The first volume of Bakemonogatari has gone on to sell an astonishing 56,000 copies in two weeks, the lion’s share in Blu-ray format.
The sales of the series have now beaten every other TV anime save various generic giant robot anime, crushing Haruhi and K-ON! completely, and with even more sales likely sales of 60-70,000 seem quite possible.
All this for an anime which was broadcast with whole scenes missing due to the rather extreme production schedule Shaft seems to enjoy…
A rare case of the Japanese liking something I like.
I’m glad to see this is doing well it the best show of the season, no wait, the year!
bakemonogatari is the picasso works of anime!!
so beautiful and deep yet rejected n misunderstood by most who cannot comprehend it.
so sad you shonen action people..
picasso just cried in his grave
ah forgot to buy mine!
I actually think the text flashes etc are one of my favourite things about this anime, they are after all, intentional. But they ran out of man power and time for episode 10, but that was only one episode out of the 12 others (and in a few months, 15) that had amazing animation and art style. I just adore how abstract it is at times, it’s amazing!
Here’s hoping they animate Kizumonogatari and all the other monogatari light novels.