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Originally Posted by Westlo
Hmm if that list was updated Haruhi would now be behind Bakemonogatari (56,475 after 1 vol) Macross Frontier (44,178 avg) K-ON! (43,980 avg after 3 vols), Code Geass R2 (41,332 avg).
Keep in mind that even if Bake Vol 1 finishes at around 60,000 it's avg could fall down into the 40k range. There is usually a big drop off from Vol 1 and the rest of the series, as you can see comparing these first vol sales to the avg sales they did.
Macross Frontier Vol 1 = 64981
2008/07/25 30,239 Vol. 1 (Three versions of Episode 1)
2008/07/25 34,742 Vol. 1
Code Geass R2 Vol 1 = 59041
2008/08/22 39,907 Vol. 01 (One episode)
2008/08/22 19,134 Vol. 01
I think Bake won't get affected as much as usual though.
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Macross and Geass (and gundam 00 too) are top tier Bandai series with a wider range of audience and impressive promotional coverage (not that Bakemonogatari seem to lack in the latter). They tend to drop rapidly after the first volume, they have cheaper editions and first volume is usually sold at a very low price, compared to more otaku oriented products (especially Kadokawa Shoten ones). Otaku/Fujioshi oriented anime tend to sell constantly, or they may drop something but not as much, in proportion, as mainstream ones (lets say title with a wider appeal). Haruhi is one of them (and it's even peculiar because of the massive shortage at the time), but we can also consider other Kyoani works, or other famous title like Nanoha.
And it's not too healthy to stick with Oricon data: a lot is missing (look at BD sales, or older titles) and the chart system may be tricky, especially for DVD sales. Last but not least Oricon doesn't cover the whole market, I know for sure is around 60% for manga distribution, but I've no idea of video department: Kodakawa declared to have sold, one year after commercialization, 800k of Suzumiya Haruhi's DVD (100k for volume) while Oricon figures are a lot lower.