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…
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Good for Shaft. Bakemonogatari was one of the best, if not the best anime of last season.
More like this please.
and truly deserved!
I hope Haruhi and the other garbage burns in hell!
agreed
+1!!
+9000
+inf
Agreed
*noob* can someone tell me what 'inf' means ? ^^u tried wiki, but it had nothing <.< thank you. *bow*
+ infinity.
^ infinite
he's too lazy to right the whole word due to production schedule...
infinite fail!
It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together and realise what it means.
Hahah. When the guys at KyoAni don't have money to buy food they can eat endless eight DVDs since nobody buys them anyway. LOL
Anon @ 21:54 burned in hell together with hazuki!!
I have a lighter!
a lil' kid, aren't you?
+1
This, also I can't wait for the other episodes.
When do they come out?
January is Tsubasa Cat Vol.2,so not until the start of 2010 people :/ sorry.I was hoping sooner too.
What!? I thought it was on October 28.
Bakemono would wins hands down for best anime last season if it it wasnt for Spice & Wolf.
Still I love both and my pocket are crying. My shelf are fatter tho with 2 new titles.
and every other anime in this season... though ookami to koushinryou was really the best one
S/W season 1 was far superior to season 2 oddly enough. I found the last 6 episodes of season 2 very good though.
But Bakemonogatari does take the cake this year for most interesting display, depiction of story and overall ingenius in its design. Its very different from your cookie cutter anime and thats probably its greatest appeal.
Not to mention the awesomely cute girls and wonderful seiyuu cast.
Definately the best anime of last season, and the most interesting characters in a long long time. I get sick of anime when it's all fan service, tentacle rape, pantsu, harems, and the likes. I like substance, and Bake brought substance. Hell, the greatest joy in the series was self-proclaimed Tsundere's sharp as shit tongue and the abuse she dished up. Though, the loli ghost and the teaser fan service wasn't bad or out of place either. Lol, biting, stapling, gut twirlingly good stuff!
Are you kidding? I could barely get through 10 minutes of that crappy anime before I finally turned it off. I can't believe there's any appeal for that, Haruhi, K-On, or any of the anime that's come out this past year. Nothing's good.
Why are you still watching anime then? Oh wait, let me guess, because of Naruto and generic harems? Well, just continue staying away from quality and depth and everyone will be happy.
lolol. Dont feedz da trollz.
Sales figures are hardly a litmus test for quality. Shaft's works are indeed fantastically campy, though. Cheers for Shaft, and I hope someday they'll finally do something about their plague of still frames.
have you actually SEEN Bakemonogatari???
Sure, there are a lot of still frames, but the picture quality and such is AWESOME!!!
Only the character animations (and these were quite rare) were high quality. The background was a horrific textureless copy pasta. One of the worst anime titles I've watched considering animation quality in general.
I can give it a good rating about character development and originality but other than that it was full inconsistent babbling.
I did enjoyed it but nowhere near the hype it's getting.
lmao at xavi
go enjoy you naruto and bleach man.
go enjoy ur easy uneducated dialogues.
feels bleach man
I might actually have to watch this series, at least the dvd versions of it so i can get the full thing lol
So these DVD actually do contain the scenes missing from the TV broadcast?
Seems like they were part of the show to me.
SHAFT always has these random transitions so I thought they were intended.
EXCEPT for the snake fight. That one was just ridiculous.
Hmm yeah, with this much attention I'll have to give it a look myself
Still waiting for the subbed BD-rips!
yess.of coz its 1 of the best.
SENJOUGAHARA BAKEMONOGATARI FTW
Again. I predict a 60k sales.
Let's hope they can now afford to actually animate their next production.
They always could afford fully animated scenes. They just usaully chose not to do it out of lazyness.
Actually, they're low on staff members atm. They can't get it all done on time.
Indeed.. Really enjoyed the show.:)
KyoAni = Shaft-ed!
Where's yo Moe Moe Kyun now mutha fucker! Here's what's up Bakemonogatari just raped that shit.
unfortunately, moe moe kyun has raped most of ur favorite animes, butthurt boy... now cry moar!
what are you talking about you just got owned...SHAFTED!
moe moe kyun~!
SHAFTED~!
demo sona ja dame.