Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-49.147.168.251-20131012095619/@comment-26391060-20131012140245

p.s. if you want to see some anime have a second season, the most pratical way to do is to buy everything related to the anime that are released by the anime production company like all those blu-ray disc, OST, etc. and each of them perferrably as many piece as possible (maybe you can buy one for watching, 1 for collection, and 1 for promoting the show to friends), then when production company look at their financial gain/loss table and found out the anime bring so much money to them, they would more likely consider making another season for that anime. (although there are many other things to be consider when deciding if there will be second season or not, like if the plot allow doing so, or if investor want to do so.

In 2ch there's a pharse called "Manabi line" that source from an 2007 anime "Manabi straight" which people on 2ch claim its sell of 2899 disc for vol.1 and 2319disc/volume just able to cover anime's cost.(although it is not very clear about its correctness, and different anime have different cost, and factors like rental version and BD that emerged recently, time slot, sponsordhip also not taken into account

Similarily, 5000disc/volume is considered as Season 2 line which generally people think an anime would have chance in seeing another season if on average each volume sell more than 5000 copy of BD+DVD

and it's 10000copy/volume that considered things selling quite good

and there exist a 名作の壁 (lit. famous work's wall) that is a wall of 33812 copy/volume which is the average sell figure of Infinite Stratos season, as people consider the anime IS itself only an anime with a collection of robot, girls, school, etc. elements, and the anime itself not exceptionally good but managed to sell this much disc, so people said how can you call an anime 名作(lit. famous work) if it can't even sell more than this wall (IS) and it become as such<--the term used in sinosphere mainly, and heard that japan 2ch use some terms that carry meaning like goalkeeper for it

and it is 神作之壁(lit. god's work wall) that use Bakemonogatari's average sell figure 108922copy/volume, and (the word only used in some chinese community afaik)


 * Note that all above mentioned data are not refering to actual sales factor, but instead only those in the range of Japan ORICON stats and within the time that it sell enough more copy so it can be shown in the ranking.


 * we can use fractale as a physical unit when talking about BD sell figure, that fractale is a 2011 anime directed by Kansai Yamamoto which he said on anime official site if the anime failed he will take the duty and resign. And at the end, the sell figure of fractale is 833copy/volume. So 833copy=1frt :)


 * for SAO, Vol.1 sell is 45372 copy, and 35729/volume on average.