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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5
As for the target demographics... well I would assume that in this day and age in the 21st century, the purchasing power in anime might have really shifted more to the Otaku demographics as opposed to the family ones.
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I haven't done the arithmetic, but the figures for 2009 suggest you're wrong. I'd bet if you added up the sales for all the animated television shows in that list, you'd still be way short of
Ponyo's 840,000 figure.
Moreover most of those come from just a few shows -
Gundam, Kara no Kyoukai, Hetalia, Gintama, Haruhi, and
Code Geass. The vast array of television series that appear on the upcoming anime lists each season are nowhere to be found. It does appear that the otaku crowd has been a mainstay of Blu-ray sales though, with good numbers for the
Evangelion remake,
Bakemonogatari, Macross Frontier, and
K-On!. Still it's a pretty small list of shows with sales that are dwarfed by the Miyazaki films.