Nichijou, R-15 and A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives didn't sell

[Joshawott]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/inter ... -low-sales

Today, animator Shunji Suzuki revealed at he went to industry meeting that discussed how recent anime titles Nichijou, R-15 and A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives didn't have very high sales - with Nichijou not even coming close to breaking even "destroying the myth of Kyoto Animation's invincibility".

Also, there was apprehension about a certain magical girl anime that aired this spring, but it did sell well. Now, whoever guesses what that magical girl anime wasn't, but makes it sound like a serious guess, gets a cookie.

Personally, I never expected R-15 to sell well (let's be fair =3), but Nichijou being the worst offender was a big surprise to me.

 

[ilmaestro]

R-15 was crap and never going to sell well, ItsuTen is good (imo), and was established to a degree from the LNs, but was also never going to shift large numbers.

Nichijou surprises me slightly, but it is p.bad compared to the shows that have established KyoAni.

 

[Joshawott]

R-15 was crap and never going to sell well.

I would have thought if anything, the thought of possibly uncensored DVD/BDs for R-15 would have promoted a few sales from people with 'certain' interests xD But yeah, while I found the series fun...definitely stream worthy, but not anything else.

The thing with Nichijou, is I have to be in a certain mood to watch it.

 

[Rui]

I'm surprised Nichijou has flopped given the ridiculous amount of marketing it has got (though I guess that makes it harder to break even!). I couldn't even manage one episode though. I don't like the artist's strip in Newtype either ^^;

I also tried to give R-15 a chance on AoD but couldn't get into that. The ugly characters designs didn't help.

And ItsuTen I avoided like the plague.

R

 

[ilmaestro]

Also, there was apprehension about a certain magical girl anime that aired this spring, but it did sell well. Now, whoever guesses what that magical girl anime wasn't, but makes it sound like a serious guess, gets a cookie.

I will steal an answer from the yaraon comments and say Houkago no Pleiades. :lol:

edit: oh god the ANN comments someone please give me my eyes back. edit2: although one good point, I had actually forgotten that the price of Nichijou (even in the context of JP releases) had already put me off importing before I saw it, either way. Can't be something that has no effect, Kadokawa.

 

[Joshawott]

I also tried to give R-15 a chance on AoD but couldn't get into that. The ugly characters designs didn't help.
R

It's Narakawa's HUGE eyes that creeped me out.

EDIT:

Also, there was apprehension about a certain magical girl anime that aired this spring, but it did sell well. Now, whoever guesses what that magical girl anime wasn't, but makes it sound like a serious guess, gets a cookie.

I will steal an answer from the yaraon comments and say Houkago no Pleiades. :lol:

edit: oh god the ANN comments someone please give me my eyes back.

Here.

 

[ilmaestro]

Someone else suggested the Nanoha movie, fwiw. Seems it wasn't that hard to find answers.

 

[Joshawott]

Someone else suggested the Nanoha movie, fwiw. Seems it wasn't that hard to find answers.

I'll have to think of harder challenges.

I'll be back! *throws smoke bomb on the floor*

 

[Joshawott]

To be honest, I can imagine why Nichijou flopped.

I think the bigger shock isn't that it flopped, but it flopped more than R-15.

Then again, if R-15's DVDs/BDs were uncut...

 

[ilmaestro]

Well, it probably cost eleventy one times as much to make as R-15, the animation is actually far, far better than the show deserves.

 

[MaxonTreik]

Nichijou sold poorly because it aired at midnight. It was also mediocre. The other two sold poorly for obvious reasons.

Kadokawa are fecking idiots. They are the Capcom of anime.

 

[Cloud Strife]

Nichijou sold poorly because it aired at midnight. It was also mediocre. The other two sold poorly for obvious reasons.

Kadokawa are fecking idiots. They are the Capcom of anime.

The only thing that was great about Nichijou was Sakamoto, there were good parts but unfortunately there was alot of bland parts aswell! Im not surprised that it didnt sell well, but i was kinda expecting that when it first started...