The frenzied buzz over K-ON!!’s new season has driven pre-orders for the new season on Amazon Japan, giving the series the stratospheric state of possessing 10 of the Top 13 rankings on Amazon’s DVD / BD Top Sellers.
In related news, one prankster made 999 pre-orders for K-ON!! Vol. 1, an order that would cost over $66,000 USD to actually purchase, presumably to affect Amazon’s Charts, apparently unaware that Amazon’s rankings only count 1 order per customer.
These two screenshots include the #1 through #16 rankings, including all of the K-ON! related item on the Top 25 list as of April 09:
The titles should be mostly self-explanatory; けいおん!!(第2期) 1 (Blu-ray 初回限定生産) would translate to: K-ON!! (Season 2) Vol. 1 (Blu-ray 1st Release Special Edition).
The odd-man-out K-ON! disc at #6 is けいおん! ライブイベント ~レッツゴー!~ / K-ON! Live Event ~Let’s Go!~, containing footage from a December 2009 live concert at Yokohama Arena.
The sole other anime release to be mixed in with the K-ON! discs is mighty Eva’s Evangelion 2.22 BD release, with pre-sales of Angel Beats!’s first volume coming in at #15.
Some other notable releases not visible above are Nodame Cantabile Final Movement (Live Action) Part 1 at the #20 spot, and Gundam Unicorn Vol. 1 at #21
The “Arashi” holding the #1 title happens to be part of the famous Japanese boy band’s 10th Anniversary celebrations and should be more than familiar to fujoushi fans of Japan’s legendary Johnny’s talent agency.
Quick-thinking fans might remember the large number of K-ON!! pre-orders present (9 in total) as being the same strong evidence for K-ON!! being a 2-cour series (24/25 episodes, rather than 12 or 13) currently spreading online.
These two following images come from 2ch, apparently posted online by the prankster himself:
Since the actual order would require ¥6,210,011 ($66,641.75 USD) to complete once Vol. 1 becomes available, the immediate conclusion by many on 2ch was that the phony orders were a sort of sales ranking chart manipulation.
However, since Amazon (at least the Japanese site) reportedly only counts one order per customer account, the prank apparently does little more than allow for some memorable screenshots of the Amazon order screen.
Just whether there is a technique by which the rankings are manipulable by excessively eager fans is not clear…
The low-res K-ON!! promotional artwork currently being used on Amazon as placeholders for all K-ON!! pre-orders.
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I don't know what scares me.. A horde of fanboys or a horde of trolls.
I'm leaning more on trolls since they breed on shit stirring.
Nowadays, this serie is popular.
Boy, K-ON kinda feels like the Twilight of the anime world. I mean, I can't really commit to that opinion due to the fact that I haven't seen K-ON, but all this frantic insane fangirl-esque doting over what I've heard has been pegged as an 'average' anime seems a bit too reminiscent to Twilight for my tastes...
Granted, Twilight is billions times worse, but still.
You can't POSSIBLY be comparing K-ON to sparkly vampires...
You're comparing two very different things there man. It's like comparing the particle accelerator at CERN with a bird-eaten fruit in my garden.
All according to...wait?....WTF is this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx1wVETo5zw
KEIKAKU RUINED!!!
K-ON can't never beat a Johnny's idol like Arashi
double negative... so... that's a positive!!
I love K-On so much!
It inspired me to buy a guitar last year and I'm still playing it now. I'm so glad they are airing a second season. I can't get enough of Azu-nyan. She's amazingly cute~! <3
i can play Fuwa Fuwa time and Fude Pen Boru Pen... hehe....
i can play BASS as well... but didn't like it very much... musicless...
Crazy Otakus.
Well, if it sells this much it must be good, I may start to watch it.
Japanese Boy Band > K-on!
lol
Does not agree, current Johnny's B-Bands are becoming shit every week! They can't pass Oyoge, Taiyaki-kun!
as i expected!!
ALL HAIL K-ON!!
ALL HAIL K-ON!!
DIAF, please.
Seriously is k-on even that good?
It's average.
It's pretty good for what it is. It's cute otherwise.
you will get killed by "moe moe kyun Beam"
No.
It isn't.
Try it, and you'll love the Moe Moe Kyun Beam.
yes it is, it's godly.
It beats Avatar!!!
Fugly blue creatures beaten by delicious blue stripes~
Isn't that expectable anyway?
they use ponytails as sexual organs..
Avatar is shit and it was beaten by a bigger ...
...watching Avatar is like watching "2 girls 1 cup" for 2 and half hours :(
Must be great for the coprophilia fans then, eh? XD
It wouldn't surprise me if some K-on fan did buy 999 copies of the same vol. Crazy otaku and their endless otaku money.
You mean endless TORTURE, since they cannot afford food and other expenses.
It's not about having endless money--it's that we don't spend it on anything else.
Rise, otakus! Fall, anime!
Wouldn't rise in otakus means rise in anime as well? FAIL'd
I think he means the rise of blind fans who buy based on da shiny things, and the fall of good story and uniqueness among the anime genre :P
Everything now a days seems 'Like K-on but...', almost like how every action adventure game in the video game industry is 'Like God of War but...'
Unless he's one of the growing bandwagon anti-moe-ers.
To it: (Otaku +) = (Anime -)
It wouldn't surprise me in least bit. But as many moe lovers out there it really isn't so far-fetched..
Just as planned.
more for otakus to buy =P
K-ON is to otakus what teletubbies is to kids.
I'm not anti-moe, the contrary, but this one is far too idiotic show. Is in "bestseller" because there are way too many idiots out there, so this ain't a surprise at all!
hell yeah! , i bought a les paul guitar for that anime ... still love it!
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Keikaku plan is keikaku.
TN: keikaku means plan.
keikaku mean keikaku
Plan means keikaku...
Keikaku plan is meaning.
plan means plan according to lelouch.
Keikaku means plan which means keikaku...
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