Anime Sales in Japan - 2013 (Released volumes)

[Nico87]

No idea where I got that from then, maybe it was just II first week sales or something.

[symbv]

Originally Posted by something

The final, full top 500/200 is finally posted. I feel like something must be missing between Kokuri and Gintama'... but this is what the source file has.

I think the missing part was not posted because the DVDs for that part were already in the Anime DVD Top50 List that came out earlier this year:

10 33,503 映画けいおん！　【ＤＶＤ　初回限定版】
14 26,157 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＷＡＴＥＲ　ＳＥＶＥＮ”
15 26,048 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＮＩＣＯ・ＲＯＢＩＮ”
16 25,920 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＣＰ９”
17 25,552 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＦＯＸＹ”
18 24,981 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＲＯＣＫＥＴ　ＭＡＮ”
21 23,959 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＦＲＡＮＫＹ”
22 22,184 魔女の宅急便
23 22,177 劇場版　テニスの王子様　英国式庭球城決戦！【豪華版】
24 22,041 ＯＮＥ　ＰＩＥＣＥ　Ｌｏｇ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ　“ＴＨＲＩＬＬＥＲ　ＢＡＲＫ”
25 21,799 サマーウォーズ　期間限定スペシャルプライス版
26 21,097 ＵＳＡＶＩＣＨ　Ｓｅａｓｏｎ４
28 20,514 映画けいおん！　【ＤＶＤ　通常版】※今だけプライス
29 19,208 劇場版ポケットモンスター　ベストウイッシュ「ビクティニと黒き英雄　ゼクロム」「ビクティニと白き英雄　 レシラム」
30 18,670 劇場版ＮＡＲＵＴＯ－ナルト－　ブラッド・プリズン（完全生産限定版）
31 18,215 うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪　マジＬＯＶＥ１０００％　６
35 15,597 天空の城ラピュタ
37 14,209 黒子のバスケ　４
38 14,049 機動戦士ガンダムＵＣ　４
39 13,501 黒子のバスケ　２
41 13,168 黒子のバスケ　１
44 12,225 銀魂’　１１（完全生産限定版）
45 12,061 宇宙戦艦ヤマト２１９９　１
46 11,956 銀魂’　０７（完全生産限定版）
47 11,839 黒子のバスケ　５
48 11,820 黒子のバスケ　３
49 11,580 銀魂’　０９（完全生産限定版）
50 11,535 銀魂’　１３（完全生産限定版

[something]

Originally Posted by symbv

I think the missing part was not posed because the DVDs for that part were already in the Anime DVD Top50 List that came out earlier this year:

Ah, right. That's why I couldn't find my post on that, I just listed the ones with changes. I'll probably edit it into the main post a little later, just so it's all together.

Edit: And done, everything should be accounted for under one post now.

[symbv]

Today is the "flying get day" for titles with release date of Jan 25th. Most titles that were released on Jan 23rd are pushed out from the ranking, but some stay on, like SAO, Gintama but also noticeably Dog Days and Hidamari.

For the new batch of titles, Library War of course performed strongly. And unsurprisingly Hyouka and Psycho-Pass also do well. It is interesting to see Shinsekai Yori shows up but it may not indicate anything more than the few hundreds of copies vol.2 sold.

BD
xx xx *2　Library War: Kakumei no Tsubasa - RE
xx xx *3　Hyouka v8
xx xx *5　Psycho-Pass v2
*1 *1 *6　SAO v4
xx xx *7　Total Eclipse v5
xx xx *8　Sakura Taisen: Katsudoushashin
xx xx 11　Sora no Otoshimono Forte BD Box
*6 *3 14　Dog Days2 v5
xx xx 17　Library War: Kakumei no Tsubasa - LE (BD+DVD set )
*3 *5 18　Hidamari4 v2
xx xx 20　Shinsekai Yori v3
*4　*8 -- Utena BD Box v1
14　*9 -- Natsuiro Kiseki v7
*5　10 -- Joshiraku v4
*9　12 -- Shinki v2
15　14 -- RoboNo v1
--- 15 -- Zetsuen v1
11　16 -- Kokoro Connect v4
20　20 -- KoiChoco v5
10　-- -- Star Driver BD Box
13　-- -- BokuH v5
16　-- -- TonaKai v3
17　-- -- Sengoku Collection v12
18　-- -- Sengoku Collection v11


DVD
*2 *2 *6　Gintama Yorinuki Gintama-san On Theater 2D Shinsengumi Douran-hen
xx xx *8　Library War: Kakumei no Tsubasa
xx xx *9　Psycho-Pass v2
xx xx 11　Hyouka v8
xx xx 13　Shirokuma Cafe v7
*5 *3 14　SAO v4
xx xx 16　Smile PreCure v8
xx xx 18　Magic Kaito v4
xx xx 23　Jewel Pet Sweets Dance Princess/Onegai My Melody Tomo & Ai Movie
xx xx 29　Total Eclipse v5
19　11-- Dog Day2 v5
*9　19 -- Bleach - Shinigami Daikou Shoushitsu hen v6
23　26 -- Hidamari4 v2
10　-- -- Azazel-san - web radio
13　-- -- Sengoku Collection v11
14　-- -- Sengoku Collection v12
24　-- -- Hyakunin Isshu Uta-koi v5
28　-- -- Joshiraku v4
29　-- -- Shinki v2
30　-- -- Zetsuen v1

Something I only notice now: Amazon Stalker does not have data for Magic Kaito v4 (it has only v1-v2) or Smile PreCure v8 (it has only v2-v4) - so they are not on Something's list of this week's release posted earlier. Apparently Amazon Stalker indeed can miss out titles. I wonder whether the earlier volumes of Magic Kaito and Smile PreCure are there because they got inquiry from readers (like when I reported AKB0048 is missing). It does not seem to be due to Amazon's categorization because both vol.1 and vol.4 of Magic Kaito are categorized the same way (DVD-Anime) but vol.1 is on Amazon Stalker but vol.4 is not.

[something]

Such a slow period for Winter shows right now. Only Vividpan is in the top 100 right now. Everything else has been sagging quite a bit. and even Vivipan is lower than I'd expect for having aired an episode recently.

Maoyuu has been in free-fall, going from top 20 to approaching 300 over five days. Tamakoma only peaked at 113 (compared to 72 last week) despite the amazing Shiori episode and is already down around 170, probably set to bottom out at 300 mid-week. Minami-ke is hanging out around 200. Even Love Live is back in triple digits and Haganai is 130.

I guess all the early buyers have already made their decisions and everyone else is waiting until closer to release date. Vivipan, Maoyuu, Love Live and Haganai did well in the initial buying period. Minami-ke and Tamakoma did okayish, but expectations were higher for the latter than the former so it's good news for Minami-ke and not so good for Tamakoma.

Also Kotoura-san has one of the highest Amazon point to Nico preorder ratios I've seen - 371pts but 109 Nico preorders. I know it streams on Nico but that's quite a lot Though as it gets more Amazon points htat ratio will decline.

[Yvese]

Yea it's a pretty odd week.

I expected atleast Vividred to climb back into the teens or atleast the 20's with the recent ep. I was watching it all yesterday and the rank didn't really move much. Then again, the ep felt a bit rushed to me so that might have effected it. What did the viewers in 2ch think?

For Tamako I guess people are still waiting to see how it goes. I was surprised it didn't break 100 after what I thought was the best ep yet. Maybe the imouto ep next week will do it.

[meruruchan]

I actually expected preorders to slow down around this point, but some shows dropped more than what I thought (expecially Maoyuu).

At least Tamako has all the six volumes in the first 16 HMV ranks, and Vividred's v1 ranked #4 there. Kotoura is also performing nicely on Stalker.

[William K]

Originally Posted by something

*4 (*45) *44 *,913 1,177,448 578 Tonari no Totoro
23 (---) *56 *,404 1,222,060 109 Howl no Ugoku Shiro

Heh, at this rate, Totoro will overtake Howl's Moving Castle sometime in a year or 2 and become the 2nd best-selling Ghibli DVD behind Spirited Away. That 578 weeks in the charts still blows my mind :D

[symbv]

Originally Posted by Yvese

I expected atleast Vividred to climb back into the teens or atleast the 20's with the recent ep. I was watching it all yesterday and the rank didn't really move much. Then again, the ep felt a bit rushed to me so that might have effected it. What did the viewers in 2ch think?

Pretty unfavorable reactions from both Osaka region and Tokyo region regarding ep.3. The rushed pacing is one reason (docking so soon? etc) but one main reason is that the Green character is not popular and also many judged the seiyuu voicing the character to be subpar in performance. Apparently fans in 2ch regard the Yellow character with the direct opposite view - so a lot of expectation is set for the coming episode where Yellow should start to make her appearance.

Originally Posted by Yvese

For Tamako I guess people are still waiting to see how it goes. I was surprised it didn't break 100 after what I thought was the best ep yet. Maybe the imouto ep next week will do it.

The only really universally popular character in Tamakoma is Ann (Anko) the imouto, so that may indeed help. That said, what I see is that despite (perhaps because of) how mainstream Tamakoma is (really, if the bird is not so hard to film, Tamakoma can make a very good life-action heartful slice-of-life comedy about school girls and their neighborhood - the moe level and the range of characters are just right) its midnight broadcast time slot limits the kind of audience it can reach, and the midnight anime audience do not naturally gravitate towards such anime that is so mainstream that it does not stand out for them (in midnight anime's sense).

[symbv]

Originally Posted by something

Such a slow period for Winter shows right now. Only Vividpan is in the top 100 right now. Everything else has been sagging quite a bit. and even Vivipan is lower than I'd expect for having aired an episode recently.

I argued more than a week ago on Jan 15th here that I feared the Winter Season is going to be a "barren season" where few titles will pass 10k mark and the signs were not good for the major titles to be heading for shining sales figures. At that time some said it was still too early to judge but I believed then that there was sufficient ground for such worry, and so far my fear seems to be more likely to come true than otherwise.

Let's examine some of the titles of this season (for simplicity's sake, only the numbers for the BD sales are used here)

Vivipan did not have a final point prediction back on Jan 15th but it was widely tipped to be the top selling show of this season. So far it is proving its power but it also seems to be losing momentum as time goes by. When the final point prediction first came out it was well above 16k and now it came down to just 13k. Its medium ranking may be still at #16 but it was stuck at around #50 before ep.3 was aired and even after ep.3 its ranking still only came to around #40.

Earlier in this post I raised the observation by quite many in 2ch that perhaps MaoYuu is not as strong as it initially looked. At that time its ranking in Amazon had just started to fall in more noticeable manner. However since then the drop has accelerated. The theory by 2ch that perhaps MaoYuu was just lucky to have a longer "early adopter" boost may just prove to be true after all. At the moment, its final prediction point is 7k compared to 8k on Jan 19th, quite a substantial drop, and will continue to go down if its ranking does not improve.

Love Live is another title that sees the final prediction drops significantly, from 10.6k on Jan 19th to (gasp)7.4k now. But then its vol.2 has been pretty stable with 4.7k as the final prediction.

Tamakoma was last seen above #100 back on Jan 19th and its final prediction used to be near 5k but now it is a mere 3.8k.

Kagura had a final prediction points of 4k back on Jan 19th but now it has just 2.7k.

On the other hand, Haganai and Minami-ke have proved stable: 5.5k and 4.4k are very close to where they were back on Jan 19th. Same for PuchiMasu's 2.2k final prediction points.

The only real beneficiaries of the ongoing season seems to be the weaker shows:

Kotoura-san shows the biggest boost, from 1.4k to the present 2.8k for final prediction points. If it sustains its current ranking (which is close to Tomakoma and below MaoYuu, Haganai, Love Live and ViviPan) in future weeks, it will easily pass the Manabi-Line and perhaps even reaches the 4k level.

And other weak shows that show improvement in final prediction points include

OreShura 1.5k -> 2k
Mondaiji 0.6k -> 1.2k
GJ-bu 0.5k -> 1k

However D.C.III has weakened: 2k -> 1.3k

But anyway all these numbers may be too small to mean much as a measure of sales performance.

With all (or almost all) the titles for the coming Spring Season having been announced, fans are now eagerly looking forward to it as this is going to be a season of "battle of the titans", something that has not been seen for a while - we have OreImo 2nd, Railgun 2nd, Uta-Prince 2nd and also a bunch of strong franchises or appealing originals. Some fans now claim they are saving their resources for the Spring Season. If this thinking becomes widespread, one can only expect the sales performance for this Winter Season to become even more anemic.