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Found out Kill la Kill only sold 5,000 Blu-rays in the US during its first week, and it's considered a hit here
I saw that number on an old ANN sales chart from 2014, and it made me realize how tiny the Western anime market actually is compared to what fans online act like, so I'm curious if anyone else has a sales stat that made them rethink what "popular" even means for anime over here.
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nathan_patel12d ago
Man, 5,000 copies and that counts as a win here? People on forums talk about Kill la Kill like it was the second coming, but that number is smaller than the crowd at a mid-tier con. I remember seeing charts where a show would crack the top ten with like 3,000 units sold, which tells you the bar is basically on the floor. So yeah, "hit" in the West just means the same few thousand diehards bought it, not that it went mainstream.
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