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Anime, Action help drive Blu-ray sales in Japan

Posted on June 29th, 2008 at 04:28 EDT

According to Amazon Japan, Blu-ray sales have seen a prominent increase over the last year. Curiously enough, five of the top 10 best-selling movies are animated titles.

With the list also including other movies such as Resident Evil: The High Definition Trilogy and I Am Legend, Amazon Japan went on record to state, "Many software manufactures consider that 'action' is the genre that can make the most of BD. The BD share is expected to grow among new titles especially in this genre from now on." 


Here is the complete top 10 list:

1. Resident Evil: The High Definition Trilogy
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
3. 5 Centimeters Per Second
4. I Am Legend
5. .hack//G.U. Trilogy
6. Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack
7. The Place Promised in Our Early Days
8. The Phantom of The Opera
9. Ratatouille
10. Mobile Suit Gundam F91

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posted 5:14am EDT - June 29th, 2008
1

I want the BD saturation rate to pick up so I can start renting them from the local video store.

posted 6:07am EDT - June 29th, 2008
2

I hope to all h3ll the .hack//G.U. Trilogy blu ray comes out in australia, my avatar should be evidence enough of how much i want it lol

posted 8:19am EDT - June 29th, 2008
3

they'd better release GU trilogy worldwide as the games were never f****** released in the uk. >_< So much for watching roots in preperation for the game >_<

posted 8:26am EDT - June 29th, 2008
4

I just want all the Miyazaki movies on BluRay

posted 10:41am EDT - June 29th, 2008
5

Animation both traditional and CG as well as blockbuster Action/scifi with lots of effects are the best kinds of titles to own on BR. These are titles you WANT to see perfectly, dramas, comedies and other slower less visual geners just dont require that kind of fidelity... certainly not for 30 bucks a pop.

posted 10:48am EDT - June 29th, 2008
6

It's because animated movies look the best on your HDTV.  Every animated movies sells well on BD.

posted 1:10pm EDT - June 29th, 2008
7

 Resident Evil: The High Definition Trilogy could be my first blu-ray purchase

posted 3:08pm EDT - June 29th, 2008
8

I've been a Blu-Ray supporter since the beginning (you know, when even PS3 fans were whining that "It's a console first!" stuff), and I still think animation on BD is a waste of money.  There's no point. 

posted 3:22pm EDT - June 29th, 2008
9

@ darksora.. completely agree !

posted 3:22pm EDT - June 29th, 2008
10

Oh I want .hack for blu-ray!!!

posted 4:31pm EDT - June 29th, 2008
11

.hack//G.U. was a great trilogy, the games were great, the prequel anime and the OVA

posted 8:28am EDT - June 30th, 2008
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they should release all 3 seasons of avatar: the last airbender on blu-ray. 3 seasons on 3 BD's, that would be great. (the official season 3 trailer is available on ign.com, youtube.com and some other sites.)
posted 2:58pm EDT - June 30th, 2008
13

Anime and TV seasons will definitely reap the most benefit of using BD for me personally.

posted 10:29am EDT - July 1st, 2008
14

Anime, and cgi are so much better on BD, but what isn't? Nothing, bring us the anime!

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