Anime Sales in Japan - 2011

[something]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

I still can't figure out why Bake sold as well as it did... I mean it was good and I found it very enjoyable, but it's just crazy stupid that it outsold even Gundam SEED DESTINY.

I don't think phenomena of that level can really be explained... it was just the right show at the right time. Struck a chord in a way nobody could ever have predicted. Obviously the source material was very popular so good sales weren't a shock, but the sheer degree of its success was what was shocking.

Probably the only other show in the last decade to have similar shock value relative to sales would have to be Haruhi. Again, also very popular source material... but 41k popular? Something special needs to happen for bestselling novels to reach that sort of level. Bake clearly still takes the cake though.

For reference, 2000-2010 shows over 30k/vol (updated to more or less current numbers on AS). Maybe someone could make an argument for K-ON!, which sold even more than Haruhi, but I think by early 2009 it was just sort of taken for granted that KyoAni = tens of thousands.

01) *78,524 - Bakemonogatari
02) *68,729 - Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
03) *58,205 - Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
04) *50,552 - Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch
05) *44,243 - Macross Frontier
06) *43,459 - K-ON!
07) *42,701 - Mobile Suit Gundam 00
08) *42,690 - Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2
09) *41,038 - Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (2006)
10) *38,980 - K-ON!! ★ [6 of 9 vols]
11) *38,788 - Mobile Suit Gundam 00 S2
12) *36,519 - Full Metal Alchemist (2003)
13) *33,098 - Angel Beats!

Angel Beats! was a bit of a shocker but it's a bit lower in sales as well. Probably the #3 more surprising on there though.

All that said, I don't follow Gundam much and don't know how earlier series sold, so it could be that SEED's sales completely shocked the shit out of everyone. I'm guessing not though, it still being Gundam of all things.

[Westlo]

Originally Posted by something

All that said, I don't follow Gundam much and don't know how earlier series sold, so it could be that SEED's sales completely shocked the shit out of everyone. I'm guessing not though, it still being Gundam of all things.

Turn A Gundam was a sales and ratings flop in comparison to SEED. Lots of people say SEED only sold well because it was Gundam, that's totally ignoring that X flopped so badly in ratings it got cut short, Victory performed so poorly it opened the door for AU series and that Turn was a non factor.

Unicorn is the most successful UC product since Char's Counter Attack.. which was what 1989? And only Wing and 00 have been successes for AU series outside of SEED. (I think G did decent but yeah...)

I really think Sunrise dropped the ball not putting out a SEED Movie, sure it would more than likely be awful like Destiny but it would've raked in the $$$

[Westlo]

Originally Posted by Westlo

Just posting this here so I can refer to it later.... you may or may not know that MF Bunko J X TBS are working on a lot of LN anime adaptions lately.. with this season's Infinite Stratos and next season's Hidan no Aria locked in already and with Mayo Chiki to come after that.

Now I've always been curious of the effect anime adaptions have on LN's and manga and seeing last weeks LN ranking gives some good data to work with...

Weekly Light Novel Ranking for Dec 20 - 26
*1, 72,579 1,501,374 Moshidora (what a beast.. bet the anime sells like shit since I doubt it has otaku appeal)
*2, 45,987 *,*45,987 Kabukimonogatari (synopsis for this is so awesome.. hurry the fuck up SHAFT, it will be 2015 before you get to this let alone the final novel.)
*3, 37,310 *,*37,310 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.6
*4, 33,571 *,*33,571 Hidan no Aria vol.8

So I'll be curious to see the effect on LN sales that the anime for IS and HnA cause... both look like being high profile titles in the seasons they air in.. guess I'll bump this post in 6 months time...

Though I guess to really do my homework I should look @ their prior volumes as well as how they sold over a 2 week period.

Updating this...

Weekly Oricon Light Novel Ranking for Dec 27 - Jan 2
*1, 85,688 *,131,675 Kabukimonogatari (that's more like it... I wonder if these are 2x the price of a regular LN like Bake was...)
*2, 77,804 1,579,178 Moshidora
*8, *9,410 *,*41,981 Hidan no Aria vol.8
*9, *9,177 *,*46,487 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.6

And the IS anime has already boosted the LN sales of older novels off just the opening episode.

Weekly Light Novel Ranking for Jan 3 - 9
*1, 55,458 1,634,636 Moshidora
*2, 20,507 *,152,182 Kabukimonogatari
*6, 11,378 *,*63,609 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.1
*8, *9,622 *,*60,706 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.2
*9, *8,292 *,*58,613 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.3

Pretty much shows 50k was the amount it was selling prior to the anime.

[ilmaestro]

Originally Posted by Westlo

Turn A Gundam was a sales and ratings flop in comparison to SEED.

It is also a fair bit less like 00 and Wing than SEED is, to be fair. Almost more "un-Gundam" (ironically). Or perhaps "less flashy and melodramatic" would be a better way of putting it. You can also draw other related connections between SEED, Wing, and 00 that suggest why they were all more successful than some other series, imo (it also might be interesting to note some of the things that all three share in common with Code Geass, to greater or lesser extents). It's difficult to say SEED sold "just because it was Gundam", but I think there is also some merit in the argument that it sold because it was a new start for "modern Gundam" (as it was so strongly positioned within the franchise - most symbolically being the first AU series to be called "Kidou Senshi Gundam", and thus the first TV series called as such since V nearly a decade before). Had it simply been... err... Soukyuu no Fafner, or something, I doubt it would have sold as phenomenally well.

edit:

Originally Posted by Westlo

Kabukimonogatari (that's more like it... I wonder if these are 2x the price of a regular LN like Bake was...)

Of course it is! All so they can much more awkward to put on a bookshelf, or carry around, or fit into protective covers, or simply read. :-/

[Suzuku]

DVD Top 100 for 12/27-01/02 and 01/03-01/09 and BD Top 50 for 01/03-01/09 are out. No BD data for 12/27-01/02. I was hoping some of the series that didn't rank before would this time, but unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. T.T

[something]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

DVD Top 100 for 12/27-01/02 and 01/03-01/09 and BD Top 50 for 01/03-01/09 are out. No BD data for 12/27-01/02. I was hoping some of the series that didn't rank before would this time, but unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. T.T

Yep, I'm typing up the post for this week and next now. Really sucks about the BD data for the week of 12/27.

[MelancholicMariya]

Originally Posted by something

**,467 (**,***/**,467) - Needless [ǂ] [●]

Sorry to quote something from pages ago but how on earth did this happen? I thought this was one of the rather big hits back when it came out. Not to mention it's by MADHOUSE which is known for it's rather amazing animation. Though good animation =/= sales. Obviously. I'm just kind of shocked.

[something]

Originally Posted by MelancholicMariya

Sorry to quote something from pages ago but how on earth did this happen? I thought this was one of the rather big hits back when it came out.

Well... dunno what to tell you. Needless was never a big hit from what I could tell. Other than some comments about the hot ED, few people talked about it and not a lot watched it.

[something]

Originally Posted by something

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=279798
Very preliminary list.

http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi.../1293278942/13
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-358.html (has both this week and next)

...Full list? For some reason there is no BD ranking this week. Obviously that's a bit strange considering we know from the week after this that some anime BDs must have ranked. That kinda sucks, maybe it'll come out later. It's extra annoying for shows where we needed second week numbers and that don't have third week numbers to fill in. Especially given how much came out the week before.

1140 DVD threshold.

Weekly rank | Previous week | Weekly sales | Total sales | # weeks on list | Title

Note: LE is assumed unless it doesn't exist or otherwise specified.
Note: Bold for the TV anime Vol. 1s.

2010 12/27~2011 01/02 Oricon DVD Top 100
**6 **4 9,048 *,*35,710 **2 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer-
*22 **5 3,653 *,*29,647 **2 ONE PIECE Log Collection "CHOPPER"
*24 *17 3,477 *,109,765 **3 Gintama Benizakura-hen LE
*25 **6 3,380 *,*27,702 **2 ONE PIECE Log Collection "GRAND LINE"
*57 *42 1,958 *,*18,164 **3 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - Gen'ei no Hasha Zoroark
*58 *62 1,919 *,*16,917 **3 Gintama Benizakura-hen RE
*67 *36 1,806 *,*27,686 **3 Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu
*69 *68 1,717 1,050,789 471 Tonari no Totoro
*72 *14 1,633 *,*12,400 **2 Durarara!! v11
*74 *22 1,607 *,*10,878 **2 Hetalia World Series v4
*82 *15 1,348 *,*11,816 **2 Angel Beats! v7
*83 *16 1,343 *,*11,694 **2 Hakuouki Hekketsuroku v1
100 155 1,140 *,*61,603 **8 Kidou Senshi Gundam UC v2

*55 *** 1,996 *,**1,996 **1 ~Sphere's rings live tour 2010~ Final Live DVD
*86 *26 1,323 *,**9,134 **2 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Blue-
*90 *27 1,309 *,**8,945 **2 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Red-

2010 12/27~2011 01/02 Oricon BD Top 50
Numbers unavailable


Fall update:
Unfortunately not much to say since we don't have BD numbers. We can do some based on third week sales in the 1/03 week list though.

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai Vol. 1 did 1,739 BDs this week if you work back from the 1/03 numbers, so this week it was up to 24,241.

Shinryaku! Ikamusume Vol. 1 was 6,181 last week, and 7,598 next week, so this week it was 934 BDs to 7,115.

Hakuouki Hekketsuroku Vol. 1 increases 1,343 to 11,694. DVD-only series so that's a full accounting.

Summer update:
nothing


Spring updates:
Angel Beats!
AB! Vol 1: 40,442 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 2: 35,483 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 3: 33,251 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 4: 31,782 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 5: 30,922 (*3 wk)
AB! Vol 6: 29,676 (*3 wk)
AB! Vol 7: 29,797 -> 32,762 (*2 wk) - 1,617 BD, 1,348 DVD
K-ON!!
!! Vol 1: 42,433 (12 wk)
!! Vol 2: 39,247 (*9 wk)
!! Vol 3: 38,747 (*7 wk)
!! Vol 4: 38,019 (*5 wk)
!! Vol 5: 39,707 (*5 wk)
!! Vol 6: 34,946 -> 35,835 (*3 wk) -> 889 BDs this week based on next week.


OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer adds 9,048 more DVDs to 104,332. Doesn't count BDs, see next week for that.

Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu adds 1,806 DVDs to 119,047 for now. Same thing, check next week for fuller numbers.

Gintama Benizakura-hen increases 3,477 and 1,919 on DVD to 126,717 DVDs.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st adds 1,283 BDs based on next week.


Link to Vol. 1 Sales by Season

[something]

Originally Posted by something

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=280350
Preliminary

http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi.../1293278942/14
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-358.html (this week and last)

Full list. 934 DVD threshold, 455 BD.

Weekly rank | Previous week | Weekly sales | Total sales | # weeks on list | Title

Note: LE is assumed unless it doesn't exist or otherwise specified.
Note: Bold for the TV anime Vol. 1s.

2011 01/03~01/09 Oricon DVD Top 100
*4 *** 8,799 *,**8,799 **1 Sengoku Basara 2 v4
25 *24 2,468 *,112,233 **4 Gintama Benizakura-hen LE
34 **6 2,057 *,*37,767 **3 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer-
38 *** 1,971 *,**1,971 **1 ONE PIECE 11th Season Shabondy Shotou-hen v1
42 *** 1,887 *,**1,887 **1 ONE PIECE 11th Season Shabondy Shotou-hen v2
45 *69 1,748 1,052,537 472 Tonari no Totoro
51 *22 1,614 *,*31,261 **3 ONE PIECE Log Collection "CHOPPER"
62 *57 1,452 *,*19,616 **4 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - Gen'ei no Hasha Zoroark
64 *58 1,429 *,*18,346 **4 Gintama Benizakura-hen RE
67 *25 1,364 *,*29,066 **3 ONE PIECE Log Collection "GRAND LINE"
76 *67 1,225 *,*28,911 **4 Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu
84 271 1,175 2,354,315 341 Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
93 *** 1,117 *,**1,117 **1 OVA BLACK LAGOON Roberta's Blood Trail 003
100　(*,934)

104 Shin Koihime†Musou ~Otome Tairan~ v6
110 *,902
116 *,880
214 B-Gata H-Kei v6
257 Dragonball Kai CYborg/Cell v4
*** Yumeiro Patissiere v11

69 *55 1,335 *,**3,331 **2 ~Sphere's rings live tour 2010~ Final Live DVD
** *** *,854 *,**9,988 **3 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Blue-
** *** *,831 *,**9,776 **3 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Red-
** *** *,660 *,*12,650 **4 Macross F Music Clip Collection - Nyan Kuri


2011 01/03~01/09 Oricon BD Top 50
*3 ** 4,192 **4,192 *1 BLACK LAGOON Roberta's Blood Trail v3
*4 *2 3,698 *72,068 *3 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer- COMPLETE EDITION
*6 *6 3,421 *96,295 *4 Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu
11 *8 1,432 *19,290 *3 Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
15 22 1,074 102,466 *8 Kidou Senshi Gundam UC v2
17 14 1,063 *20,887 *3 Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai v1
18 ** *,999 ***,999 *1 Shin Koihime†Musou ~Otome Tairan~ v6
25 ** *,878 ***,878 *1 B-Gata H-Kei v6
27 16 *,762 *21,708 *3 Angel Beats! v7
32 21 *,696 *72,577 *7 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st
36 40 *,587 *21,711 *4 Black★Rock Shooter
38 30 *,564 *32,623 *4 K-ON!! v6
43 ** *,507 106,249 38 Kidou Senshi Gundam UC v1
47 28 *,483 **7,598 *3 Shinryaku! Ikamusume v1
50 10 *,455 *12,586 *3 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer-

*9 *3 2,202 **7,080 *2 ~Sphere's rings live tour 2010~ Final Live DVD
19 13 *,995 *18,368 *3 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Blue-
21 15 *,968 *17,577 *3 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Red-
34 26 *,617 *23,297 *4 Macross F Music Clip Collection - Nyan Kuri

Fall update:
Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai Vol. 1 adds 1,063 BDs to 20,887 total, which means it did 1,739 last week because it was 18,085 the week before that. Total with DVD is now 25,980.

Shinryaku! Ikamusume Vol. 1 adds 483 BDs to 7,598. DVDs only amounted to a few hundred, figure maybe 8k total.

Basara 2 Vol 2 starts at 8,799.


Summer update:
nothing


Spring updates:
Angel Beats!
AB! Vol 1: 40,442 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 2: 35,483 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 3: 33,251 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 4: 31,782 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 5: 30,922 (*3 wk)
AB! Vol 6: 29,676 (*3 wk)
AB! Vol 7: 32,762 -> 33,524 (*3 wk)
K-ON!!
!! Vol 1: 42,433 (12 wk)
!! Vol 2: 39,247 (*9 wk)
!! Vol 3: 38,747 (*7 wk)
!! Vol 4: 38,019 (*5 wk)
!! Vol 5: 39,707 (*5 wk)
!! Vol 6: 35,835 -> 36,399 (*4 wk)

OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer adds 3,698/455 BDs and 2,057 DVDs to 122,421 total for all versions.

Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu totals so far are 1,283 RE DVD, 27,686 LE DVD, 2,030 RE BD and 96,295 LE BD for 128,519.

Gintama Benizakura-hen increases 2,468/1,429 DVDs to 130,614.

Black Rock Shooter is up 587 to 21,711.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st up 696 to 103,141.

Okay... I think I got those all right now.



Link to Vol. 1 Sales by Season