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NEWS: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, February 20-26

http://www.someanithing.com/table-of-contents

You'll want to scroll down to "Per Volume Sales By Year" It is alphabetical so you just need to know the Japanese title of whatever you are looking for. You can also search "Average Sales By Year" which ranks them according to the average sales per volume.(Note: if you do use this method, please remember it is NOT the total sales, but the average, so the total number of volumes sold is going to be a multiple of that number + the number of volumes)

good to know the whole export ban ... didn't harshly affect BD sales.

International sales aren't included, so it wouldn't affect it anyway. If anything, I think it would drive the numbers a bit higher as people resort to intermediates, unless those middlemen aren't getting the disks from sources that Oricon counts either.

I could be wrong, but I thought as long as the store reports their sales to Oricon, each sale will count regardless of whether it's sold within or outside Japan. I remember when CD Japan first started to count sales towards Oricon rankings they made a big deal about it so I can't really imagine that they split the count between domestic and international sales.

I'm just going by EmperorBrandon's post. At least until someone can confirm that things have changed since the question was asked.

Also, that's not the total amount sold. That's the amount that Oricon, who estimates these numbers based off of information from partner retailers, has calculated as the estimate of the amount sold nation-wide from those stores. It doesn't include some online retailers, international sales, nor other, smaller, stores that may also influence the actual amount sold.

International sales are counted as well which are the online retailers.

The drop of YOI may happen during Volume 4's release since Avex implemented the export ban between late Vol 2 and mid Vol 3 release so Vol 3 brd and dvd sale is only half affected. International sales are counted as well which are the online retailers. I can predict vol. 7 will sell high even with the incoming significant drop.
Im really glad to see Touken Ranbu selling high, it makes me wonder how much Ufotable will earn from it. I can't wait.

Ok, do you have a recent source for that? Because the last I know of from Oricon was that they aren't (in 2014, see post above).

There is no such thing as vol. 7, Yuri on Ice will only have 6 volumes. And I'm fairly certain the Avex ban won't be the cause of any significant dip in Oricon's numbers...

TL;DR The Avex ban is extremely unlikely to affect the sales the way you're predicting it will, even if Oricon were to report on international sales, which we don't know if they do.