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NEWS: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, March 13-19

I love Dragon Maid and just wish it did a bit better in sales. At least it did better then Flip Flappers, so I can't be as sad as I was then I suppose.
Next Season while I'm happy for Attack on Titan fans getting a new season it's just going to massacre everything else coming out, so I'm already prepared for whatever spring shows I like to flop miserably.

Could someone inform me what constitute a decent amount of sales for a particular title? From which it means that the series managed to make enough without being considered as a flop.

These numbers are pure estimates from Oricon based off of their partner stores; they're not the amount that are actually sold to consumers since Oricon doesn't track literally every store. A fair amount of company online stores don't get tracked; it's really Aniplex's Aniplex+ store that's the only big one that sends information to Oricon.

Could someone inform me what constitute a decent amount of sales for a particular title? From which it means that the series managed to make enough without being considered as a flop.

Afezeria wrote:

Could someone inform me what constitute a decent amount of sales for a particular title? From which it means that the series managed to make enough without being considered as a flop.

The honest answer is "it depends." There's so many factors and other types of revenue that go into anime production that get ignored. These numbers are pure estimates from Oricon based off of their partner stores; they're not the amount that are actually sold to consumers since Oricon doesn't track literally every store. A fair amount of company online stores don't get tracked; it's really Aniplex's Aniplex+ store that's the only big one that sends information to Oricon.

Besides, these don't account for merchandise, international rights, music sales, music rights sales (like to games/other programs), events, and so forth. Using only these numbers is ignorant of everything else that's out there. It's why only trolls use them to insult shows they don't like.

ultimatemegax wrote:

Afezeria wrote: Could someone inform me what constitute a decent amount of sales for a particular title? From which it means that the series managed to make enough without being considered as a flop. The honest answer is "it depends." There's so many factors and other types of revenue that go into anime production that get ignored. These numbers are pure estimates from Oricon based off of their partner stores; they're not the amount that are actually sold to consumers since Oricon doesn't track literally every store. A fair amount of company online stores don't get tracked; it's really Aniplex's Aniplex+ store that's the only big one that sends information to Oricon. Besides, these don't account for merchandise, international rights, music sales, music rights sales (like to games/other programs), events, and so forth. Using only these numbers is ignorant of everything else that's out there. It's why only trolls use them to insult shows they don't like.

Ignoring these sales is just as ignorant since the sales ARE important as they basically give you a base level of how well the series did. It's like saying that just looking at the gross for a movie is completely ignorant - it's not, but it's certainly not the whole picture. You are correct on the whole but your last sentence is just pointless, since this is about the only information that we can get it is obviously the thing which people use to understand how well a series did.

The only other thing you really get is the manga/LN sales - which similarly you aren't going to get the whole picture, and the end of the year totals - same problem.

So again, take the numbers with a pinch of salt and keep in mind that many anime are made as advertisements - so looking to see how big the sales spike is in LN/Manga is useful. But saying that the numbers mean nothing is, in itself, ignorant.

Not a bad number for Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid with 2,330...