Full list. 196 DVD threshold, 207 BD.
2015 11/09 – 11/15 Anime DVD List
Anime Rank | All Rank | Last Rank | Week Sales | Total Sales | #Wks | Title |
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1 | 4 | 3 | 2,231 | 6,567 | 2 | Crayon Shin-chan Ora no Hikkoshi Monogatari Saboten Daishuugeki |
4 | 15 | 1 | 1,158 | 8,029 | 2 | Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love Revolutions v5 |
5 | 19 | 30 | 1,038 | 24,426 | 6 | Dragonball Z Fukkatsu no F RE |
8 | 30 | 762 | 762 | 1 | Working!!! v4 | |
10 | 60 | 65 | 502 | 131,877 | 19 | Youkai Watch: Tanjou no Himitsu da Nyan! |
11 | 71 | 410 | 410 | 1 | K Return of Kings v1 | |
12 | 76 | 383 | 383 | 1 | K Return of Kings v2 | |
13 | 83 | 352 | 352 | 1 | World Trigger v9 | |
14 | 100 | 89 | 308 | 45,347 | 70 | Tonari no Totoro (2014 re-release) |
15 | 307 | 307 | 1 | Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal v13 | ||
19 | 291 | 291 | 1 | Cyborg 009 vs Devilman v1 | ||
20 | 100 | 289 | 3,468 | 4 | ONE PIECE Log Collection Special 'Jidaigeki' | |
22 | 258 | 8,282 | 15 | Doraemon Nobita no Space Heroes | ||
24 | 217 | 8,181 | 8 | Youkai Watch v3 | ||
26 | 207 | 11,296 | 6 | Dragonball Z Fukkatsu no F LE | ||
27 | 42 | 201 | 6,328 | 3 | Kuroko no Basuke 3rd Season v7 | |
29 | 198 | 5,467 | 3 | Hetalia The World Twinkle v1 (Animate LE) |
Other releases (concerts etc) | ||||||
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61 | 499 | 499 | 1 | Soreike! Anpanman Happy Otanjoubi Series December | ||
77 | 379 | 1,694 | 2 | Ono Daisuke / Kondou Takayuki no Yume Bouken ~Drago & Tiger~ Fandisc v3 |
2015 11/09 – 11/15 Anime BD List
Anime Rank | All Rank | Last Rank | Week Sales | Total Sales | #Wks | Title |
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1 | 6 | 3,022 | 3,022 | 1 | Working!!! v4 | |
2 | 7 | 2,922 | 2,922 | 1 | K Return of Kings v1 | |
3 | 8 | 2,664 | 2,664 | 1 | K Return of Kings v2 | |
4 | 15 | 4 | 2,276 | 15,089 | 2 | Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love Revolutions v5 |
5 | 19 | 1,525 | 1,525 | 1 | Cyborg 009 vs Devilman BD Box LE | |
6 | 23 | 1,075 | 1,075 | 1 | Ninin ga Shinobuden BD Box | |
8 | 26 | 895 | 895 | 1 | Robot Girls Z Plus | |
9 | 31 | 818 | 818 | 1 | World Trigger v9 | |
11 | 38 | 23 | 694 | 16,313 | 3 | Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX v2 |
13 | 41 | 22 | 672 | 20,384 | 3 | Code Geass Boukoku no Akito v4 |
15 | 45 | 574 | 574 | 1 | Cyborg 009 1979 BD Box v2 | |
16 | 46 | 563 | 563 | 1 | Cyborg 009 vs Devilman BD Box RE | |
17 | 49 | 489 | 489 | 1 | Midoriyama Koukou Koushien-hen BD Box | |
18 | 50 | 35 | 474 | 11,031 | 3 | Koukaku Kidoutai New Movie |
20 | 57 | 9 | 411 | 3,376 | 2 | Initial D Legend 2 -Tousou- LE |
58 | 89 | 410 | 5,741 | 6 | Kill Me Baby BD Box | |
65 | 85 | 355 | 11,048 | 6 | Dragonball Z Fukkatsu no F RE | |
69 | 326 | 326 | 1 | Choujiku Seiki Orguss 02 | ||
84 | 28 | 262 | 1,282 | 2 | Crayon Shin-chan Ora no Hikkoshi Monogatari Saboten Daishuugeki | |
86 | 11 | 250 | 2,683 | 2 | To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S BD Box | |
93 | 161 | 224 | 14,205 | 6 | Dragonball Z Fukkatsu no F LE | |
97 | 17 | 213 | 1,639 | 2 | Initial D Legend 2 -Tousou- RE | |
99 | 157 | 208 | 35,548 | 6 | Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works Part II |
Other releases (concerts etc) | ||||||
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21 | 1,125 | 1,125 | 1 | Yuuki Aoi Premier! @ Maihama Ampitheater | ||
53 | 6 | 446 | 4,177 | 2 | Hanazawa Kana Live Avenue: Hanazawa Kana in Budoukan | |
54 | 441 | 441 | 1 | Tadokoro Azusa One Man Live 2014 -Beyond Myself!- | ||
83 | 147 | 264 | 57,268 | 7 | Love Live! μ's Go→Go! LoveLive! 2015 ~Dream Sensation!~ BD Memorial Box |
Fall update:
K s2 v1 sells 2922/410, total 3,332.
v2 sells 2664/383, total 3,047. Ouch, s1 averaged around 8k but s2 will do about 3k. Big time drop.
Summer update:
Working s3 v4 sells 3022/762, total 3,784.
Symphogear s3 v2 adds 694 BDs, total 18,131.
Hetalia s4 v1 adds 198 DVDs, total 5,467.
Past seasons:
Robot Girls Z s2 sells 895/178, total 1,073. DVDs from extended. One-shot release. Down from 2k s1.
Sailor Moon v9, final volume, sells 307 DVDs, total 2,717 with last month’s BDs. Series average: 3,034.
World Trigger v9 sells 818/352, total 1,170.
Fate UBW s2 adds 208, total 35,548 in wk6, meaning it added 179 in wk5.
Utapri s3 v5 adds 2276/1158, total 23,118. 37k average with one to go.
Kurobas s3 v7 adds 201 DVDs, total 12,169.
OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
Ninin ga Shinobuden BD Box sells 1,075.
Railgun S BD Box adds 250, total 2,683.
Upcoming Releases for 2015 11/16 – 11/22 Anime DVD List
2015/11/18 Baby Step 2nd Series DVD Box v2
2015/11/18 Chaos Dragon v3
2015/11/18 Diamond no Ace Inajitsusen v3
2015/11/18 Diamond no Ace The LIVE
2015/11/18 Hibike! Euphonium v6
2015/11/18 Himouto! Umaru-chan v3
2015/11/18 Jitsu wa Watashi wa v3
2015/11/18 Kekkai Sensen v6
2015/11/18 Kyokai no Rinne v5
2015/11/18 Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou v3
2015/11/18 Psycho-Pass -All Star Realact-
2015/11/18 Re-Kan! v5
2015/11/18 Rokka no Yuusha v3
2015/11/18 Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula BD Box
2015/11/18 Yowamushi Pedal Special Event ~Le Tour De Yowapeda 2015~
2015/11/18 Yuru Yuri Live Event Nanamori Chuu♪Yagai Fes
2015/11/18 Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi!+
2015/11/18 YuuGiOu ARC-V v17
2015/11/20 Million Doll
The strange thing is that World Trigger ssold out in amazon.
What are you talking about? It’s in stock at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B010PQN5CI/
1st week sales seem in line with previous volumes, so don’t think there is any stock issues anywhere else.
○ワールドトリガー 【全 巻】
巻数 初動 2週計 発売日
BD(DVD) BD(DVD)
01巻 *,767(*,583) 1,232(*,***) 15.03.13 ※合計 1,815枚
02巻 *,854(*,414) 1,095(*,***) 15.04.08 ※合計 1,509枚
03巻 *,963(*,445) 1,136(*,***) 15.05.13 ※合計 1,581枚
04巻 1,024(*,442) *,***(*,***) 15.06.10 ※合計 1,466枚
05巻 1,155(*,468) *,***(*,***) 15.07.08 ※合計 1,623枚
06巻 1,035(*,417) *,***(*,***) 15.08.05 ※合計 1,452枚
07巻 *,996(*,406) *,***(*,***) 15.09.09 ※合計 1,402枚
08巻 *,984(*,399) *,***(*,***) 15.10.07 ※合計 1,383枚
09巻 *,818(*,352) *,***(*,***) 15.11.11
Right now yes. But for 2-3 days it was sold out.
As I said, the 1st week sales are in line with previous volumes. Did this particular volume have a highly sought out bonus bundled? If it didn’t, then this 2-3 days “stock outage” is probably minuscule.
Slow week.
That first volume of Hetalia will just not let go though.
K drop is sad, because it would have been a lot of fun to have another season to explore the lore. It makes sense though because this season has been quite slow with everything.
K has so much merch and other media though. Does it really need outstanding bd sales to remain viable?
No, but “remaining viable as a franchise” and “getting more anime seasons” aren’t necessarily synonymous. It may do just as well with manga and live events and drama CDs and whatever else its fans enjoy without requiring the expense and risk of a full TV anime adaptation that’s unlikely do do better than mediocre disc sales.
But as always, there are countless hidden factors in play in these decisions.
Oh wow, Cyborg 009 vs Devilman did better than both RGZ and Plus despite receiving barely any advertisement at all. 2000+ copies in this day and age for a Go Nagai anime? Madness! Well, I guess Cyborg 009 obviously helped to boost sales up a bit.
There is no need to turn Devilman into moe now, like they did with Mazinger.
It’s really not an either/or thing. You can have both.
Hi, are there any rough estimates for Rakudai Kishi and Asterisk War?
Thanks for your answers!
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Low for both. Stalker’s current estimates are 1,746 for Asterisk and 2,718 for Rakudai Kishi. As usual, it’s not uncommon for that to swing 30% in either direction (sometimes more) depending on how biased their sales are for or against Amazon Japan.
Thanks!! If you have a little bit more time, what are the current estimates for Valkyrie Drive, Owari no Seraph, Testament Burst, Sakurako-san and Anti-Magic Akademy? :)
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I remember reading from one of torisunanohokori’s research that sequel drop averages around 30%, but I can’t find the article right now. It might be anecdotal, but had recent drops of reboots/sequels seems atypically severe? Would that indicate the industry’s recent bout of belated sequels haven’t pay off?
I also looked at the figures last year, but stopped updating it in April 2015:
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1299713
From a sample size of 110 TV Anime, 23 (20.91%) saw increases in sales, while 87 (79.09%) experienced drops in sales. From the 87 TV Anime to experience drops in sales, 30~35% drop seems to be the norm.
Season 1 → Season 2:
Drop Range / Distribution
*0.1%~*9.9%: *5/87 (*5.7%)
10.0%~19.9%: 17/87 (19.5%)
20.0%~29.9%: 14/87 (16.1%)
30.0%~39.9%: 20/87 (23.0%)
40.0%~49.9%: 12/87 (13.8%)
50.0%~59.9%: 12/87 (13.8%)
60.0%~69.9%: *5/87 (*5.7%)
70.0%~79.9%: *0/87 (*0.0%)
80.0%~89.9%: *2/87 (*2.3%)
90.0%~99.9%: *1/87 (*1.3%)
Median: 32.5% drop
Average: 34.3% drop
Std Dev: 18.3%
Something else that’s interesting is the number of TV Anime now airing per year. I just think the anime market is so saturated, that only the middle/upper tier of anime will see increases in sales. Many will see moderate to severe drops in sales, since buyers are just so spread out nowadays.
○TVアニメ本数の推移 1990年以降
1990 *50
1991 *39
1992 *62
1993 *30
1994 *38
1995 *40
1996 *46
1997 *50
1998 *82
1999 *89
2000 *64
2001 *95
2002 *95
2003 111
2004 128
2005 127
2006 181
2007 159
2008 147
2009 146
2010 130
2011 138
2012 155
2013 187
2014 210
AJA’s tv anime count shows the same trend but slightly higher overall count:
http://imgur.com/vypZ4du
I think that’s because your list didn’t include some kids programming that AJA counted, but I haven’t checked:
http://aja.gr.jp/?wpdmdl=739
If you were to try to guess though, would you say its a timing issue (are the recent sequels later?) or saturation issue?
I’m not sure if I can back it up with data, but to me, it seems like the more time that has passed since a sequel, the more likely it is to have a significant drop. Maybe that’s totally wrong or not provable, but that’s the sense I’ve gotten. The number of series may be a factor too, but IDK. Seems like you’d have to lose a significant amount of interest/affection towards it to not buy the sequel, which seems like what would happen if either you don’t like the sequel or its been a long time and you’ve lost interest or don’t like it as much anymore.
Saturation would saw a more generalized effect, and averages should drop across the board. Averages has dropped, but not enough to explain the entire sequel drop issue. I think timing is a significant factor. Some franchises are simply past their prime. But we really can’t say anything definitive without research and data crunching (pokes torisunanohokori).
Another possibility, belated sequels are by definition series that weren’t first pick for continuation, so when they do get continuations they predictably perform worse financially. The second crop aren’t worth as much as the first. We saw an similar “tapping out” effect before whenever anime found a new medium as source material, like light novels, visual novels, 4komas, and the coming web novel wave. The top of the genre gets adaptions first and become predicable hits, then the remainder finds less and less success.
The other thing we should consider is how many of us were even paying really close attention to sales more than a few years ago? I started doing this over 6 years ago, but only intensely enough to really notice these things maybe 4 or less years ago. And it happens that a number of titles I care about have encountered this, so I’m naturally going to make a bigger deal out of those.
It’d still be interesting to crunch the numbers but it could just be a matter of perspective.
I do think oversaturation is potentially an issue, but I don’t think it’s manifesting via enhanced sequel drops. What we’ve seen through the first 3 quarters of 2015 doesn’t really mesh with that notion.
When I measured the distribution of drop-off percentages, excluding reboots that changed around the main cast or staff, it was about 20%±31%. We could use Ejc’s figure of 34±18% too. Either way a 50%+ drop would be the threshold for abnormality.
Excluding Nagato Yuki-chan, Aquarion Logos, and Deremas, I count have a total of 30 sequels that aired through the first 3 quarters of 2015. Of those, only 5 experienced abnormally large drops:
Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken 2 Sure-me
Durarara!! x2 Shou
Gatchaman Crowds: Insight
Junjou Romantica 3
Working!!!
Insight is a highly irregular case, since it went from an s1 box release format to singles for s2. Even including that, though, there are exactly 5/30=1/6 shows in that abnormal range, or 16.66% of the total. That is *exactly* how much of the total you’d expect one tail of a standard deviation to have. Not really an exceptional year in that regard.
3 of those 5 are series are sequels that took more than 3+ years to get made, pretty strongly corroborating the idea that those delays hurt.
What I think might be happening instead is a predisposition towards bigger hits (stuff like the UtaPri/LL/Symphogear sequel bumps) and less room in the mid-tier market, plus a tougher environment for newer shows to break into. For example, only 4/10 10k shows aired in 2015 were from franchises new to animation. That’s counting Deremas, and assuming Overlord holds up over the next 4 volumes. Right now we’re looking at, what, Osomatsu/Owarimonogatari as the shoo-ins for fall? So we might end up with 5/12. Contrast that with 7/12 from 2014, 7/13 from 2013, 9/14 from 2012, 11/15 from 2011. That’s been a consistent downward trend which seems to indicate a more sequel-dominated top of the market (at least as far as disk sales go).
Updated for the full list.
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http://www.phileweb.com/ranking/cd-top20/
Phile Web has now ceased posting the Soundscan numbers, so if Oricon screws up and does not fix their mistakes, then we have no other numbers to fall back on. That’s assuming some other place doesn’t pop-up for the Soundscan numbers.
Well, I guess the only time we’ve used them (long-term) is G Reco v1 but it’s still a shame to see one less source.
Checked the extended rankings for this week. About 40 DVDs and 90 BDs were new or added a week of ranking.
Updated volume 1s
13,321 – Overlord
9,654 – Charlotte
7,150 – Prison School
6,884 – TLR Darkness s2
1,073 – Robot Girls Z Plus
Updated averages for finished shows
10,019 – Kimiuso
1,073 – Robot Girls Z Plus
Updated BD boxes/re-releases
n/a
Updated films/OVAs/etc
8,691 – Haikyuu recap movie
8,446 – Kyoukai no Kanata movie 2
1,667 – Wake Up Girls movie 2