2011-12-30, 19:08 | Link #421 | |
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Wow, it's like every other show just got screwed real hard in the ass
And considering past records, I'd say Shana got the worst of it Tamayura v1 does 4,077 BDs, DVDs don't rank. Ikamusume !? v1 does 3,379 BDs, no DVD rank. Maken-ki! v1 does 3,119 BDs, no DVD rank. Shana III v1 does 2,828 BDs, no DVD rank. ...Siiiigh. Mirai Nikki v1 sells 2,336 BDs, no DVD rank. Ben-To v1 sells 2,101 BDs, no DVD rank. C3 v1 does 2,039 BDs, no DVD rank....Siiiigh. MajiKoi v2 sells 2,916 BDs, no DVD rank. Chihayafuru did not rank in either format, so under 3k. EDIT: Oh yeah, and to round of Summer and Spring- Quote:
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2011-12-30, 20:31 | Link #422 |
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Oh I am so sad about Chihayafuru...that probably means a second season won't happen.
But I think 4000+ for Peguindrum is pretty good for the type of series it is. Not a hit but not bad either. It's expected that sales will go down after the 1st volume too.
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2011-12-30, 20:47 | Link #423 | |
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unless Peguindrum made money on something else the anime could be consider a bust sale wise.
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2011-12-30, 20:56 | Link #424 | |
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Tamayura ~Hitotose~ doing over 4K in BDs is actually a bit of a pleasant surprise to me. This was not a heavily hyped anime at all, so to see it finish ahead of a lot of the more widely talked about Fall 2011 shows is pretty impressive. Plus, ~Hitotose~ didn't strike me as being a particularly high budget production, so TVO Animations might have actually turned a slight profit on 4.1 K BD sales. Biggest disappointment is Chihayafuru not even ranking in either format. That's very sad. I agree with Kirarakim on Penguin Drum. It's holding up pretty good given that competition is quite fierce right now. While I was initially very disappointed in Penguin Drum's sales due to some of the stratospheric sales speculations I once read for the show, I'm now pretty comfortable with it doing between 4 and 5 K. As with Tamayura ~Hitotose~, at least that's around the Manabi Line, IIRC.
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2011-12-30, 20:59 | Link #426 | |
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2011-12-30, 21:05 | Link #428 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if the sales for the December releases end up being spread out a bit more than usual given the rather massive glut of releases between 21-23 December, including the Bakemonogatari and Toradora BD-Boxes and so on. I really don't know how many series the average consumer purchases per season (I collect about three shows/season on average myself), but a single BD-Box could certainly put a significant dent in one's monthly budget and cause people to hold off until the next time they're paid to catch-up a bit.
Not really wanting to get into this too much here, but I think the plan all along had been to time it with the end of the novels, but those ended up being stretched out longer than was expected as well. So rather than bridge directly into Shana III after the S-series OVAs, they instead animated Index II (which, by some accounts, had a shorter pre-production gestation period). In the grand scheme of things, I wonder if the amount gained by "striking the iron while it's hot" with Index offset the amount lost for Shana... but who knows. In either case, as has been said before, at least anime fans will see the conclusion, great sales or not.
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2011-12-30, 21:25 | Link #431 | |
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I wonder if a 12-episode season in 2009 or 2010 might've been a better momentum booster than the Shana S OVA (which opened with a bang but saw its sales halve by the final volume). As a stopgap, it wasn't particularly effective.
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2011-12-30, 21:30 | Link #432 |
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I agree with relentless, I do think it was just as planned to have the Anime end at the same time the light novels otherwise they would just drag the story longer. If the Light Novel can't sustain interest in the story then there's really nothing else that can be done.
End of an Era I suppose. Back on topic with the sales number, the only other title I have vested interest in is C3- I wasn't expecting any miracles, but I did hope it would have the same numbers of Baka-Test at least
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2011-12-30, 21:36 | Link #433 |
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Well, what can one expect in a season where Persona 4 (33k), Working S2 (18k) and Horizon (16k) sold like they did? Haganai will presumably be in profit territory but nowhere near what AIC reaped with Oreimo last year, where it was the high point of the 2010 October season in sales from memory. Who knows what on earth Guilty Crown could do? Really, a lot of these December shows would have been better off in July and maybe could have hit the 5k mark. Only high one from there was Prince no Uta-sama from memory. Lot of 5kish shows that season. October is no longer a weak season.
Fate/Zero has been somewhat smart in this regard delaying a release to March. Although there is a risk of sales of latter volumes of aforementioned shows chewing into it. Still, I get the feeling since it's a box rather than a volume, people are getting the signal of 'If you want this, here's 4-5 months to save up!' and will avoid buying anything else if they really want it. Time will teel whether that strategy paid off.
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2011-12-30, 21:46 | Link #435 | |
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Ano Natsu de Matteru, by the guy that gave us Toradora and Anohana, surely it's enough to guarantee success, and thats not even counting the Onegai nostalgia. ...And that's about all I'm certain.
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2011-12-30, 21:48 | Link #436 | |
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Milky Holmes got another season due to its sales last year...but not to the degree of strong. Natsume S4 might plod the 10k the first three seasons have. Its fanbase is loyal. 8-bit are teaming up with Satelight for an Aquarion series. 8-bit leeched a fair bit of loyalty into Infinite Stratos from the Macross Frontier fandom. Maybe this show will determine how much that loyalty lingers? Although the original Aquarion series didn't do that well. Another is a P.A. Works adaptation. Their production qualities seem to attract sales these days, but the horror genre hasn't been one that has done well in recent times. Amagami SS - Haruka generated a lot of sales with her arc. Might happen again? High School DxD could be profitable if the quality of Miyama-Zero's artwork (which is gorgeous in the artbooks of his I have!) can be replicated fairly well and gel in the ecchi crowd - but I somehow doubt it. Yeah...Nisenmonogatari...It might run away with that season.
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2011-12-30, 22:02 | Link #437 | |
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As for next season, Winter isn't typically a very big season for top-selling releases (with notable breakout exceptions), so yeah, I agree with Chaos2Frozen's two suggestions (maybe ~10k range), and I would guess most of the additional ones Last Sinner mentioned to be around the 4k range. Black Rock Shooter will be an interesting one to watch (not too sure what'll happen). Things like Papakiki and Mooretsu seem like wildcards to me, both apparently committed to two-cour right off the bat; don't expect huge sales for either, but could be decent, depending. I think Lagrange will get a following, but it's hard to picture it selling well. I guess we'll see...
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That aside, I'm glad Penguin is at least about even on profit/cost. It was a risk and a trip.
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