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2013-04-20, 14:05 | Link #525 |
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Cursory reading of the announcement says that it's some sort of test on the series contents, where those who receive a passing grade get copies of illustrations by VOFAN or Akio Watanabe as prizes.
The entry fees are certainly in standardized test territory, I'll say that much. |
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2013-10-29, 12:31 | Link #529 | |
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2013-10-29, 18:58 | Link #531 |
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Oricon and soundscan did not count aniplex shop's sales yet. From what I've heard, almost 15k fans bought it there because of the keyframes being bundled with the blurays. We will see come nekoshiro's last volume sales if they will count it because they'll ship the two volumes together in one box-set.
If someone can confirm oricon and soundscan counts their data by purchase and not by shipping though, then those 39,000 disc sales for volume 1 are correct. |
2013-11-05, 04:03 | Link #533 | |
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Regardless, as was said, the level of attrition here (even if this is completely accurate) is nothing to be disappointed about, particularly when you keep in mind that this is a 12-disc release. I know a number of collectors who found that prospect daunting and decided to not continue collecting the series as a result (or are contemplating collecting only their favourite arcs, which this release structure encourages). Some may also have in their head to hope for an eventual boxset release rather than doing the 12-disc marathon as well. In the end, even if it averaged down to 30k sales over 12 volumes at these prices, that's a pretty great showing.
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2013-11-05, 22:26 | Link #534 |
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Oricon counts the sales in the aniplex shop. Madoka recap movies had a 20,000+ sales from aniplex+ alone. The prediction was 60,000. First week sales has 80,000.
For monogatari, obviously many people chose to ship their copies together than doing it separately because shipping costs. I see around 2 people on twitter that chose to ship their aniplex copies separately though. Hence the low count for the first neko volume. I doubt monogatari can add an additional 20,000 though. Just around 2-3,000 is enough. That hope of a box-set is pretty much dim at this point. That defeats the purpose of aniplex putting each arc in a box-set lol. Good luck to those people. Profits-wise, aniplex, shaft and kodansha are usually swimming with money. Numbers-wise, 42,000 total sales on the second week is ridiculously good for anime, but a bad start for monogatari. |
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Honestly, I don't put very much faith in this quasi-silly fan-logic. What really matters from the business perspective is meeting or exceeding your expectations, and I'm quite sure they figured out that this sort of release would see a drop but would still pay off in the long run. If that means this anime doesn't end up ranking as the top-selling anime of the year in volume by volume, oh well...
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2013-11-06, 06:26 | Link #536 | ||
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If you meant Oricon counting aniplex+ sales, http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/index2.html#shisu Quote:
I think most people who looks at disc sales figures of anime look by the average and not volume by volume. Monogatari, at least for now, has a chance to be the top averaging show if Shingeki bluray sales will drop a little bit. |
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2013-12-05, 02:20 | Link #537 |
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Something to be happy about despite the low sales of monogatari second season DVDs.
All monogatari discs combined have sold more than a million as of last week according to Oricon: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2031587/full/ I think there was a similar article on ANN about this last year but whatever. I looked the sales of neko's second volume and it looks like sales jumped by 1,000 copies. Impressive but still...hopefully kabuki and the rest will climb. |
2013-12-06, 03:05 | Link #538 |
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As was said before, it's going to be one of the, if not the top-grossing anime TV series of the year in disc sales alone (pending how future volumes hold up). Do fans really need "something [else] to be happy about"? (Sequel demanding nearly double the total investment has 30% less sales of the previous TV series, and it's like the sky is falling... )
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2013-12-06, 09:40 | Link #540 |
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I can understand where people come from when they're worried about the BD/DVD sales, but in the end, what does it matter how it fares compared to the previous installments when stand-alone sales are the only important factor? 30.000+ sold copies for Neko:Shiro Vol. 1 is very good for such a fairly niche market in my opinion (even more so when this franchise isn't as mainstream as say Shingeki, plus S2 is the fourth installment anyway), and I'm fairly sure Shaft doesn't operate like Capcom or Square-Enix, who consider well-selling games as financial losses just because their sales predictions weren't down to earth.
To be fair, I too have a hunch some of the other arcs will have better sales (Neko:Shiro's reception was fairly varied from what I noticed), but as far as the whole picture goes, I don't think there's any reason to worry at the moment. And of course, there are those people who prefer to wait for box-sets either based around seperate arcs or the entire series for convinience's sake, so again, it's too soon to worry about sales. If anything, I'm more curious whether Neko:Kuro and S2 will have english releases or not, but that's a whole different matter altogether. |
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