Surpassing initial expectations, Evangelion 2.22 has outsold even the mouldering corpse of Michael Jackson to become the best selling Blu-ray ever.
Oricon statistics show that in its first week the movie’s Blu-ray release sold a magnificent 357,000 copies, the best selling Blu-ray ever in Japan – the runner up being the zombie prince of pederasty Michael Jackson, with his posthumously released “This Is It” garnering only a pathetic 351,000 copies.
Combined DVD and Blu-ray sales are already said to have reached 640,000 – the best selling “anime” anime of all time, and the 14th best selling anime ever – only mass market Ghibli and Disney animation boasts higher sales in Japan.
Okay, how can you compare a MUSIC ARTIST to a MANGA ARTISTS works, and go around bashing? O_o Upon that, if you haven’t read up, after MJ died the FBI released files saying a lot of stuff he was accused of he did not do (that includes the pedophile-based things). Okay, I enjoy both EVA and MJ, but comparing music to anime sells is off. MJ may have been weird, yes, but he inspired MANY artists, dancers, and performers. Yes, those sales were about roughly 2% in difference, but check how many copies “Thriller” sold (1.27 million worldwide altogether). Next time, try to compare anime sales to anime sales, and not to a man who had to fight his own demons alot as well as alot of demons people threw at him.
I prefer the ending to The End of Evangelion better. That was seriously cool. Best anime ever.
“This Is It” garnering only a pathetic 351,000 copies.
Pathetic, really now?
My anime-hating, stereotype-believing, Michael Jackson -loving, need-to-watch-NGE-denying, douchebag friend of mine just raged at this news. 😀
definitely need to watch the rebuild of eva 😀