[Chet Rippo]

The only correlation I can come up is you really don't like that model of car and took offense to him calling it nice.

Yeah, it's such an ugly car. I have no idea what car that is...

[Narag]

Well no wonder you hate it so much.

[Trojita]

[Femmeworth]

Fuck purism. The only responsibility an adaptation has is to be good, not to be faithful. Sometimes they coincide anyway, but sometimes they don't.

Does Nyaruko-san even qualify as an adaptation? I didn't say that an adaptation has to be 100% faithful.

[Branduil]

[AKB 48] - 1 I felt that everything after the amazing opening was kind of a let down, although the final scene was pretty stupid. Also, Statelight haven't improved their CG at all. At all.

Yeah, after the opening it was pretty much just pedestrian bad Okadrama.

[wonzo]

[Chet Rippo]

Who is this guy? I've seen him somewhere before... No, that's not me.

[Articalys]

Temporal DVD + Blu-ray Sales Rankings for Winter 2012

*1, 57,512 Nisemonogatari
*2, 14,286 Inu x Boku SS
*3, 10,547 Highschool DxD
*4, 10,345 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
*5, *8,677 Aquarion Evol
*6, *7,694 Ano Natsu de Matteru
*7, *7,639 New Prince of Tennis
*8, *6,472 Mouretsu Pirates
*9, *5,098 Senki Zesshou Symphogear
10, *4,973 Brave 10
11, *4,520 Amagami SS+ plus
12, *4,391 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!
13, *3,694 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
14, *3,089 Rinne no Lagrange
15, *2,573 Another
16, *2,353 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai 2 Maku
17, *1,525 Zero no Tsukaima F (vol.2)
18, **,686 Kill Me Baby

[Femmeworth]

[firehawk12]

Nisemonogatari saving the FUCK out of anime. Moar please!

[Articalys]

Full DVD/BD sales data for April 23-29:

Blu-ray
*1, 50,160 50,160 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition
*2, 18,747 18,747 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition
*3, *7,570 *7,570 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai vol.4
*4, *7,063 *7,063 Working'!! vol.7 Limited Edition
*5, *6,844 *6,844 Highschool DxD vol.2
*6, *6,674 *6,674 Aquarion Evol vol.1
*7, *5,824 *5,824 Ano Natsu de Matteru vol.2 Limited Edition
*8, *5,608 *5,608 Inu x Boku SS vol.2 Limited Edition
*9, *5,602 *5,602 The iDOLM@STER vol.7 Limited Edition
10, *5,538 *5,538 Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA
11, *5,489 *5,489 Guilty Crown vol.4 Limited Edition
12, *4,847 *4,847 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi vol.3 Limited Edition
13, *3,979 *3,979 Mawaru Penguindrum vol.7 Limited Edition
14, *3,675 *3,675 Tamayura: Hitotose vol.5
15, *3,662 19,650 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon vol.5 Limited Edition
16, *3,542 *3,542 Senki Zesshou Symphogear vol.2 Limited Edition

DVD
*1, 12,918 *,*12,918 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Limited Edition
*2, *9,207 *,**9,207 Gintama' vol.10
*3, *7,352 *,**7,352 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition
*4, *6,220 *,**6,220 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition
*5, *5,735 *,**5,735 Inu x Boku SS vol.2 Limited Edition
*6, *3,554 *,**3,554 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi vol.3 Limited Edition
*7, *2,786 *,**2,786 Sekaiichi Hatsukoi 2 vol.5 Limited Edition
*8, *2,456 *,**2,456 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Standard Edition
*9, *2,381 *,**2,381 Working'!! vol.7 Limited Edition
10, *2,374 *,**2,374 Highschool DxD vol.2
11, *2,212 *,**2,212 Bleach Gotei 13 Tai Shingun Hen vol.3
12, *2,157 *,**2,157 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai vol.4
13, *2,003 *,**2,003 Aquarion Evol vol.1
14, *1,920 *,**1,920 Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA
15, *1,674 *,**1,674 Brave 10 vol.2
16, *1,671 *,**1,671 Guilty Crown vol.4 Limited Edition
17, *1,668 *,**6,438 New Prince of Tennis vol.1
18, *1,271 *,**1,271 The iDOLM@STER vol.7 Limited Edition
19, *1,087 1,133,609 My Neighbor Totoro
20, *1,015 *,**1,015 Shakugan no Shana III vol.5 Limited Edition
21, **,946 *,***,946 Kimi to Boku. vol.5 Limited Edition
22, **,940 *,***,940 Beelzebub vol.11
23, **,811 *,***,811 Nintama Rantarou vol.3
24, **,796 *,***,796 Maken-Ki! vol.5 Limited Edition
25, **,786 *,**5,593 Detective Conan Bonus File Fantasista no Hana
26, **,760 *,***,760 Mashiroiro Symphony: The Color of Lovers vol.4
27, **,730 *,***,730 Zero no Tsukaima F vol.3
28, **,717 *,***,717 Senki Zesshou Symphogear vol.2 Limited Edition
29, **,714 *,***,714 Tamayura: Hitotose vol.5

[dimb]

Guilty Crown doesn't seem to be holding up particularly well, unless I'm not remembering the numbers it put up before right.

[firehawk12]

That looks like a moderately successful showing for all the other animu no named Nisemonogatari as well.

[wonzo]

Who is this guy? I've seen him somewhere before... No, that's not me.

Thank god for reverse google image search

Winter 2012 Temporal Sales 57,512 *1 Nisemonogatari [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/25 14,690 *3 Inu x Boku SS [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/21 10,547 *3 High School DxD [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/21 10,345 *2 Natsume Yuujin-chou Shi [DVD+BD]: 2012/02/22 *8,677 *1 Aquarion EVOL [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/25 *7,694 *3 Ano Natsu de Matteru [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/23 *6,472 *4 Mouretsu Pirates [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/07 *5,971 *1 Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/20 *5,098 *2 Senki Zesshou Symphogear [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/28 *4,973 *2 Brave10 [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/21 *4,888 *2 Amagami SS+ plus [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/04 *4,391 *2 Papa no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai! [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/07 *3,694 *2 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/03 *3,599 *3 Rinne no Lagrange [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/23 *2,573 *2 Another [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/30 *2,353 *1 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 2 [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/21 *1,525 *1 Zero no Tsukaima F [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/21 (v2 sales) **,686 *1 Kill Me Baby [DVD+BD]: 2012/03/07 **,*** *0 Recorder to Randoseru [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/20 **,*** *0 Therma Romae [DVD+BD]: 2012/04/20 As a comparison, the week one DVD+BD sales for Bakemonogatari vol. 1 were 44,885.

holy fuck

[BGBW]

And yet Kill Me Baby probably made the biggest profit despite those sales.

[Articalys]

Single CD sales:

*4, 35,044 *35,044 Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker "Haruuta"
*6, 20,868 *20,868 Natsuiro Kiseki "Non stop road" "Asu e no Kaerimichi"
*7, 15,315 *15,315 Hanazawa Kana "Hoshizora☆Destination"
12, *8,049 *31,812 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "to the beginning"
16, *5,061 **5,061 Mouretsu Pirates "Black Holy"
20, *4,474 162,977 Doraemon: Nobita and the Miracle Island - Animal Adventure "Ikiteru Ikiteku"
24, *3,617 *40,943 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.2 Anzu
25, *3,579 **3,579 Medaka Box "Happy Crazy Box"
26, *3,553 **3,553 Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead "***Passionate"
30, *3,332 **3,332 Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A "Square Panic Serenade"
34, *3,088 **3,088 Tasogare Otome x Amnesia "Choir Jail"
35, *3,083 *36,435 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.4 Kaede
36, *2,972 *36,425 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.1 Rin
38, *2,739 *34,855 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.3 Kanako
40, *2,607 *12,356 Kuroko no Basket "Can Do"
42, *2,505 **2,505 Cardfight!! Vanguard: Asia Circuit Hen "Limit Break"
43, *2,490 *32,635 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.5 Rika
45, *2,315 *30,534 Ozuma "Neverland"
46, *2,299 **2,299 Imai Asami "Hasta La Vista"
49, *2,192 **2,192 Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead "Koi no Beginner nan desu (T_T)"

[Trojita]

Thank god for reverse google image search holy fuck

That girl has the weirdest interests I've seen for a 17 year old female.

[cosmicblizzard]

Nice to see Highschool DxD doing so well. Hopefully that means another season.

[Femmeworth]

That girl has the weirdest interests I've seen for a 17 year old female.

Must be icecream's sister or something.

[Chet Rippo]

Thank god for reverse google image search

Something tells me I should watch Queen's Blade.

[PdotMichael]

Great sales for the best anime studio. I see nothing wrong here.

[Femmeworth]

Something tells me I should watch Queen's Blade.

I'm shocked that you haven't.

[R_thanatos]

Something tells me I should watch Queen's Blade.

Something ??

Oh well ... If you're starting from the first anime adaptation bear in mind that ..well it can become fairly silly and unintresting ... 2nd season was ..Well much better

[flawfuls]

Is it just me or have anime sales gone up recently. It feels like there were a less hits and a lot more bombs even just a year or two ago.

[Theonik]

Is it just me or have anime sales gone up recently. It feels like there were a less hits and a lot more bombs even just a year or two ago.

Anime is saved!

[wonzo]

Something tells me I should watch Queen's Blade.

i'll probably get around to that after HSotD

Is it just me or have anime sales gone up recently. It feels like there were a less hits and a lot more bombs even just a year or two ago.

not shinbo saving anime confirmed

[Westlo]

Temporal DVD + Blu-ray Sales Rankings for Winter 2012 *1, 57,512 Nisemonogatari As a comparison, the week one DVD+BD sales for Bakemonogatari vol. 1 were 44,885.

You have to keep in mind that Bake Vol 1 sales were so low because of lack of supply, it ended up doing something like 82k, if Nise Vol 1 is like Bake Vol 6 and frontloaded as fuck than it will be lucky to get near 70k.

[Articalys]

You have to keep in mind that Bake Vol 1 sales were so low because of lack of supply, it ended up doing something like 82k, if Nise Vol 1 is like Bake Vol 6 and frontloaded as fuck than it will be lucky to get near 70k.

Yeah, I saw that the earlier Bakemonogatari volumes were exceptions but I was too lazy to edit out my reference.

[/XX/]

I look forward to playing it in 2015.

Mr. Chiyomaru cautious strategy seems to be working... touting a future title from 5pb. GAMES SCIENCE ADVENTURE TEAM aimed to be an international release (probably with help of KONAMI as a distributor and a recognizable figure like Mr. Kojima as support) while don't risking themselves with current titles until there is an adequate interest for their games in general.

gaf I need help. I remember watching an anime as a kid in china. I believe it's one of those designed to sell you models. I recall them being little model cars and the dudes steered them with hockey sticks.

Dash! Yonkuro.

And yet Kill Me Baby probably made the biggest profit despite those sales.

At 0.77 frt (Fractales)?! How is that possible?!

Great sales for the best anime studio. I see nothing wrong here.

But you said that was XEBEC! They need your backing here.

[wonzo]

fantastic avatar Westlo :claps:

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia 2

Wow, why the fuck wasn't this the first episode? This was not only much better than the last ep but it would have made the perfect introductory episode instead of the pile of shit we got instead.

[moonspeak]

Paprika



This was... definitely one of the more visually interesting things I've watched. It's been a while since a film has had me in such deep thought that I've been waiting a while since i've finished it to let it all marinate in my mind a bit. Even at this time I'm still unsure what to think of everything.

I know there's some drawn out meme in these threads incessantly comparing Paprika to Inception and I don't feel like opening up that can of worms.

Instead I will say that even though I enjoyed the film, it left me feeling a bit... empty. I'm not sure how to describe it just yet so I'll start with the visual/art standpoint. On the aesthetic side, the film is stunning. Satoshi Kon seemed to have a knack for juxtaposing these bright, uplifting imagery with unsettling, disturbing concepts behind them. I think Paranoia Agent and instances of Perfect Blue had examples of that. This made for something that was both very nice to watch and also very intense at the same time. The music (which I thought was great) definitely played a hand in that.

The ending felt so rushed though. The premise was great. I literally got chills when they introduced their concept of dreaming due to the fact that I've been writing a story revolving around lucid dreaming (some of KatawaGAF may be familiar with it) and from the start of the film I had high hopes for the plot. The film had a strong introduction but unfortunately as the film went on, the plot just became more and more disorienting until the film reached it's climax which just felt... disappointing. I thought the characterization was fairly weak with Konakawa being the only interesting character in the movie. The "romance" felt really forced and the 'villain' was pretty boring.

Overall, I really wanted this to be one of my favorite anime films ever but unfortunately it ended up not even being my favorite Satoshi Kon film (Perfect Blue still reigns supreme there). The imaginative world that Kon created is definitely something to behold and it probably ranks up there with GitS 2: Innocence as one of my favorite looking films.

[BGBW]

At 0.77 frt (Fractales)?! How is that possible?!

The budget of the show was a packet of custard creams. One DVD sale was enough to make a profit.

[Brazil]

Full DVD/BD sales data for April 23-29: Blu-ray *1, 50,160 50,160 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition *2, 18,747 18,747 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition *3, *7,570 *7,570 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai vol.4 *4, *7,063 *7,063 Working'!! vol.7 Limited Edition *5, *6,844 *6,844 Highschool DxD vol.2 *6, *6,674 *6,674 Aquarion Evol vol.1 *7, *5,824 *5,824 Ano Natsu de Matteru vol.2 Limited Edition *8, *5,608 *5,608 Inu x Boku SS vol.2 Limited Edition *9, *5,602 *5,602 The iDOLM@STER vol.7 Limited Edition 10, *5,538 *5,538 Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA 11, *5,489 *5,489 Guilty Crown vol.4 Limited Edition 12, *4,847 *4,847 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi vol.3 Limited Edition 13, *3,979 *3,979 Mawaru Penguindrum vol.7 Limited Edition 14, *3,675 *3,675 Tamayura: Hitotose vol.5 15, *3,662 19,650 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon vol.5 Limited Edition 16, *3,542 *3,542 Senki Zesshou Symphogear vol.2 Limited Edition

Bwahahahaha. Nice.

Less than Guilty Crown, Penguindrum?

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia 2 Wow, why the fuck wasn't this the first episode? This was not only much better than the last ep but it would have made the perfect introductory episode instead of the pile of shit we got instead.

It's really hard to explain that first episode.

[PdotMichael]

It's pretty easy if you use the words "amazing", great" and/or "fantastic".

[wonzo]

It's pretty easy if you use the words "amazing", great" and/or "fantastic".

amazingly awful

[/XX/]

The budget of the show was a packet of custard creams. One DVD sale was enough to make a profit.

I don't know if they sell those on Japan so, if they had to import a packet... that was actually pretty generous of the show's producers!

[duckroll]

The budget of the show was a packet of custard creams. One DVD sale was enough to make a profit.

But that doesn't mean it made the biggest profit. That's not how profit works.

[PdotMichael]

amazingly awful

2/10

[wonzo]

maybe now shaft can finally afford to do a second series of Soredemo...






;_;

[BGBW]

I don't know if they sell those on Japan so, if they had to import a packet... that was actually pretty generous of the show's producers!

Well it helps to explain how they managed to get the best OP and ED of the session.

[DarknessTear]

Natsume Yuujinchou as a whole is really good. I just finished Natsume Yuujinchou San, now I'm moving on to Shi. The stories and character development is so, so good. It's basically a brighter and more lighthearted version of Mushishi. Mushishi is amazing, too.

[EmmanuelMunoz]

I hoped we'd got past this :(

As did I...as did I.

[Kagami]

*7, *5,824 *5,824 Ano Natsu de Matteru vol.2 Limited Edition

Represent!

16, *5,061 **5,061 Mouretsu Pirates "Black Holy"

Yep!

[RurouniZel]

So. Much. Rage!

Mayonnaise on my Chichis! 12 Come the fuck on, you are not even being subtle about the censorship! I understand you gotta sell Blu-Rays but this is ridiculous. I liked this show more when it was about the harem and not about the silly romance plot. That's the problem with these haremshit cartoons: they don't realise that nobody gives two fucks if the pathetic male lead ends up with the best girl, they just wanna see the wacky hijinx. Or, in this case, not letting Konoe be the girl she always wanted to be. What a retarded lesson.

But don't you see? All girls should hide their gender from everyone except the one man they love so that there's no competition! Duh! /sarcasm Yeah, it's pretty stupid all around and the show was much better without the ending drama. >>;

LOLOLOLOL!

Edit: Also my friend sent me a picture of the cover of that book, for the curious. Apparently the book supports AR too on iPhone. Madness!

[-Minsc-]

AnimeGAF, 65 years from now.

[RurouniZel]

AnimeGAF, 45 years from now.

Fixed. :(

[Defuser]

Represent!

DAT Kanna artwork.

[RurouniZel]

DAT Kanna artwork.

Oh Kanna, why are you so adorable! <3

[PdotMichael]

AnimeGAF, 65 years from now.

But we will have jetpacks.

Edit: Also my friend sent me a picture of the cover of that book, for the curious. Apparently the book supports AR too on iPhone. Madness!

I know some books with AR support - pretty cool!

[cajunator]

hating nyaruko is like hating anime.

This is true :(

Taisho Baseball Girls 04 Man I love this show.

Good! spread the love!

Man I feel like I'm the only one who liked the first episode of Dusk Maiden. I totally understand how it'd piss a lot of people off though. It's a very risky approach especially when trying to make a decent impression for a first episode.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=6909 ;)

Fuck Yeah de geso.

As I've said before, cute character, awful looking car.