Anime DVD/BD Sales in Japan

[10k+ list | By Studio | By Year | By Publisher | Updates/Corrections]

2000-Present: 10,000+ Sellers
All TV anime series from 2000 until now that have averaged at least 10,000 across all volumes will be listed.

Updated as of 2018-10-28

Note: Gross sales in yen are calculated using the MSRP without sales tax as of April 8, 2014. So you may see some numbers dropped, but given the tax rate change in April 2014, I had to convert everything to pre-tax for fairness.

Note: Air is 23,761 if you include Air in Summer. I tend not to add specials if not released in the same volume as core series episodes, though these did air on TV. Could go either way.

Note: Both iDOLM@STER seasons are a tally of the standalone DVD/BDs plus the Gravure For You game+BD bundles. For season one, Vol. 1 came with the full PS3 game which sold 80-100k, which cannot realistically be counted all as anime sales, sales are being calculated as follows: Vol. 1-9 standalone DVD avg + Vol. 1-9 standalone BD avg + Vol. 2-9 G4U bundle avg. Cinderella Girls is just standalone avg + G4U avg.

Note: Code Geass (season 1) tally no longer includes a 5,185 BD average (v1-4, v5-9 did not rank as only yearly lists were available for BDs back then and they didn’t make the cut). The BDs were not released simultaneously with the DVD release, as BDs weren’t very common at the time. Individual BD volumes matching the DVD release were released starting 11 months after the last DVD volume. Before, I included it the BDs in the total because it seemed like an outlier, but now that I have a column for re-release sales, I think it’s more appropriate to put it there. This also aligns with how other sites count the series.

Breakdown by Publisher

Breakdown by Studio

Breakdown by Year

Updates and corrections
2018/09/09: New Entry – Osomatsu-san Season 2
2018/07/21: New Entry – Sora Yori mo Tooi Basho
2018/07/07: New Entry – Yurucamp
2018/05/22: New Entry – IDOLiSH7
2018/03/26: New Entry – THE IDOLM@STER SideM
2018/03/18: Correction – Removed the three Bleach seasons; just tracking three seasons as normal shows and the rest as long-running was a weird distinction to make purely on the basis of the first three hitting 10k.
2018/02/11: New Entry – Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season
2018/01/27: New Entry – Macross Delta
2017/12/25: New Entry – Owarimonogatari Season 2
2017/11/25: New Entry – Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ
2017/10/19: New Entry – Katsugeki Touken Ranbu
2017/08/19: New Entry – Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 2
2017/07/16: New Entry – THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Gekijou
2017/07/16: New Entry – Granblue Fantasy The Animation
2017/05/12: New Entry – Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou
2017/04/24: New Entry – Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love Legend Star
2017/03/06: New Entry – Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
2017/03/06: New Entry – Yuuri!!! on Ice
2017/03/06: New Entry – Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
2017/01/15: New Entry – Drifters
2016/12/10: New Entry – Love Live! Sunshine!!
2016/08/08: New Entry – Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
2016/07/16: New Entry – Koyomimonogatari
2016/07/01: New Entry – One Punch Man
2016/05/14: New Entry – Osomatsu-san
2016/04/25: Correction – Fixed Maria-sama ga Miteru year from 2008 to 2004. Fixed Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso from 2012 to 2014.
2016/02/28: New Entry – Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka??
2016/02/28: New Entry – Owarimonogatari
2016/02/28: New Entry – Haikyuu!! Second Season
2016/01/09: New Entry – Overlord
2016/01/09: New Entry – Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
2015/12/21: New Entry – Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works Part II
2015/11/27: New Entry – Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Zoku
2015/11/27: New Entry – Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken Stardust Crusaders Egypt-hen
2015/11/15: New Entry – Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
2015/10/10: Feature added – Distinguished between publisher and distributor. Publisher (発売元) now used for what used to be the distributor (販売元) table.
2015/10/10: New Entry – Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX
2015/08/19: Feature added – Re-releases cleaned up, column added for initial + re-release Total.
2015/07/10: New Entry – Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love Revolutions
2015/07/10: New Entry – Kekkai Sensen
2015/05/10: New Entry – Kuroko no Basuke 3rd Season
2015/05/10: New Entry – THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls-, with caveats noted below the main list.
2015/04/04: New Entry – Kantai Collection -Kancolle-
2015/04/04: New Entry – Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works
2015/04/04: New Entry – Shirobako
2015/02/21: New Entry – Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
2015/02/21: New Entry – Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
2015/02/03: New Entry – High School DxD
2015/02/01: New Entry – Maria-sama ga Miteru
2015/02/01: New Entry – Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
2015/02/01: New Entry – My-HiME
2015/02/01: New Entry – Aa Megami-sama
2015/02/01: New Entry – Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru
2015/01/12: New Entry – Sword Art Online II
2015/01/12: New Entry – Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken Stardust Crusaders
2015/01/12: New Entry – Free! -Eternal Summer-
2015/01/12: New Entry – Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.
2015/01/12: New Entry – Hyouka
2015/01/12: New Entry – Initial D Fifth Stage
2014/11/16: New Entry – Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?
2014/10/05: New Entry – Haikyuu!!
2014/10/05: New Entry – Love Live! 2nd Season
2014/07/26: New Entry – Kill La Kill
2014/07/10: New Entry – Hoozuki no Reitetsu
2014/02/06: New Entry – Kuroko no Basuke 2nd Season
2013/12/29: New Entry – Hataraku Maou-sama!
2013/11/07: New Entry – Infinite Stratos 2
2013/10/31: New Entry – Monogatari Series Second Season
2013/09/19: New Entry – Free!
2013/08/16: New Entry – Little Busters!
2013/07/30: New Entry – To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S
2013/07/25: New Entry – Shingeki no Kyojin
2013/07/02: New Entry – Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 2000%
2013/06/27: New Entry – Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. (season 2)
2013/06/26: Correction – Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s average corrected from 10,817 to 11,251.
2013/04/30: Dropped out – Gintama’ Enchousen
2013/04/27: New Entry – To Love-Ru Darkness
2013/03/28: New Entry – Love Live!
2013/02/07: New Entry – Gintama’ Enchousen
2013/02/05: New Entry – Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken
2013/01/10: New Entry – Girls und Panzer
2013/01/07: New Entry – Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
2012/12/10: New Entry – Fate/Zero Second Season, split off from part I.
2012/11/22: Feature added – Volume totals.
2012/11/21: Feature added – Sum total of re-releases added after the initial sales column. These are not counted in the initial sales total and do not affect the ranking.
2012/11/21: Clarification – Code Geass decision reversed regarding later BDs.
2012/10/30: New Entry – Sword Art Online
2012/10/01: New Entry – Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II
2012/08/09: New Entry – Kuroko no Basuke
2012/05/01: New Entry – Nisemonogatari
2012/05/01: New Entry – Inu x Boku SS
2012/05/01: New Entry – Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
2012/04/13: Clarification – Code Geass clarification added to reflect its unusual DVD/BD situation.
2012/03/13: New Entry – Fate/Zero
2012/01/02: New Entry – The iDOLM@STER, with caveats noted below the main list.
2011/12/27: New Entry – Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon
2011/11/29: New Entry – Persona 4
2011/11/08: New Entry – Working’!!
2011/10/03: New Entry – Natsume Yuujin-chou San
2011/09/27: Feature added – Distributors added to list and breakdown.
2011/09/27: New Entry – Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000%
2011/09/10: Correction – Love Hina’s average revised; VHS numbers were misread, DVD numbers initially used from incorrectly calculated source. New average is DVD-only, 23,497.
2011/08/02: New Entry – Gintama’
2011/07/05: New Entry – Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai
2011/06/28: Dropped out – Star Driver Kagayaki no Takuto
2011/06/28: New Entry – Ao no Exorcist
2011/06/28: New Entry – Steins;Gate
2011/06/05: Correction – Chobits (10,998 DVD) was missing.
2011/06/05: Correction – Love Hina‘s average (20,584 DVD + 2,970 VHS) revised to include VHS.
2011/06/04: Correction – Toshokan Sensou (10,046 DVD) was missing.
2011/06/02: New Entry – Tiger & Bunny
2011/05/12: New Entry – Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
2011/04/07: New Entry – Infinite Stratos