Forum - View topicNEWS: Navarre Talks Afro Samurai Sales Numbers, Future Plans
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Onsokumaru
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What the hell? Was Afro Samurai really that good? I haven't seen it yet.
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v1cious
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never underestimate the power of Samuel L Jackson.
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ryusaki
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QFW! |
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doctordoom85
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Exactly. A samurai, Jedi Master, ice-powered superhero, and soon the wielder of the Avengers? The man's a titan. 
On a more serious note, Jackson's name probably did have a significant impact on sales. |
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KabaKabaFruit
 Posts: 1901 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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You forgot snake baiter. 
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TheVok
Posts: 613 Location: North York, Ontario, Canada |
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It's not just a matter of Sam Jackson; by airing with lots of hype on Spike (which has to my knowledge never aired any anime in the past), Afro Samurai was marketed to a fairly broad audience that was not previously in the habit of buying anime DVDs.
The Spike airings got great ratings in themselves, but they also featured many promos for the impending DVD release. It's also a lot easier to sell folks one DVD with five episodes on it than a whole series of DVDs comprising a medium- to long-run show. |
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sabriyahm
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I think this helped a lot. A single DVD for a series is an easy buy for the non anime crowd. It was a wise marketing decision. Of course they had probably made most of their money off the TV run anyway. |
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GATSU
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Vok: Actually, it got horrible ratings; but I guess by Spike standards, you can call them "great".
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Zalis116
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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I am just wondering how much of that 4.5 they got to keep since Samuel was in it? |
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Daimao Raki
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domino
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Wow. It's interesting to see sales figures like this. It seems every time there's a show I take one look at and think "there's no way anyone would actually watch this junk!", those types end up selling the most. Go figure.
But I guess maybe anything will sell no matter how bad it is as long as it has a celebrity's name somewhere on it (Princess Ai suddenly comes to mind...) |
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enurtsol
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This just goes to show how small the anime market can be compared to some other markets out there. Can put things into perspective.
Take videogames, for example. There are videogame-based anime that don't sell well with the typical anime crowd but have whopping sales figures provided mainly by the videogame crowd. And Family Guy and Futurama sell over a million copies - and to think both were cancelled initially. |
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TheVok
Posts: 613 Location: North York, Ontario, Canada |
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Quoting ANN itself: *** Spike TV: More Afro Samurai Ratings posted on 2007-01-09 22:11 EST Funimation and Spike TV have provided ANN with additional ratings data for Afro Samurai. Thursday's premiere averaged a 1.1 rating for males 18-49, and 775,000 people watched the 11 p.m. airing. Including two repeats later that night, over 1,666,000 million people saw the episode. *** That's great by pretty much any U.S. cable standards, especially for so late in the evening. |
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Zin5ki
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This could be an interesting trend. I think the sales could be increased even higher if Jackson did all the voices in the English dub. Even the female ones. |
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