Rocket Bomber - article - site news - rankings - RE: the opinion poll. Rankings of Anime Online sales. Fair Warning.

There’s this poll I’ve been running (look left, sidebar… no, just a bit further down… there it is) because while there is a lot I could be doing for the blog there are only so many sober hours in my week, and I have to prioritize.

One Brave Soul has placed his vote for an Online Anime Sales Rankings, to match my manga charts.

I *can* do that. With the current spreadsheet, it doesn’t matter what the data are, it chugs along just fine so long as it has input. I can squeeze in a few more hours of data entry this week (…if that is what you demand. the anonymous public is a bitch of a taskmaster) but my sacrifices are secondary in this case:

Are you fully prepared for the porn?

No, honestly. This is a real question.

Sure, you want to know how [series x] compares against the field. We all like to see how our favorites perform. But did you know how a goodly chunk (it used to be half; but as porn has diminished so has the industry) of anime DVD production is financed? Have you heard of Critical Mass and Kitty Media?

(One could argue that ADV only ran into trouble when they closed their Soft Cel division. Just sayin’. Porn, for all of it’s icky connotations, pays the damn bills — and so falls ADV. Don’t knock porn; hundreds of horny nerds will pay your damn bills)

Anyway: Right now, all this is way beneath your radar. You float along, watching what you will — buying some, pirating others — thinking the industry is so damn popular — particularly with internet-savvy geeks, domestically and in Japan — that it must have a healthy online sales presence, one that will offset any losses in this tough retail market.

I can run these numbers. I can leave your impressions intact, or I can drop some science on ‘em.

I’m teetering at the moment — but only briefly. Yes, I Am Nuts, and for at least this one week I’m going to run an anime chart. I’ll start working on it tonight. New Anime Charts will drop Tuesday of next week.

Online sales of Anime DVDs: Parsed, sorted, scored, ranked, and reported.

Sounds good.
But, Are you fully prepared for hentai DVDs that outrank Miyazaki?

You Have Been Warned.