Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai 2nd Season tops the Blu-ray chart for the week between August 22 and August 28 to sell 13,488 copies in its first 3 days, a 19.38% drop from the 16,731 copies sold it had for Volume 1 which also debuted in 3 days back in June. Volume 2 saw a slightly better outcome than Volume 3, but that is due to the longer days of sales that it had, at 5 days.
The third and final instalment of the Ao no Curtain Call trilogy, Aria the Benedizione makes for an impressive start in its first 5 days, selling 9,843 copies sold, 11.38% higher than the prequel film, the Crepuscolo which sold 8,837 copies back in August last year. Note that, the first film of the trilogy, the Avvenire, can be found way back in 2015 where it sold 5,822 copies in its first 5 days, making the Benedizione its best performer so far among the three.
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Several other new releases here that made it onto the Top 20 general category are Number 3’s Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These Volume 8 that covers the first four episodes of the Gekitotsu arc and sold 2,553 copies in its first 5 days. Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken (2020) is 5th on the list with its 7th volume at 1,456 copies in its first 3 days whereas Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 Volume 2 is 6th at 1,172 copies sold in its first 3 days as well.
Date A Live IV makes two appearances here with the upper volume’s Limited Edition that comes with an illustrated tapestry and an acrylic stand taking the 7th spot, at the same time, the Regular Edition is found at Number 10. Both failed to chart on the general category. Squeezed in between, we have Deaimon’s Blu-ray Box at Number 8 and Heroine Tarumono! Kiraware Heroine to Naisho no Oshigoto at Number 9. Although Heroine Tarumono! failed to place a spot in the general category, it did so with its DVD edition which sold 658 copies. The cutoff point for the general category for the week would be Tate no Yuusha’s 1,172 copies, as such, all of the titles whose sales are unknown will have sales below that. Without further ado, the full list is as follows:
Anime Blu-ray Weekly Top 10
1. Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai 2nd Season Vol. 3 [Limited Release] (NEW)
Type: Anime
Release date: August 26, 2022
Price: 7,000 yen
Estimated number of sales: 13,488
Producer: Bandai Namco Filmworks
Link (JPN): Vol. 3 (with Eng. subs)
2. Aria the Benedizione (NEW)
Type: Anime
Release date: August 24, 2022
Price: 9,000 yen
Estimated number of sales: 9,843
Producer: Shochiku Home Video
Link (JPN): CDJapan
3. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These Vol. 8 [Limited Release] (NEW)
Type: Anime
Release date: August 24, 2022
Price: 12,000 yen
Estimated number of sales: 2,553
Producer: Shochiku Home Video
Link (JPN): Vol. 8
4. Sing 2 Blu-ray + DVD