Anime Sales in Japan - 2011

[MelancholicMariya]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

Horizon v1 sold out on Amazon and there won't be anymore in stock until the end of January.

Really Bandai, again with this crap? Did their disc printer break or something in the earthquake? -_-

Way to skew sales again.

CDJapan has it in stock it seems, maybe it's just actually out of stock or something.

Though I wouldn't put it past Bandai to OOP it again.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

Horizon v1 sold out on Amazon and there won't be anymore in stock until the end of January.

Wow...this is sure a long wait at the more critical times for sales...

[Suzuku]

Speaking of Horizon, I find it interesting that it outsold T&B 8 everyday on Oricon's daily trackings except for the first...given, the first day is where half of the sales come from, but it could point to Horizon selling even more than 15k.

[something]

At least I assume it's still preliminary. Have got an eye out for the usual big lists posted on livedoor, but haven't seen them yet.

Originally Posted by something

Nikkei Entertainment seems to have a preliminary 2011 BD yearly list up, just a small one, I assume we'll see more added when the full Oricon Top 500/100 is posted. I really hope there's more than 100 in the BD list this year.

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=380675

MAL posted a little more of the list, including a small update for Vol. 6 of Madoka that puts the series average over 71k.

Madoka v6 +480 BDs, total 67,122, final average 71,006. Just barely made it!

Tiger&Bunny v2 +3399 BDs, total 33,945.
v3 +1326 BDs, total 31,785.
v4 +1766 BDs, total 30,276.
- The T&B gains are huge, especially Vol. 2. Overall average now stands at 28,498.

AnoHana v2 +553 BDs, total 32,607. Average increases to 31,283.

[Suzuku]

Wow, Horizon is tearing up the charts now.

***,**2位 ★ (*16,006 pt) [-,---予約] 2011年12月22日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 1 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]
***,**4位 ★ (**8,284 pt) [*,181予約] 2012年01月27日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 2 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]
***,**6位 ★ (**6,442 pt) [*,123予約] 2012年02月24日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 3 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]
***,*12位 ★ (**4,515 pt) [*,*78予約] 2012年04月20日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 5 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]
***,*14位 ★ (**5,233 pt) [*,*94予約] 2012年03月23日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 4 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]
***,*15位 ★ (**4,323 pt) [*,*72予約] 2012年06月22日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 7 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]
***,*16位 ★ (**4,364 pt) [*,*73予約] 2012年05月25日 境界線上のホライゾン 〔Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere〕 6 (初回限定版) [Blu-ray]

And it still hasn't aired on Tokyo MX yet. After that, BD 1 might hit number 1. Too bad we won't see the effect of this with vol 1 until the week of January 23rd. >.>

[something]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-6193.html

After 8 weeks, PS3 Idolmaster 2 had done 97,046 and since weeks 4-8 were all pretty consistent and there's no reason to think it wold have slowed down considerably with the holidays coming, it should be over 100k easily now. I guess this is as far as reporting will go, though.

[superdry]

Originally Posted by something

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-6193.html

After 8 weeks, PS3 Idolmaster 2 had done 97,046 and since weeks 4-8 were all pretty consistent and there's no reason to think it wold have slowed down considerably with the holidays coming, it should be over 100k easily now. I guess this is as far as reporting will go, though.

So, a japanese blog has quoted vgchartz for numbers on the current sales of Idolm@ster 2? I'm only questioning it because there are people who do not believe in the number vgchartz quotes nowadays - but, sometimes they are the only source for numbers since Media Create only gives out top 20 and NPD numbers (for US games) are nearly impossible to obtain for a normal person.

I don't know if they're still trusted nowadays since I normally just look at the weekly Media Create charts now.

[something]

The K-ON! movie has easily surpassed the ¥1bn mark now, total is ¥1,139,230,000!

Here's some comparisons posted for other big movies (in units of 100m yen):

Evangelion 1.0 (Total 20)
*2.80→*7.25→10.35→12.95→14.75→16.05→16.95→17.45

Summer Wars (Total 17)
*3.70→*6.90→*9.30→11.10→12.6→13.6→14.3→15.2

FMA Shamballa (Total 13)
*2.25→*5.04→*7.23→*9.17→10.90

K-ON!
*3.19→*6.91→*9.43→11.39

Surprising how it's overtaken Summer Wars at an equivalent point, although I don't expect K-ON! to hit quite ¥1.7bn, let alone Eva's ¥2.0bn. Damnit I want to watch this movie.

[MelancholicMariya]

If K-ON! beats Evangelion 1.0 of all things I'm going to be genuinely surprised. Not because "durr hurr it's K-ON! etc etc" it's more of the fact I've never really seen anything really dominate Evangelion.

That said it's not 2.0, I forget what 2.0's numbers were but from what I remember they were bigger than 1.0's. Hell, beating Evangelion is a feat in itself and if K-ON! beats it then fantastic.

[something]

Originally Posted by MelancholicMariya

If K-ON! beats Evangelion 1.0 of all things I'm going to be genuinely surprised. Not because "durr hurr it's K-ON! etc etc" it's more of the fact I've never really seen anything really dominate Evangelion.
That said it's not 2.0, I forget what 2.0's numbers were but from what I remember they were bigger than 1.0's. Hell, beating Evangelion is a feat in itself and if K-ON! beats it then fantastic.

¥2bn for Eva 1, ¥4bn for Eva 2. Well, K-ON! is already the most successful anime based movie on a late-night TV series ever, I'm pretty damn sure. Excepting Eva, but that ran prime-time anyway if I remember correctly.