The release of the K-ON! Blu-ray edition has seen a new opening day sales record set, with the Blu-ray edition selling 33,000 copies, with a further 8,000 sales of the DVD edition, a total which makes it the best selling TV anime of all time, and one of the best selling anime titles ever.
The main contenders for TV anime opening day sales records are mecha anime:
Code Geass Volume 1: 36,634 (68,821 total)
Code Geass R2 Volume 1: 25,955 (59,041 total)
Macross Frontier Volume 1: 17,548 (64,981 total)
These kind of opening sales figures also fail to take into the longevity of a title’s sales, which can be impressive (Gundam Seed Destiny’s first volume sold 80,000 in total), though for many titles sales are concentrated on the opening day. How K-ON! will do in this respect remains to be seen.
Haruhi’s crown is also firmly crushed into the mud by Mio’s popularity: the greatest opening day DVD sales Haruhi ever enjoyed was about 31,000 (36,000 in total).
Needless to say, K-ON! was the top TV anime in recent weekly charts too, though anime movie DVD & BD editions, which can enjoy much higher sales levels than TV anime, such as Evangelion beat it easily.
Those unfamiliar with just how spectacular the Blu-ray version looks can see a comparison here.
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So now with Haruhi, Lucky Star and K-on Kyoto animation has a license to print money.
Not so sure about Haruhi anymore...
But people will eat up any shit made by Kyo-Ani.
K-On probably wouldn't have been as popular if some other studio animated it.
That's exactly it. Imagine if JC Staff made this. People would just dismiss as crap. Which it is.
By using excellent source material to build up such popularity for themselves, KyoAni can effectively air a static picture of Mio in a maid uniform for 22 minutes and have it sell thousands.
Which is about as much content as K-On ever had.
I lol'ed
Seriously though, it gives anime a bad name when crap like this turns out to be one of the best selling things ever. It really kills any argument that anime is any sort of deep and intense visual media.
But its not
It -can- be, which is the point.
But then we get crap like this and I feel like headdesking until I pass out.
Well, I like moe, but I like good storys even better. I seem to be in a minority with the second one, kinda sad...
Probably hardly anyone wants a compelling story anymore. Sucks oh well least i like moe as well.
"Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower." - Yogurt
I stopped caring about things being deep and intellectual. Now I just want what I watch to be entertaining, weather it be crazy 80's OVA's or the modern moe shows of now,
I agree with eon789 about it being all about merchandising.
If K-On! is the best selling anime ever, then maybe it'll convince KyoAni to do a second series. It worked for Family Guy and Futurama.
K-On let you know what you were getting into as soon as it started, and it was refreshing moe. Theres no point in criticising an anime for that. What it does it does great, what it doesn't hell a thousand different animes will fill.
For the most part though these animes tend to be disliked more by us Westerners. I suppose a western anime viewer's reasons to start going and watching the stuff must stem from different reasons than the large majority of the Japanese audience which grows up watching it. Or maybe they just like 2D girls more than us.
I enjoyed K-On! But not to the point where it should be the top one. Code Geass was better in my opinion.
Code Trainwreck Geass...? I still prefer the Mai frachise. Otome was a delicious trainwreck.
Chris says it right lol. K-on never does promise suspenseful mind fucking twister plot filled amazing action filled with deep philosophy about how we should view the world.
Theres other things for that.
I personally love that philosophy mind fuck stuff but if all i ever watched was that, life would be all about thought and hardly any fun. Moe serves its role very well and in this case K-on possibly is perfect as moe.
The perfect creation is one that does what it was supposed to do.
Dont really understand the JCstaff hate...
(if JC staff made it I wouldn't have dropped it)
I believe that k-on was great, i am a muso, a bassist to be precise, and left handed, so i think Mio is awesome, plus unless you understand japan then you will of course not like this anime... its pure awesomeness
Kaisos, you just shit
you talk like you know anything but you don't.
just like to comparing "sweet cake"(k-on) with "Chinnese Food"(bakemonogatri) is totally STUPID.
You don't like cake and you said it trash, just erase all cake over all the world.
Who th Fcuk you think you are?!?
I dont give a shit about kyoto animation trolling.
IF it's good i'ts good.. If it's bad it's bad
YOU KNOW WHAT?!? K_ON ANIME DOESNT EVENT HAVE PANTIES TO SHOW UP(replaces with bowl)!!!not like some anime who sell with panties,
Congratulations Anonymous for your english language skills you win a ticket to the bermuda triangle in a wooden raft.
Obvious troll is obvious
LOL
This made my day.
I lol'd. Hard. +2 for the trip.
his engrish is fine. just too much rage when his thoughts were translated to the keyboard though.
lulz
^ya we all have that little german kid in all of us
I like Anime that sells with panties. LOL
Haruhi is still going to make shitloads of money for them. They will probably release the endless eight on 4 discs but include shitloads of "specials" that the Otaku faggots will eat up.
So has it already become Uncool to like Kyo-Ani stuff. I became uncool to like Shonen Jump stuff after it became to big (except the old stuff we watch as kids like dragon ball, cause those were before it became uncool to like stuff like Naruto) I hear it all the time (Haruhi, Lucky Star, K-on are all overated. What? no i havn't watched it I just know) cause its uncool to like them anymore >.<. You Fickle Otaku, just enjoy what you enjoy and don't knock it cause a group like Kyo-Ani made it or not. Just enjoy :-P
mmm. yes it is the current trend to dislike and rage hate the popular stuff. Constructive crit. is always good but bandwagoning the hate fest is a little tiring.
Also, most people on this site and anywhere arent otaku. Theyre fans or hobbyists. Otaku should be reserved for the extremists as the term was originally meant. Though i guess it is easier to use the word otaku rather than those "fickle anime fans and hobbyists".
I don't hate K-On because KyoAni made it.
I hate it because it sucks.
This is sort of what pisses me off. Apparently when people hate it, and it's mainstream (somehow), people think the haters hate it because it's mainstream, which isn't the case at all. The bias might have a role on some deeper subconscious level, but ultimately it just sucks.
K-on had shitty animation, not even if comparing to Kyoani, but even comparing to JC Staff, I felt the animation quirks were freaking off. My other qualm wasn't with animation, but it lied in the plot. Christ, you people praise it was moe, but how many of you seriously know what moe is? Mio freaking crying, cowering, and whining and every given chance is no more fucking moe than Mikuru whining, screeching, and crying whenever she's harassed by Haruhi. Rather, it's annoying.
K-on was freaking formulaic, episodic, and pointless. There was no redemption (Mugi, Nodoka, and Ui aside) at the end, only more fucktard trolling by Kyoani ending it off early (thank god for that, now I won't have to suffer more of the shit). Worst 6 hours of my life, which I'd like back.
K-On animation quality? Guess you need to watch it in 1080p HD, in good big tv before you say anything about it.
Most ppl here seems to be too young to understand how deep K-On really was. Wait 40 years, watch it again, think and write back. I am not waiting, `cos i am dead by then already. If you get rid of all brainwashing, you will understand that sex, erotics, moe and so on is the meaning of life, not some gloomy, inverted, introvert philosophy and pseudo-religious (and religious) bullshit.
i hate K-ON because endless eight
i hate Lucky Star because endless eight
i hate you all because endless eight
don't hate me, please hate fucktard endless eight
I love Lucky Star because of Konata. And hey - I'm sure Konata would be pissed about Endless Eight, too!
(Hey, there should be a video about that)
Wait for it in NicoNico XD
"Nani ka okashi…" (or w/e) will be a trendy catch-phrase in any future anime parodies.
As will any loli telling an older brother to get the phone.
Denwa~
Talk about deformed brain cells..
i hate you because you hate good anime, lets see you make one better!
Don't forget Clannad.. !!!
I gladly pump money into Clannad. Never understood why, it's just a show I love for no real reason. It's probably because of Fuko and Kyou though.
In my case it's probably because of Tomoyo and Kotomi. The plot was the most enjoyable part though.
Yeah, the plot was pretty good. I especially liked the side stories too.
Clannad genuinely surprised me. If I saw this anime on a shelf, I would probably avoid it. However, one of my friends showed it to me, and holy shit I loved it! The plot was really good, the characters were lovable, and it was genuinely funny. Overall, I consider it a really good anime.
But getting on to the main topic, I saw a few episodes of K-ON!, and I enjoyed it, just like Haruhi and Lucky Star. They weren't exactly masterpieces, but whatever they were enjoyable in my opinion. You see, I look at anime as the same as I do video games and movies: Not everything has to be as amazing Ocarina of Time or Kill Bill, but as long as it's entertaining, it's ok in my book.
And people say moeblob shows are bad for anime.
From a pure revenue point of view, definitely not. By some other abstract measures, however, one can probably make a case against "moeblob" shows.
if by other abstract measures you mean "i hate this show so it must bad for anime" then maybe you're right
K-ON! will never win the kind of domestic and international critical acclaim and credibility accrued to the likes of Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell. K-ON! will also never command much of multimedia complex in the way other titles can - a few tawdry adventure or music games perhaps.
I think I appreciate shows like K-on, but I also really like deep intense and thought provoking shows like When They Cry and Eden of the East.
I think both should be appreciated. Moe slice of life is, imo, a celebration of the mundane everyday life. And those crazyawesome plot shows are a celebration of crazyawesome plot and intrigue.
i wonder if you're arguing that K-on is a 'bad anime' because it didnt win those awards and reach critical levels of appreciation, artefact. If so, i doubt the producers and creators were seeking to do so.
All genres should be appreciated if they excel in what they are supposed to do.
I comment way too fucking much.
I never said it was bad. But it will not advance the interests of the market save in terms of immediate revenues.
I suppose you're right about that. The industry does need to put out another franchise that will mindfuck everyone and sell like hotcaeks for another 5-10 years. But in this day and age, original stories are hard to come by and i will not mind watching moe until that comes along. Im in it for the long haul.
For the quality of the genre itself... It is... That genre is so oversaturated. But I'm not against it though. I enjoy them. :)
They are. Moe is a cancer. It is extremely formulaic and appeals to only one kind of person.
I'd love to read your thesis on that.
Moe is a drug for me. Lets see, cheerful Moe filled anime or gloomy piece of shit, hmm i will take the Moe one. Incase some retard comments on this saying that i think clannad is crap. Clannad isnt gloomy, its beautiful!
I will never understand it O_o
It can't be helped.
There will always be people who will prefer moe over quality.
Quality Moe!
That's the solution
Oxymoron right there...
now im just waiting for the article saying that mio fanatic we saw before bought a ridiculous amount..
Haha, wow.
I'd like to see Haruhi try this with its upcoming DVDs...
It's probably like one guy buying 50 copies.
^ this, more likely than not.
It's all the same shit.
Holy shit. o_O
There's no way Haruhi is even TOUCHING this beast, thanks to Endless Eight. >:
I can't help but wonder how Fairy Tail will do, though...
Am I really that out-of-touch with anime these days? I thought K-on was utter, irredeemable garbage. Seeing stuff like this makes me ashamed to call myself an anime fan.
No, your not wrong, because its your opinion what you think about Animes.
Majority whispers are louder than your scream, dude.
eh. it is your opinion but if you're ashamed to be an anime fan because of the moe moe genre...that just shows your level of dedication.
Then don't, nobody needs elitist pigs like you anyway.
that is pretty interesting...a slice of life anime topping mecha.
i knew mio was gonna be popular, i mean her design is basically yomi, cept moe-fied. proves that japan really is a country that promotes cute and moe things.
yeh seriously, if you look @ the mio fanart on sankaku, it already hit 2k in less than half a year and theres definitely gonna be more.
I said it many times but now there's finally some proof:
Moe-moe-kyun～ above all else!
Can i get an amen?
Your avatar says it all.. :3
I'm not sure whether to RAGE or LOL. Fucking Otaku
Do both.
So the title is wrong? You guys should really stop with the sensationalism D:
Learn to read.
Read to Learn. =)
K-On is undoubtedly the worst anime I've ever seen, and just look at this.
Not only does this drive the "anime as an art form" concept even further underground, it also proves that otaku really will buy anything with a cute girl on the front of it.
Now you see why KyoAni is really hailed as such a golden studio... because of the money they can make with pure shit like this, not because they're actually good.
At least we have Bakemonogatari... but when we look up and shout "save us!" it will look down and whisper "no".
yeh, sometimes the way their drawn seems kinda off. but the series has a very good genre. having cute girls and music you attract numerous types of audiences. it appeals more towards otaku AND musicians. especially when musicians tend to do cover songs from their favorite moe anime.
No, I mean the entire show was terrible in every way conceivable.
I will have a hard time finding an anime that I can hate more than K-On.
Don't even suggest bad hentai titles, those don't count.
Tchh.... Akikan says hi.... -_-
We get it you hate K-ON! What else do you have to prove?
I have to make everyone ELSE hate it.
That is rapidly becoming my mission in life, my only goal, my true purpose.
To spread my RAAAEG.
That was beautiful, I have to write this down.
Wow, if that's your only purpose in life...well...good luck cos I think you'd most likely fail at it, and with it, you'll fail at life too.
Its one thing to hate it yourself. Its quite another to make people hate it too.
I personally like K-On. Well, not to the point that I'll spend millions on it, but it provides me with an alternative to watch after catching awesome stuff like... maybe what you mentioned, Bakemonogatari.
This is just an illustration, but its like how you have great restaurant food often and once in a while go out for that Macdonalds Big Mac burger. I think its the same idea.
green green, girls bravo, witchblade, all say hello @ worst animu of all time
K-On is much more fun than Endless Eight. That's for sure.
Well what about DBZ? IMHO that is the worst Anime ever.
i guess you didnt grow up in the 90s then applellguy...lulz.
kaisos,
Give credit where credit is due and K-on was a spectacular moe anime. If you didnt like it, fine, but to make others hate it because you do...is pretty much being a rage missionary.
rage missionary = fail
People just don't get irony these days.
I WAS JOKING, GUYS
hmm kaisos, you may of been joking but once the joke only makes sense to you and is interpreted differently by everyone else, its no longer a joke.
Irony was also the wrong word there; i suppose you meant sarcasm and with this article full of bandwagon K-on haters, sarcasm needs to be quite clear cut, or people wont be able to see it as you wanted it to be.
Jesus Fucking Christ people. You all have no idea what "irony" and "sarcasm" actually mean.
"Sarcasm" is "verbal irony intended for malice". "Verbal irony" is "saying the opposite of what you mean."
Simply "irony" is "that which is the opposite of what is expected."
The more you know!
GI Joe!
Nope I am a child of the 80's...
thank you sir for those very official definitions of irony and sarcasm.
When irony is used on the internet, and with the styling format that you used in this entire article's comment section, sarcasm fits the label perfectly while irony does not. Irony is hard to detect in your writing style and if it was irony, im sure almost noone understood it as such. You have to understand that reading text is in a different league with talking; each of your comments show derision of K-on and show negative emotion. Sarcasm. Irony is often non biased and is neutral.
Meaning and definition all change to context and in the context that you wrote in, sarcasm is the label i give.
@ applellguy,
growing up in the 90s doesnt mean you have to be born in the 90s, i hope you know...lulz.
I love Dragon Ball manga, but the anime version is SLOOOOOOOOOWWW... perhaps it was intended for 5-year-olds? (I was born in 1971) I remember the part when planet Namek (sp?) was supposed to blow up within 5 minutes, yeah that lasted 4-5 episodes... grrrrr...
Compared to that, K-On! is not at all terrible. And I think I maybe biased because I joined a band in highschool as a bassist...
Dragon Ball manga I love, but the anime is too SLOW. 5 minutes in the story lasted 5 episodes!!!
Compared to that, K-On! is just fine.
As a musician, no. Moe needs to die.
Finally someone who gets why it failed so hard.
mmm i doubt that it was REALLY geared toward the music aspect of it. Just a different theme to use to display everyday cuteness. I didnt expect great musical win from the start and to do so, i believe would of have been naive.
I don't understand how this is supposed to appeal to musicians. They never practice, they were "already" "good", so they never learn anything. They don't really even play either, they had 2 "lives", which were ridiculously short. Putting aside how gay the lyrics were.. The music aspect was just pathetic on all fronts.
it does appeal to musicians, look @ niconico or youtube. you get tons of people trying to do cover songs and im pretty sure tissue-hime (japanese musician) played a cover song here and there.
Fuck off already, you posted that many times IN THIS ONE THREAD
Stop proselytizing you fucking Christian fag.
Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
Welcome to blogging.
Evan more than To Love Ru :(
Anything out-preforming that is always a good thing! :)
well, at least one thing you guys have to admit...
KyoAni know very well how to please otaku with moeblob show...
they know how to come out with new catch-phrase or body language that will spike many variation fanmade video in niconico
moeblob show does not always sell well...
its those small little touch that make it stand out among other
100% agree
they add some little gimmick that will get you to remember it. then it would flood NND and thus raising its popularity.
Need to agree with that 100%, it's like how Seto-san beat Luna in the Yakuza children singing contest. Not trying to overestimate KyoAni and K-ON or what but another nice job that KyoAni actually did for the show was how they managed to alter their generic girly stuffs into a somewhat nice, if not decent, light drama right in the finale and the extra episode.
And tbh, K-ON ep12 >>>>>>>>>> Clannad S1 ep23
Take that, Lelouch! Hah! *kicks the faggot when he's down* Where is your Zero nao?
i see you pedobear
You can't hide from Anonymous, even if you do look like Pikachu.
And people wonder why the anime market has become so stagnated...
Nice to see Blu-ray catching on, but at the same time, such a shame to see what is an average moe-fest taking the spotlight when so many other quality titles get overlooked.
Hopefully we start to move away from the fanservice and moe craze in the next few years, otherwise alot of people will start to move away from anime as a medium.
Haha no. With numbers like this, we won't be seeing quality anime for a long, long time.
I think this is the day we can truly proclaim the death of anime as an art form.
we got it...you're a fag though.
Hey...just ignore him. We all know he's gay. =X
Fake Storm Wing bashes at anyone. Ignore him.
>Fake
Nice try you fake
Oh yeah? Check the IP if you want to. Fakers should be banned and anyone should know the differences.
Well it's not my authority to say it anyway, so i'll just have to defend myself if someone is "copying" my name.
LOL. The fake Storm Wing feels insecure because the real Storm Wing shows up. What a bunch of dweebs.
Faker fags... I bet they bone their moms, & bone their palms.
Just like Britney Spears was the death of musadana an art form and Transformers was the death of film as an art form. Hmmm... Think you might wanna rethink that proclamation, lest your knee jerk into an even more uncomfortable position.
+1
he is certainly a guy who has failed in life
It's been dead for quite some time.
dunno about that. perhaps to the veteran watchers of anime from the 90s and early 2000s, it may seem that anime has died, but to many, it seems to be doing just fine or just under that mark. Anime as an art has indeed changed but art is a progressive style of expression, and all art changes with the times. Is modern art considered shitty because its not like Picaso? Not really. Anime in general follows this format. While this is true, it is also true that many mediocre studios have followed the moe boom and have flooded the industry with less than amazing moe genre shows. K-on is NOT one of these imo but again its all imo and uro.
No Wai....
God forbid, a popular Anime!? Lets all hate it!
*lights up torch*
Seriously though, the show ain't bad but just a little overrated. Enjoy if you want and don't watch if you don't. Easy right.
+1.
comment explains the hate.
+2
Precisely. I'm not saying it's a good anime, but at least hate the show for the right reasons and not because a lot of people like it.
erm.. shouldn't the title be 'fastest' and not 'best' selling?
seems kinda early to call it, given that opening week doesn't equal total sales... especially if they take a huge dive.
Haha, well, if there is one thing you know Artefact is good at, that is writing really sensitized article titles! Maybe the guy works in a paparazzi paper or something.
Best selling on the opening day. That is all that matters in the industry, and to Oricon.
Journalistic excellence most likely isn't a top priority for this site. Isn't it fine that way? It's not like hentai and news about lolis getting gangraped really need to be Pulitzer-worthy.
though that would be a nice touch...;)
Enough of this so called Art-form, it is a business first before anything else.
Hating this series just because it is MOE is dumb, that is like going to a chick flick and say there wasn't enough Action or Boobies popping out. It was a comedy/slice of life what do you expect in the genera, seriously what kind of story?
Saying it is the worst show is pretty dumb thing to say as there was plenty of dumb show even Queen's Blade had an awful story but it was an ecchi series with a lot of famous seiyuu.
For the Americans MOE series will never be this big or hyped so just ignore it. Plus you don't have to watch unless there is a gun to your head. If you did have one then you should keep your mouth shut if you want to live.
OMG...Common sense. BURN IT NOW
Well said. Even art requires money. Without money, art cannot possibly sustain itself in the modern world. Since Animation is also about business, and Moe is KyoAni's Business, what is to stop them from successfully marketing K-On till it is the hyped up anime it is now?
In case you haven't noticed, animation, no matter what it is or what country it's at, is BOTH an Art-form, AND a business. From wanting to make the most beautiful and compelling thing the world has ever seen, To making the most generic and profitable cashcow in history. You did it as both an art-form, AND a business (Name another art-form who HAVEN'T done the same thing). I'm sick and tired of assholes who say it's either or when it's both. It's how they did it is what matters the most people. It can be the most gritty and exciting anime with a thought provoking story and compelling characters or can be the most overrated, generic and wrong shit anime to have ever shoved down my throat in all my life with bad story, one-dimensional characters, moe, schoolgirls and ecchi, THE WORKS. HELL, it can be both. It doesn't matter to me. IT IS HOW THEY DID that is going to make me give a thumbs up, or a thumbs down. The anime fanbase or ANY art-form fanbase didn't grow the way they are today JUST because of the business. They like the way they do it no matter how good or bad it is. And what Jakejoe85 said isn't common sense annon. That's just saying "Every art-form people make or anything people made is trashy shit, so other people can eat the trashy shit up. That's what it's supposed to be. Deal with it." Then I'm sorry for seeing the World and humankind a little more than that. Remember, the Art-form MAKES the business. Not the other way around.
I remember the days anime was gritty and exciting.
Nowadays its all moe, schoolgirls and ecchi
Anime is dead to me, the stupid otaku have killed it.
Fuck your schoolgirl shows, those of you who like this sort of shit don't have real girlfriends.
please go back to your reality television.
Fuck off then... You realised anime was shit when moe went mainstream and you are still here.
Er... This is unacceptable for me... well for me. Who cares about me, I do not even care about myself.
Well, am not actually happy or anything about this. Though am a bit fraustrated to know that there are more people out there (with money) who like Moeblobs, rather than stories.
Though I really think that if people would just try selling the DVD in the whole world at the same time... K-On would drop at around 5th... or so.
Also, people who say that K-On is much better than MoHS... Go troll somewhere else, return to 4chan... please.
Disgusting. Worthless show. Anyone that falls for this moe shit is pathetic.
shut up u americandog
Then i shall be proud and happy to be that kind of "pathetic".
... Disgusting? Do you even understand the word? Are you perhaps... illiterate? This comment is too much....
Even for me who am at neutral about K-On.
Well got to admit it this thing only applies to the otaku community in the real world (the mass)nobody even cares for K-ON they will still adore old time favorites like gundam or other 70's ,80's or 90's anime.
agree
Of course. Anime fans generally skip over this shit or watch it and move on. They do not buy figurines and/or any other merchandise and they do not take "waifus." These otaku faggots watch this shit not because they enjoy the "plot" or story or characters but because it fulfills an emotional need. Pathetic.
You guys need to wait till the Moe World War 2 anthropomorphic NAZI Jagdpanzer and Luftwaffen anime starts.
Thats when the sith will hit the fan.
>sith
Strike Witches ? Yeah that was SITH.
Fake Storm Wing tries to troll... LOL.
I do loev DVD Uncensored version of Strike Witches ^^
umad ?
Yes, i am mad (as in "angry", if you aren't smart enough) because you fakers tries to frame me by posting with my name & make me like a troller.
I bet the next comment after this is something like:
-Aww look, Storm Wing is crying~
-Faggot is whining
-Nice try, Fake
LOL.
Use a gravatar to make it a little harder to spoof you.
BAWWW don't help him... it's like his first day on the internet. Easy trolling is easy.
Thank's a lot, Artefact ^_^ *thumbs up*
Need more Erica, and Sanya, and Luccini and of course oppai grabbing Yoshika. ^^
Seconded. But spare Mio for myself, okay? XD
That sure supports KioAni making more pointless moeblob things to gain more money. I am smelling a crappy second season of K-ON! that will fail just as the endless eight.
While I will not bash K-on (I have no right to as I did not watch it and as thus could only go by what snippets I've garnered of it from Sankaku) I do have to agree (very slightly) with what Kaisos has to say.
Though his posts are a lot more extreme than my PoV (death of an art-form, worst show ever etc.) it is a tad disappointing that shows like these peak the best-received and sales charts. Moe in varying quantities appeals to different people so bashing is uncalled for. Everyone is entitled to their own tastes and opinions of course and the industry has to make its money somewhere.
I just hope that not too...many moe-oriented blobfests will dot the future landscape and that something will save me from the recent seasons poor offerings.
Its the Summer season I guess. Well, there're a couple good shows, but Summer seasons are usually about the beach and bikini. =X
Check out the Autumn season. There're pretty good stuff in there like Fairy Tale, Kobato, Kimi no Todoke...maybe Trapeze, and also, Romance of the Three Kingdoms!
All these besides the moe blob shows!
If you've got time to bitch and whine about moe, why not spend them to to watch more of the other animes which you might like?
"Its the Summer season I guess. Well, there’re a couple good shows, but Summer seasons are usually about the beach and bikini. =X"
Aren't you also bitching and whining about moe just as much as he is?
Yay, i knew k-on would own all.
Say... I like K-ON! but best of all time is pretty unexpected. I think the popularity for this really is going overboard...
Fail anime for fail people
and its takes an even more failed person to judge another fail person
It's an endless cycle of fail.
It's the Circle of Fail
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Fail
The power of MOE is sooo strong~
Just as expected.
"Blu-ray edition selling 33,000 copies, with a further 8,000 sales of the DVD edition"
"which makes it the best selling TV anime of all time"
are we just talking about opening day or has no anime ever sold 40,000 copies before?
Japanese records are usually always based on the opening day.
Impressive, disgusting.
gundam 0083 VHS sells for 5.480.000 copies worldwide
Moe = Why most otakus will never have real girlfriends.
Grow up u immature kids, people's taste changes overtime. You guys will always find a way to hate something that what the majority may like.
In my opinion, K-on is a great series not the best but a great to me. But yet, I also agree that kyoani is milking the moeblob genre a bit. You can't say it is the worst as theres other far worser than K-on.
So what? K-on betted mecha genre with moe and school of life genre. So,you think the lastest Transformer movie was great movie with mostly action, robot fighting, explosion, more action and explosion but a lack of substance and poor story or the gundam or any mecha series primary focusing on who have better gundam or whatever mecha or a arms race to build a better one or intensely keep having level up or crazy amount of upgrade to their unit are makings of a great series?
Shitty anime is shitty. Too bad Japanese otakus get turned on by pantsu wore by lolis.
But all together, the whole season was pathetic.
Okay, but AFAIK K-On! doesn't have any pantsu scene whatsoever, maybe if that bowl of rice counts.
just proved that he didnt actually watch it.
The more important statistic is that 98% of the people buying this have never gotten laid.
Have you?
Wow...didn't expect that coming...
Anyway...I recently watched the first 2 eps, and I hate myself for not watching it earlier. I'm not saying it's the best, but because of waiting this long, and reading all kinds of stuff about it, I couldn't look at it neutrally, since a lot of half of the people bashed it as Moe-shit, and the other half praised it too much.
Therefore when actually taking to time to watch it, I expected it to be very bad, or very good.
So far, I find it good. Sure not the most epic series, but isn't bad either. It might be overrated, but those who "hate" it should just not bother with it.
As some people stated earlier, if you like it watch it, if you don't, don't bother with it. Peace
You'll discover the truth soon I'm afraid.
What?!?! Dragon Ball z and One Piece got beat?!?!
wow, i never knew crappy anime can reach such high sales.
Another overrated series like Haruhi.
Despite my wishes for kyu-tard to fall into bankruptcy, K-ON will be the cash cow that keeps it afloat long enough for those bastards to "experiment" some more with fuckshit asslicking ballcrushing stupidity.
Some twit mentioned that K-ON doesn't have any panty shots didn't see the show in WideScreen yet it seems.
K ON! + BONES = EPIC PROFIT
At least it beats Code Shitass
wtf?
Ya know, for all the hatred people (which I suspect to be extremely jealous Haruhi worshipers) are giving this show, it still turned out to be extremely popular. And I'm sure not everyone loves it "because it's by KyoAni".
Speaking of which, didn't KyoAni also make Haruhi, the show that got so extremely hyped up, yet failed so hard? Why are people still watching that, knowing they hate it so much because of (at least) 7 near-identical episodes? Could this also be KyoAni's power at work? I'm sensing a double standard here.
Anyway, I highly enjoyed K-On! and think it's worth every praise it gets. It's not the best anime I've ever seen, but it's not the absolute worst either.
I love K-On, I think is cute and funny but maybe it's a "little bit" overrated, anyway most of the companies tend to invert money of their best sellers to try more experimental things so I don't see how K-On has killed anime
A little bit? Don't you mean extremely? Can't wait for the next big thing by fucking KyoAni even if it will still leave me in RAGE, cuz' by that time, none gives a shit anymore about K-On.
I always get things mixed up when I look at anime sales charts and compare them with games in my head, dismissing them as poor. Which is false because games sell in an enormously different amount.
Mainstream ftl.
K-On! will be crap in its next season. The girls will be forced to repeat the same songs for 15,527 loops. And KyoAni will be laughing its way to the bank.
Last I checked, K-ON! wasn't getting renewed.
But it seems that recently I've had a change of heart and if it did get a 2nd season, I wouldn't be happy about it.
With this news at hand you may never know.
Yay -- more unimaginative, stereotypical, low-grade dross sells well. Give yourself a round of applause, cattle.
People need to start demanding higher standards then this rubbish. Angers me to no end, to see marketers shoveling this kind of consumer grade tripe down the throat of memorized shut-ins, so happy to be seeing a female, they fork out the dough, regardless of minor things like story and character development being omitted to make room for more suggestive themes and loli.
I like how the reaction to an anime they personally don't like being popular is that anime is dead forever.
So much butthurt.
C'mon kids, your mecha action shows have always been the best sellers and one moe show takes the spotlight and its BAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW MAINSTREAM SHIT
K-On is over 9000 :O
Yea, by 32,000...
lol just over 30000 ++ sales.
lol the anime market is weak for making big money thats why the sell price of each of is so expensive.
Funny, so what about people crying about bad anime sales due to *? Does this prove that if a series is considered good by popular opinion it will be bought, and if your shit does not sell, it's the studio's fault?
* Insert one of the following :
-Piracy (BD rips are out!!! ZOMG)
-Fansubbing (noone buy it after it's subbed!!)
-People being cheap
-Insert your own reason.
I think that most of the people that love it, love it because its popular. And most people that hate it, hate it because its popular.
From a marketing standpoint, a show like this is a producers wet dream. Cheap to make, and brings in lots of money.
So this is how anime dies .....with a bunch of moe shie....
You mad? What's wrong? Your favorite series' sells isn't so great compared to a popular series that just happens to be moe is?
It's like no one ever complained about Code Geass or Macross Frontier getting huge sales, but god forbid when a K-ON gets mad sales, amirite?
Yes, god forbid when K-ON is the highest selling animated TV series, given that it's pure mindless, pandering moe fluff.
At least Geass and Frontier had actual plots.
Sure, they still sucked, but they had redeemable elements.
Oh, and decent male characters. Something anime needs a hell of a lot more of.
Can't wait to see people freak the freak when Endless Eight BR's start selling 20,000 plus copies. You know it's going to happen
don't shit with me 20.000 sales of Haruhi season 2 ??? max it could be 10 retard peoples buy 10 pieces so max sell is 1000.
Math fail.
I lol'd
Not this shit again...
It's gonna be a trend that studios produce mindless moe anime just to boost sale. In the past anime has been a channel for creativity, now it just degenerates into young girls and fan service. That's just sad.
Anime has been about fanservice for 20 years.
It's only moe that's relatively recent.
That was like..expected? :P
WTF K-ON! Best Selling TV Anime Ever
Haruhi Season 2 will sell 40.000 in the first day !!!
It's all about the hype and the otaku liking it, just like Lucky Star. It may not get critical acclaim, but it will still sell well anyway.
Moe. The cancer that is killing anime. Miyazaki was right.
Successful sales = cancer? Huh, news to me.
Wait, you're just mad a show you dislike is getting good sales. How typical.
No redeeming artistic value = cancer. Who gives a shit how the sales are. That only shows that otaku are idiots willing to shell out the cash for their dose of moe.
Not so dumb - by buying this in huge numbers, they're guaranteeing that more of this kind of show, the stuff they like, will be produced.
Power to them, I guess.
"No redeeming artistic value = cancer."
Ridiculous logic. A series that may not have any redeeming artistic value doesn't equal cancer. Attaching something like "artistic value" is, without a doubt, subjective, yet, so easy to be envision by fans and disputed by haters. What's more, there are series out there that don't have any real artistic values, but a number of them are good, are enjoyable and aren't cancer.
And were you implying that moe has no artistic value because...moe? If you are, I'll tell you now that you're terribly mistake. Moe is simply just reactions by the viewers/readers to character trait. It's essentially nothing more than traits. And whether or not a series have value should be decided based on an evaluation of its totality, and not just because of one attribute.
That sounds kinda like bullshit. Seems to me you're just generalizing. Otakus also like TTGL, Gundam, and K-ON. And they also buy the dvds. What now? Otakus don't limit themselves to just moe. It may be higher up on their list of interest or priority, but it's not everything. Hardcore otaku of moe or whatever is a different case.
Really, god forbids a series that's aimed generally towards otaku produced sales because otaku themselves buy it. They know what they want, and like, so they've become more aware of that. Buy what I like, pirate the rest. Sounds familiar, no? Of course, a series aimed towards otaku is not always limited by scope; other people of different age or "group can come to like such series as well. And those people do buy.
Wait, Miyazaki actually said something like that?
LOL JAPAN
Erf , its for the lolis .
Soooooooo what this means is, Moe = Success!!!
well haruhi is in trouble due to the endless eight
If you actually think that then you're not thinking like a rabid otaku.
Sure is trying to pass off opinion as fact around here.
Heh~! Obviously~!
I don't see people's problem these days. Not liking stuff just because its popular. Complete faggotry at it's highest. I watch Lucky Star, Haruhi and K-ON! and they were all good shows. K-ON! and Lucky Star never ever promised to be filled with plot and story, so why do you troll the shows as if you expect them to? It's like complaining at a sketch show cos it has no story. It's not supposed to.
Also, if you don't watch a show because of 'the fans', this is absurd. I know of many who say the fans killed K-ON! and the phrase 'Haruhifag' is thrown round a lot. Why should you care about what the fans are doing? That's their business, and they can shell out loads of money for a life size statue of Haruhi or 8 pairs of headphones that Mio used in K-ON!. If you don't agree with that, good for you, because you haven't done so xD. There's no point in trolling them, it's a bit late, you can't change a devoted fans mind. They don't know you, or care what you think.
All in all, you should watch what YOU want to watch. And if something's popular, and it looks like your cup of tea, who cares if there are obsessed fans for it. Watch it!
The problem is that the industry will continue to produce what sells. And that is what is sad.
You cannot argue with people's taste. I've seen anime I didn't like that were adored by many (Code Geass sucked and I'm still not overly impressed with Haruhi), but the reverse is also true. Why would you be bothered by me not liking your favorite show and liking one you don't like?
If your sole complaint is that sales of these type of shows result in more of these shows being made, then I hate to break it to you but unless people massively start dropping these shows, this trend will last for quite some time.
Hear, hear!
Better to enjoy what YOU like than to hate what others like.
If you let what others think of stop you from enjoying what you like, it's your own loss. and stupidity. yeah, stupidity.
As far as I'm concerned, Mio and her stupid whore face ruined shimapan forever.
This was a terrible show. I'd honestly rather watch Endless Eight than this. I mean, in both Haruhi and K-ON the characters have designated roles and archetypes and such, but at least in Haruhi the characters are interesting. They do things that are unexpected, things that aren't set in stone and that the characters must do at all costs. The characters of K-ON are like the creators looked at the titles of some pages on TV Tropes, and decided to base a show off of that.
K-ON has Yui. Yui is lazy and an airheaded ditz, but she's determined, and if she concentrated on something, she could do it and she could do it well. The only problem is, she has an apparently severe case of ADD and would be impossible to stomach in real life.
HAHAHA! But she does something cute! Look! She forgot about something! Like a puppy!
K-ON has Ritsu. Ritsu is energetic and playful, if a little bit of a dumbass. She's enthusiastic about everything, but she really likes whatever it was in the show that she liked!
And once in a while, she attempts a dynamic entry! And it's funny, because she's crazy! She might cut you in your sleep, but it's okay, because even the most horribly ugly and disfigured bitch will look beautiful once the hands of KyoAni have graced her.
K-ON has Mugi. Mugi seems like the typical rich girl, except- wait! She's actually not a terrible, stuck up waste of a person. She's kind of nice! Still boring, but at least she could talk some sense into Ritsu. Maybe. But that doesn't stop her horrible dullness--wait! Yuri! She sees yuri!
OH MY GOD I AM SO AMUSED! She sees the other girls in her school as if they were romantically involved! You probably can relate to her, because you know that if you're enjoying this show it's because you're picturing them all screwing each other and then you. You're a virgin, of course. Your best friend is your hand.
Finally, Mio. Mio starts off seeming like the straight man to Ritsu's hyper self, but she's actually shy and quiet. She can be serious, but she also is easily scared and likes to curl up in corners.
You like Mio because if she's curled up in the corner, you might get a glimpse of her panties. Her terrible flag!panties. Or maybe you like her because you imagine it'd be easier to fuck her if she's so weak and easily scared?
There's also Azusa, who fails at being a loli. She's basically just Mio without the tits. And there's Yui's sister, who's twice as boring as Mugi, but you like her anyways because she's like if Yui hadn't gotten that lobotomy. There's also Yui's glasses-wearing friend, and the teacher who's there in case you don't like high school girls.
Hmm, I guess I just like shows without bland plots and blander characters. It's weird, how their blatant pandering and craaaazy antics just don't appeal to me! I guess I'm just stuck watching Bakemonogatari or Umineko, then. What a shame, you know? What a goddamn shame.
"I guess I’m just stuck watching Bakemonogatari or Umineko, then. What a shame, you know? What a goddamn shame."
How odd then that I like both of those shows and still highly enjoyed K-ON! Is it really such a crime to like K-ON! and similar anime among all of the other (more serious) ones?
was there anything else to watch in spring besides k-on? perfect mother fucking timing.
alright so letz get a quality dub and license so we can get with the domestic limited edition goodies up in this bitch.
Does anyone else think that's good sales in japan sounds like a pittance? I mean christian rock albums sells 100times as many copies. Like the average poor sales figures in america europe trumps japans anime sales 10 fold. Anime sales in japan are a joke.
I'm almost certain that their sales would incrase a lot if they sold their DVDs for at most 2400Yen
Christ... Moe shit with subpar story/animation by kyoani can sell well, yet Fuckiny Kyoani can't even thank the fans by animating haruhi properly. Reality sucks.
god...I watched this anime...I like it...it was cute and often funny...but...the fans are fucking morons! Im sry I refuse to even call myself a k-on fan cuz there all a bunch of retards!
Good! A cute, fun little anime has gotten a lot of fans , who decided to let Kyo Ani know they have a mega-hit. Cue the green light for K-on: The Senior Year. ^_^
This was not a suprprise for those fans in the know. K-on was on the cover of three, count 'em, three magazines back in May, and they are doing well in the Megami poster features too. The fans have spoken, and it is "Moe, moe, kyun!" ^_^
K-on is STUPID and relies on dick-brained losertakus and idiot fangirls who idolize stupidity and "cute". It's not real anime, it's just way to capitalize on constantly masturbating live-at-home high school dropouts who couldn't get a real job if they tried, like the majority of Sankaku Oedipal Complex(If you have to wiki this to understand what I just said, you are below average intelligence and should be in a mental home). Grow up and stop crying in your basement, retard nerds.
you knows the person who has enough free time to insult people on the internet is the person that truely needs to get out more (and stop insulting people while fapping maybe gets a job too) so instead of insulting people for there taste in anime maybe you should try to watch it (begining to....as far as we are in the series) and hey without nerds the world would still be working with stone tools (hehe "stone tools") we are your boss, we are the guy that gives you power, we are even your landlord this is our world we just allow you to live in it
P.s. if you reply to this message i guess that means i win (if your to stupid to know how i won than you are below average intelligence)
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err, do u speaky de english? あなたをばかです
All I have to say is:
SHUT THE FUCK UP, THE ALL OF YOU.
nuff said.
With this as proof, if Jay-Z can call the death of auto-tune, we can call the death of overbearing moe with these numbers.
What's with the wall of texts!!??
Too many tl;dr's!!!
How could such a shitty anime be so popular? The characters just stand around and like they have air in their skulls.
Oh well it least this brings some interest in music.