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Houbunsha Manga Time magazine family, anime adaptation sales
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This post isn’t driven by anything special, I just felt like compiling this for my own purposes and a quick discussion on twitter, and wanted to take advantage of the table format. A lot of my favorite shows come from the Manga Time family, so I’m quite interested in how they’re doing.

Updated as of 2018-03-18

Sales data for Houbunsha Manga Time Adaptations

Title Average Vol 1 Year Did I Watch? Did I Import? Has/Is Sequel Sequel Type Kirara Carat Forward Max Miracle Home Ongoing?
Hidamari Sketch 6,507 7,839 2007 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Doujin Work 490 500 2007 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Hidamari Sketch x365 8,687 10,026 2008 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
K-ON! 43,878 54,257 2009 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, Movie ✔ ✔
Kanamemo 1,218 1,441 2009 ✔ ✔
GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class 4,904 5,281 2009 ✔ ✔ OVA ✔
Hidamari Sketch x☆☆☆ 8,848 9,361 2010 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
K-ON!! 39,472 43,904 2010 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, Movie ✔ ✔
Yumekui Merry [3] 2,559 5,585 2011 ✔ ✔ ✔
A Channel 5,515 6,831 2011 ✔ ✔ OVA ✔
Kill Me Baby [1] 987 686 2012 ✔ ✔ OVA ✔
Acchi Kocchi 2,321 2,520 2012 ✔ ✔ ✔
Hidamari Sketch xHoneycomb 7,530 9,975 2012 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Yuyushiki 3,334 3,511 2013 ✔ ✔ ✔ OVA ✔
Kin-iro Mosaic 6,766 8,568 2013 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Love Lab [2] 3,027 5,584 2013 ✔
Sakura Trick 2,373 3,183 2014 ✔ ✔ ✔
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? 11,195 12,996 2014 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Hanayamata 3,570 5,157 2014 ✔ ✔ ✔
Koufuku Graffiti 1,650 2,022 2015 ✔ ✔ ✔
Hello!! Kin-iro Mosaic 5,315 7,130 2015 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Gakkou Gurashi! 2,765 3,751 2015 ✔ ✔ ✔
Joukamachi no Dandelion 1,842 2,502 2015 ✔
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?? 12,260 16,199 2015 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Anne Happy 1,106 1,446 2016 ✔ ✔ ✔
Sansha Sanyou 2,140 3,338 2016 ✔ ✔ ✔
New Game! 5,886 7,415 2016 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Stella no Mahou 670 788 2016 ✔ ✔ ✔
Urara Meirochou 878 1,059 2017 ✔ ✔ ✔
New Game!! 4,831 3,636 2017 ✔ ✔ ✔ TV, OVA ✔
Blend S 3,885 3,342 2017 ✔ 3 of 6

[1] Kill Me Baby had an extraordinarily successful boxset compared to its singles run. The BD box sold 4,907, which is nearly 5 times the sales of the singles. The caveat is that it was a very cheap boxset of only ¥16k, but that’s still ¥78.5m, which is more than double what the DVD/BD singles grossed.
[2] Love Lab is the lone representative from Manga Home, which is also by Houbunsha but not in the Kirara lineup. It’s similar enough to the Kirara adaptations that I’m including it, and more to the point it’s the only Home title to ever get a late night anime adaptation. It has far more in common with Kirara than anything else in Home from everything I’ve seeing.
[3] Yumekui Merry is also pretty out of place in the list as well if you ask me, in terms of tone and genre! But it’s in a Kirara publication, so no reason not to include it. It was the most marginal import of them all for me, I think I only ended up sticking with it because the character designs were too good. Nice posters in the BDs too.

Not Yet Released
YuruCamp (Forward)
Slow Start (Kirara)
Comic Girls (Max)
Harukana Receive (Forward)
Anima Yell (Carat)

As you can tell, I’ve imported quite a lot of these, and have watched almost all of them. Of the ones I have not imported:
• A Channel I wish I had and will if it gets a BD box.
• Kanamemo and GA I probably would have if I were importing when they aired.
• Doujin Work I liked but it was pre-import and too short/incomplete.
• Kill Me Baby I never finished, but I did watch about half.
• Love Lab, Joukamachi, and Blend S I never watched.

 
Houbunsha, the saviors of anime.

 
 
Bonus: Ultimatemegax put together the production committee members for these shows up through Urara Meirochou: Houbunsha Manga Time anime production committes

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  1. IceKirby says:
    March 18, 2018 at 1:34 PM

    A bit late, but Anima Yell (Manga Time Kirara Carat) is also getting an anime adaptation: https://myanimelist.net/news/53843162

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