Official: Evangelion Better Than Michael Jackson
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 2, 2010 13:21 JST
- Tags: Asuka Langley, Blu-ray, Evangelion, Mari, Marketing, Oricon, Records, Rei Ayanami
Surpassing initial expectations, Evangelion 2.22 has outsold even the mouldering corpse of Michael Jackson to become the best selling Blu-ray ever.
Oricon statistics show that in its first week the movie’s Blu-ray release sold a magnificent 357,000 copies, the best selling Blu-ray ever in Japan – the runner up being the zombie prince of pederasty Michael Jackson, with his posthumously released “This Is It” garnering only a pathetic 351,000 copies.
Combined DVD and Blu-ray sales are already said to have reached 640,000 – the best selling “anime” anime of all time, and the 14th best selling anime ever – only mass market Ghibli and Disney animation boasts higher sales in Japan.
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I rewatched Eva multiple times...I deny the fact of "Time wasted" cos' I enjoyed re-watching
Maybe he was messed up, maybe he had some moral issues, but that doesn't mean that his songs are bad. I don't care who's singing a good song as long as they're singing it...they did sing it....Still, whether he was innocent or not, whoever accused him still won by ruining his reputation forever.
Still, I'm happier to hear that Evangelion will still likely be remembered for another 25 years....It's not like there's going to be another recent anime that'll become a bigger classic. Everything's just so forgettable nowadays.
i like to think of it like this. If Eva can beat "this is it" international sales then I'll be impressed. as of now it just mean it's the shit in Japan. which really doesn't affect me at all
So in japan an anime movie is succesful. . . is that suposed to be a surprise?
When international sales make that much sales, now that would be something. . .
But is not going to happen anytime soon... especially with people that are already downloading this movie.
And why numbers are supouse to mean that something is better? by that logic Jersey Shore must be a hell of a show, right?
Dude, brutal analogy.
Asuka looks delicious in that pic.
Evangelion wins of course!
Even best anime BD in first week (Gundam Unicorn) only sold 56k..
Eva sells 357k.. about 7x!
Keep in mind Gainax has been milking Eva far more than Bandai has been milking Gundam.
But you know what we still need? Gunbuster mechandise.
My anime-hating, stereotype-believing, Michael Jackson -loving, need-to-watch-NGE-denying, douchebag friend of mine just raged at this news. :D
“This Is It” garnering only a pathetic 351,000 copies.
Pathetic, really now?
I prefer the ending to The End of Evangelion better. That was seriously cool. Best anime ever.
definitely need to watch the rebuild of eva :D
"Evangelion Better Than Michael Jackson"
Captain obvious to the rescue!
I liked Neon Genesis Evangelion. I thought it was a pretty good show but I can't help but think it's only popular in Japan because of Rei and Asuka.
enjoy it one way or another, who cares why its popular.
"...it's only popular in Japan because of Rei and Asuka."
- is there a problem with it ? :)
Maybe the Yaoi fan girls are buying it because of Shinji and Kaoru.
That line of logic dictates that the Yuri fans buy it for the RitsukoXMaya pairing. It's a win-win situation for all involved. ^^
Man, you gotta love Artefact's sophisticated troll-style in his articles. Keep up the good work
i like more the new shinji more than the past emo shinji,its like a shinji after hearing the speech of touma in index ep 6, the girls personalities are meh in the rebuild,they are now more the generic kind of tsundere and emotionless girls.
In JAPAN....
Anything is better than Michael Jackson.
357k = "magnificent"
351k = "pathetic"
2%
Didn't Vin Diesel's most famous character say something like "by an inch or a mile, winning is winning."
You know what you're right. They won Japan but they hadn't won the world.
International music icon > Popular anime series.
I'll point out that anime = niche. But still I'm proud to be one of the demograph.
/sarcasm
2% difference only..
2% in only ONE WEEK, give it 8 months (how long "This is it" has been out) and then lets talk numbers again.
Considering Pop reaches more audiences vs Anime it isn't far off the mark.
How funny is it that 1 of those things is not so secretly all about the molestation of little boys while the other is not so secretly about sheer child neglect and abuse of little boys and girls, including the mental molestation of a 14 year old girl? I guess loli girl abuse > loli boy abuse, which is why Equality Now isn't throwing a fit for all thsoe poor little boys who are victims of sexual predation.
If I hear one more mention of Equality Now in a topic that has nothing to do with it, I will shoot a bitch.
Equality Now is made up of feminists. Feminists only look out for women.
omg shut up
I like Evangelion and Michael Jackson so this is good news.
That's kinda... cruel against Michael, isn't it?
Against who now?
btw Eva remake was friggin awesome!!! :D
imma bite mah tongue on that one
It doesnt matter... Michael's music is going to be around for at least 50 years more. . .
That evangelion movies si going to be forgotten once they remake it in 4 years.
Or in layman's terms, forever, because the music never dies.
Don't stop till you get enough.
Good Animes Comes And Goes, But Evangelion Stays Eternal...
too all the people arguing about Michael. about 1/3 still hates him for being a pedo and other scandalous news. ad 2/3 still adore him for the pop sensation that he is...
either way he is famous and infamous.
1/3 of those ppl refuse to appoint him the title of king of pop because of their morals.
in my eyes all i can say is he changed the music world. and if ppl like artefect can still compare him to evangelion than he is still making an impact on the world.
Its funny how the guy that only talks about ''loli action this and that'' is trying to insult Michael with the word ''pederasty''. . .
Why dont we talk about who is better when the creator of evangelion dies and brokes the internet?
You don`t even know who "the creator of Evangelion" is? Hint: his initials are H.A.
Do you know how MJ got his unique singing style? No?
He had a lot of hemorrhoids, so when dancing to music every sudden movement caused much pain down there, making him let out those hiccup and swallowing noises. Reason for his hemorrhoids?
He was a sou-uke for all male family members in 15 years.
Too soon.
There's something wrong with you guys comparing Evangelion to Michael Jackson sales. Hes the king of pop way before most of us were even born. Even huge debuts with The Jacksons. Thats History. So if you think about it, most of his adoring fans would not be into the present tech like bluray.
hrm
king of pop
pop what?
Actually if they're fanatical fans, they'd buy it as a collectible and/or to see their favourite idol in crystal clear HD.
Drop that Crystal Clear phrase. It has been used repeatedly since Beta cassette. BD has the best picture quality just now, but are you sure technical development has reached it`s end?
by TODAY'S standards, and relative to all other current forms of video, BD is as "crystal-clear" as it's going to get anytime soon (as in, in the next year or so, at least). Heck, back in the days of Beta Cassette, we thought that was as good as it was going to get. And the Atari 2600, everyone thought that that was the epitome of gaming. And look where we are now.
There's no problem with calling BD "crystal-clear", because, for all WE'RE concerned TODAY, it IS "crystal-clear."
Remember that theres a lot of anime fans in japan that maybe buyed 10 copies of the same movie. . . so maybe we have to change those numbers
but it seems that just Haruhi and K-ON fans are such idiots
I'm old enough to remember him way back then. And yeah, I hated him back then. I thought he was shit, his music is shit and mindless worship by the unwashed masses of his shit music is shit.
R.I.P. M.J.
You know you got alot of anger issues there buddy. Simmer down a bit. Just say you hate R & B Music, Period. You don't have to go all psycho on us, because you hate the guy.
I'm going to pray for you anonymous...
maybe you need to go back taking your pills or something.
I dunno, people sure been getting racial lately everywhere I go.
Maybe I didn't explain myself. I didn't hate the MAN, I hated the God-status that the mindless unwashed seemed to have held him, (and still do). To be fair I think all celebrity worshippers are idiots.
"I'm going to pray for you anonymous..."
Please don't, we don't need your wasted breath.
Except that there was no mention of race anywhere in that comment...
King of pop, been around for 40 some years...351,000 copies.
Evangelion, been around for 16 years... 357,000 copies.
I can see how pointless it is.
Yeah.... economic necrophilia is such an excellent example to go by. <_<
Economic necrophilia....I never thought of it that way....o.O
Yeah but we are talking about a MOVIE against a video of the rehearsals that were not meant to be seen!
Its like comparing a complete volume of a manga against a storyboard of a half a volume!
And the dvd sold 1.5 millions of copies anyway!
Hmmm... indeed, another demostration of anime's power. Can't wait for the DVD and Blu-Ray to be released worldwide; it will be an even higher mass selling product, a quality mass selling product.
This topic seems to be in rather poor taste. Mouldering corpse? Yeah... : /
I don't like MJ but Evangelion has been a mouldering corpse for much longer than he is now.
Huh? How many millenniums in the future are you from? I too find nothing in MJ, but I just don't get your statement about Eva. :/?
guess ur in the wrong place d:
lol
Too soon? Yeah, too soon.
more like inaccurate, plastic doesn't go mouldy
Very poor taste I'm actually disappointed
Go back to licking your CDs.
I was wondering if you were serious about calling him a pedophile. Fact of the matter is, people had been caught in a lie at least twice over if not counting one kid who had been outed in a televised report via Hard Copy. Of all of the misinformation you're notorious for, I didn't think you'd actually be this ignorant. Least of which irreverent.
Misinformation? If you can't accept that he was absolutely crazy that's your problem, saying the contrary hardly constitutes misinformation.
So you admit he's crazy?
Way to dodge the point. I'm referring chiefly to your accusations of pederasty.
MJ's a frickin pedophile.. and a shotacon at that. Why?? Why are a lot of male pedophiles shotacons??? Sucks for him though.. I probly would've at least (not hated) MJ if he was a lolicon..
Anyway he's sick, he's crazy, he's gay, he's pedo and he's plastic.
He was crazy for sure, but we don't know if he was a pedophile and I'd lean towards not.
Winning that court case counts for a lot to us neutral to the issue.
Artefact, i really support you in this case. MJ was one of most mentally sick and false celebrities i have ever seen. I liked him in Jackson Five, he was a fun little boy then, and sang much better than later. What happened after that? Too much very bad drugs?
lol
I don't even like Michael Jackson (neither his music or him as a person). That doesn't mean this topic isn't in seriously poor taste.
The only shocking thing here is how all you pederast worshippers are blinded by his saintly status. I had less criticism from pointing out Mohammed's lolicon history.
I support Artefact. MJ? Yack! Even a living one.
I found it funny. MARI0 is the only one making a big deal out of it.
They many lolicons in the good ol' days/
i see nothing wrong with it.
Muhammad is awesome.
and so was hezekiah.
check it out child brides
look they have pics
http://www.answering-christianity.com/childbrides_rebuttal.htm
If you're looking for worshipful treatment of celebrities you'll not find it here.
Unless the celebritie is named aya hirano
Celebrity status has nothing to do with it. You're just being a dick, and trying to justify it. Doesn't look like you have a lot of support on this either. Shocking? Not really. -_-
3D celebrities, anyway.
Give me a break. Evangelion is played out.
I never stop laughing at how people hate on Eva. As a fan of the original, and a fan of rebuild, I think Eva as a whole is quite awesome. Though I don't necessarily think one is better than the other, I prefer Rebuild Shinji. The old one.......kind of pissed me off too often.
shutup noob... go watch ur moe blobz.
I thought Eva was out too, before i saw movies 1 and 2 in BD.
I do find it funny how the articles says "only 350,000+ sales". That's pretty damn beastly in Japan.
You seriously need a break man...
Just beat it.
are those Anonymouses the same person?
The plural of anonymous is anonymice.
@Darkrockslizer: I agree with you. New plots, fight scenes and angels which are unexpected are seriously awesome~~ It'd suck if they just remade it the exact way it was before. But just like the anime with the manga, the original was different from the remake, and I'm seriously LOVING the remake!!
P.S. Loved the added scene where Asuka first met Penpen X) Just like Shinji
so 351k is pathetic?... Then the Evangelion is at least 98.31% pathetic. douch
I think all these anons are DFC in disguise...
...
only an idiot give comment as being replayed ...
because in movie 1.01 and mainly 2.22 it's DIFFERENT than the original anime ...
who cares about anything ...
as long as it's good, then it's good ...
and I said that this Eva 2.22 movie is the best I have ever seen in many years ...
(unless they make 3.0 even better)
AnonAnon here,
OW~!
I saw 2.2 today.
Even though it's a 3rd different retelling of the same story, I enjoyed it better than if I'd simply have to re-watch a better animated same thing all over again.
I mean, new angels, tsunami of BLOOD... awesome.
Hasbro
Oh hells yeah. Lemme moonwalk first brah.
DONT TAZE ME BRO
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just BEAT IT.
BEAT IT
BEAT IT
BEAT IT
(It's a song about fapping)
I agree to a certain extent. Rebuild is amazing, but definitely not on par to the hype I've read about it. Maybe it's the fact that they made Shinji so cheery and watered down Asuka's emotions. I mean I hardly felt anything for her when...stuff happened to her.
They watered down pretty much all the characters' unlikable properties really, even Rei is showing her emotions much more often.
It doesn't mean it's less enjoyable at all, I mean look at all the eyecandy of the battles for one and a lot of the scenes they remade in somewhat funny ways. I highly approve of the new movie series.
Now compare this to that atrocious Ghost in the Shell 2.0 movie 'remake', yeah.
yeah, the nauseous 'innocence' flick with all that corpse green was then infected into the original to "tie" them up. I'm grateful they still left in the Original for the blu-ray as a offhand hand-me-down~
I'm even more grateful that they made a tv show! ... though they went back to that oshii dude for ideas in the sequel.. I can't imagine that man has finally grown out of his anti- government/American yet.
You need to screw that loose head in, tight.
I would have said the same thing after the series and Death and Rebirth, but not for this tetralogy.
Good remake is good!
Death was an epic movie. End of Evangelion did lack something, though.
@Hentai_Jp: No.
Death, kind of a short version of the first 24 episodes of EVANGELION, but in another order and with classical music. That one was epic.
End of Evangelion, pretty much everyone dies. Lots of action, but still.. there's something missing. I like the way Shinji acts all through the series, so it's not his balls that are lacking. Still,... but I can't point it out.
If you think those are spoiler you are mistaken. Anyone who didn't know that can't blame anyone but himself.
After watching Eva series and then trying the end of Eva movie, I also thought something was wrong. Just none of the characters seemed to retain their personalities; it all seemed so forced. Truthfully, I didn't even bother finishing the movie due to disapointment =/
Honestly, the 'End of Evangelion' was the closet Gainex ever got to completing the original tv show. In case you have never seen it or have forgotten much of all within like the creator who laid all those lovely cool ideas in the middle and Dumped them.
One of the last teasers showed Misato on the floor with a trail of blood on the wall with Ritsuko face forward in the water... and then we get emo boys' deluded ending~
am i the only one that prefers the original end to eva (the tv end) over the movie?
more than that, am i the only one that got it?
that said, the only end for eva that is better than the tv ent is, funnily enough, made not made by eva people.
RE-Take
read it all if you never had, its evas best end.
"am i the only one that prefers the original end to eva (the tv end) over the movie?
more than that, am i the only one that got it?"
You are (not) alone, Sir alidan.
What you read isn't wrong, but was addressed to people who didn't know how to take the TV-Ending. They were told to not think too hard about it and just watch the action movie they were about to get. Of course, they couldn't understand the ending of that one too.
Some were even claiming, that End of Evangelion was something like punishment for the fans, which is, of course, ridiculous.
iv read before that the movie was a remake of the end because of how much people didnt like it. and that if you want to watch it to forget the last 2 episodes.
granted i could be wrong.
I also prefer the TV-series ending, but asking if anyone got it is the wrong question. People see different things in the ending, given they see something in it in the first place. I saw the completion of the human instrumentality project, which united every persons thoughts. I saw the same in End of Evangelion, but I liked the inner point of view more. There the conclusion was more obvious. The movie only showed what was explained in the TV-Series.
End of Eva just lacked some uncensored GANGBANG action!
Yea, a pair of balls for Shinji.
Don't you mean the other way around?
I don't see it as being played out, they made the series, then redid the ending, made a directors cut and that's about it. Other than a couple of manga series they haven't really touched it in years, I'm not including figures and stuff cause that doesn't add to the Evangelion Universe in any way.
The Rebuild Movies are great in my opinion, they cut out a lot of the pointless BS and are much more streamlined. Plus they look great.
One thing I don't really get about 2.22 though is; they show Rei's nipples but not Asuka's. That kinda made me scratch my head a little.
First Asuka then Rei
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5369/22209.png
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2172/22215.png
Then another for good measure
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2230/eva22207.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6114/eva22206.jpg
I'm not even sure it IS a remake. Kaworu says "I'll make you happy this time, Shinji", implying he's got some knowledge about the other series. For all we know, it could all just be one rlybig Higurashi copy.
Again.
Watch the teaser of the 24th episode again and come back and apologize to everyone about your lying your kandy ass off about "redid"ing anything. The Gainex crew went back to the ORIGINAL endings and made a Final movie out of it!
Funny how in 2.22, Touji says that he's unlucky when he sees the popsicle stick, cuz in the original anime, he was the one supposed to be piloting Eva 05, not Asuka. There're a lot of little stuff like that in the remake which are awesome to discover
You're just being picky there. Whether or not End of Evangelion was the "ORIGINAL" intended ending or not, the fact is it wasn't produced during the original airing of the show (due to time and budget constraints). Thus they Redid the ending they created for the show and replaced it with the different "ORIGINAL" ending that the writer had intended to have rap up the series.
As it stands the original Eps 25 and 26 take place mostly in the psyches of the main characters. While EoE takes place in the real world. It can be viewed as either an alternate reality all together or as an account of what was happening in the real world at the time everyone was loosing their final grips on sanity.
So ya; a remake is a remake, even if the remake was the intended outcome from the start.
Eva Rocks!!! It's all about Asuka!!