Anime Sales in Japan - 2011

[something]

Originally Posted by MelancholicMariya

Nothing much of note this week, although I finally noticed that Ao no Exorcist has dropped quite a bit from the first volume and the DVD's are still selling more than the BD's but not as much as they were when the first volume was released.

Vol. 1: 21,854
Vol. 2: 16,733
Vol. 3: 14,151
Vol. 4: 13,282
Vol. 5: 11,660
Vol. 6: 10,232
Vol. 7: *7,093

Yeah, Vol. 1 was somewhat inflated, but even if v7 added the usual 2nd week sales (which it won't, thresholds will be far too high) and hit about 8.4k, it'd still have dropped 50% from v2 and is getting to around a two-thirds drop off v1.

[HitokiriShadow]

Originally Posted by something

Next week, it's super mega crazy time.

By the way, as I was filling in some information on my spreadsheets, I just realized something. I was thinking Haganai was coming out in this week's insanity, but its actually not. It's coming out on January 13 instead, a week before next month's end of month release rush.

This means that Fate/Zero, Persona 4, Working, and Haganai, the shows looking to be this season's top sellers (though Haganai sadly looking to be significantly less so than the others) are not being released on this season's main release week.

[something]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

This means that Fate/Zero, Persona 4, Working, and Haganai, the shows looking to be this season's top sellers (though Haganai sadly looking to be significantly less so than the others) are not being released on this season's main release week.

Yeah, although releasing a week before the usual rush can be pretty detrimental to (reported) sales unless second week sales are consistently strong enough to rank in the "heavy" week. YRYR has gotten hit with that before, although it managed to slip in to the monthly list and backfill the reporting gap.

I have a feeling we'll see that happen to Haganai as well, since its sales will be fairly close to YRYR. Working!! and Persona shouldn't have any trouble getting second week numbers. And obviously Fate won't. Horizon is the other top seller but it being BD only makes getting second weeks easier, and it's coming out in the "main" week anyway.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

By the way, as I was filling in some information on my spreadsheets, I just realized something. I was thinking Haganai was coming out in this week's insanity, but its actually not. It's coming out on January 13 instead, a week before next month's end of month release rush.

This means that Fate/Zero, Persona 4, Working, and Haganai, the shows looking to be this season's top sellers (though Haganai sadly looking to be significantly less so than the others) are not being released on this season's main release week.

Well, one more reason for me to get Haganai!

[HitokiriShadow]

Originally Posted by something

Yeah, although releasing a week before the usual rush can be pretty detrimental to (reported) sales unless second week sales are consistently strong enough to rank in the "heavy" week. YRYR has gotten hit with that before, although it managed to slip in to the monthly list and backfill the reporting gap.

I have a feeling we'll see that happen to Haganai as well, since its sales will be fairly close to YRYR.

Oh, right, I didn't think about second week sales at all. Yeah, that will probably kill any chances of getting second week sales for Haganai. What else from this season is starting in January?

Though you're able to get some sort of monthly sales data too, right? How much would that help fill in when we miss second week sales like that?

Horizon is the other top seller but it being BD only makes getting second weeks easier, and it's coming out in the "main" week anyway.

I forgot Horizon was one of the top sellers and didn't realize it was also BD only. I thought Fate/Zero was the only one that had made that move as well.

[something]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

What else from this season is starting in January?

A lot, but nothing else that week:

2012年01月13日 Haganai
2012年01月25日 Last Exile
2012年01月25日 Guilty Crown
2012年01月25日 Mashiro-iro
2012年01月25日 Hunter x Hunter
2012年01月27日 gdgd
2012年01月27日 UN-GO
2012年01月27日 Phi Brain

The only one of those besides Haganai that will have sales even worth mentioning is Guilty Crown.

It's really more the continuing series coming out that week that will crowd out Haganai's second.

Though you're able to get some sort of monthly sales data too, right? How much would that help fill in when we miss second week sales like that?

Newtype posts 4-5 week period Oricon lists roughly each month, and the usual sources report anything that adds to what was already reported in weekly rankings. That's where posts like this or this come from. Depending on how the reporting period falls, you either learn nothing new (like if the last week reported is the big week of the month, which drowns out the first 3 weeks). Or if it lines up nicely, we can get 3rd and sometimes even 4th week sales numbers for some discs. That's always nice, because even 20k sellers sometimes don't chart three weeks in a row.

Theoretically Haganai should also be covered by Anime Power Ranking, which tracks sales of anime based on other media (primarily or exclusively print?) but we haven't seen those rankings more than once or twice in the past 8 months, either because nobody posts them anymore or because they haven't been reporting aynthing not already covered in other sources.

[something]

Originally Posted by something

¥691,086,400 (almost $9m USD) to be more precise. It should breeze past Shoushitsu at this rate, which is damn impressive. ¥1bn really could be happening.

And perhaps sooner than I expected. http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-6063.html

Third weekend brings total earnings to ¥943,034,250 after its third weekend. It must have passed ¥1,000,000,000 by now, and the holiday weekend is coming up. I think that officially puts it above everything from at least the last few years that isn't Evangelion or Shounen Jump/Conan/Ghibli/Pokemon-type stuff aimed primarily at younger kids, and it still has a good bit of life left in it, I'd think.

Looks like a 2011 list was posted in the thread, too tired to tl the titles right now:

44.6億.　457(***)scr　2011 「コクリコ坂から」　東宝
43.3億.　351(***)scr　2011 「劇場版ポケットモンスター ベストウイッシュ」(2作品合算)　東宝
31.3億.　332(***)scr　2011 「名探偵コナン／沈黙の15分」　東宝
24.4億.　368(***)scr　2011 「ドラえもん／新・のび太と鉄人兵団」　東宝
12.0億.　325(***)scr　2011 「クレヨンしんちゃん／嵐を呼ぶ黄金のスパイ大作戦」　東宝
10.2億.　130(***)scr　2011 「プリキュア・オールスターズDX3」　東映
*9.4億※137(168)scr　2011　K-ON!
*8.4億※168(***)scr　2011 「映画スイートプリキュア♪ とりもどせ！心がつなぐ奇跡のメロディ♪」　東映
*8.0億※260(***)scr　2011 「劇場版NARUTO-ナルト-ブラッド・プリズン」　東宝
*7.9億.　125(***)scr　2011 「ONE PIECE ワンピース 3D 麦わらチェイス」　東映
*7.0億※*38(101)scr　2011　Macross Frontier
*6.0億※279(***)scr　2011 「手塚治虫のブッダ　*"赤い砂漠よ!美しく"」　東映&WB
*5.7億※*90(117)scr　2011　Hagane no Renkinjitsushi
*3.0億※*22(*55)scr　2011　Sengoku Basara
*2.5億※**9(*45)scr　2011 「攻殻機動隊S.A.C. SOLID STATE SOCIETY 3D」　T・ジョイ＆I.G
*2.0億※132(***)scr　2011 「それいけ！アンパンマン　すくえ！ココリンと奇跡の星」　東京テアトル=メディアボックス
*1.8億※*28(*73)scr　2011 「劇場版テニスの王子様 英国式 庭球城決戦！」　松竹
*1.3億.　*90(137)scr　2011 「劇場版アニメ　忍たま乱太郎・忍術学園全員出動の段」　WB
*0.5億※*10(*35)scr　2011 Sora no Otoshimono
*0.3億※*29(*42)scr　2011 Mahou Sensei Negima / Hayate no Gotoku

Tired, so I just did the ones based on late night (or similar, in FMA's case) TV anime. Everything ahead of K-ON! is the usual you see there every year... Ghibli > Pokemon > Conan > Doraemon > Shin-chan > Precure.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by something

And perhaps sooner than I expected. http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-6063.html

Third weekend brings total earnings to ¥943,034,250 after its third weekend. It must have passed ¥1,000,000,000 by now, and the holiday weekend is coming up. I think that officially puts it above everything from at least the last few years that isn't Evangelion or Shounen Jump/Conan/Ghibli/Pokemon-type stuff aimed primarily at younger kids, and it still has a good bit of life left in it, I'd think.

Just out of curiosity, what were the numbers of Eva if you have them under your sleeve?

[something]

Originally Posted by Damius

Just out of curiosity, what were the numbers of Eva if you have them under your sleeve?

Eva 1.0 did ¥2.0bn and was #4 animated movie of 2007 (released 9/01/2007), behind Pokemon, Doraemon, Conan.
Eva 2.0 did ¥4.0bn and was #2 animated movie of 2009 (released 6/27/2009), behind Pokemon.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by something

Eva 1.0 did ¥2.0bn and was #4 animated movie of 2007 (released 9/01/2007), behind Pokemon, Doraemon, Conan.
Eva 2.0 did ¥4.0bn and was #2 animated movie of 2009 (released 6/27/2009), behind Pokemon.

I see. Never thought that Eva 2.0 did 2 times more than 1.0.