April 3, 2008 at 13:11
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Allison and Lilia: Thought it ran opposite MacF. Had no chance. Was wrong, but still don’t get BS2.
Macross Frontier: Not only incredibly awesome, but changed up a lot from Deculture version. Has the best eyecatch gimmick ever.
xxxHolic Kei: Just plain dull; nothing really horrible, as long as you like noodles, but.
To-LOVE-ru:great > good > bad > so bad it’s good > too bad to be so bad it’s good > so bad you can have fun mocking it with friends > Manos > this. It’s so utterly horrible, and on at such a convenient time, I’m almost tempted to watch just to shit on it every week.
Kure-nai: I don’t get tvk.
April 2, 2008 at 22:11
· Filed under Animation, Sales
Low-selling week, with a lot of western stuff. Note to self: annoy Higurashi fanboy friends about The Simpsons -and- 101 Dalmatians both outselling its most recent volume.
Also, Ex Machina held on pretty good for an OVA.
*11 － 18,775 *18,775 **1 CLANNAD 4 (FPLE)
*14 － 13,863 *13,863 **1 Lucky☆Star 10 LE
*26 *6 *6,773 *18,863 **2 Ex Machina -APPLESEED SAGA- standard edition
*28 － *6,635 **6,635 **1 Moyashimon VOL.4
*31 － *5,705 **5,705 **1 Shakugan no Shana II Vol. III
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March 30, 2008 at 21:11
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AD 2312. (If you don’t understand why 2312, you probably shouldn’t read this.) Read the rest of this entry »
March 30, 2008 at 16:11
· Filed under Animation, Ratings
Ratings are updated, mostly backfill—pretty much everything is good for all of winter.
In addition, I put together a list of what’s coming these next couple weeks, with time and date noted. Starting this season are three morning shows, 5 evening, and 28 late-night.
March 26, 2008 at 13:11
· Filed under Animation, Sales
Totoro broke 800,000, and is still only down to half its average weekly sales. You can pretty much tell a dead week by how much Ghibli shows up, and with two in the top 100, four noted total…
Nice to see that Gundam 00 is at least hitting the low 40s lifetime, though. When the BluRays start coming out in August, even 10k will leave it pretty respectible.
**6 － 12,090 *12,090 **1 Ex Machina -APPLESEED SAGA- standard edition
**9 － *9,246 **9,246 **1 Minamike 3 (LE)
*12 16 *5,714 111,114 *60 The World of GOLDEN EGGS Vol.01
*15 24 *4,217 *83,720 *54 The World of GOLDEN EGGS Vol.02
*21 － *3,080 **3,080 **1 Ex Machina -APPLESEED SAGA- premium edition
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March 25, 2008 at 13:11
· Filed under Animation, Ratings
First off, I’ve Google Docsed the ratings info; depending on how convenient it is to update and whether I receive any response as to a preferred format for others, it may continue to be done that way.
In addition, the following things are notable:
* Gundam 00 ramping up about as expectable; 4.4 for 3/1, 4.6 for 3/8, 5.0 for 3/15, 5.6 for 3/22. To contrast, SEED’s same weeks were 6.6, 6.2, 5.8, 5.9; SEED-D’s were 4.4, 5.4, 5.0, 6.0.
* Dragonauts and Negima live-action get a viewership BOOST when their broadcast time changes.
And, a short look at demographics for a couple of mainstream shows:
AVG KID TEN *M1 *M2 *M3 *F1 *F2 *F3
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*7.8 *9.4 *2.1 *4.0 *3.9 *1.6 *3.2 *6.0 *2.5 Gegege-no-Kitaro (08/02/10 関東)
*8.0 12.3 *3.2 *3.9 *1.5 *1.8 *4.2 *5.5 *2.2 Gegege-no-Kitaro (08/03/09 関東)
AVG KID TEN *M1 *M2 *M3 *F1 *F2 *F3
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*8.7 *9.8 *5.6 *6.1 *3.0 *1.5 *5.4 *6.1 *1.5 ONE PIECE (08/02/10)
*9.4 *8.7 *8.2 *5.9 *1.8 *1.6 *8.2 *5.9 *1.6 ONE PIECE (08/03/09)
KID: M/F 4~12 ､TEN:M/F 13~19
*M1: Male 20~34, *M2: Male 35~49, *M3: Male 50+
*F1: Female 20~34, *F2: Female 35~49, *F3: Female 50+
March 17, 2008 at 13:11
· Filed under Animation, Sales
This week is pretty much back to normal dull sales. The only major niche releases were theatrical Clannad, kneecapped by its three-SKU release, and Toward the Terra, another step in the downward spiral of Doroku towards its termination in two weeks; the monthly DBGT double-release, which is coming out at R1 prices, easily outdid both.
**5 － *14,646 *14,646 **1 DRAGON BALL GT #3
**6 － *14,207 *14,207 **1 DRAGON BALL GT #4
*13 － **6,738 **6,738 **1 theatrical CLANNAD SE (FP)
*14 － **5,251 **5,251 **1 TOWARD THE TERRA Vol. 8 (LE)
*16 17 **4,982 105,400 *59 The World of GOLDEN EGGS Vol.01
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March 14, 2008 at 11:11
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Nothing really surprising this week at all. Gundam sells according to expectations, Gurren runs in the middle ground between kids’ show and nerd show it’s always occupied, and the big OVAs from last week hold on is the lower half.
**4 － 19,334 *19,334 **1 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Vol.8
**5 － 17,166 *17,166 **1 Ookiku Furikabutte Vol.9【Final】
**6 － 17,025 *17,025 **1 Gurren Lagann 8
*10 － 12,581 *12,581 **1 Gintama Season Two 08
*15 *3 *7,922 *27,849 **2 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 2
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March 9, 2008 at 5:11
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Finally, one of the reliable guys is back. He’s the reliably guy that posts late summaries, but still. Read the rest of this entry »
March 2, 2008 at 16:00
· Filed under Animation, Sales
Gundam is still lagging, Hellsing and Votoms are both a little low but close to par, and in general way too much shit came out this week—so much, it pushed Totoro out of the top 100.
**2 － *20,146 *20,146 **1 CLANNAD 3 (FPLE)
**3 － *19,927 *19,927 **1 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 2
**5 － *16,832 *16,832 **1 Lucky☆Star 9 LE
**9 － **8,989 **8,989 **1 MO NO NO KE vol. 5 “Bakeneko”
*14 － **6,482 **6,482 **1 My-Otome 0~S.ifr~
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