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Originally Posted by Shinji103
I believe somebody once said that selling 10,000 copies of a volume of a series is generally enough profit to warrant the making of a sequel. Acording to that, SAO volume 9 DVD sold almost 8,000 while the BD sold 30,000. Though that person may have just been talking about JC Staff......
Still, that sounds like more than enough of a pull-in to green-light animating the Phantom Bullet arc. (possibly needing Mother's Rosario to bring it up to a two-cour series)
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Well, even if you set aside the rather-arbitrary threshold of 10,000/vol. (which is widely seen as very good for any anime studio), it's still one of the top-selling anime of the year, and also resulted in much-increased sales of the novels and tons of other merchandise. So yeah, if sales are the deciding factor, then it seems to be a no-brainer. Of course, there can also be issues beyond just sales (such as availability of the staff/studio based on previous commitments, and other issues). Right now, the SAO anime director is scheduled for Silver Spoon airing this summer, so I guess we'll see what projects are lined up for next year.