A ranking of the best selling anime series of 2010 seems to bear out the notion that only moe and sex sells anime.
The ranking, from Rank Ohkoku:
1. K-ON!!
2. A Certain Scientific Railgun
3. Bakemonogatari
4. Working!!
5. Angel Beats!
6. Hidamari Sketch ***
7. Seikon no Qwaser
8. Shin Koihime Musou
9. Ikki Tousen Xtreme Xecutor
10. GA Art Design Class
The ranking apparently only covers DVD sales (and not Blu-ray), which became a minority during 2010, so this may skew the results somewhat.
Not being a TV anime it is not included in this list, but the disc edition of the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is already confirmed as just under 100,000 copies, an impressive showing and probably some sort of record.
The ranking itself seems to be easily summarised – moe, slice of life and ero.
“Type A” anime fans are apparently just too stingy to support any of the series they proclaim the superiority of…
All resume to this:
quantity, not quality.
“‘Type A’ anime fans are apparently just too stingy to support any of the series they proclaim the superiority of…”
That’s a stupid remark, Artefact.
Many s♥♥t products are painstakingly designed to appeal to the masses of losers that populate Japan. Besides moe slice of life faggotry, you need look no further than the Wii and DS, and their massive catalogs of stinking mini-games, non-games and random language, math and sudoku apps.
As Japan’s culture nosedives itself into the deepest darkness of oblivion, the good s♥♥t it is still capable of producing goes more and more unnoticed by the retarded, tasteless masses.
It’ll only get worse over time.
I wonder if they’ll be able to stop that on time and have enough life left in them for a comeback…
I contributed to K-ON’s victory. And I’m proud of it. As a result, I can no longer afford the second season BD collection.
It’s probably already been mentioned, but this list is *REALLY* misleading. This only covers the sales in one store. Koihime, GA and Ikki all sold somewhat poorly. They’re just popular with the Tora-no-Ana crowd.
Sankaku, please stop pretending you’re a legitimate news source when you can’t even give proper context.
The anime industry *used* to do more type A titles, but shows like Paranoia Agent, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, and similar material didn’t make money in Japan or elsewhere afaik. So I don’t blame the industry one bit for catering more to type B or “becoming a porn industry,” either. Cry moar, Western moe/ero-haters who didn’t support your type of anime back in 2004 when you had a chance, due to “it’s too expensive” or “waah English dubs suck cuz I saw Cardcaptors in 2000 and that sucked.”