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Adventures in Sound Direction: Your Folk Blues Are Real
So a while ago I wrote about veteran Sound Director Katsuyoshi Kobayashi’s wizardly handling of Space Brothers’ audio. At the time, I had to look up his name on ann, but I didn’t check his specific...
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Lists Are Fun to Make: Favorite Anime Episodes by Title
Full Disclosure: I like making lists. This particular list is the result of an afternoon of me sitting down and trying to list all the anime episode titles I remember. This correlates pretty well with...
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Fun With Numbers: A Numbers-Based Way of Picking Out the Best Anime of the...
You know the old saying; “Stats don’t lie, except when they do.” Using stats to argue point son anime is kind of tough, as any individual figure, be it Japanese sales, TV Ratings, merchandising fees...
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First Reactions: Free! Episode 2 (Plus Too-Long Footnotes on Why Summer 2013...
Based on what I’ve seen of reactions to Free on the internet, it seems like a large quantity of people are ruling it out with one glance at the promo material rather than 20 minutes of episode time....
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Fun With Numbers: Statlines for the Video Game-Anime Adaptations of 2011
I may have mentioned this before, but nailing down the impact of anime on video games (released on irregular timetables and with less baseline-dependent variance in stats) is much harder than...
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Fun With Numbers: September 2014 US Amazon Data (Initial Numbers)
August was a boring month as far as high-powered releases go. September is not, and there are a couple of series (particularly the Steins Gate combo pack hovering around 1500 with 4 weeks to go and the...
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Fun With Numbers: Updated US Amazon Formulae
Since late February of this year, I’ve been tracking the daily ranks of various anime releases on US Amazon to see if they could be used to get an idea of how releases were selling in the US, since...
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Steins;Gate Sold 105,977 Copies in the US (Over 82 Weeks)
Surprise! Apparently a 5-year-old anime can still pull in some numbers when it tries. US BD sales numbers just came out for late April 2016 and contained the surprising revelation that the complete...
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