Bakemonogatari Best Selling TV Anime Blu-ray Ever
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 4, 2009 19:41 JST
- Tags: Bakemonogatari, Blu-ray, Comparison, DVD Extras, Oricon, Rankings, Records, Shaft
The Blu-ray edition of Bakemonogatari’s second volume has sold in excess of 39,000 copies, making it the best selling Blu-ray TV anime ever, and the second best selling Blu-ray anime of all time, easily beating K-ON! and only surpassed by Evangelion 1.11.
Including normal DVD sales of 18,731, the volume has managed a staggering 58,000 copies sold. The first volume, which itself managed at least 56,000 copies, seems only to have whetted the appetites of fans…
Shaft, already rather notorious for airing incomplete episodes of the series, has made good its implied promises of a completed DVD release – below you can see a comparison of the two editons, with the BD/DVD version on the left:
Shafted indeed.
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This anime is entertaining and fun, but god damn the fanbase is retarded.
They're actually pretty smart compared to the K-on fanbase. lol http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/02/top-10-eroge-characters-according-to-dengeki/
I wanna be called bad names and punished by Hitagi...
other stuff too...
I'd like to see Katanagatari.
Lol, "Sword Story"? ;D Sounds interesting.
Best selling.. and no nipples? Unpossible!
Well, it has naked loli plus loli raep plus S&M tsundere among other things... Why WOULDN'T it sell?
There actually are nipples later on.
what's left is to buy both versions.. damn you shaft
They redid whole episodes?
Picture 9 wth 3D fingers?
they are wise they knew they could ruin such a great anime so they just played along...
wise indeed i myself wouldn't have touched a thing or else a masterpiece could have been ruined!
Of course Bakemonogatari deserves to achieved this record (and I'm damn happy for it) but... seriously, these "Haha! Now take that, *name of anime/characters that scored the 2nd place* !!" kind of comments are really getting old and annoying. It's like a poor homeless hobo going to Donald Trump and tell him that Bill Gates is richer than him.
Agreed, the sales is a おつかれさま to Shaft for a job well done. And Bakemonogatari might have won by default, if it wasn't for E8 it probably wouldn't be selling quite as well.
I'd have to disagree with that. Even without E8 Bakemonogatari is tons better than Haruhi. Bakemonogatari is a show that I end up anticipating each week while Haruhi season 1 is just one of the shows I watched and never really impressed me that much.
That wasn't quite what I meant. Of course Bakemonogatari is so much better than Haruhi its an insult to put them in the same sentence (oops). I was thinking of the sheer fanboy inertia that the Haruhi juggernaut had pre-E8. If Haruhi's second season had been halfway decent Bakemonogatari would have had a fight on its hands for top spot.
The charm of Bakemonogatari really stuck me in ep 3, I've never been so interested in two people sitting in a park talking. In contrast E8 had me writhing in misery by ep 3.
Bakemonogatari is one of the best animes I've seen this year in terms of being a short story anime. I hope there's a season 2. and I can't find the rest of the episodes, they stop airing them or something?
I already know Im alone in this, but I didnt like this anime at all. Sure it looks great but the dialogue is complex just for the sake of being so. Its ridiculously over the top for no good reason than people being able to feel good about themselves for sitting through highbrow anime dialogue.
I had to call it quits when I watched an episode that comprised of a playground setting and the two main characters talking nonsense nonstop for 30 minutes. Some people may call it witty, enthralling, creative, breathtaking humor, but I call it boring.
>Genius
>complex
oh, how irony
Euh? The dialogues are hardly complex or highbrow. They're just long.
The most important part is how they used these long dialogues as banters and conversations. One of the greater joys of this series is how the characters interact with each other.
EH GROPES DEAD LOLIS
Why do they have to change the visuals eh ?
It's like on a pc game, where colour, background, shading, shadows change o.o
that's wierd, I even see a lack of antialaising on some pics
Epic anime just got even more epic :3
Worst anime I have seen this year so far. Endless Eight was ultra boring,but this on that other hand could have been good if it wasn't ruined by all that abstract random stuff in it, so it even made me angry. What's up with showing an empty black screen with "Black" written on it or similar stuff like that about 30 times in an episode? And seeing the same director ruined multiple anime the same way, I'd say if you didn't like his previous works, stay away from this as well. It's a lot worse than those were.
(No, I don't like "art" like this. I prefer normal anime, thank you very much. Stop ruining them with this insane style, go and do it on something else. If I want to see art of this kind, I'll go to a modern museum or something, I don't want it in my anime.)
"What's up with showing an empty black screen with "Black" written on it or similar stuff like that about 30 times in an episode?"
Wait, did you write this comment without even reading the whole article or at least look at the comparison pics? You might also need to be aware about Shaft's problem when they were working for the TV release.
Normal anime?
As in "PANTSUUUUU!!!" ?
your anime??? go and do it yourself
Best anime I have seen this year so far. Endless Eight was ultra boring, this on that other hand could have been ruined as well if it wasn't for all that abstract random stuff in it. And seeing the same director made multiple anime better the same way, I'd say if you liked his previous works, watch this as well. It's a lot better than those were.
LOL I SO CLEVER
That could work backwards as well. If you liked his previous works then that means this one even BETTER.
needs moar senjougahara :3
now shaft dont have an excuse to not animate properly?.. <3bakemonogatari
You know, I'm convinced the japs have lost what good taste means, this is just the same old shit I've suffered coming out of japan for ages now.
The only action bakemonogatari should be getting is off danbooru.
A majority of people say its good, and whilst you are entitled to your own opinion. majority wins. Great show.
majority=fail
hahahaha well said MaidNiac
Hmmm, honestly I don't see why the show's so popular either....but I definitely don't agree with the idiot troll thinking that everyone else has bad taste and only he has good taste, I mean everyone prefers different things right?
Well, for an Anti-popularity fag like you.. of course it is.
I do believe what you're suffering from is called too-serious-fag syndrome, although I personally call it the EVA-Akira brainmush syndrome.
A.K.A. enjoy the fun aspects of life (without getting E8-ed)
Bakemonogatari, where Ararararararagi (oops I stuttered) can have his way with an invisible loli...
The tv scenes look quite flat compared to the dvd/bd editions.
And ep 13 is superb. Now excuse me while I build a shrine to Tsubasa-sama.
Let me be the avid zealous worshiper of that shrine~ :D
The more the merrier.
Fine, I guess I'll watch a couple episodes of this.
Would be nice to see more shows like this one
people who've watched this show probably knew this was coming. I mean, Bake is awesome
BD/DVD>TV
Someone thought that would be otherwise?
YOU EVAFAGS & K-ONFAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
This isn't a war.
I watched them all and liked them, what is this?
dude. local dvd releases would be an insult if these don't came out as Blue Ray as well in US