Sep 1 2011

Sales numbers for official anime guide books

Tiger & Bunny may not be able to beat Madoka Magica in numbers of sold Blu-rays (which may be due to print amounts), but it’s a clear winner in number of sold official anime guide books.

These numbers include only the Official Hero Book, I didn’t find information on how well Hero TV Fan vol. 1 has been selling.

Tiger & Bunny Official Hero Book ………………….. (980 JPY) …. 26,212 copies
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guide Book … (2,000 JPY) ….. 18,827 copies
Bakemonogatari Anime Complete Guide Book …… (3,150 JPY) ….. 15,096 copies
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Official Visual Book …… (1,890 JPY) …. 14,271 copies
K-on! TV Anime Official Guide Book …………………. (1,679 JPY) ….. 7,874 copies

Source: Yaraon.

More Official Books

2nd volumes of Official Hero Book and Hero TV fan that cover episodes 14-25 are coming out in late October. There are also two complete series guide books coming out in late September, Hero TV Gossips from Kadokawa Shoten and Tiger & Bunny Roman Album from Tokuma Shoten. They’re available for preorder for example at CDJapan.

(I’m not quite sure why they’re making so many guide books but… I’m still going to buy them all, despite overlapping content.)

Aug 31 2011

Interview in Animage September

Hi guys, it’s Aki, the member of Sternbild who has ~~Morita’s fanboyishness~~ a new interview for you today!

It was published in the September issue of Animage and features Tiger and Barnaby’s seiyuu, Hirata Hiroaki and Morita Masakazu. You can read the previous translated interview with these two here.

Note: This interview was printed out in full in Roman Album from Tokuma Shoten. This is an abridged version.

Disclaimer: not a professional translator, doing this for fun, etc. Standard fantranslation rules apply.

Continue reading →

Aug 30 2011

Tiger & Barnaby’s character song CD on 7th place in Oricon ranking

Tiger & Barnaby’s character song CD “Seigi no Koe ga Kikoerukai” that was released on August 24th made it on 7th place on Oricon’s weekly CD single ranking. So far it has sold almost 18,000 copies, and it is the highest ranking anime CD single on this week’s Oricon list. It’s been doing well on the daily rankings, too, staying in Top 10 for four consecutive days (6th, 5th, 5th and 7th place). (sources: Oricon Youtaiju via MAL, Yaraon)

From comments I’ve read on the internet the CD’s been really well received and the fans like the songs, so we’re happy to see it do so well on the charts. (I’ve been looping the duet for hours and know the lyrics by heart now, so I really got nothing bad to say.)

In addition to that, Tiger & Bunny vol. 4 Limited Edition Blu-ray was on 2nd place on the ranking, losing only to Madoka Magica vol. 5. (Madoka’s numbers in sales are insanely hard to beat.)

Aug 29 2011

Thank You Edition: Nathan’s Fiery Room 01

Hi guys! It’s Aki, the member of Sternbild who has something special for you today!

But first – huge thank you to everyone reading our blog! Today, we hit 100,000 pageviews thanks to you all! Thank you, and again, thank you! We didn’t believe so many people would be reading our blog!

To celebrate this, we prepared something for you – with extra help from Zwill, who timed our little surprise.

Without further ado – enjoy the translated version of the first Nathan’s Fiery Room!

(With special love to this one Anon who’s been sadfacing since forever that there is no translation available. <3!)

DDL | Torrent

~~Derpchan’s upload is a little slow, so it’d be lovely if you could take the ddl first and then helped seed this fiery show~~~ Seeding should be ok now, thanks everyone! -derpchan

Aug 29 2011

BD/DVD vs TV comparisons from volume 4

Screenshot comparisons of fixes made on the latest volume that came out on Friday. Episode 8 got some much needed attention by the looks of it. (They didn’t fix “Let’s believe HEROES” though!)

(By the way, would anyone be interested in commentary/reviews of the drama CDs that come with the limited edition BDs?)