Anime Sales in Japan - 2013 (Released volumes)

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by something

The success of GirlPan and some comments on 2ch got me thinking about how the past few years have been pretty successful for original anime.

something, if you have the time, do you mind calculating the percentages/sales of adaptations/original productions by distributors? I know Kadokawa will never have an original series due to the LN branches, but I'm curious about how companies like Aniplex and Pony Canyon do since they have a tendancy to sponsor some of these original series.

[something]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

something, if you have the time, do you mind calculating the percentages/sales of adaptations/original productions by distributors? I know Kadokawa will never have an original series due to the LN branches, but I'm curious about how companies like Aniplex and Pony Canyon do since they have a tendancy to sponsor some of these original series.

Outside of the 10k list, I don't track distributors unfortunately. Source material and animation studio were only pretty recent additions. Also with a n=40 for original, sample sizes might get small if it's cut up by distributor.

But just eyeballing the top 10 original from 2010-2012, Aniplex dominates as they tend to in most things:

Aniplex
71,057 Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
34,116 Angel Beats!
31,524 Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai
*9,076 Star Driver Kagayaki no Takuto
*8,751 Dog Days'

Bandai Visual
27,829 Tiger & Bunny
13,550 Girls und Panzer

Kadokawa
14,015 Strike Witches 2

Pony Canyon
*8,656 Tari Tari
*8,576 Hanasaku Iroha

Thinking about it, Strike Witches should probably not be listed as original, but I'm so used to seeing it categorized as such. I think it also fell under "mixed media" in my head when I was initially populating the list, almost all of which I classify under original. But the anime followed a good while later than Fumikane's initial illustrations/columns and even the novels. So maybe strike that one off the list.

[MelancholicMariya]

Something, this posts hyperlinks are just "xxxx" are you still getting around to that or was it a mistake?

http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showthrea...66#post2010466

[something]

Originally Posted by MelancholicMariya

Something, this posts hyperlinks are just "xxxx" are you still getting around to that or was it a mistake?

http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showthrea...66#post2010466

Ah no missed them, thanks.

[something]

http://uni.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ani...802208/701-702
http://www3.atchs.jp/test/read.cgi/u.../1358040837/32

Full list. 998 DVD threshold, 536 BD.


2012 12/24~12/30 DVD List
*1 (*10) **3 9,354 *,*37,470 **2 Kuroko no Basuke Fandisc
*2 (*18) --- 6,172 *,**6,172 **1 Sword Art Online v3
*3 (*23) **7 4,506 *,*19,681 **2 ONE PIECE Log Collection "OHZ"
*4 (*24) **8 4,480 *,*19,588 **2 ONE PIECE Log Collection "Brook"
*5 (*31) --- 3,155 *,**3,155 **1 Kami-sama Hajimemashita v1
*6 (*36) --- 2,849 *,**2,849 **1 Hellsing OVA v10
*7 (*37) *13 2,803 *,*11,608 **2 Kuroko no Basuke v6
*8 (*52) *19 1,896 *,**7,095 **2 Pokemon Best Wishes! Kyurem vs. Seikenshi
*9 (*56) --- 1,833 *,**1,833 **1 Dog Days v4
10 (*59) *50 1,782 1,173,842 575 Tonari no Totoro
11 (*60) --- 1,757 *,**1,757 **1 Little Busters! v1
13 (*67) --- 1,610 *,**1,610 **1 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb v1
15 (*74) *11 1,526 *,*11,723 **2 Gintama' Enchousen v1
16 (*81) --- 1,413 *,**1,413 **1 Accel World v6
18 (*87) *37 1,247 *,**4,150 **2 Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama v5
20 (*90) --- 1,206 *,**1,206 **1 Aquarion Evol v9
22 (*97) *48 1,130 *,**3,558 **2 Hakuouki Reimeiroku v4
23 (104) *83 1,068 *,**6,180 **6 Soreike! Anpanman Yomigaerebanana-shima
25 (106) --- 1,062 *,**1,062 **1 Arcana Famiglia v4
26 (109) --- 1,045 *,**1,045 **1 Hyouka v7
29 (115) --- *,999 *,***,999 **1 Campione! v4
30 (116) --- *,998 *,***,998 **1 Shirokuma Cafe v6
-- (131) Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun v2
-- (136) To Aru Majutsu no Index II DVD Box
-- (140) Smile Precure♪ v7
-- (146) Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu Utakoi. v4
-- (182) Busou Shinki v1
-- (198) Hetalia World Series DVD Box v2
-- (199) Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica v4
-- (214) Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankenai yo ne! v1
-- (214) Natsu-iro Kiseki v6
-- (219) To Aru Majutsu no Index DVD Box
-- (227) Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! v4

2012 12/24~12/30 BD List
*1 (**1) --- 25,552 25,552 *1 Sword Art Online v3
*2 (**8) --- *8,358 *8,358 *1 Little Busters! v1
*3 (*11) --- *7,306 *7,306 *1 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb v1
*4 (*12) --- *6,969 *6,969 *1 Hyouka v7
*5 (*14) --- *6,148 *6,148 *1 Accel World v6
*6 (*18) --- *5,227 *5,227 *1 Dog Days' v4
*7 (*20) --- *3,992 *3,992 *1 Aquarion Evol v9
*8 (*21) --- *3,801 *3,801 *1 Hellsing OVA v10
10 (*23) **6 *3,275 18,959 *2 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II v4
-- (*28) **9 *2,605 16,155 *2 Girls und Panzer v1
-- (*30) --- *2,515 *2,515 *1 Campione! v4
-- (*32) --- *2,231 *2,231 *1 Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankenai yo ne! v1
-- (*33) --- *2,184 *2,184 *1 Busou Shinki v1
-- (*34) --- *2,066 *2,066 *1 Kokoro Connect v3
-- (*35) *14 *2,027 12,375 *2 Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED BD Box v4
-- (*36) *19 *1,992 *9,911 *2 Kuroko no Basuke v6
-- (*38) --- *1,834 *1,834 *1 Natsu-iro Kiseki v6
-- (*40) *18 *1,768 10,054 *2 To LOVE-Ru Darkness v1
-- (*41) *10 *1,715 14,288 *2 Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! v1
-- (*44) --- *1,607 *1,607 *1 Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! v4
-- (*45) *25 *1,603 *6,079 *2 Psycho-Pass v1
-- (*46) --- *1,592 *1,592 *1 Kami-sama Hajimemashita v1
-- (*49) --- *1,559 *1,559 *1 Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai! v4
-- (*50) --- *1,534 *1,534 *1 Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica v4
-- (*51) **7 *1,441 15,732 *2 Cowboy Bebop BD Box LE
-- (*53) --- *1,402 *1,402 *1 Strike Witches 2 BD Box RE
-- (*56) *17 *1,328 *9,864 *2 Tiger & Bunny Special Edition Side Bunny
-- (*59) --- *1,300 *1,300 *1 Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate v4
-- (*62) --- *1,238 *1,238 *1 Upotte!! v5
-- (*63) --- *1,209 *1,209 *1 Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun v2
-- (*64) --- *1,199 *1,199 *1 Roukyuubu! BD Box
-- (*68) *31 **,964 *4,376 *2 Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse v4
-- (*70) --- **,932 **,932 *1 Uchuu Kyoudai v2
-- (*80) --- **,726 **,726 *1 Medaka Box v6
-- (*81) --- **,714 **,714 *1 Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu Utakoi. v4
-- (*82) *66 **,701 10,820 *4 Majo no Takkyuubin
-- (*83) --- **,693 **,693 *1 Arcana Famiglia v4
-- (*88) *36 **,614 *3,355 *2 Eureka Seven AO v7
-- (*89) --- **,594 **,594 *1 Shinsekai Yori v2
-- (*92) 101 **,572 31,086 *6 Sword Art Online v2
-- (*93) *20 **,569 *5,710 *2 Yuru Yuri v4
-- (*98) 123 **,536 34,604 10 Sword Art Online v1
-- (100) (*,512)

BD 100~! BD 100~!

Fall update:
Little Busters! v1 sells 8358/1757, total 10,115. Very nice. Not compared to what people expected a LB! anime could do before it aired, but much better than Stalker's estimates. 10k first week when it's not discounted or including an event ticket app is promising.

Hidamari s4 v1 sells 7306/1610, total 8,916. This is the best first week for any Hidamari season release. Absolutely fantastic, because even if it drops a decent amount for v2 onward, it should still average 7k at worst, and be more than enough for fifth season.

KamiMashita v1 sells 1592/3155, total 4,747.

OniAi v1 sells 2,231 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Busou Shinki v1 sells 2,184 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Kaibutsu-kun v2 sells 1,209 BDs, DVDs do not rank. This is very very odd. BDs dropped only very slightly, but DVDs went from 1237 to below 998.

Chuunibyou v2 adds 1715 BDs, total 16,173.

Shinsekai Yori v2 sells 594 BDs, DVDs do not rank. First volume to rank since we don't have anything for v1.

GirlPan v1 adds 2605 BDs, total 16,155.

TLR Darkness adds 1768 BDs, total 11,982.

Gintama' Enchousen v1 adds 1526, total 11,723.

Unranked in either format:
Sukitte Ii na yo


Summer update:
Sword Art Online v3 sells 25550/6172, total 31,722.
v1 adds 536 BDs, total 43,101, filling in 2,635 over wk 5-9.
v2 adds 572 BDs, total 38,146, filling in 441 in wk 5.

Dog Days' v4 sells 5227/1833, total 7,060. Small increase on v3wk1.

Hakuouki v4 adds 1130 DVDs, total 3,558.

Arcana Famiglia v4 sells 693/1062, total 1,755.

Horizon II v4 adds 3275, total 18,959. Should still hit 20k eventually, even if it takes a monthly or yearly list.

Campione v4 sells 2515/999, total 3,514.

Kokoroko v3 sells 2,066 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

NakaImo v4 sells 1,607 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Dakara Boku wa H v4 sells 1,559 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Hagure Yuusha v4 sells 1,534 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

KoiChoco v4 sells 1,300 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Utakoi v4 sells 714 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Yuru Yuri♪♪ v4 adds 569 BDs, total 5,710, since DVDs didn't rank for this volume due o thresholds the previous week (boo).

Total Eclipse v4 adds 964 BDs, total 4,376.


Past seasons:
Hyouka v7 sells 6969/1045, total 8,014.

Accel World v6 sells 6148/1413, total 7,561.

Aquarion Evol v9, final volume, sells 3992/1206, total 5,198. Final average: 6,322.

NatsuKise v6 sells 1,834 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Upotte!! v5, final volume, sells 1,238 BDs, DVDs do not rank. Final average: 1,269 on 4 of 5 volumes ranking. It never deviated more than 46 copies.

Shirokuma Cafe v6 sells 998. BDs Animate-only and unavailable.

Uchuu Kyoudai v2 sells 932 BD boxes. It's being released in 16 DVD singles and 4 BD boxes.

Medaka Box v6, final volume, sells 726 BDs, DVDs do not rank. Final average: 756 on 3 of 6 volumes ranking.

KuroBas v6 adds 1992/2803, total 21,519.

Shin Tenipri v5 adds 1247 DVDs, total 4,150.

Eureka AO v7 adds 614 BDs, total 3,355.


OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
Gundam SEED BD Box v4 adds 2027, total 12,375. It kinda cheats its way ahead of Bake by being four times as long but falls short of Haruhi. (Unlike other bits of this post, the numbers for BD boxes below include next week because it's too much of a pain to separate them after the fact)
01) ¥1356.6m (34,000 * ¥39,900) - Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
02) ¥1009.7m (48,082 * ¥21,000) - Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED (4 parts: 11,457 + 11,491 + 12,473 + 12,661
03) ¥*927.7m (31,553 * ¥29,400) - Bakemonogatari

Cowboy Bebop BD Box adds 1441 LEs, total 17,064.
04) ¥*873.9m (21,903 * ¥39,900) - Toradora!
05) ¥*627.1m (17,064 * ¥**,***) - Cowboy Bebop (LE 15,732*¥36,750 + RE 1,332*¥26,250)
06) ¥*503.5m (13,701 * ¥**,***) - Strike Witches (Three pressings: 7,011*¥36,750 + 5,416*¥36,750 + 1,274*¥22,050)

Strike Witches 2 RE BD Box sells 1,402.
12) ¥*309.8m (*9,220 * ¥33,600) - Working!!
13) ¥*270.7m (*7,367 * ¥**,***) - Strike Witches 2 (Two pressings: 5,618*¥36,750 + 1,749*¥22,050)
14) ¥*230.1m (*5,768 * ¥39,900) - Fate/Stay Night

Roukyuubu BD Box sells 1,199.


No new shows next week. The week after, Initial D Fifth Stage.


Link to TV anime top-sellers list
Link to Vol. 1 Sales by Season

[Hououin91]

Good sales for LB!, I guess the second season is a lock now. SAO holds well even without the event ticked.

[volare]

From 4chan/2ch. Where is the full oricon list!!! It is nowhere to be found!! I want to know the new Momoiro Clover BD sales XD

Fall 2012 average sales rankings. As of January 6.

14,458 01/07　Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
13,550 01/06　Girls und Panzer
11,723 01/04　Gintama' Enchousen
10,214 01/06　To LOVE Ru Darkness
10,115 01/09　Little Busters!
*8,916 01/06　Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
*5,864 03/07　K
*5,659 01/08　Psycho Pass
*2,494 01/07　Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
*2,392 01/06　Jormungand Perfect Order
*1,759 01/08　Ixion Saga DT

[something]

Upcoming releases for: December 31-January 6 2013

...absolutely zilch.

So I'm only posting this to say that the full version of the preliminary list is up. It looks like we might not be getting the full list today, just the prelim Anime 30/10 list. Maybe a couple more days...? We reallllly need the rest of the BD list.

[EmperorBrandon]

Looks like you have the wrong number on Hellsing OVA v10 BD, something. Should be 3,801 according to the source you linked, though you have it ordered like it goes there already.

[something]

Originally Posted by EmperorBrandon

Looks like you have the wrong number on Hellsing OVA v10 BD, something. Should be 3,801 according to the source you linked, though you have it ordered like it goes there already.

Oh yeah thanks, fixed. Copy/paste error from the template I worked from.