Anime DVD/BD Sales in Japan

 

Sales are a little high-ish across the board so expect generally lower wk2s next week than may be otherwise expected, at least for some shows.

Summer update:
Symphogear s4 v1 sells 16233/2002, total 18,235. 2.1%/6.4% underestimated. Event ticket. Best v1wk1 of the franchise, by a hair. The event ticket came late in the season, but it certainly did its job. A lot of unknowns and the closeness of this to GX v1wk1 make it impossible to say if it’ll have a better average than GX or not. Could always be more front-loaded.

Pripri v1 sells 5422/215, ttoal 5,637. 10.6%/53.1% overestimated. Not really too overestimated, but I thought it was going to handily beat the estimates given how much of its late boost was after Stalker stopped estimating. We’ll have to see what the long tail and v2+ look like.

New Game s2 v1 sells 3866/558, total 4,424. 9.1% under/7.5% overestimated. Event ticket. While it came in slightly ahead of the estimates, this is still a disappointingly big drop (2k on s1v1wk1) for such an unarguably improved sequel. 4k average is probably the best it can hope for.

Hajimete no Gal v1 sells 1530/472, total 2,002. 4.0%/19.3% overestimated.

Gamers! v1 sells 1180/238, total 1,418. 22.2%/36.0% overestimated. Event ticket.

Vatican v1 sells 813/491, total 1,304. 244.5%/312.6% underestimated. Event ticket. Yes the estimation is hilarious, but very low sales + high price penalty can create such situations.

Netsuzou Trap v1 sells 394 BDs, DVDs do not rank. 28.2% overestimated. Event ticket.

Centaur no Nayami v1 sells 212 as a BD-only release. 37.8% overestmated. As subpar an adaptation as it was, this still doesn’t feel great. I love the source material so much and it’s a shame it didn’t get an anime with more effort. Buy the manga though [JP / EN], please!

Katsugeki Tourabu v3 sells 11,652. That’s… better than v2 event ticket v1, which was already oddly below non-ticket v1. It’s like the event ticket never even existed. For a series that makes so much money on the live component, this is still bewildering.
v2 adds 418 BDs, total 13,924 in wk6, meaning it added 440 in wk4-5.

Saiyuuki Reload Blast v2 sells 2337/1681, total 4,018.

Jigoku Shoujo s4 v2, final volume, sells 910 BDs, DVDs do not rank. Series average: 861.

Hitorijime v1 adds 511 DVDs, total 2,148.

Isekai Shokudou v1 adds 398 BDs, total 1,932. Assuming BDs rank at all, this is a big (well, relative to wk1) wk2.

v1s not ranked in either format:
2017/09/29 Jikan no Shihaisha v1

 
Spring update:
Tsuki ga Kirei sells 5509/451, total 5,960. 6.3%/58.2% underestimated. One-shot box. Event ticket. Half the normal price of a one cour anime, so this ends up being more like a series with a 3-3.5k average but given everything about today’s disc market… could be worse. Came in close to Stalker’s 5.5k penalized estimate, so the high price penalty still holds water. A unpenalized estimate would have been wildly high.

Saekano s2 v3 sells 6330/704, total 7,034.

Eromanga-sensei v4 sells 5691/700, total 6,391.

Natsume s6 v4 sells 3021/2093, total 5,114. Small boost over the other volumes (29% ahead of v3wk1) due to an event ticket.

sin Nanatai v4 sells 1989/499, total 2,488.

Asashic Records v4 sells 1436/437, total 1,873.

Haine v4 sells 666/856, total 1,522.

Sukasuka v4 sells 1,424 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Sword Oratoria v4 sells 1,331 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Hinako Note v3 sells 999 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Busou Shoujo v4 sells 791 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

Frame Arms v3 adds 451, total 9,997.

Bahamut s2 v1 adds 719 BDs, total 4,153.

Starmyu s2 v2 adds 462/322, total 3,882.

 
Past seasons:
Bang Dream v5 sells 3,564. BD-only release.

Demi-chan v7, final volume, sells 1,512 BDs, DVDs do not rank. Series average: 2,172. A little inflated since 638 of that is from the one time it ranked on DVD (w/the event ticket).

Rewrite s2 v6, final volume, sells 1,394 BDs, DVDs do not rank. Series average: 1,253.

Schoolgirl Strikers v7, final volume, sells 516 BDs, DVDs do not rank. Series average: 549.

 
OVAs, Movies, Boxsets etc:
SAO Ordinal Scale sells 89056/10126 BDs, 19599/6925 DVDs, total 125,706. All told only 10k below the estimate despite the massive bias towards the exclusive at Amazon. Strong rankings at Animate and elsewhere held it up, when it could have been a massive overestimation otherwise.

Kurobas Last Game sells 17433 BDs, 11693/4462 DVDs, total 33,588.

Zaregoto v8, final volume, sells 10508/1826, total 12,334.
v7 adds 554 BDs, total 14,007. Series average: 16,549.

Eureka Seven BD Box v2 sells 3,257. This is the second round of BD boxes, all told it’s sold almost 9.7k avg in BD boxes and 16,873 in re-releases total against a 9,426 singles average.

Dunbine BD Box v2 sells 2,128.

1st Gundam BD Box sells 1,995. This is the second BD box and millionth total re-release.

A Channel BD Box sells 1,334.

TLR Darkness s2 BD Box sells 780/176, total 956.

ChäoS;Child Movie sells 291 BDs, DVDs do not rank.

 

Upcoming Releases for 2017 10/02 – 10/08
2017/10/03 Aikatsu Stars! Hoshi no Tsubasa v1 BD
2017/10/03 Aikatsu Stars! Hoshi no Tsubasa v2 DVD
2017/10/03 Dragonball Super v8
2017/10/03 Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni Shomin Sample Toshite Gets Sareta Ken BD Box
2017/10/03 Tenshi no 3P! v1
2017/10/03 Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho v2
2017/10/03 Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho v3 (singles)
2017/10/04 Atom: The Beginning v2
2017/10/04 Bonobono v5
2017/10/04 Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. v2
2017/10/04 Joker Game (stage play)
2017/10/04 Koi to Uso v1
2017/10/04 Nana Maru San Batsu v2
2017/10/04 Naruto Shippuuden: Konoha Hiden – Shuugen Biyori v1
2017/10/04 ONE PIECE 19th Season: Whole Cake Island v2
2017/10/04 Tsugumomo v5
2017/10/04 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e v1
2017/10/06 Pripara Season3 v13