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Originally Posted by Westlo
Hidan will not sell 10k, majority of anime sell the majority of their sales in the first week and have a drop off after the first volume, something like Infinite Stratos being incredibly consistent is the exception. Opening weeks of 29368, 30245, 29955 is incredibly consistent.... look @ Star Driver as a good example.. started around 12k with Vol 1 IIRC and has now fallen down to 7k with Vol 6. Anyway back to Hidan, it will probably sell enough to get a sequel down the track.. with even less budget than the first one...
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Star Driver is a special case in itself though. Most anime have more consistency than Star Driver at least, because a bunch of non-otaku bought Star Driver vol 1 for the novelty of it and didn't any subsequent volumes. Straight up late night otaku shows usually are pretty consistent, only dropping 2-3k in sales over all volumes barring a very cheap 1st volume like Yumekui Merry.
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Don't worry about KyoAni... they'll be fine, worry more about them actually branching out for their usual crap after Nichijou (a small deviation) flopped by their standards.
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Definitely...hopefully they don't think this is a sign they should just stick with moe shows forever. Not to say their moe shows aren't good, it just get tiresome to see them poor all their resources and talent into shows that don't really need it.
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Originally Posted by tomtkp
Actually I think it is alright that Steins;Gate sold out 11-12k BD copies alone.This figure had even surpassed Index II v5 and other Spring series except Tiger & Bunny.However,what intrigues me is that what happened to Steins;Gate DVD sales figure.Is it that the fans are focusing on the BD version and not DVD,causing DVD to have zero (not possible) or minimal sales to the point that the figure did not even ranked?Or is it that the sales were not being counted yet?
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Steins;Gate outsold Index in BDs, but Index's DVD sales put it above S;G by quite a bit.
As for why S;G's DVDs aren't listed, as Westlo said, they didn't make the Top 100, meaning they sold less than 861 copies. It could be theorized that the reason for this is that Steins;Gate's fanbase is very otaku heavy, like K-ON! and Ika Musume, so the ratio between DVD and BD is very lopsided.
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Originally Posted by Reckoner
The disparity between blue ray and DVD sales is still quite strange though.
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Not really, it just indicates how otaku oriented the show is. That's not to say that no otaku own DVDs, there are just different types of otaku. The crowd that S;G attracts are very techno savvy and stay up to date on all the latest tech, so most of them own BD players.