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NEWS: 1st Flowers of Evil Blu-ray/DVD Delayed Until Further Notice

What 'critical acclaim'?

Animerican14 wrote:

Juno, last I heard about the pre-order numbers for FoE, it was somewhere around the 50s on Niconico (huh? What does Niconico have to do with blu-ray pre-order numbers?). Do you have a better idea of how things might really be for this show, financially? I just wonder how much success they'd expect or "need," if any (besides critical acclaim, how much could they have been expecting?), to get a second season done. You seem to be on top of this sort of thing, so if you do have any educated guesses...

Wow. Thanks for asking me to actually research this stuff. Holy crap, people are way off base. Look here for the last updated pre-ordered sales numbers from Amazon alone:

If you don't know Japanese:
--The first column is the numbers for last known pre-order sales (this whole chart is restricted to Spring anime whose 1st volumes/sets have not released yet--aside from Aiura, Railgun S and Aku no Hana are the only significant ones on the list, noteable by their sales numbers).
--The second column shows whether it's a BD, DVD, or special box (★ is BD, the circle is DVD, and the double circle is the special box).
--The third column shows accumulated points earned so far from members buying the product. Note that higher point numbers with lower pre-order sales tend to mean that most people have already received their copy, but pre-ordered products are still shipping out.
--The fourth column is the Nico sales number, showcasing how many sales on Amazon came from Nicodouga.
--The fifth and sixth column are, obviously, release date and the title of the product. Aku no Hana just lost its true release date, so the 2222/02/22 is a placeholder.

Meaning Aku no Hana has pre-order sales that reach about 16,000 units for the BD and 52,000 units for the DVD, including the Nico sales. Pretty average, I'd say, and definitely not a financial failure, though it's far from a crazy success.

Just goes to prove that we need to do our research and not just believe what news sources say, even if their words are true. They just end up leaving out the actual numbers.

Now I'm going to quote this post and post it on the Aku no Hana review topic...

Umm you're completely reading it wrong. Its ranked 16,000 on Amazon among home videos on Blu Ray, and 52,000 on DVD... which is absolutely terrible. For the BD, the 606 number is the projected sales, and for DVD the 265 number is the projected sales. So it'll likely sell under 1,000, which would make it one of the 4 worst sellers of the season (Only Crime Edge, Hayate and Arata have sold under 1k).

If it really sold 68k first week, that would possibly be the best selling TV anime first week since they started to record sales numbers.

Juno, last I heard about the pre-order numbers for FoE, it was somewhere around the 50s on Niconico (huh? What does Niconico have to do with blu-ray pre-order numbers?). Do you have a better idea of how things might really be for this show, financially? I just wonder how much success they'd expect or "need," if any (besides critical acclaim, how much could they have been expecting?), to get a second season done. You seem to be on top of this sort of thing, so if you do have any educated guesses...

Go to ANN's main page. Scroll down while looking at the right column.

I've sometimes wondered if there are any series that have sold more copies in the US than Japan. I think AnH might just manage that.

Out of curiousity, since it's been posted, why does the chart make it look like A Certain Scientific Railgun S is selling both fantastic and poorly? Is it that most of the fanbase wants the super-duper premium edition on Blu-Ray and are completely ignoring the regular editions, especially on DVD?

Out of curiousity, since it's been posted, why does the chart make it look like A Certain Scientific Railgun S is selling both fantastic and poorly? Is it that most of the fanbase wants the super-duper premium edition on Blu-Ray and are completely ignoring the regular editions, especially on DVD?

Exercise some logic people. If the creators were concerned abut BD/DVD sales, what stopped them from going the cookie cutter/moe style and sell, what do you fancy, 2500-3000 discs? NOTHING.

The rage, the hate from the moe and thus basically the gross of the hardcore fans = buyers, was anticipated, it was talked about and was addressed and yet the anime as envisioned by the director was given the GO...