It looks like they saved what budget they could for this final stretch (or maybe the studio gave them some extra funding?) because this week’s episode looked really good.
23. Misfortunes never come singly.
-不幸は重なる・不幸は単独では来ない-
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Meet the Sponsors
An advertisement in a newspaper in November 2010, seeking sponsors for the heroes.
I was at a loss over what to spend today’s time killing post on, but then I got a suggestion from the guys on #sternbild chat to talk about the companies sponsoring the heroes. For placement of the advertisements on the hero suits, please refer to the official site.
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.)
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.
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.)
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