Anime Sales in Japan - 2011

[Suzuku]

Numbers for this week out. Hm, Milky BD did lower than I expected, but still very good.

[something]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

Numbers for this week out. Hm, Milky BD did lower than I expected, but still very good.

Those are actually the 01/17~01/23 numbers with Milky (1/19 release) - doing the post now.

[something]

Originally Posted by something

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-521.html
Preliminary numbers.

http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi.../1293278942/24
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-576.html

Full list. Slow week, 804 DVD and 280 BD threshholds. I'm glad that K-ON!! at least comes out before the big final week of the month so it's not quite as crowded.

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 01/17~01/23 Oricon DVD Top 100
16 ** 3,819 *,**3,819 **1 K-ON!! v7
20 29 3,036 *,*42,693 **5 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer-
36 ** 1,839 *,**1,839 **1 Heartcatch Precure v8
38 ** 1,785 *,**1,785 **1 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes v1
39 ** 1,737 *,**1,737 **1 Amagami SS v7 - Nanasaki Ai Part 1
43 ** 1,681 *,**1,681 **1 Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars DVD Box v2
49 ** 1,448 *,**1,448 **1 Amagami SS v6 - Nakata Sae Part 2
77 52 1,013 *,114,601 **6 Gitama Benizakura-hen
87 58 *,903 1,054,667 474 Tonari no Totoro
100 (*,804)

120 Asobi ni Iku yo! v5
131 *,645
136 Giant Killing v7
*** Heroman v6

2011 01/17~01/23 Oricon BD Top 50
*1 ** 26,726 *26,726 *1 K-ON!! v7
*5 ** *5,144 **5,144 *1 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes v1
*7 ** *4,508 **4,508 *1 Amagami SS v7 - Nanasaki Ai Part 1
*8 ** *3,552 **3,552 *1 Amagami SS v6 - Nakata Sae Part 2
*9 ** *1,903 **1,903 *1 Asobi ni Iku yo! v5
13 19 *1,319 *14,580 *5 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer-
14 10 *1,232 *98,686 *6 Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu
15 *5 *1,210 *75,202 *5 Kidou Senshi Gundam OO -A wakening of the Trailblazer- COMPLETE EDITION
19 13 **,680 103,974 10 Kidou Senshi Gundam UC v2
22 12 **,628 *20,818 *5 Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
28 24 **,461 *21,911 *5 Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai v1
36 29 **,406 *22,608 *6 Black★Rock Shooter
39 30 **,367 107,086 40 Kidou Senshi Gundam UC v1
40 *3 **,360 **4,186 *2 Katanagatari v10 Seitou Hakari
41 ** **,357 *32,980 *5 K-ON!! v6
42 31 **,345 *73,389 *9 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st
50 (*,280)

45 44 **,311 *23,970 *6 Macross F Music Clip Collection - Nyan Kuri
49 43 **,282 *18,225 *3 Mizuki Nana Live Games x Academy -Blue-


Fall update:
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Vol. 1 does 5,144/1,785 for 6,929. Well hey, almost 7k first week for Milky, pretty amazing really. No other new shows this week.

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai Vol. 1 adds 461 BDs 27,004. 27k passed! Five weeks charting, impressive.


Summer update:
Amagami SS Sae Vol. 2 does 3,552/1,448 for 5,000 on the dot, while Ai Vol. 1 does 4,508/1,737 for 6,245. So Ai is bringing the numbers back up I guess.


Spring updates: (Note, AB! updated per DVD top 500 list additions)
Angel Beats! - Final average: 34,025
AB! Vol 1: 41,512 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 2: 36,429 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 3: 33,633 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 4: 31,782 (*4 wk)
AB! Vol 5: 31,231 (*3 wk)
AB! Vol 6: 29,676 (*3 wk)
AB! Vol 7: 33,896 (*4 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: 36,399 -> 36,756 (*5 wk) - adds 357
!! Vol 7: 30,545 (*1 wk) - 26,726/3,819

OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer adds 1,210/1,319 BDs and 3,036 DVDs to 132,475 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 98,686 LE BD for 130,910.

Gintama Benizakura-hen increases 1,013 DVDs to 132,982.

Black Rock Shooter is up 406 to 22,608.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st up 345 to 103,953.


Next week is going to be huge... Kami Nomi, Star Driver, Index II, Bakuman, Yakumo and Kuragehime all start. Geh, I have a feeling the last three won't chart at all given the competition, and that a lot of the Vol. 2s from late December are coming out. Looks like it will indeed be horribly under-reported again.


Link to Vol. 1 Sales by Season

[something]

http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi...93278942/25-26

I'm just gonna dump this here... it's actually not that useful since so many releases also have a BD version, and it's also going to be less than ideal for releases that straddle the reporting period and only have partial results reported.

Post #26 looked like it was going to start a BD Top 100 but for some reason only one title is listed. I guess it's just showing that the lowest ranked anime BD in the top 100 is DtB2 Vol 1 at 10,073 in 94th place. Though that seems weird... we know anime is the majority of BD releases that sell well, and there couldn't have been ~70+ that sold over 10k, right?

[bayoab]

Originally Posted by something

Post #26 looked like it was going to start a BD Top 100 but for some reason only one title is listed. I guess it's just showing that the lowest ranked anime BD in the top 100 is DtB2 Vol 1 at 10,073 in 94th place. Though that seems weird... we know anime is the majority of BD releases that sell well, and there couldn't have been ~70+ that sold over 10k, right?

I think the key to why there is only one is the bottom line:
他は数字の更新なし - "No other updates in the numbers."

[something]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-627.html
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=283138

Preliminary DVD numbers. Top 30 takes us down to 3k, hopefully the 100 isn't too hgh.

17 *5,071 Star Driver
18 *4,828 OreImo
19 *4,749 Index

All pulling almost exactly the same on DVDs (granted, Vol. 2 for OreImo) although both Star Driver and Index will have a much lower percentage of sales on BD than OreImo.

[Suzuku]

Originally Posted by something

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-627.html
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=283138

Preliminary DVD numbers. Top 30 takes us down to 3k, hopefully the 100 isn't too hgh.

17 *5,071 Star Driver
18 *4,828 OreImo
19 *4,749 Index

All pulling almost exactly the same on DVDs (granted, Vol. 2 for OreImo) although both Star Driver and Index will have a much lower percentage of sales on BD than OreImo.

Maybe Star Driver, but I don't really consider a 4-5k difference that much of a gap with Index and Oreimo.

[something]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

Maybe Star Driver, but I don't really consider a 4-5k difference that much of a gap with Index and Oreimo.

Well, that about what I consider a significant difference in ratio I guess. Latest Index BD guesstimates posted were 11596 at the high end, which is ~6.5k less than OreImo even though their DVD numbers were almost the same. Of course Index could end up selling more BDs than 11.6k, but we'll find out before too long.

[Suzuku]

Originally Posted by something

Well, that about what I consider a significant difference in ratio I guess. Latest Index BD guesstimates posted were 11596 at the high end, which is ~6.5k less than OreImo even though their DVD numbers were almost the same. Of course Index could end up selling more BDs than 11.6k, but we'll find out before too long.

Oh, the calculations were updated from when I last posted it, and even that updated one is now out of date. Index II's projected points for the one you're referring to was 2,335, but it ended up doing 2,618, which is only 40 points (on the dot) behind what Railgun vol 1 had when it went on sale. Star Driver also ended up doing 1,524 points for the BDs, so it's estimation is way out of date as well.

Also, >30 List for this week:

30 3,044
32 ぬらりひょんの孫
34 2,692
35 2,676
36 名探偵ホームズ
39 ストライクウィッチーズ
40 2,534
41 もっとToLOVEる
46 2,279 1
50 2,094
51 裏切りは僕の名前を知っている
52 おとめ妖怪ざくろ
53 学園黙示録
54 セキレイ
56 1,929
93 1,139

Thank goodness, we didn't have a bloodbath like last month.

[something]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

Thank goodness, we didn't have a bloodbath like last month.

Ah good, 1139 is a much better threshold than 2200 or whatever the insane Christmas week was. Kinda figured that would just be more due to the Xmas bump than the number of anime releases. We should get fairly decent numbers then.