Japan Top 10 Weekly Anime Blu-ray and DVD Ranking: July 4, 2022 ~ July 10, 2022

Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie – Hoshi Naki Yoru no Aria (or Aria of a Starless Night as it is officially known in English) makes for a great debut in its first 3 days to sell a total of 36,604 copies of its discs in Japan. The Blu-ray edition comes in two different forms, the Limited Edition copies which are priced at 9,000 yen (≈66 USD) each sits at the top at 28,301 copies sold whereas the much cheaper Regular Edition can be found at Number 3 with 2,910 copies sold. Its DVDs are also the best-selling Anime discs for the week, dominating their own respective chart at a total of 5,393 copies sold. Revenue wise, Aniplex will collect roughly 300 million yen (≈2.26 million USD) from the title alone for the week. Note that this may not include sales from other Limited Edition sets, such as the Animate store set. Released in October of 2021, the film adapts the Light Novel Sword Art Online: Progressive which retells the story and expands the main storyline covering the first part of the Aincrad Arc. The sequel film is set to release this coming month of September. According to Box Office Mojo, the theatrical release had collected 14,037,060 USD worldwide in box office revenue. You can check out the commercial for its Blu-ray and DVD releases down below, uploaded by Aniplex in March this year.

It is thanks to the wonderful people over at Oricon that we get to see these charts on a weekly basis, so be sure to head over to their site here and show them lots of love! Plus, all the data you find below is accessible via Oricon right here (Blu-ray) and here (DVD).

Now, squeezed in-between Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie’s Blu-rays, you will find Machikado Mazoku: 2-choume Volume 1 at 3,132 copies sold in its first 5 days, a 7.19% improvement over Season 1’s 1^st volume that debuted at 2,922 copies sold between September 30 and October 6, 2019. Note that all the sales you see in the graph below are in their first 5 days. The TV Anime series adapts the Manga by Izumo Ito and is produced by J.C.Staff.

For other new releases, unfortunately they miss placing a spot on the Top 20 lists for both Blu-rays and DVDs’ general categories. The cutoff point for the Top 20 Blu-ray chart for the week is 1,551 copies sold while for DVD, that will be 831 copies sold. The poor results for Anime titles for the week are due to stiff competition they face against non-Anime releases, plus it having only a handful of new releases for the week.

On the Anime Blu-ray chart, at Number 5 is Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi Volume 1 at 5 days of sales, then, we have Odd Taxi Blu-ray Box at Number 8. For the latter title, do not let its position fool you as when pre-orders were opened the year before (in October), a total of 6,038 sets were ordered. Therefore, its actual performance would have certainly been much higher if we include the re-release version of the Blu-ray here. If you are curious about the set that was released last year, I made an unboxing video of it right here, so do check it out! Without further ado, the full list is as follows:

Anime Blu-ray Weekly Top 10

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Anime DVD Weekly Top 20

As always, if you find any faults with the charts above, please do not hesitate to let me know! Also, don’t shy away from dropping a comment or two down below and share your thoughts with us down below!

Note:
All currency conversion was done at the time of writing. 1 USD ≈ 137 yen

Source: Oricon; Blu-ray; DVD
Upcoming releases: gameiroiro; kakaku.com; Amazon

Google Charts:
Machikado Mazoku Sales Comparison

Visualisation:
Jul. 4 – Jul. 10, 2022

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