The official Kill Me Baby site has published 686 Twitter avatars for fans of the anime – one for every person who bought a copy of the first volume of the anime, marking perhaps the first time an anime has been masochistic enough to make light of its own dismal sales figures.
Despite enjoying a modest following and being well regarded, sales of the show’s first volume were almost at levels low enough to shame distributors into not publishing any number at all – something which seems to have stung the producers into providing the avatars.
The official rationale is that it is a celebration of the show’s Twitter account reaching 10,000 followers, and a shrewd one at that, as it swiftly earned them several thousand more followers, not that this ratio of followers to buyers is particularly inspiring.
The gesture has also been hailed as an example of “godly” customer service – with a unique avatar now provided for every buyer.
The icons are available on their site (and are of course suitable for using on other sites as well).
URL list of all images. You can copy and dl with flashget.
http://pastebin.com/TuLN8AMG
That’s hilarious that they would do that. My interest in this show has increased a notch…
Simple to say, if it ever was to get picked up for NA distibuting they are surely going to bet it for a sea-level price.
The manga was better. 4koma for the win. I enjoyed the brown haired girl’s voice actress tho.
Better question what was break even price 🙂
At 7000 yen a box set I get 1 Episode
Welp, seeing as how the Manabi Line’s around 3000-4000 sales for an anime to break even it’d mean KMB vol 1 should’ve sold for approx 30-40k’ish JPY, so roughly the same price as a Fate/Zero blu-ray box set full of extras.
Why’re you asking?