 2018 2:52 PM by Danae
10k? Please, it would never have earned so much. I just have one question, why is the extremely blatant yuri-bait often selling pretty well (I'm not talking about Hibike or Nanoha, is it really a good show), while anime with openly homosexual girls regularly get a flop?
i just saw one of the comments saying they expected 10k and i was shocked
i don't know why either but it's true that yuri-bait and yaoi-bait sells and actual yuri and yaoi shows never sell, the only example of an actual yuri show like citrus that sold great that i can think of is maria-sama
anyways citrus is a manga adaptation so if the anime managed to boost the manga's sales it's still a success
Yes, it definitely will increase sales of yuri or yaoi manga. But at the same time, yuri or yaoi anime will remain in the form of qeerbaiting or the slasher's fantasies. But I want to see good anime with real lesbians, and not to listen to what some girl is "definitely a lesbian", because she and another girl are best friends.
Apr 10, 2018 2:30 PM by RobertBobert
Apr 10, 2018 2:04 PM by Reverberate
people really expected citrus to sell 10k? it was a shoujo like yuri anime
it was never going to sell
10k? Please, it would never have earned so much. I just have one question, why is the extremely blatant yuri-bait often selling pretty well (I'm not talking about Hibike or Nanoha, is it really a good show), while anime with openly homosexual girls regularly get a flop?
i just saw one of the comments saying they expected 10k and i was shocked
i don't know why either but it's true that yuri-bait and yaoi-bait sells and actual yuri and yaoi shows never sell, the only example of an actual yuri show like citrus that sold great that i can think of is maria-sama
anyways citrus is a manga adaptation so if the anime managed to boost the manga's sales it's still a success
Apr 10, 2018 1:33 PM by zipppooo
Apr 10, 2018 1:01 PM by Delhinho
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