Evangelion 2.22 Sells 320,000 on First Day Alone
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2010 02:56 JST
- Tags: Asuka Langley, Blu-ray, Evangelion, Mari, Marketing, Movies, Oricon, Records, Rei Ayanami
The DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance has proven a record-breaking success, with a total of 320,000 copies being sold on the first day alone.
Oricon is reporting the Blu-ray edition sold 195,000 copies, and the DVD 124,000 on the opening day, setting a new record for BD sales at the expense of the previous daily sales record holder, the late Michael Jackson. It may be on track to become one of Japan’s top selling Blu-ray discs of all time.
To date, the preceding Evangelion 1.* releases have sold 521,000, suggesting the sequel is already on track for exceeding those already impressive figures by a substantial margin. Late night anime are lucky to sell 10,000 copies, further illustrating the gulf between Evangelion and most other non-Ghibli anime.
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Kaoru said "This time I will, at least, make you happy." Is that mean this event happen once before ?
It means he wants to get it on with Shinji
a lot of fans speculate Rebuild is a sequel of EoE when Shinji decided to come back into the old reality ,accept the pain and do better next time
i myself also believe in this not only because Kaworu is always talking like it has happened before but because of the blood trail on the moon (left by the big Rei in EoE) and other graphical hints like that
and since there's only episodes 20-24 left to cover with the next 2 movies i belive we'll get a movie and a half time of the "new end" or maybe there'll be no end after all and everyone will live happily ever after >_>;;
If memory serves me right, FLCL and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann where quite successful.
DO WANT!!!! hurry the hell up funimation!!
I WATCHED THE MOVIE TODAY!!!I HAVENT'T WATCHED A MOVIE LIKE DAY FOR A LONG TIME!!!!, I REALLY LOVE IT, I WANT TO WATCH THE 3RD MOVIE NOW!!!,BEST ANIME MOVIE FOR A LONG TIME!!
Awsome, some of the anime stores here in Los Angeles have it for sale as well.
Impossible
Good movie, highly recommended
What's good about it?
It's sad that Gainax was never able to produce another hit, but instead is content to continue milking money off the Evangelion franchise.
The movie will probably be a flop if it didn't have the Evangelion name. It's like Square-Enix, they can't produce anything that can sell except Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
"It's sad that Gainax was never able to produce another hit..."
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
How is this series still alive? Seriously.
>>How is this series still alive
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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Only newfags and illiterate teenagers can call regurgitated rewrites 'better'. I don't give a damn what artistic excuse the studio uses to justify it, the only reason stories are ever retold in the information age is to milk them for more money.
See as: Walt Disney Corporation or any Hollywood remake of a 30-40-50 year old title.
Mari smelling at Rei's hair? I find that kinda hot.
I was in Akiba when this was released. The entire 2 weeks before hand, the stupid song was playing at every Lamtarra, Animate, Asobitcity....it made we wanna put a bullet in my head.
I understand why they want a Blu Ray delay, but why not go ahead with the DVD in North America? I didn't like the TV series, but I loved 1.0, and it's fucking frustrating that it's out in Japan, but probably only in the pre-production phase in North America. Assuming Funimation even has the license yet. Why do the Japanese companies have to be so hardass about this?
Totally baffled by all the haters taking a swipe at everyone that watched and enjoyed this series.
You want to diss its cheap story, shallow characters, cliched plot devices? Fare enough. But what I resent is lazy generalization of ALL people as the epitome of what they hate.
Every fandom has its rotten apples, be it Haruhi, K-ON, Gundam, Macross, etc, but
Having personally seen it in a cinema, I and many others can confirm that there were thunderous applause and hardly a boo as soon as THAT post-credit scene plus stunning preview. Surely Anno Hideaki must have done something right to make rabid fanboys (AND fangirls), both old school and "newfags", "illiterate teenagers", etc, to gladly part with their cash for what was SUPPOSED to be a rehash of a story they know by the back of their hand.
It's like providing a service, and those coming back are loyal customers delightfully surprised that the service they've normally expected has now gone better.
Ordered long ago from play-asia on Blu-ray and it was shipped yesterday.
I watched this last night it was awesome , now just the long wait for the next one to come out
If only it was available in other countries, I'll buy this in a heartbeat, really
Nice Eva, you're the best anime
Wow, that's some asskicking!
Sasuga Evangelion.
man even watching a cam/sub of this movie was epic. cannot wait to see it on blu-ray!
Its all downhill from here on.
The end is near
More to the point, is any decent subbing group going to 720p this? My stone-age graphics card just isn't gonna be able to take 1080p.
Just open it with a video editor and save it as 720x1280.
You don't have to have the latest videocard to watch FullHD. 1080p playback is completely fine with quadcore and integrated (!) video card. That said, my P4 HT 3.2GHz lags 1080p as hell even with fully DXVA-compatible Radeon 4770.
Buy a dualcore.
I want to buy a multicore soon, but not 'till june, so a decent 480p rip would be great for now.
It sold well? There is no mistake there.
I also saw it in cam version. The movie is excellent! Much better then the serialization!! The story makes more sense. The new character, Mary, is excellent too...
That Bluray is going to be mine too! I can't wait to have it!! I hope they continue like this for the third input...
eva sux...
You have no soul.
10000 copies? How do they... oh right, figurines.
This is how crazy some people are.....yet again i am on board with them.
Heh, someone will be swimming in delicious japanese Yen soon. Maybe now they'll finally get that Evangelion live action movie done...
No-fucking-thank-you to a live Eva movie. Somethings just don't translate well to the screen. I believe Eva to most certainly be one of them.
People really are FUCKING RETARDED to buy the same shit again and again...
With hollywoods money and staff that made second movie possible an actual life action Evangelion might be quite good. But if they hire some unknown-wanna-be-big yankee who's best achievement is directing childs play. Then the movie will suck balls.
As for second instalment of eva, it kicked ass.
Better make something new on the same level of "epicness", than "use and reuse" the same story.
I kind of agree, but think about it this way. Imagine Mari's part at the end with Asuka instead. That would have been pretty epic in its own right. Then again the preview after the credits make it seem to be worth it.
"Maybe now they'll finally get that Evangelion live action movie done..."
I hope not. Hollywood has proven that they can't make decent live action adaptions of anime series and I doubt that Eva would be an exception.
agree agree all the way
I swear, if they make a live action movie, it meant WAR!!!!
After the continuing success of Evangelion a live action movie (or probably several) is only a metter of time... -_-
"...with a mostly international cast and Hollywood can't attach any 'glamour-celebs'..."
Do you actually believe they wouldn't? This is hollywood we're speaking about. You can bet anything that characters wouldn't even keep their names, Rei would be "Ray", Asuka-> "Rose" and Misato-> "Susan"
I want Erika Toda to be Asuka!! Think "Eva" could be done right if the same attention to story & fans that was paid to "Harry Potter" & "LOTRs" was given to it.
The Technologies already here. As long as it's made "over seas" with a mostly international cast and Hollywood can't attach any 'glamour-celebs'. It should be fine.
One Name!- J.J. Abrams should do "Evangelion"
@Gantz_Playboy: "J.J. Abrams" - so you want a fucked up hollywood style evangelion live action ?
Evangelion must remain an anime. Otherwise they will fuck it.
It would be a 120% success if they make it into hardcore loli sex!
Let's just hope they don't sell out to Hollywood then. Nobody needs the story of The Chosen One, who has to pilot The Chosen One's Giant Robot to kill Monsters That Want To Kill Everyone For Some Reason.
Hope I can get a decent rip later this week ^_^
how dare these people even contest Michael Jackson!!
If it ever does get into production...
For the love of everything that is sacred and holy, please don't screw it up, again...
I actually liked the Saikano Live Action. I saw it as an alternative universe to the manga and the anime, which, to be fair, were different to each other again. Out of all three I preferred the anime, with the live action and manga coming second...
HARR! A pirate!
Even the Japanese live actions are not always successful. For example, there is the Saishuu Heiki Kanojo live action movie... If you saw it and the anime or read the manga, you know what am I speaking about.
It's honestly heartwarming to see sales being good for such things. I'm sick and tired of what piracy is causing, and people have the gall to think it makes them special, and it's their right to cause companies who make good stuff fail and die because they're poor. That's all it means when we pirate and don't support the stuff we love: we're poor and lazy. That's all it means.
I torrent fansubbed anime and treat it as "This is on TV now." Once I watch something on TV and love it, like Firefly, I buy it because I love it and want to own it. The same goes for anime. I buy all the series I loved. And I sincerely hope the under-20s generation comes to understand what the rampant piracy really is doing. Pretending that you heard somewhere that piracy is helping in the end really is just a made up story a bunch of people said to justify their being stingy. Yes it helped, years ago, when anime didn't exist here. Please stop pretending it's the same thing as then, it really is disgusting.
The Eva movie was going to be made by ADV, which no longer exists. The people behind it claim it's still going forward, but I don't believe it. I bet it's dead.
Evangelion is a license to rake in money...
How did it become so popular? 'Cause of how early it was released?
I've already preordered my German version of the 2.22 blu-ray a month ago, but I'll have to wait three more months until the official release to get it. ;_;
hopefully the syncros are better than some TV dubs
It's a bit reatarded how they're still trying to sqeeze money from that series, only making the anime itself looking worse in the precess.
Neon Genesis Evangelion >> Rebuild of Evangelion
You couldn't be more wrong.
Of course the TV Anime looks worse cuz compared to Rebuild it doesn't stand a chance. Quality over Quantity my frend (>.<)
"...precess..."
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings...
It's all about seeing more of Misato, Rei and Asuka. Who cares about what's better than what? I never understood the story anyway!
Now give me my 1080p Misato fanservice!
I think this remake/retake on the Evangelion franchise is pretty well done. I watched Evangelion 1.01 and was mildly impressed with how they reinterpreted the characters.
Hopefully, they'll shortly come out with the *legal* DVD/Blu-Ray with English subtitles for us clueless Americans.
I'm looking forward to this one. ^^
The logical thing to do would have been for Funimation to the a copy of the storybord and the Japanese dialogue, so they could have a dub ready by now.
That unfortunately is wishfull thinking.
Blurays are cheaper in the US than Japan, and since they also share the same region code, the fear is a lot of Japanese would simple import the dics back.
This is also why there is no problem being released early in Germany and Hongkong.
@ Anon 15:01 :
o Region 1 - The U.S., U.S. territories and Canada
o Region 2 - Europe*, Japan, Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland
o Region 3 - Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong
o Region 4 - Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean
o Region 5 - Russia (former USSR), Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia
o Region 6 - China
* European Region 2 DVDs may be sub-coded D1 through D4.
"D1" identifies a UK-only release.
"D2" and "D3" identify European DVDs that are not sold in the UK and Ireland.
"D4" identifies DVDs that are distributed throughout Europe.
Source:
http://www.barrel-of-monkeys.com/graphics/prod/dvdplayers/world-regions.shtml
@ Anon 16:57
Those are DVD regions.
Bluray regios are
B/1 The Americas, and their dependencies, East Asia (except China and Mongolia), and Southeast Asia.
B/2: Africa, Southwest Asia, Europe (except Belarus, Russia and Ukraine), Australia, New Zealand, and their dependencies.
C/3: Central Asia, East Asia (China and Mongolia only), South Asia, Eastern Europe, and their dependencies.
Funi said that each Eva movie has separate licensing contracts so that's going to cause a lot of delays. To make matters worse, Gainax said they wanted the US bluray to have a large lag time behind the Japanese one, too.
Stupid Japanese studios. *shakes fist*
The realization that the Rebuild movies are a sequel and not a remake is still giving me a splitting headache...
I think your splitting headache is causing a typo.
The realization is that the "Rebuild" tetralogy ARE remakes. >_>
It is not certain that it is. The only hint is that Kaworu speaks of the events as if he has relived them before.
As soon as the thought crossed my mind, a LOT of things suddenly made more sense, so I'm leaning towards it being true.
Yeah, Kaworu seems to be the only entity that knows this isn't the first iteration of these events.
There's also the line of blood across the moon, and the fact that the lance is on the moon. (Along with, some say, the original Unit 01.)
Others have also speculated that the roughly EVA-sized 'chalk outline' shown in the opening of the first movie could mark the crucified remains of one of the Mass Production EVA Units from EoE. (And really, what other explanation is there for it?)
With these things in mind, the red oceans are a little harder to dismiss as just being 'something they changed'.
There's fewer Angels, why?
All the characters are a little 'better' now; Misato seems less broken, Shinji actually mans-up on occasion and gets shit done, Rei is starting to show actual emotions and more attempts at human interaction, Asuka isn't as bitchy, and even Gendo is ever-so-slightly less of an asshole.
Now, these last two are either completely unrelated to this theory and just a writing decision, or show that this new reality is just that much closer to being 'happy' and ideal.
The general theory being that Shinji rejected Instrumentality /so hard/ that it actually rebooted everything, and this seemingly just-a-little-better reality is the result.
Ah man...you mean to tell me these aren't remakes? Fuck...I don't even want to think this through, but my brain has already started down the path....
"Now, these last two are either completely unrelated to this theory and just a writing decision, or show that this new reality is just that much closer to being 'happy' and ideal."
Anno Hideaki, the creator, admitted the gloomy mood of the original series was based on his own personal experience of falling into depression years before.
I guess after years of raking in money has made him a much happier man, and so decided his characters deserve better as well, hence why Shinji has now manned-up impressively and Rei is less of a lifeless doll. :)
Lets hope this movie is worth the money.
Me too...I want to see how the new girl compares to kick-ass Asuka...
Decide fast, she doesn't get much screen time.
there are 2 movies left for us to see but they kinda ruined it for me a lot with the second movie
everyone is so different and out of character :/
it's gonna be like Gunbuster and Diebuster
with Gunbuster being epicly awsome and Diebuster being a FABULOUS fanservice fest for the masses
Weak story, characters, acting and pretty much everything else. Overhyped. One has to be either a social reject or mentally retarded to like this film.
y u so mad?
Because I wasted my whole evening on this crap. The film "Love & Pop" from the same director is much better.
"One has to be either a social reject or mentally retarded to like this film"
Otakus and hikis ?? :)
and how many hours before it's ripped and available for FREE DL on many sites?
Why is there a third girl? Is she like a technician or trap or something? I haven't watched Eva in years
I've seen it up for download (ripped and fansubbed) already.
The Hong Kong version will have English subs. You should be able to trick your PC into playing it.
I know what the top honchos at the stores are saying now about this successful sale of Evangelion 2.22:
"This is It~"
*rofl*
Nice to see japanese otaku are still obsessed with the most overrated anime ever. I bet most of them bought the full season of k-on with it and a strategy guide for love plus.
Oh yes and rahXephon is basically Eva, except with a good story and good characters that don't spend 90% of their dialog being whiny, emo, annoying brats.
if youre gonna attempt taking a swipe at one of the most universally praised examples of the genre, dont try to compare it to something shitty. or anything at all for that matter.
If you understand what film is all about and look for a decent story, you'll be very disappointed with this title. Predominance of form over content. Just some colorful pixels and occasionally suggestive shots of girls. They should have made it a hentai, it would be much more entertaining.
Just because something is "universally praised" it doesn't mean it's good. There's a lot of creepy otaku out there rating stuff. (see -> above)
And you call Eva overrated... RahXephon put me to sleep, zzzz....
Yeah, it literally put me to sleep, though I have to admit I was against watching it because it looked like Eva splashed with the sillier bits of Macross...
You had a good thing going there until you set yourself up the bomb by mentioning rahXephon. Bwahahaha!
I'll hold off buying it until after they release an international version with English subs.
I'm sure sales would double at the very least the instant they do that.
anyone know when it will be out for retail in the US?
Make Evangelion RE-TAKE movies :)
I never understood the appeal of RE-TAKE. It struck me as sappy wish-fulfillment fanfiction.
"Marry me, Shinji-kun; I'm carrying your child."
It would be good because it's a sequel to EOE and not only the same things again. And because no one would think that EOE can have a sequel.