Producers Hideyuki Tomioka and Mikihiro Iwata talk about working on the Inuyasha anime.
Via Newtype USA: Hideyuki Tomioka and Mikihiro Iwata (January 2003)
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Via Newtype USA: Creator Freetalk (January 2003)
Some regular columns by animator Shinichi Suzuki, director Mahiro Maeda, and Clamp’s Satsuki Igarashi. These are a regular feature, but generally don’t contain any interesting information. This time I decided to upload them, mainly on a whim.
Via Newtype USA: Sean Akins (January 2003)
An interview with Toonami creative director Sean Akins, talking about the block’s history and his own experiences with anime.
Via Newtype USA: Rob Bakewell (January 2003)
Rob Bakewell talks about directing the English dub of Trouble Chocolate.
Via Newtype USA: Corrine Orr (January 2003)
Canadian Voice actress Corrine Orr talks about her role in classic anime dubs, old sound engineering setups, and how she made relatively little for her part in the production.
Fun With Numbers: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Sold 24,689 Copies in Week 3
More sales data, as is kind of expected at this point. DBZ: BoG sold a total of 24,689 copies (18,296 BDs+BDDVD combo packs, with the remainder being DVD versions) on the week of October 20-26, bringing its cumulative total to 144,981 copies sold. As with the previous week, these numbers handily surpass what would be expected from amazon ranks alone, as the best ranks its amazon versions had over that span were 121st and 988th.
Next week’s data should also be interesting, as the final volume of Hellsing Ultimate ranked well enough to be a likely candidate to make the charts, spending all of the weeks before and during its release in (mostly low) triple digits.
Data is currently available here, and is screencapped after the jump.
Fun With Numbers: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Sold 29,558 Copies in Week 2
Pretty much what the headline says. Following a first-week total of 86,735 total sales, the movie added an additional 29,558 units to its US sales total (now 118,280) in the week of October 13-19. These second week sales consisted of 21519 BDs (including BD/DVD combo packs) and 8039 DVDs. It’s already interesting enough to mention how non-frontloaded these sales were, though DBZ is possibly an exception to the norm for anime releases; it remained in the Amazon top 200 for 5 days of its second week out, while most other anime releases are lucky to keep out of 5-digit rank territory.
The strength despite the lack of preorders also points to a possible heavy non-amazon bias for DBZ – its amazon versions were, at best, 86th and 677th in rank during the relevant week, yet it was 14th in actual total video sales overall. It’s very possible a large fraction of those copies were moved via b+m retailers.
Screencaps of the relevant charts (which can also be found here while they’re available) are included after the jump.
Active Engagement Through Timed Comments: Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu Ka?
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu Ka? is a consistently funny and incredibly charming show about five girls who work at a total of three coffee shops between them. Tapping a solid cast, the show was able to ride a bunch of group-driven cute humor to a considerable degree of commercial success, averaging roughly 10,000 disks sold over 6 total volumes. The combination of individual flavor and audience satisfaction makes it another interesting candidate for the following question; which moments in the show went over best with the audience? I’m going to attempt to prod at the answer to that question by making use of the series’ himado timed comment data.
For more information on this analysis method, see this similar post on Ping Pong The Animation, or this introductory post covering particular episodes of Shingeki no Bahamut and Carnival Phantasm.
Fun With Numbers: Dragonball Z: Battle of Gods Sold 86,735 Copies on Week One
So yeah, the most recent Dragonball movie sold a healthy amount in the US: 24,589 DVDs and 62,146 BDs (including BD/DVD combo packs), for a total of 86,735 copies. Even if it doesn’t immediately top the US totals of the series’ older movies, that’s quite a lot. For example, it’s over ten times that of One Piece Film Z’s first week total.
To reiterate, that’s a huge number there, possibly large enough to have a second week and definitely large enough to sandblast parts of my still-in-development formula (which pegged it as closer to 20,000 in likely first-week sales). Best guess at this point is that some combination of being a movie, ranking extremely highly for an anime release, and being from the most popular anime franchise the US has ever seen pushed it closer to the storefront-heavy curve for mainstream movies, as opposed to the amazon-heavy curve other anime releases have seemed to follow.
At any rate, screencap after the jump (original chart here while it lasts).
Fall 2014 Watch List
I haven’t really kept up on posts of what I’ve been watching this season, so I wanted to put up a quick post just listing what I’m keeping up with thus far. Split the list into tiers based on how in love with/likely to finish the show I am.
Animetics 