
Japanese gamers asked to identify the games they shed the most tears over have once again provided a list of top RPGs, and, of course, Clannad…
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A survey asking manga fans which titles they would like to see continued anew even after concluding yields some not entirely unsurprising results, although in some cases it is hard to see how the events of the story lend themselves to any continuation…
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The latest weekly Anime DVD Sales rankings have been released by Oricon, highlighting the many mecha fans that are purchasing the flood of Gundam 30th Anniversary re-releases of classic Gundam titles, and of course the immense popularity of anything directed by Miyazaki.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2009 19:02 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, K-ON!, Kadokawa, Kyoto Animation, Moe, Oricon, Rankings, Records, TV

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.
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A survey of the top ten manga the Japanese would like to see left to posterity reveals the paragon of literary greatness in comic form is apparently a basketball manga, and that future generations might be disappointed should they happen not to like shonen manga…
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- Author: Quen
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 24, 2009 03:49 JST
- Tags: K-ON!, Marketing, Mio Akiyama, Music, Oricon, Otaku, Rankings, Seiyuu, Yui

The two image song singles for K-ON!’s Mio Akiyama and Yui Hirasawa, recently released, have rapidly rocketed to the top of the Oricon national music rankings, grabbing the #2 and #3 spots, respectively.
This follows on the heels of the wild success of the show’s three earlier singles, Cagayake! GIRLS and Don’t say “lazy”, as well as the insert song Fuwa Fuwa Time, all of which danced around the Top 6 at various times over the last 2 months, with the first two even claiming the top 2 spots for a period.
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The sales rankings for the first weeks of this June have become available, and as always prove interesting to examine, giving us a good look into what series are currently dominating.
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Storied seiyuu Nana Mizuki recently made history by being the first seiyuu ever to achieve a number one album on Orican’s definitive Japanese charts.
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Girl band anime K-On!‘s most recent single release, ふわふわ時間 / Fuwa Fuwa (Fluffy) Time currently stands on the #3 spot on Oricon’s weekly single charts since it’s release last Wednesday, continuing K-On!’s extraordinarily successful position on Japan’s music charts.
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A recent poll by Oricon asked manga fans to rank their favorite manga supporting characters, with Dragonball’s Krillin and One Piece’s Zoro taking the 1st and 2nd spots, respectively.
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A recent survey conducted by Japan’s chart masters Oricon asked participants which manga they would most like to see made into a live action film.
The results are bound to disturb some, although several answers do seem reasonable…
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These are the sales rankings for anime DVDs as compiled by Oricon for the week of Feb. 6 2009. In addition, the much longed for availability of BD sales rankings is slowly arriving, albeit still lacking exact sales numbers and being reported with a significant delay.
It has been some time since we last covered sales rankings of this sort, but as the latest weekly rankings chart is quite similar to those of recent weeks, it does succinctly demonstrate what sort of releases are popular and being purchased on the streets of Japan currently.
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