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Originally Posted by CantQuiteGuess
Was it? I remember seeing somewhere that her volumes averaged around 17,000 copies per in Japan. Those don't seem like top seller numbers, but I'm not really too sure about it.
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It was in the top ten selling series in 2009. Sold over a million copies total.
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It's not really the job of Japanese companies to find out what sells in the US though. If R1 companies are being charged a ridiculous amount for something they feel isn't going to sell good in the R1 market, then they just shouldn't license it.
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But there is a vocal demand from fans for some of these series. Lucky Star for example was a lose for Bandai despite its popularity on the net. Funimation also takes a lose for many of the fan favorites they license but they at least have DBZ to make up for it. It may be old but DBZ still accounts for 50% of their profits