The Blu-ray edition of Bakemonogatari’s second volume has sold in excess of 39,000 copies, making it the best selling Blu-ray TV anime ever, and the second best selling Blu-ray anime of all time, easily beating K-ON! and only surpassed by Evangelion 1.11.
Including normal DVD sales of 18,731, the volume has managed a staggering 58,000 copies sold. The first volume, which itself managed at least 56,000 copies, seems only to have whetted the appetites of fans…
Shaft, already rather notorious for airing incomplete episodes of the series, has made good its implied promises of a completed DVD release – below you can see a comparison of the two editons, with the BD/DVD version on the left:
Shafted indeed.
The Blu-ray in question is available now.
Why do they have to change the visuals eh ?
It’s like on a pc game, where colour, background, shading, shadows change o.o
that’s wierd, I even see a lack of antialaising on some pics
EH GROPES DEAD LOLIS
Worst anime I have seen this year so far. Endless Eight was ultra boring,but this on that other hand could have been good if it wasn’t ruined by all that abstract random stuff in it, so it even made me angry. What’s up with showing an empty black screen with “Black” written on it or similar stuff like that about 30 times in an episode? And seeing the same director ruined multiple anime the same way, I’d say if you didn’t like his previous works, stay away from this as well. It’s a lot worse than those were.
(No, I don’t like “art” like this. I prefer normal anime, thank you very much. Stop ruining them with this insane style, go and do it on something else. If I want to see art of this kind, I’ll go to a modern museum or something, I don’t want it in my anime.)
your anime??? go and do it yourself
Normal anime?
As in “PANTSUUUUU!!!” ?
“What’s up with showing an empty black screen with “Black” written on it or similar stuff like that about 30 times in an episode?”
Wait, did you write this comment without even reading the whole article or at least look at the comparison pics? You might also need to be aware about Shaft’s problem when they were working for the TV release.
Best anime I have seen this year so far. Endless Eight was ultra boring, this on that other hand could have been ruined as well if it wasn’t for all that abstract random stuff in it. And seeing the same director made multiple anime better the same way, I’d say if you liked his previous works, watch this as well. It’s a lot better than those were.
LOL I SO CLEVER
That could work backwards as well. If you liked his previous works then that means this one even BETTER.
Epic anime just got even more epic :3
I already know Im alone in this, but I didnt like this anime at all. Sure it looks great but the dialogue is complex just for the sake of being so. Its ridiculously over the top for no good reason than people being able to feel good about themselves for sitting through highbrow anime dialogue.
I had to call it quits when I watched an episode that comprised of a playground setting and the two main characters talking nonsense nonstop for 30 minutes. Some people may call it witty, enthralling, creative, breathtaking humor, but I call it boring.
>Genius
>complex
oh, how irony
Euh? The dialogues are hardly complex or highbrow. They’re just long.
The most important part is how they used these long dialogues as banters and conversations. One of the greater joys of this series is how the characters interact with each other.