Forum - View topicNEWS: Top-Selling Animation Blu-ray Discs in Japan: 2013
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crosswithyou
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Kinda puts into perspective how niche anime is. Only two releases topped 100,000 sales in the year and one of them wasn't Japanese.
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Ushio
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Well considering anime costs around $60 - $40 for 2 episodes of an anime you can record of the TV I'm not surprised it doesn't sell well. |
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Escaflowne2001
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Hopefully they'll re-make season two of Yamato that would make me very happy.
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Kougeru
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This stuff I dont understand. How does 5 sell better than 3? Do people seriously buy later parts without buying earlier parts? Weirdos |
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Rederoin
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Nice to see that GuP's average is still above SAO's average.
For the extras, and the weekly oricon top 100/yearly lists/monthly lists do not report 100% of the sales. Last edited by Rederoin on Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:27 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Megiddo
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In the case of Girls und Panzer, the first two discs were heavily supply constrained, so much in fact that they actually had to do a small second release because they had completely exhausted all the copies in the initial run. Due to this oddity (it almost never happens) sales for the first 2 volumes were staggered causing a loss in sales reported of around 5-6k copies of vols 1 and 2 at least.
Also, I never noticed that the Nanoha A's movie had two separate releases months apart. 160k+ is amazing and it makes me wonder just why Seven Arcs hates money that they wouldn't do another Nanoha TV series. And I wonder just why the Tiger & Bunny movie did so relatively poorly. That was such a hot property and it ended up selling less copies than the average volume of the TV series. |
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luffypirate
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I think she was referring to feature film. It would be nice to see a single TV anime BD volume sell more than 100,000 copies. I don't know if that is even possible. |
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Rederoin
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Evangelion sold that much per volume. |
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Jose Cruz
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Not really. Animation sales are about 30-35% of the entire DVD and Blu Ray market in Japan. Given that out of the top 50 animation discs in Japan only 2 were foreign, we can conclude that about 95% of these animation sales are anime. So if low animation sales imply that anime is niche we must also conclude that live action is niche as well, given that it doesn't sell much more (the entire non-anime disc market in Japan, including documentaries, films, TV series, shows, etc, is only twice the size of the anime market). In fact, in proportion to market size, animation would be more popular than manga: manga sales are 20-25% of the printed media in money terms compared to 30-35% of anime sales in dics. In fact, I suspect that Eva 3.33 may be the highest selling film in Japan in 2013. |
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Jose Cruz
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Yeah, it sold 170,000 per volume. That's twice as much as the second highest selling. Putting together the sales of films means that the whole franchise sold more than any other in yen terms (probably including any live action film or TV series). Do we have any data on how many dics popular live action films sell in Japan? Edit: Where are the Madoka movies in that ranking? I read they sold over 100,000 copies so they must have been in the top 3. |
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Rederoin
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110k actually, if we start including re-released/boxsets then Bakemonogatari is also above 100k. |
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Jose Cruz
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Ok.
I read EVA sold 171,100 per volume. 111,558 on first release and 59,542 on re-releases. Bakemonogatari sold almost 80,000 on first release. Still I think that Madoka is more popular in general, specially considering the merchandise sales. |
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