>only 148 discs sold
RPG Fudousan is officially the lowest-selling Kirara anime of all time. It broke the record previously held by Tamayomi (564 discs sold).
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Charles Bennett
Well deserved. It was fucking awful.
Thomas Davis
While I am not sure if they expected numbers that low, I really doubt they were expecting it to do better, in the end even if the BD sales were 10 times better it still is a small amount of money.
RPG Fudousan was just marketing for the Kirara Carat magazine, it was on all the covers since february, maybe it worked, maybe not, but my point is that I doubt ultimately the care about the actual performance because they probably made enough money from the licesing fees.
Jayden Ramirez
Dogakobros, not like this.
Jaxson Torres
Deserved honestly.
Jordan Moore
Do people even buy discs anymore?
Adrian Rivera
Aside from the fanservice the series was unremarkable and it was apparently censored.
Still, series in general don't seem to sell that well in general, guess they get most of the money from streaming numbers, merchandising...
Blake Butler
>Sending it out next to Machikado Mazoku
RPGbros...
Anthony James
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It's niconico's 8th most popular anime of its season though, I wouldn't worry too much
Joseph Phillips
...says the salesfag who's still living in the past, and firmly believes that BD sales mean anything nowadays.
And then Birdie Wing gets a S2.
Asher Diaz
What use are discs. My computer doesn't have any optical drives
Ryder Fisher
>My computer doesn't have any optical drives
That is because you are a cancerous subhuman
Asher Ortiz
Nobody buys bds to play them, I guess there's the touch ups but really it's the omake, insert goods, and storefront exclusives. Also box art.
Jaxon Fisher
Source?
Jayden Morris
How important are BD sales really compared to streaming licenses?
Adrian Davis
As far money is concerned not much.
Sebastian Campbell
literally irrelevant
Camden Bailey
No way, it was the best Kirara in years and the OP/ED.
Jonathan Miller
How did the series do in China? Was the censorship worth it?
Camden Nelson
Well, bd sales were never the make or break for an anime, since it costs so much to fund one that nobody expects to make it up on bd sales at all. They're usually considered bonus income, if they happen to sell well that's another thing to pad the high price of getting animated. It used to be that you would add all sorts of goods with your bd releases because it's marketing towards a small group of anime otaku who buy them since the sets are incredibly expensive in japan. For example, RPG's bds are a 3 Volume release, with each vol 13k yen before taxes, and this is a fairly normal price - to compare Machikado is a 4vol release at 9.9k yen. But in recent years bd purchases have understandably decreased sharply across the board. Streaming licenses offer an up front payment and some streaming services actually invest in the anime initially, so it's not really comparable to bd sales. It's like this, bd sales are handled on the side by the distributor, someone who's already dropped a lot of cash into the anime because they can make money off handling all sorts of deals and advertising, but streaming itself is a deal to be made, or another investor into the committee so it's a very low risk avenue for the rest of the anime production. If streaming doesn't do well they're already paid upfront, or it's a loss that they share but an investment that was split between them already.
Nicholas Hill
>Well, bd sales were never the make or break for an anime, since it costs so much to fund one that nobody expects to make it up on bd sales at all
OVA were supposed to make or break based on videogram sales. Just back then it was LD and VHS instead of BD.