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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WTF K-ON! Best Selling TV Anime Ever
Haruhi Season 2 will sell 40.000 in the first day !!!
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.
And what's the problem with that? It's anime, get over it. Don't like it? Then don't bother.
Anime has been about fanservice for 20 years.
It's only moe that's relatively recent.
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
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.
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.
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.
Soooooooo what this means is, Moe = Success!!!
Erf , its for the lolis .
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.
"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.
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.
Wait, Miyazaki actually said something like that?
LOL JAPAN
I like how the reaction to an anime they personally don't like being popular is that anime is dead forever.
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.
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! 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.
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.
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.
K-On is over 9000 :O
Yea, by 32,000...
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)
(0 grammer FTW)
err, do u speaky de english? あなたをばかです
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.
All according to keikaku....
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.
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!!!
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!
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.
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.
well haruhi is in trouble due to the endless eight
If you actually think that then you're not thinking like a rabid otaku.
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?
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
was there anything else to watch in spring besides k-on? perfect mother fucking timing.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...;)
Best selling on the opening day. That is all that matters in the industry, and to Oricon.
God forbid, a popular Anime!? Lets all hate it!
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.
+1.
comment explains the hate.
+2
*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.
No Wai....
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.
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
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?
Disgusting. Worthless show. Anyone that falls for this moe shit is 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.
shut up u americandog
Then i shall be proud and happy to be that kind of "pathetic".
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.
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.
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.
agree
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.
Need more Erica, and Sanya, and Luccini and of course oppai grabbing Yoshika. ^^
Seconded. But spare Mio for myself, okay? XD
>sith
Strike Witches ? Yeah that was SITH.
Fake Storm Wing tries to troll... LOL.
I do loev DVD Uncensored version of Strike Witches ^^
Thank's a lot, Artefact ^_^ *thumbs up*
BAWWW don't help him... it's like his first day on the internet. Easy trolling is easy.
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.