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Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, June 7-13
posted on by Egan Loo
Oricon Communications reports that Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) has sold 14,000 more copies during the June 7-13 week to top the Blu-ray Disc sales chart for the third week in a row. The second film in Hideaki Anno and Khara's four-film remake of Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series has now sold 411,000 copies — the most copies for any Blu-ray release in Japan. (In its first week of sales, the film had already topped the previous record holder, the 351,000 copies of Michael Jackson's This Is It film.)
The special comic edition for Tae-Gyun Kim's live-action film adaptation of Kōji Matsumoto's Higanjima supernatural horror manga debuted at #12. In addition to the actual film, this limited-edition first pressing includes an extras DVD and a special edition of Matsumoto's manga.
| Rank | Last Week | Title | Release Date | Maker | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) | May 26 | King Records |  |
| 3 | 2 | Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Jo) | May 27, 2009 | King Records |  |
| 6 | 7 | Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ | May 28 | Bandai Visual |  |
| 9 | 14 | Mobile Suit Gundam UC #1 | March 12 | Bandai Visual |  |
| 17 | 4 | Katanagatari Vol. 3 (Complete Limited Pressing) | June 2 | Aniplex |  |
[SoundScan Japan's methods of surveying home video sales are different from those of the competing firm Oricon, which often lead to differing results between the two. Neither firm directly posts more data for weekly sales than what is listed here. Any purportedly additional data comes from unverified, anonymous sources.]
Source: Phile-web
follow-up of Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, May 31-June 6
