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It’s been reported that the Blu-ray for the anime film “Super Kaguya-hime!,” released September 9, 2026, took 1st place (special limited edition) and 3rd place (standard edition) on the Oricon Weekly Rankings dated September 21, reaching cumulative shipments of 108,000 units. On 5ch’s hardware/industry board, discussion ranged from tying this figure to game console sales, to fans’ confusion over not owning a device to play the bonus soundtrack CD, to a debate over similarities between the film’s story setting and earlier works like “Sword Art Online” and “Collector Yui.”
The Blu-ray for the anime film “Super Kaguya-hime!,” whose music and merchandise production was handled by Inks to Enter Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo; CEO: Yu Tamura), took 1st place (special limited edition) and 3rd place (standard edition) on the Oricon Weekly Blu-ray Rankings dated September 21.
Released on September 9, 2026, the film comes in two versions: a special limited edition and a standard edition. The special limited edition in particular has recorded cumulative shipments of 108,000 units — including sales through the “Super Kaguya-hime!” official store in addition to regular retailers — earning support from many fans.
Source: news.nicovideo.jp / Original article here
What people said
I mean, easily, right?
They know the games aren't selling, so they're clinging to Blu-ray numbers instead lol
Sony's the one where both games AND anime sell
You've got the PS5
That's exactly why I gave up on buying it
Buying a PC drive just for that felt like a lot
It's already a hot topic that there's no hardware to play the bonus soundtrack CD
https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/topic/2140311.html
Lol
There was a fanboy earlier insisting you could play the CD on a PS5
You'd know if you read the article body (there's a correction/addendum)
Even the reporter didn't get it at first… lol
Wasn't it playable on Xbox?
Take it to the Sony board.
It's very much related
The Blu-ray market and the PlayStation market have a symbiotic relationship
If PlayStation dropping discs destroys that, it hurts both sides
Even if a Kaguya game does come out, that connection doesn't seem like it'd be an obstacle
Someone posted a photo of that interview in the relevant thread on the game/hardware board
So that's the booklet it was from
You're just way too clumsy with yours, man
It does have something of a historical angle to it, and there's been some analysis of it
Maybe around the founding of Japan? Though that's not that far back, is it
Super Kaguya-hime's popularity only exists because of pioneers like Collector Yui and PriPara
Those shows had an influence that can't be measured by sales figures alone
Story and setting-wise, Super Kaguya is actually closest to SAO (Sword Art Online)
Huh? Where?
What part did you think was similar?
A lot of people see Iroha's friction with her mother and think of Asuna in Mother's Rosario
Building Kaguya a mechanical body at the end is straight out of Alicization
Wanting her to still taste food even in a mechanical body is something SAO did too
SAO is a virtual-world story that leads to the birth of a new kind of humanity without physical bodies
Tsukuyomi is what the alien — whose body had vanished — built so it could interact with humans and meet Iroha again
The movie also has AI idol live concerts, just like SAO
Otherwise there's WIXOSS, where winning card battles in a virtual space lets you perform live
Collector Yui had an idol episode too, so I guess it's barely comparable as well
So basically Collector Yui isn't similar
Forget card battles, Kaguya has straight-up weapon fights
Background and Key Points of This Topic
“Super Kaguya-hime!” is being released in two versions — special limited and standard — and the officially announced figures show the special limited edition at 1st place and the standard edition at 3rd place on the Oricon Weekly Blu-ray Rankings (dated September 21), with cumulative shipments of 108,000 units. While some thread comments claimed “the PS5 exists, so playback isn’t an issue,” it’s easy to overlook the point being raised that the bundled bonus soundtrack CD is a separate medium and can’t be played that way. A device that supports video-disc playback doesn’t necessarily support audio-CD playback too — compatibility varies by media format. It’s also worth noting that the debate over similarities to other works that heated up later in the thread isn’t based on any official statement from the production team — it remains purely the viewers’ own impressions.
*This article is compiled as excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Sony’s “Super Kaguya-hime” Blu-ray Actually Sells 108,000 Units wwwwwwwww.”
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