Posts Tagged ‘Sales’

This one’s going straight into the “WTF, Japan” file: Nojiri Housuke, author of Rocket Girls has confirmed via Twitter that he plans to commercialize the “flying panties” seen in the second ending animation of the currently running Sora no Otoshimono anime. Housuke was so impressed by it that he created a rubber band powered toy [...]

According to the latest sales figures published by Japanese site Shinobi no Emmacho, the Blu-Ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete beat 2008 Blu-Ray sales records by becoming the first release to sell 100,000 copies on the first day of release, no doubt helped in part by the bundling of the playable demo [...]

Manga creator Satou Shuuhou will begin implementing a new micropayment system for online versions of his current work in Blackjack ni yoroshiku (“Say Hello to BlackJack”) after they’ve been serialized in Big Comic Spirits magazine as a way to supplement his income and simultaneously voice his displeasure at relying on publishers while trying to find [...]

Update: ICV2 has confirmed that Best Buy will remove anime offerings from 460 stores across the country via 50% off sales due to begin on March 1st to the 21st. After the sale, the affected stores will only carry the top 20 titles, while the top 500 stores in anime sales will continue with their [...]