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FortuneSSJ
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by FortuneSSJ » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:35 pm
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
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2 ... ar/.123715
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by Gyt Kaliba » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:10 pm
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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by Metalwario64 » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:32 pm
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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by TheMikado » Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:47 pm
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.
This again.
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by sintzu » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:19 am
It wasn't too long ago that people were saying DBs time was over and it never would've gotten big if it was released today.
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by FortuneSSJ » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:09 pm
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.
They will start building Toribots.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
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by Hellspawn28 » Fri Nov 10, 2017 6:20 pm
Yeah Super is not going anywhere. As long if Super is making money, Toei will milk it to the ground.
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by floofychan333 » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:26 pm
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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by LordCrumb » Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:58 pm
Cure Dragon 255 wrote:What again? What do you mean?
He's agreeing with Gyt Kaliba.
