As we
have previously mentioned, Blu-ray/DVD sales are no longer a determining factor
in whether a series will have a second season. Thanks to the emergence of
streaming platforms, access to audiovisual content has become much simpler and
more direct, which is why Blu-ray/DVDs became items exclusively for
collectors. However, it is still a reality that buying Blu-ray/DVDs is
a direct way to support animation studios in Japan, so fans continue to buy
them to show this support.
In addition, Blu-ray/DVDs
are also a way to access unreleased benefits of an anime production, such as
uncensored versions of the episodes (either showing nipples or scenes
that had to be cut for television broadcast). , and other production materials
such as books with concept art, interviews with the production team, and so on.
And it
goes without saying that Blu-ray/DVD sales are still an indication to praise or
humiliate an anime production, depending on how high the numbers are. An example remains “ Chainsaw
Man ”, the super-production of MAPPA studios that only added
1,735 copies sold with its first Blu-ray/DVD in its first week . To
this day, this number remains a way to make fun of “ Chainsaw Man ”
on the Internet, even though his fans continue to claim that sales through the
MAPPA Store are not counted in the figures, which is convenient for them
because they do not There is a way to check it.
Anyway, why are we
talking about all this? Well, it turns out that the anime adaptation of “ Mahou Shoujo ni
Akogarete ( Gushing over Magical Girls )” managed
to sell 5,660 copies of the Blu-ray, 1,498 copies of the limited edition
Blu-ray, and 956 copies of the DVD. This means that the series added
8,114 copies sold for its first Blu-ray/DVD in its first week in Japan, the
largest figures of the Winter-2024 season so far.
With this figure and
in the same time period, “ Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete (Gushing
over Magical Girls)” surpassed other releases like “ Sousou no Frieren (Frieren:
Beyond Journey's End)” and “ Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The
Apothecary Diaries) ”, as well as “ Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu (The
Dangers in My Heart)” and “ Mashle: Magic and Muscles – The Divine
Visionary Candidate Exam Arc “.
In the list we can
also see that productions such as “ Solo Leveling ”, “ Shangri-La
Frontier ”, “ Undead Unluck ” and “ Oroka na
Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru (The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil)” do
not have figures, which It means that they had such low sales that they did not
manage to enter the sales ranking.
And why
is the story of the abused magical girls dominating the Blu-ray/DVD sales
chart? This first
Blu-ray/DVD was released on March 27 and includes a booklet with illustrations
and different content, as well as the episodes with “less censorship” than the
least censored version on television. In addition, the limited edition
also includes a scale figure and other must-see content for fans.
And of course, there
was no shortage of comments:
- « I see that a romcom like
“The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You”
didn't even reach 1000 copies sold, how is that possible? ».
- « Even with more than
8,000 copies sold, it still doesn't seem like much to me .»
- « I really wait for the
next few weeks to know the figure that “Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete” reaches .»
- « The total of “Mahou
Shoujo ni Akogarete” for the first volume is about to reach 10,000 with
the stack of the second week and the second printing .»
- « MASHLE and Blue Lock are
doing better than expected. I guess they were too contested at the end of
the month and down in the standings .
- « Wasn't the series going
to easily reach 10,000 copies sold? I wonder if the figures for the second
week will be enough for this ».
- « It's definitely a pretty
high number for an ecchi series. I wonder if the other series of the genre
will do this well ?
- « 8,000 copies sold,
that's quite a lot for an ecchi series. "They had said that something
like 6,500 was the maximum limit for the genre ."
Source: Yaraon!
