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Bakemonogatari tops the Blu-ray charts with 39,000 copies sold


10:00 AM on 11.04.2009
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People really like Bakemonogatari. Besides Josh's plea to have the series licensed and seeing communities talk about it all the time, Japan has thrown its wieght behind the series by buying up 39,000 copies of the second Blu-ray disc of the series in one week, sending it to the top of the Oricon charts.

To put things in perspective, the only anime that has higher numbers for its first week of sales has been Evangelion 1.11, with 49,000 copies. Bakemonogatari has even beat out K-ON!, which only garnered 33,000 sales. Wow, and I thought nothing could penetrate the moe of K-ON!.

So come on, guys! Isn't someone going to grab this one already? Why not make it one big package, and license this, Toradora and Lovely Complex to make my day. In fact, you'd probably make my month.






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As if I didn't love you enough already, you go and finish off that article with this:

"Why not make it one big package, and license this, Toradora and Lovely Complex to make my day."

Now I really love you. In that kinda creepy way that even makes me uncomfortable. :P

I was starting to worry people were forgetting about Lovely Complex and I'd never see it pop up!
While they're at it, they should license the original Dirty Pair too.
BD + DVD means... Bakemonogatari totally tops the charts.

I can't help but wonder why no one has licensed neither K-On nor Bakemonogatari, being top sellers and all.
Vote with your wallets people.
@serial My guess is bidding war for some, others just dont want it on their slate yet.
Why didn't you use an image of Mayoi? ;)

I hope somebody brings the BDs over here.... can't really get the Japanese BDs now (^^;;
Regardless of whoever brings it over, there are two things that would be a crime not to do with it upon licensing:

1. Bluray. I shouldn't need to say why.

2. A dub. It's more than good enough to deserve a dub in terms of popularity, it's not difficult to localize into English like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and I doubt anyone who can afford the license can't afford to dub it like ADV with Clannad.
@Heero Yuy If I didn't get a BluRay release when it's brought over, I would probably go insane. It is too pretty of an anime to go without a BluRay release.
Sure, they'll grab it, but the problem is that we all have probably seen it already and they don't want to market to the people that have already seen it and don't want to buy it. Who else besides the core anime fan market will buy this stuff? That's the real question, because if they don't expand they will have increasingly worse problems down the road.

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