Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & CD Rankings for Jul 16 - 22

by dtshyk
Jul 24, 2012 1:28 AM | 47 Comments

Here are the weekly Blu-ray and CD rankings for July 16th - 22nd.

Blu-ray
*1, 96,430 96,430 K-On! (Movie) Limited Edition
*2, *8,093 *8,093 My Neighbor Totoro
*3, *4,934 *4,934 Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi Special Edition
*4, *2,952 *2,952 K-On! (Movie) Standard Edition
*5, *2,109 *2,109 My Neighbor Totoro & Grave of the Fireflies Combo
*6, *1,889 *1,889 Chihayafuru vol.8
*7, *1,333 *5,967 Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo Reprint Edition
*8, *1,024 *1,024 Grave of the Fireflies

DVD
*1, 28,029 *,*28,029 K-On! (Movie) Limited Edition
*2, 12,895 *,*12,895 K-On! (Movie) Standard Edition
*3, *5,478 *,**5,478 Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi Special Edition
*4, *2,815 *,**5,831 Summer Wars Reprint Edition
*5, *2,306 *,**2,306 Sengoku Collection vol.3
*6, *2,256 *,*48,634 Kokurikozaka Kara Standard Edition
*7, *2,134 1,146,456 My Neighbor Totoro
*8, *1,643 *,**1,645 Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi Standard Edition
*9, *1,289 *,*34,562 Kokurikozaka Kara Special Edition
10, *1,010 *,**1,010 Spice and Wolf DVD Box
11, **,966 *,***,966 Cardfight!! Vanguard vol.12
12, **,847 *,**2,019 Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo Reprint Edition
13, **,740 *,*63,090 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn vol.5
14, **,583 2,373,501 Spirited Away
15, **,570 *,484,189 Kiki's Delivery Service

Single CD
*4, 14,328 *14,328 Hanazawa Kana "Hatsukoi no Oto"
*7, 12,206 *12,206 Kuroko no Basket "Rimfire"
*8, 11,794 *11,794 Campione! "Raise"
11, *7,728 **7,729 Kalafina "moonfesta"
21, *3,631 **3,631 Yuru Yuri ♪♪ Character Song vol.1 Akari
22, *3,524 134,456 Toriko "Love Chase"
23, *3,492 **3,492 Kokoro Connect "Paradigm"
25, *3,455 **3,455 Yuru Yuri ♪♪ Character Song vol.2 Chinatsu
28, *3,312 *14,922 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II "Zone//Alone"
30, *3,115 **3,115 Hunter x Hunter (2011) "Hunting for your dream"
33, *2,588 **2,588 Kingdom "Pride"
36, *2,076 **2,076 Oda Nobuna no Yabou "Link"
38, *1,954 **7,126 Pokemon Best Wishes!: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi "Memories"
49, *1,571 **1,571 Shirokuma Cafe "Grizzly-san no G★Rock"
50, *1,529 *34,849 Yuru Yuri ♪♪ "Yes! Yuyuyu☆Yuruyuri♪♪"

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

20 of 47 Comments Recent Comments

K-ON, Nuff said

Jul 25, 2012 7:04 PM by SilentTruth

K-ON so much >.< need 2 still watch season 2 :o

Jul 25, 2012 10:20 AM by Ahmer

dtshyk said:

*4, 14,328 *14,328 Hanazawa Kana "Hatsukoi no Oto"
*8, 11,794 *11,794 Campione! "Raise"

If it's Kana, it can't go wrong. Glad that Yui Ogura's "Raise" is selling, one of my favourite OP/ED songs from this season of anime. Plus the other track, Pon de Fighting, is just as awesome. I guess the AW OP2 Burst The Gravity CD will be on the next chart, looking forward to seeing the results for that.

Jul 25, 2012 6:17 AM by Airi

That Totoro/Grave of Fireflies Combo better get a Region B or All Region release, want it so bad.

Jul 25, 2012 4:54 AM by pattyhentaimoe

Good to see Spice and Wolf made the list at least. I'm hopeful that if the boxed re-release of Season I and II sell well, they'll be encouraged to push a Season III out. Here's to hoping!

Jul 25, 2012 12:44 AM by pewpewk

Nachtwandler_21 said:
@Yvese

How this LN named in english? Could I find it ot MAL?

The problem is that KyoAni never makes more than one series per season so making one delays all other at least till it ends airing.

It's called Beyond the Boundary. More info here and here

I'm hoping KyoAni adapts it. Their upcoming anime Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! was from a novel that received an honorable mention by KyoAni in 2010, and Beyond the Boundary also received an honorable mention last year.

They're also the ones that released the novel itself so I'm hoping that increases its chance it will get animated by them just like Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!.

jmal said:

Waiting (too long) is very risky. Interest fades fast when fans have a hundred or more new shows to watch every year, because brains (not to mention wallets) can only process so much. If you wait, you have to count on the fandom staying stable or increasing during that time, and that's not true for many franchises. Particularly when the original source material has dried up, as it has in K-ON!'s case.

Of course it all comes down to how long "too long" is. K-ON! is undoubtedly far more resilient than most late night anime, both in the size and fervor of its fanbase.

True. As you said, it's far more resilient than most anime. However, I think a 2-3 year break is good for everyone. Too much exposure can be bad and 2-3 years shouldn't hurt it that much considering KyoAni's prestige.

Heck, Haruhi's second season released 3 years later yet still managed to sell 20k avg ( Even with EE lol ) so I wouldn't be too surprised if they came out with a season 3 of K-ON 2-3 years from now and it still managed to sell 20k+.

jmal said:

They're still a small studio by industry standards, and still don't work on more than one or two projects at a time. And they put everything they've got into giving each series they animate the highest possible production values. Whether that's three people talking in a room or a massive battle, the craftsmanship is evident.

Agreed. That's what I love about them; they give each anime they release their best. It's exactly why a studio like them needs to branch out into other genres!

Jul 24, 2012 9:39 PM by Yvese

@Yvese

How this LN named in english? Could I find it ot MAL?

The problem is that KyoAni never makes more than one series per season so making one delays all other at least till it ends airing.

Jul 24, 2012 9:17 PM by Nachtwandler_21

LOL @ K-On. What a surprise.

Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies up there though. WOOT.

kurosaki_kabuto said:
Grave of the Fireflies came out on Blu-ray? I wonder if any fansub will pick it up... I'm quite curious about how it looks, there are some remasters of old movies that look quite phenomenal all things considered.

Me too. I'd like to see that.

Jul 24, 2012 1:24 PM by DraconisMarch

Toriko's ending was great! good job :3

Jul 24, 2012 1:12 PM by NoBleachNoLife

Nachtwandler_21 said:
@jmal

Movie was much better that S2. And I know that it would get this much sales. Just that I don't really like K-On. It's only "medicore" for me so I feel bad that it could make KyoAni wish to make more K-On while there are a lot of better thing they could continue or make.

I'm pretty sure KyoAni has more than one team working on different projects.

With the way the movie ended and its huge success, I wouldn't expect another season ( If any ) for 2-3 years. Many consider the movie a solid ending to the series despite the manga continuing on to their university lives, so KyoAni would be wise to not 'milk' the franchise further until hype dies down a bit.

You're right about one thing though; there are a lot of better things they could make. KyoAni has so much talent and quality in their projects and I really want to see them branch out. Take this video for example:

That was just a commercial to promote a LN. Whether it's an actual series they're making remains to be seen, but as you can see from that video they have SO MUCH potential to make EPIC anime.

Jul 24, 2012 12:31 PM by Yvese

@jmal

Movie was much better that S2. And I know that it would get this much sales. Just that I don't really like K-On. It's only "medicore" for me so I feel bad that it could make KyoAni wish to make more K-On while there are a lot of better thing they could continue or make.

Jul 24, 2012 12:07 PM by Nachtwandler_21

i need to get busy and start watching the K ON MOVIE

Jul 24, 2012 10:43 AM by Mr_Gutts

K-on wrecking everything as expected

Jul 24, 2012 9:53 AM by Vylash

Appel_stroop said:

danilo07 said:
Is this K on movie the same as The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.You know like both animes have two season and they only show character development in movies?

nope there's basically no character development in anything of k-on.

Wrong. There's MUCH character development in movie and mainly at the end of the second season.

Jul 24, 2012 9:42 AM by -Yumaol-

And so K-On! did it again. :D Please don't make it out off stock, specially the limited edition.. ^^

Jul 24, 2012 9:33 AM by yu3

dtshyk said:

*8, 11,794 *11,794 Campione! "Raise"

My Congrats to Yui Ogura in making the top 10 <3

Jul 24, 2012 9:19 AM by Hoppy

motrya said:
any news about Nazo no Kanojo X?

First volume sold 3.5k I believe.

Jul 24, 2012 9:19 AM by Yvese

any news about Nazo no Kanojo X?