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Bandai Namco Holdings released on Tuesday its financial balance sheet for the second quarter of the current fiscal year ending on March 31, 2018. The report included a breakdown of the overall sales for Bandai Namco's franchises, showing that Bandai Namco's Dragon Ball IP outperformed its Mobile Suit Gundam IP in terms of overall sales for the first half of the fiscal year (April 4 to September 30). The full list is as follows:
Dragon Ball: 43.1 billion yen Mobile Suit Gundam: 32.7 billion yen One Piece: 14.4 billion yen Super Sentai/Power Rangers: 10.2 billion yen Kamen Rider: 9.8 billion yen Anpanman: 4.7 billion yen Naruto: 5.4 billion yen Precure: 3.8 billion yen Yo-kai Watch: 2.1 billion yen Ultraman: 3.1 billion yen
Bandai Namco predicts that Dragon Ball will earn 75.7 billion yen and Mobile Suit Gundam will earn 70.9 billion yen total for the full fiscal year.
For the same period last year, Mobile Suit Gundam sold 36.2 billion yen compared to Dragon Ball's 19.8 billion yen. Mobile Suit Gundam also outperformed Dragon Ball by 21% for the full fiscal year.
In terms of domestic toy and hobby sales alone, both Mobile Suit Gundam and Kamen Rider topped Dragon Ball this year and last year. The results for domestic toy and hobby sales for the first half of the fiscal year are as follows:
Mobile Suit Gundam: 11 billion yen Kamen Rider: 9.4 billion yen Dragon Ball: 5.9 billion yen Super Sentai/Power Rangers: 4.9 billion yen Anpanman: 4.7 billion yen Precure: 3.8 billion yen Yo-kai Watch: 2.0 billion yen Ultraman: 2.2 billion yen One Piece: 1.8 billion yen Pokémon: 2.2 billion yen
I think it's safe to say Super (or at least some form of it) is here to stay for the foreseeable future. There's no way they're ending it just yet with those kind of numbers.
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So, I guess before long every model kit hobbyist in Japan will be building the Dragon Ball Figurerise model kits instead of Gunpla.
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Gyt Kaliba wrote:I think it's safe to say Super (or at least some form of it) is here to stay for the foreseeable future. There's no way they're ending it just yet with those kind of numbers.
Gog wrote:The cell saga/android saga is the worst thing Akira Toriyama ever made. And nothing has ever actually managed to come close to it, after it. Even the terrible asspulls in the FT saga, weren't as bad as that. But of course this is all my opinion.
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Marz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:27 pm
"Well, the chapter was good, the story was good and so were the fights. But a new transformation, in Dragon Ball? And one that's ugly? This is where we draw the line!!! Jump the Shark moment!!"
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90sDBZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:44 pm19 years ago I was rushing home from school to watch DBZ on Cartoon Network, and today I've rushed home from work to watch DBS on Pop. I guess it's true the more things change the more they stay the same.
Metalwario64 wrote:So, I guess before long every model kit hobbyist in Japan will be building the Dragon Ball Figurerise model kits instead of Gunpla.
Woot woot, I've certainly complied with that! The Bandai hobby shop, which makes the Gunpla models, is releasing a line of Dragon Ball models, and I've already bought and built one. If this series continues it could outsell Gunpla models if Dragon Ball continues at this rate of popularity.
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