{"id":10196,"date":"2006-05-03T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/icv2-news-reports-early-2006-anime-industry-sales-statistics\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:44:00","slug":"icv2-news-reports-early-2006-anime-industry-sales-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/icv2-news-reports-early-2006-anime-industry-sales-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"ICv2 News Reports Early 2006 Anime Industry Sales Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/8604.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2 estimates<\/a>, the number of anime DVDs released in first quarter 2006 is roughly 12% lower than the same time last year, and the number of new anime titles released so far in 2006 &#8220;was down even more drastically since repackaged backlist titles accounted for a substantial percentage of anime titles in Q1.&#8221; Anime feature films continue to outsell episodic DVDs. ICv2&#8217;s estimated best selling anime DVDs for Q1 2006 are:<\/p>\n<p>01. Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle<br \/>\n02. My Neighbor Totoro<br \/>\n03. Dragon Ball Z Movie #12: Fusion Reborn<br \/>\n04. Full Metal Alchemist<br \/>\n05. Samurai Champloo<br \/>\n06. Inuyasha<br \/>\n07. Naruto<br \/>\n08. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex<br \/>\n09. Gantz<br \/>\n10. Whisper of the Heart<\/p>\n<p>ICv2 estimates that as of 2006 the domestic manga market earns between $155 and $180 million. Exact figures are impossible to determine. ICv2&#8217;s estimated most popular manga titles in America as of first quarter 2006 are:<\/p>\n<p>01. Naruto<br \/>\n02. Full Metal Alchemist<br \/>\n03. Kingdom Hearts<br \/>\n04. Fruits Basket<br \/>\n05. Tsubasa Chronicle<br \/>\n06. Death Note<br \/>\n07. Rurouni Kenshin<br \/>\n08. Negima<br \/>\n09. Bleach<br \/>\n10. Loveless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ICv2 estimates, the number of anime DVDs released in first quarter 2006 is roughly 12% lower than the same time last year, and the number of new anime titles released so far in 2006 &#8220;was down even more drastically since repackaged backlist titles accounted for a substantial percentage of anime titles in Q1.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}