2007-05-25, 23:52 | Link #142 |
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Again, I don't claim I'm an expert in Japanese culture, but if kissing in public is extremely frowned upon (so much more so than in the west), I guess even talking about ABCs is considered 'dirty'. I hear they lean on the conservative side of things over there.
AND I should be really sleeping, since I'll be spending 13 hours more at Anime North tomorrow. >_>
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2007-05-26, 13:32 | Link #143 |
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In the Oricon chart for Friday, Motteke Seeraafuku is up to #4. So from Tuesday to Friday, it has been #3, #7, #5, #4.
The Hayate OP is out of the top ten, and KOTOKO's PV is still on the Oricon front page. Also, a new CD has been announced for August called "Motteke Seeraafuku Remix." As I understand the article on it, it will include a number of remixes of the song. The Japanese isn't totally clear to me, but I think it says there will be six tracks, including at least one remix by a well-known remixer, along with a number of parodies. Maybe someone with better Japanese can confirm from the article. There are links (more or less in English) to some good remixes on that article page.
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2007-05-27, 12:35 | Link #145 |
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In the Oricon chart for Saturday, Motteke Seeraafuku has jumped back up to its highest place, #3. So from Tuesday to Saturday, it has been #3, #7, #5, #4, #3.
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2007-05-27, 12:44 | Link #146 | |
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Although this 桑田佳祐 guy apparently released on the 16th and he's still selling strong. Who is he anyway, anyone know? |
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2007-05-27, 14:49 | Link #147 | |
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I don't think Motteke can hit #1, but maybe: it sold 2750 copies Saturday, compared to 3000 for V6 and 5000 for Kuwata. Maybe a possibility of #2 for a day, #3-4 for the week. Anyway, the comeback seems fairly remarkable, as if people have actually bought it after hearing it on TV or radio. I seem to recall that Hare Hare Yukai started at the highest place it ever gained and never got back to it. EDIT: It's down to #7 in the chart for Sunday (posted Monday).
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2007-05-29, 02:33 | Link #149 |
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I'm not sure how this works, but the Oricon site's news says that for its first week, Motteke Seeraafuku has placed #2 on the weekly (as opposed to daily) singles chart, with sales of 66,000 units, only 2000 behind the first-place song by V6.
Not #1, but a tremendous achievement. Posts on 2channel claim that it is the highest sales ever by any anime-related song in its first week: GSD (Fiction Junction Yuuka) 45,064 2005/9/22 Nanoha StrikerS (Mizuki Nana) 38,538 2007/4/18 #2 Code Geass 24,494 2006/11/8 Mahou Sensei Negima 45,324 2005/5/11 #4 Haruhi ED 34,881 2006/5/10 #5 Kotoko's Hayate OP came in at #7, with sales of 20,000, which isn't too shabby either.
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2007-05-29, 10:18 | Link #150 | |
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Looks like the distributors learned their lesson from Hare Hare Yukai (Haruhi ED) selling out too rapidly and produced plenty in reserves just to allow the song to last that little bit longer in the chart. http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/ As of writing, the current weekly chart is still up to May 28th, hopefully we'll see it pop into 2nd place come next week's chart. |
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2007-05-29, 11:39 | Link #151 |
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So the secret to success is the dance opening then. Get ready folks because we are about to see a whole lot of fidgeting and flailing in the future. I'm moving to Japan to compose my own dance opening (only this time the girls are in bikinis in the video), get 2channel all fired up by using my legendary charisma and get rich and smash all the records. I can see it now, the universal formula, the equation.....for success.... hold on it's coming to me....Lolis.....dancing....a popular Seiyuu....hnnngg....focus...focus...a....n....d... ...power of suggestion towards consumers! *Takes off out the door so fast it creates a wind tunnel in the hallway* I'm Off to Japan!
Seriously though, something doesn't seem right about those numbers, I was counting 5000 copies a day usually at it's peak and if you multiply that by 7 you get about 35000+ maximum (but you'd also know what it was lower than on the day's it was below the #3 mark and it didn't report the sales). Unless I'm forgetting the numbers on the first day and they were so high it was crazy, but it's to late to go back and the numbers seem low now. I'm also wondering if they aren't reporting all the numbers sold on the daily charts because for yesterday the numbers seem really low. V6's number of units sold for the week also looks far to high compared to the number of units they were selling daily. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2007-05-29 at 11:53. |
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2007-05-30, 22:10 | Link #156 | |
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And I think the success of this OP shows that, whatever his deficiencies as an overall director, Yamamoto Yutaka really knows how to make OP/ED animations. Like everything else, it's not as easy as some might think.
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2007-05-31, 00:22 | Link #157 | |
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Also I hope he doesn't get lazy now that he's discovered the Key to Success and that he will attempt to evolve his style or try other things if he ever gets another shot. |
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2007-05-31, 00:38 | Link #158 | |
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On top of that, could you do any better? |
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2007-05-31, 00:57 | Link #159 | |
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A conspiracy theory by the way would be something like this...Ahem: 2channel representatives and KyoAni employees met in secret to organize the success of Motteke Sailor Fuku. The 2channel representatives promised to organize a mass buying frenzy and a campaign to influence the sales of the Single by posting about it on the message board and spreading the word among peers. In return KyoAni promised to give them a 10% cut off the top of the profits made from the sales of Motteke Sailor Fuku. As a result the sales of Motteke Sailor Fuku were far higher than they would have been otherwise. That's a conspiracy theory. Could I do better? I'm in no position to do better, I have no sponsor, no studio, no access to singers. I can't do jack all because I'm not even in the industry. I do know enough about these things though to give an opinion on them as I am a social sciences graduate who has studied business, economics, sociology and psychology. If you look at the culture of Japanese music right now, Idol singers are at the apex of popular music. Kyoto Animation had the most popular idol singer on staff for this project and knew exactly how to put her to use. Plus they knew how popular the Hare Hare Yukai meme was, so with a second chance at gaining a superhit they did another dance theme. They of course were right. Honestly, anybody could have seen the success of this song coming the second it was proposed if they looked at the popular music culture, the name recognition and popular association the song had in its arsenal, but it couldn't have worked as well without all three of those pieces. If you want to see this as a conspiracy theory be my guess, but I prefer to call it an examination of circumstances. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2007-05-31 at 01:14. |
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