Haruhi & Full Metal Alchemist DVD Sales Upsets
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 2, 2009 21:47 JST
- Tags: Full Metal Alchemist, Haruhi, Kyoto Animation, Marketing, Otaku, Rankings
The sales figures for the Haruhi’s Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody DVD, the first of the “new material,” and the first of the remade Full Metal Alchemist DVDs, have been published.
Haruhi DVD “4” sold 21,812 in its first week, versus 28,729 for the very first DVD. Not a complete collapse, but hardly something which augurs well for the future, and probably the death knell for any future large-scale productions.
K-ON! by comparison has now nearly managed 50,000, demonstrating the age has truly shifted to that of K-ON!, which at least eschews an obnoxious protagonist and nonsensical storyline in favour of cheerfully vapid moe blobbery.
Far more of an upset is the dire performance of the Full Metal Alchemist remake – the first DVD sold a mere 12,578 copies, compared to 21,450 for the original, which went on to sell an abnormal 64,992 copies in total.
Even the pricey box set of the original series, cunningly released before the new series was on the scene, sold 14,544 in its first week.
With the ongoing ratings collapse for the TV broadcasts, its sales do not look set to improve…
The real question is of course how well the Endless Eight DVDs will do; anything less than a disastrous performance would be a damning indictment of the current state of the anime market and the otaku DVD collectors who drive it…
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I blame Endless Eight, FAGS!
Serves them right..
For the great sake of justice, i declare this article is FTW!!
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+1 How can they expect positive results after trolling like that?
>probably the death knell for any future large-scale productions
owh. we didn't want ~that~. we just wanted them to suffer for Endless Eight. why the hell they made this suicide??? well, at least they should know any further continuation of the series will be far better received (as at least there is no possibility of repeating the EE accident)
...And Prince said to Dahaka:
---DIE YOU BASTARD!
no possibility of repeating it? They said they want a goddamn Endless Eight movie...
If they have proven something with EE is that they CAN repeat mistakes, and they can do it 8 times!
"They said they want a goddamn Endless Eight movie..."
That sounded like a joke to me.
Hah,
Death of Haruhi.
Get real.
3 Years of total inactivity didn't kill it.
New Content will certainly not kill it.
Just wait and see for yourself. Everything dies with time and suicide normally accelerates the process.
haruhi-ism died a bit. three years of inactivity with its main medium (anime) and its original (novel) has left fans drifting off to other things. as for FMA, fuck remakes.
I think it's a matter of comparison & times. "Haruhi 2nd season" would've had more bump but no one expected the sexless & fuzzy "K-On!" to steal it's thunder over a month before new "Haruhi" aired.
I think Mio was a easier fit than Haruhi this summer. It's a case of "Old Cow vs New Cow".
=\ its a shame for full metal alchemist.. lower ratings.. and low sales.. makes us all wonder
the first dvd covers the same material as the first one so nobody's gonna buy something they already have, wait for it to diverge from the other to pick up sales, just like wait to see the endless eight dvd to release to see their sales drop
true.. I think the remake is getting more and more awesome for every episode now.
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Hope you are right. That would be the way things should be.
Let's wait until the first Endless Eight only DVD arrives...
well, for FMA i kinda agree with these numbers...
dunno if any1 agrees but the quality compared to the first version is worst to doom. Character desgns were weird, color pigments weird, speedtext storyboard was horrible....
the only thing i can say id like best in this new FMA is the "real chronological follow up" to the manga series...
despite that, the anime was simply not worth the remake...
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I never understood the hype around the first FMA adaptation.It was good while it followed the manga but after the storyline diverged, everything fell to the pits and became a melodramatic sob story (not that I hate that, it just didn't fit). That part was done decenly, so I had no complains, although no praises either.
But linking a fantasy world to reality is a bad idea generally, and that was done in the worst way possible in FMA.
Then they made Shamballa...
Cutting to the chase, the first series was fucked up in a really bad way by shitty scriptwriters.
It NEEDED a remake.
I haven't read the manga and don't know if it is better, but it cannot get worse than the first anime. That's all.
I agree wholeheartedly.
And honestly, I am getting sick of people saying 'it was already covered in the manga/first anime' because fans of the manga bitched when they diverged from the manga storyline... but now that there is a good adaptation they won't watch it because they already read it. I don't get it, apparently there is just no pleasing die-hard fans because they cry if you change the story but refuse to watch something if it is exactly the same.
I'd be interested to see if the current Fullmetal ratings deficiencies would at least be higher if you included the legitimate subbing and streaming by FUNimation. While ratings don't really include this outlet, I'd still like to think that english-speaking fans are giving a fair amount of support to the series, considering the success of the first rendition of FMA abroad.
Not only the English speaking community, in Europe its being officially streamed and subbed in every major language. Taking that into account would surely improve the figures, but you know how the Japanese are, they don't really give a flying fuck about what goes on abroad.
2ch and also ppl in here are dramatising the whole endless 8 is crap thing. it is disappointing given the success of the 1st series and the amount of time they've had to produce endless 8 arc. it could of been directed, plotted and drawn much better, but seriously it just turned out to be a below average anime... why hype it up?
agreed...
my opinion: they put too much faith in what was a legion of fans dying alive for any haruhi related stuff and got backfired...
its true that haruhi as well FMA were a real showdown when first aired but they cant espect that every boom anime will be a DBZ like thing that 100 years in the future, they will be still selling dvds rerererrerererererererre masterilised with a bonus and still get it right....
just my 2 cents
might happen with K-on too
i think this is exactly what the production company wants.... media attention.... ppl creating a stir.... think about it, if the anime was under a different name, no one, NO ONE would really talk about it....
The idea that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" only applies when the publicity isn't about your humiliating and costly failure.
With FMa it's fairly understandable. The first nine-ish episode are identical to the original, so those people who would rather skimp and save a bit for other things will likely just buy the ones that feature new content.
The article conveniently doesn't mention that even though the current Haruhi sales are less than the first "season's" sales, they still top the current DVD charts by a fair margin.
For comparison, volume 1 of HnG2 sale figures were at like 5000, DVD and Blu-Ray combined.
Death knell for furutre large scale productions? Give me a break...
Although yes, E8 figures will be extremely interesting to see.
The point is, it is potentially going down there, and so far, that is what it seems to show for now. Regarding about E8, i can so fucking bet they're trying to make every gimmick they could possibly throw for it before they release it just to make sure it still sells because i believe in KyoAni's dictionary, Haruhi = Milk Money, and Otakus = Haruhi.
remember, it is Kadokawa, not KyoAni who is trolling
KyoAni simply complied with Kadokawa's orders to produce E8
Still trying to save the reputation of that worthless anime?
Don't tell us what to think, Artefact.
How is clarifying who is at fault for making Haruhi suck equivalent to trying to save the reputation of the Haruhi anime?
He might actually agree that Haruhi is now worthless.
lol dont bother, we know Artefact has a blind hate for Haruhi, sure E8 sucked but the rest of the series (like Sighs) is a great watch.
Let him enjoy his moeblobs
It's okay, he's right.
Haruhi should have died a horrible, painful death a long time ago.
Go Artefact!
Hint: Haruhi was not directed by Kadokawa, it was directed by Kyoto Animation. And Yamakan never said anything about external pressure.
It is pretty obvious that the remaining Haruhi fans are attempting to shift the blame onto "evil" Kadokawa, and so preserve the reputation of Kyoto Animation and Haruhi as a whole.
Throughout history such excuses are rife, it is never the king but his wicked advisors...
Artefact i have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
Why the hell would anyone want to shift blame when we are getting novel 10?
There are still LOADS of Haruhi fans who enjoyed this rerun and arn't raging. Guaranteed that 90% of the people bitching have never watched Haruhi and are just doing it to troll.
Some Statistics for you?
I personally asked 584 people (Through MSN, Steam, Forums, ectra) who i knew had watched this rerun what they thought.
(I can provide evidence for all of the above)
Know how many dropped it?
1,
Know how many disliked it?
81
Know how many loved it or at least enjoyed it?
The rest.
This rerun won't kill Haruhi, you are just fooling yourself.
because a 584 person sample accurately represents the world right? i mean there's only a couple million anime watchers out there, so 584 has to be accurate.
E8 was a weird, fun, frustrating, imperfect piece of schtick. it was also one of the most bold experiments in anime history, if not the boldest. i can understand if you did not enjoy E8, but "RAGING" against it will only have a chilling effect on future experiments. and you can't complain about vapid moeblob anime if you're also complaining about paradigms that seek to challenge vapidity.
anime is so derivative and unoriginal in general, and now that we finally had a real experiment -- regardless of how successful it was -- you're going to try and punish them for it?
we should be giving kyoani a B+ for effort and an A for pure balls. this particular effort wasn't entirely successful, but it was brave and crazy and ballsy, and anime could stand to use a lot more of that.
nice close to a "thread" full of fail, stampede, without any sarcasm.
True. I mean, it's Haruhi. If they pulled this stunt with just any other series, the results would probably have been worse.
"anime can stand to use a lot more of that"
of WHAT? a company trying something new, but instead pissing off the loyal legions of fans who were expecting an anime actually worth their hard earned money and time?
they had PLENTY of material to work with, but instead they chose to extend a small story into 8 episodes... there's being brave... then there's being idiotic... do you actually think people like seeing the SAME exact thing over and over with little change what so ever... i mean think about it... do you think an audience would enjoy watching you stick your thumb up your ass for eight hours while standing in different positions? sure it might be entertaining and hilarious at first, but then the joke gets old...
stop trying to justify what they did as "brave" or a word like "effort"... EFFORT? what changing the character's choice of clothing for the day? BULLSHIT... there is no real EFFORT in that...
and as for the people still bitching for this show to fail and for Kadokawa to burn in hell or something like that... just stop... so I don't have to keep running into assholes who are attempting to make something terrible seem "ballsy" or "enjoyable"...
also 1 more thing.. WTF just shutup you fucking dumbass, there is no one... NO ONE who would personally go around asking 584 people there opinions, then after which tally up their remarks after carefully counting the positives and negatives... and it especially pisses me off when you talk like you ACTUALLY have proof of 584 people replying to you...
god damn bitches
support E8 = GAY
Goddamn, all eyes are on Endless Eight. The ones that weren't suckered into actually watching it, at least.
Moral of this news;
Don't repeat stories that people already watched, even if it's a remake or somewhat like "another POV" version.
We can easily plot a graph of DVD sales against Time/DVD Bundle #
Haruhi's sales will fall while FMA's will probably rise when the new material comes out. Now to get to drawing that graph.