Japan's Weekly Blu-ray and DVD Rankings for Apr 30 - May 6

by tsubasalover
May 8, 2018 2:56 AM | 32 Comments

Here are the weekly Blu-ray and DVD rankings for April 30 - May 6

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

Blu-ray

*1.　5,026　**5,026　Violet Evergarden Vol.2
*2.　3,292　*34,106　Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season Vol.5 Special Limited Edition
*3.　1,011　**9,702　IDOLiSH7 Vol.3 Special Limited Edition
*4.　*,947　***,947　Citrus Vol.2
*5.　*,833　**9,202　The iDOLM@STER SideM Vol.5 Limited Edition
*6.　*,713　**3,984　Osomatsu-san 2nd Season Vol.5
*7.　*,614　**8,681　Sora yori mo Tooi Basho Vol.2
*8.　*,613　*61,989　Girls & Panzer: Saishuushou Chapter 1
*9.　*,576　**5,778　Darling in the FranXX Vol.1 Limited Edition
10.　*,513　***,513　Takunomi. Last Volume

11.　*,484　*29,228　Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection Super Special Edition
12.　*,379　**5,717　Overlord II Vol.1
13.　*,318　**9,868　Mary to Majo no Hana
14.　*,305　**2,742　Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series Last Volume Limited Edition
15.　*,297　**2,287　Ryuuou no Oshigoto! Vol.2 Limited Edition
(cut-off 297)

DVD

*1.　*,716　*19,559　Mary to Majo no Hana Regular Edition
*2.　*,706　**3,613　Osomatsu-san 2nd Season Vol.5
*3.　*,700　***,700　One Piece 19th Season "Whole Cake Island-hen" Vol.9
*4.　*,683　*28,225　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.7 Limited Edition
*5.　*,679　**6,287　IDOLiSH7 Vol.3 Special Limited Edition
*6.　*,577　*26,153　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.6 Limited Edition
*7.　*,569　***,569　Violet Evergarden Vol.2
*8.　*,529　*21,771　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.5 Limited Edition
*9.　*,526　121,556　Tonari no Totoro
10.　*,496　*21,821　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.4 Limited Edition

11.　*,494　**3,868　Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? Regular Edition
12.　*,493　*22,468　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.3 Limited Edition
13.　*,489　*23,381　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.2 Limited Edition
14.　*,481　*28,722　Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vol.1 Limited Edition
15.　*,310　*11,453　Sore Ike! Anpanman: Buruburu no Takarasagashi Daibouken!
16.　*,300　**2,294　The iDOLM@STER SideM Vol.5 Limited Edition
17.　*,227　**8,167　Doraemon Movie 34: Shin Nobita no Daimakyou - Peko to 5-nin no Tankentai Super Price Edition
18.　*,200　**8,325　Doraemon Movie 31: Shin Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan - Habatake Tenshi-tachi Super Price Edition
19.　*,197　*16,678　Doraemon Movie 26: Nobita no Kyouryuu 2006 Super Price Edition
(cut-off 197)

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

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Nooooo, why only 379 for Overlord 2 this week , this is blasphemy against Ainz-sama , how dare you human !!

May 9, 2018 10:28 AM by Huyan

zaso said:

RobertBobert said:
@zaso In Mai-Hime, a lot of shoujo ai? I heard that there

that really happens? i haven't watched it tho so idk how gay it is lol
but it is one of most influential gl anime, i see a lot of people asking for its continuation even after all these years

Well, I've often heard that it and Mai-Otome are "incredibly gay", but judging from what I read on TV Trops, both of these shows are quite far from the current trend of turning any mahou shoujo into yuri.

May 9, 2018 9:15 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
@zaso In Mai-Hime, a lot of shoujo ai? I heard that there

that really happens? i haven't watched it tho so idk how gay it is lol
but it is one of most influential gl anime, i see a lot of people asking for its continuation even after all these years

May 9, 2018 9:09 AM by zipppooo

@zaso In Mai-Hime, a lot of shoujo ai? I heard that there

May 9, 2018 8:50 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
*1.　5,026　**5,026　Violet Evergarden Vol.2
*4.　*,947　***,947　Citrus Vol.2
*9.　*,576　**5,778　Darling in the FranXX Vol.1 Limited Edition
15.　*,297　**2,287　Ryuuou no Oshigoto! Vol.2 Limited Edition

And so, Darling proved to be more successful than Violet, and Citrus, despite all the hype, sold half the disks than the harem with loli. Oh, I still need to think it over.

*8.　*,613　*61,989　Girls & Panzer: Saishuushou Chapter 1

That is, at the moment, Girls are several times more popular than Love Live? Or was this trend always?

violet will probably end up averaging more than darling

and girls and panzer sells more discs than love live but it doesn't mean it's more popular than it, love live is a multimedia franchise

Antagonized said:

Xaelath said:

Was it that bad?
I mean some episodes is quite great really.
It was overhyped and praised though.

Tbh 1k sales could be considered low.

And the anime was alright but still bad technically.

Yeah, I don't really follow disc sales at all but I don't think there's any best selling shoujo-ai series at all, maybe Yuru Yuri? Feelsbadman

The show was so-so it's alright, maybe that upcoming show in fall that everyone's hyping about.

best selling shoujo-ai shows are mai-hime and maria sama, both averaged 10k in 2004, yuru yuri would be the 3rd best selling gl anime with 8k average sales

May 9, 2018 8:41 AM by zipppooo

_Senpai said:
5K+ for something thats already available to watch on Netflix is a really good amount, who knows how much more it would've sold otherwise

I don't think being in netflix really affects sales number. Almost every anime will get their BD rip uploaded online and people can pirate it for free anyway so every anime are in the same position imo. I think BD sales number show how many passionate fans can a series attract.

Also buying BD/DVD is not solely for the anime, but it contains bonuses. Could be event ticket, poster, original illustration, animation draft, or the most recent and genius, Takagi-san PE uniform lol.

May 8, 2018 3:49 PM by JJHRTD

IDOLiSH7 continuing to sell well is making me very happy. This anime deserves it so much!

May 8, 2018 12:49 PM by Ashureechan

5K+ for something thats already available to watch on Netflix is a really good amount, who knows how much more it would've sold otherwise

May 8, 2018 11:53 AM by removed-user

RafaelCLP said:
Wow, sales are so low for all of them! Selling physical copies is definitely not how they make money...

Well, i do agree with you. Japan should better rely on Digital sales for newer generation rather than just still focusing on psychial sales. We are getting a lot of streaming sites and online manga, after all.

May 8, 2018 11:06 AM by hotsushikun

@shanimebib So, Violet Evergarden can be called a completely successful original anime?

shanimebib said:
VE is more watched and better rated than Darli-fra in Japan and in the west. Darli-fra has more negative opinion than positive ones. Those are also facts.

And it is possible from this place more in detail?

May 8, 2018 10:29 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
And so, Darling proved to be more successful than Violet, and Citrus, despite all the hype, sold half the disks than the harem with loli. Oh, I still need to think it over.

Violet Evergarden sold 6.9K for volume 1.
Darli-fra sold 6.4K for volume 1.

Also, VE is said to be the highest paid streamed anime till date. KyoAni already made a lot of profit by selling the streaming right. Besides, they have a model based on salary and not commission unlike other studios, so while it wouldn't change how much the animators got based on the streaming money, as a production studio, they earned quite a lot of money. VE is also OWNED by KyoAni so their profit through disc sales would be the same as any original anime like darli-fra. If we consider that two studios were involved in the production of darli-fra AND the amount of promotional investment they had (KyoAni's promotional investment were covered by Netflix as well) their return is not that great.

VE is more watched and better rated than Darli-fra in Japan and in the west. Darli-fra has more negative opinion than positive ones. Those are also facts.

May 8, 2018 10:09 AM by shanimebib

Hmm Violet is selling quite decently still to this point, so this is still good news through. I guess.

Also despite the hype for Citrus before, the sales... yeah they suck x.x

May 8, 2018 9:21 AM by removed-user

Cybertron said:

RobertBobert said:

In that and the problem is that there yuri no more than in many especially yuri-ish manga from Manga Time Kirara. Not to mention that many yuri beit shows from Trigger are more yuri than Yuru.

@Cybertron Hmm, thank you for the information. I know that Girls & Panzer has more fanservice in different spin-offs in manga, but it always seemed to me that this show was too serious to be more popular than Love Live.

Japan can be serious too sometimes :D I mean just look at each time a hunter x hunter volumes comes out of hiatus, because of the story and (maybe collection value or something)
Why even some of my favourite games like the legend of heroes trials series are popular and serious (90% of the time anyway) about the story

Well, that's good news. I used to think that only the idols or mobage adaptations had the highest sales.

May 8, 2018 8:22 AM by RobertBobert

These are approiate numbers for VEG, the PV was misleading and the anime was poorly paced with episodic anime originals.

May 8, 2018 8:17 AM by ichii_1

yorimoi putting violet everboring cucks in place

May 8, 2018 8:02 AM by Infatuate

Antagonized said:

RobertBobert said:
@Antagonized If to compare with the "official" shoujo ai, then Yuru Yuri is nothing more than a comic slice of life with an overabundance of gay jokes. However, Doga Kobo coped quite well with its adaptation.

Except Yuru Yuri is shoujo-ai through and through

May 8, 2018 7:53 AM by RobertBobert

Except Yuru Yuri is shoujo-ai through and through

May 8, 2018 7:02 AM by Antagonized

Girls & Panzer was always popular in japan just like monogatari series or school live or highschool DxD(well light novels of DxD anyway)

May 8, 2018 6:59 AM by Cybertron

@RobertBobert also incorelation between sales & discussions,titles like Yuru camp&Sorayoi beat both Veg&Ditf in sales with even less discussions.

May 8, 2018 6:53 AM by edge13

edge13 said:

RobertBobert said:

Nevertheless, the second volume has earned less and I do not see actual discussions about this show. Although there may be a last one due to different length of broadcast...

It's normal for subsequent vols not sold as much as the first,
It's nothing to be concerned with as long as theres no big gaps inbetween.
&Ditf would probably follow that normal pattern too.

Oh, I won't argue. In any case, I still do not know how Darling will end, but I expected that Violet will earn at least 7-8 ka.

May 8, 2018 6:40 AM by RobertBobert

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