Anime DVD/BD Sales in Japan

Moral of the story this week is that Animate is still huge, but only a bit more huge than Amazon-exclusive artboxes, which skew estimates like crazy.

Spring update:
Kekkaisen v1 sells 12171/4784, total 16,955. The underestimation ended up being 9% on DVD and 5.5% on BD. Not much above the estimate, Amazon exclusive box and Animate ranking just about cancelled each other out, though Animate was a little stronger. Unlike with something such as Eupho below, here you *do* want to take the Amazon edition estimate seriously because it stayed orderable and made up a large portion of the estimate – a significant majority in fact. Boxes are powerful. I expect this to pass 20k eventually. As for what the event ticket drop will be? Whoooooooo knoooooooows?

Euphonium v1 sells 5683/872, total 6,555. Estimate was spot on, so HMV once again didn’t amount to anything (other than a small correction for Amazon bias I guess). I normally ignore Amazon editions but if you include them then it’s 2.2% underestimated on DVD and 4.8% overestimated on BD. The latter is misleading though, because as I said Amazon editions really shouldn’t be considered when they’re not a big portion of the estimate. Granted, the KyoAni shop seems to be an increasingly favored buying destination so who knows how many discs we are, once again, losing from the tally to the fact that they don’t report to Oricon and never will. I think once we have v2wk2 sales we’ll have a pretty clear idea of an average for this one. KyoAni shows tend to be very consistent, and by then we’ll also knows whether the last two episodes caused it to pick up or lose steam. Certainly they’re going to decide whether I import, not that Oricon would count me or anyone outside of Japan anyway of course.

Re-Kan! v1 sells 592/248, total 840. Deader than the ghosts in the show, but maybe not quite as dead as the hideous, lifeless, sterile, awful background art.

Danna s2 sells 453 BDs, DVDs do not rank. One-shot release. This is actually out on BD before the show has finished airing. No station has aired episode 13 yet but here it is, fully released on 6/19. I’m not sure I’ve seen that happen before.

Winter update:
Death Parade sells 923 BDs, DVDs do not rank. One-shot BD box so it’ll cross 1k even if DVDs don’t make the extendeds but that’s about all she wrote.

Fafner v4 sells 5796/793, total 6,589.

Boueibu v4 sells 3922/2260, total 6,182. It’s nuts how consistent this has been, after a modest event ticket drop it’s gone 6435 > 6443 > 6182 (likely on track for about 6500). v2-3 have been verrrrrrrry wk1 front-loaded, like 90% of sales in wk1, so I only expect this vol to add a few hundred in the extended rankings next week too.

Rolling Girls v4 sells 1,059 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Milky TD v4 sells 568 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Sengoku Musou v4 sells 254/243, total 497.

Kurobas s3 v4 adds 215/507, total 20,066. Two volumes over 20k is already more than s2 did, although s2 had three that were exceptionally close, including one at 19,981.

Jojo s3 v2 adds 229 BDs, total 9,844.

Saekano v4 adds 205 BDs, total 8,288.

Past seasons:
Yowapedal s2 v6 sells 2597/2342, total 4,939.

Garo v5 sells 325 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Sailor Moon v9 adds 234 BDs, total 2,215.

OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
Nyaruko-san F OVA sells 3,862 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Oregairu s1 BD Box adds 204, total 8,238 in wk16.

Upcoming Releases for 2015 06/22 – 06/28 Anime DVD List
2015/06/24 Akatsuki no Yona v2
2015/06/24 Aldnoah Zero 2nd Season v4 (v9)
2015/06/24 Angel Beats! BD Box
2015/06/24 Awuarion EVOL BD Box
2015/06/24 Bakusou Kyoudai Let’s & Go!! MAX BD Box
2015/06/24 Bakusou Kyoudai Let’s & Go!! Movie EGP
2015/06/24 Crossange v7
2015/06/24 Dog Days” v4
2015/06/24 Dragon Collection v6
2015/06/24 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka v1
2015/06/24 Durarara!! x2 Shou v5
2015/06/24 Gintama BD Box v4
2015/06/24 Gunslinger Stratos v2
2015/06/24 Hello!! Kin-iro Mosaic v1
2015/06/24 Hero Bank v11
2015/06/24 Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume EX v3
2015/06/24 Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume EX v4
2015/06/24 Houkago no Pleiades v1
2015/06/24 Jarinko Chie BD Box
2015/06/24 Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken Stardust Crusaders: Egypt-hen v3
2015/06/24 Juuou Mujin no Fafnir v4
2015/06/24 K Return of Kings Prelude -Come Back- Fandisc
2015/06/24 Koufuku Graffiti v3
2015/06/24 Log Horizon 2nd Series v6
2015/06/24 Magic Kaito 1412 BD Box v2
2015/06/24 Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku v1
2015/06/24 Mouretsu Pirates BD Box
2015/06/24 Nanatsu no Taizai v6
2015/06/24 Ninja Slayer From Animation v1
2015/06/24 Nisekoi: v1
2015/06/24 Ore Monogatari!! v1
2015/06/24 Owari no Seraph v1
2015/06/24 Plastic Memories v1
2015/06/24 Seiken Tsukai no World Break v4
2015/06/24 selector spread WIXOSS v3
2015/06/24 Shgatsu wa Kimi no Uso v5
2015/06/24 Show By Rock!! v1
2015/06/24 Sword Art Online II v9
2015/06/24 Terraformars v7
2015/06/24 Urusei Yatsura Movie BD Box
2015/06/24 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Zoku v1
2015/06/24 Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo v1
2015/06/24 Yoru no Yatterman
2015/06/24 Yurikuma Arashi v4
2015/06/25 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls v2
2015/06/26 Amagi Brilliant Park v7
2015/06/26 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu v4
2015/06/26 Code Geass Boukoku no Akito v3
2015/06/26 Gundam Build Fighers Try BD Box v2
2015/06/26 Gundam Build Fighers Try DVD v7
2015/06/26 Gundam G no Reconquista v7
2015/06/26 Isuca v4
2015/06/26 Junjou Romantica BD Box
2015/06/26 Junketsu no Maria v4
2015/06/26 Kantai Collection -Kancolle- v4
2015/06/26 Kuroko no Basuke 3rd Season v3
2015/06/26 Meitantei Conan Treasured Selection v7
2015/06/26 Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu v1
2015/06/26 Ninku BD Box v1
2015/06/26 Omoide no Anime Library v37
2015/06/26 Omoide no Anime Library v38
2015/06/26 Re: Hamatora Fes 2015 Live Event
2015/06/26 Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama OVA vs Genius10 v5
2015/06/26 Shinmai Maou no Testament v4
2015/06/26 Sora no Method v6
2015/06/26 Tokyo Ghoul √A v4
2015/06/26 Triage X v1
2015/06/26 Wake Up Girls! 1st Live Tour

15 v1s, a ton of heavy hitters, a ton of BD boxes, a ton of tons. Prepare for like half these v1s to miss the prelims and to wait for full or extended lists for a lot of this week’s wk2s. I kinda hate overloaded weeks like this.

Note that Yamada-kun is for the singles release, which literally nobody is going to buy. The few copies that show will sell are going to come from the two six-episode boxes coming a bit later. These singles are more like REs I guess.