{"id":1243,"date":"2009-09-25T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2010-07-06T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:36:14","slug":"early-endless-eight-sales-indicators-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Early Endless Eight Sales Indicators Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although official sales figures for the Endless Eight DVDs are still forthcoming, early indicators seem to reinforce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1047\" target=\"_blank\">Kadokawa&#8217;s pessimism<\/a> about the much-reviled arc&#8217;s market potential. In particular, Akihabara&#8217;s various anime-oriented stores have seen low sales, with one employee describing them as &#8220;mortal&#8221;. Whether or not this will translate into poor sales overall remains to be seen; however, it&#8217;s not looking very good at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Akiba&#8217;s shops still feature a wide variety of colorful Haruhi promotional material, some of it emphasizing the fanservice aspects of the E8 arc. The variety of swimsuit designs featured throughout E8 seems to be a particularly potent selling point. Pictures of a few of these displays can be found below. For a peek inside the actual DVD set itself, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonleap.com\/2009\/09\/25\/haruhi-endless-eight-dvd-5-142857-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post over on Cartoon Leap.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/20090924h10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akibaos.com\/?p=5779\" target=\"_blank\">Akibaos (NSFW)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankakucomplex.com\/2009\/09\/26\/endless-eight-dvd-sales-mortal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sankaku Complex (NSFW)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although official sales figures for the Endless Eight DVDs are still forthcoming, early indicators seem to reinforce Kadokawa&#8217;s pessimism about the much-reviled arc&#8217;s market potential. In particular, Akihabara&#8217;s various anime-oriented stores have seen low sales, with one employee describing them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,35],"tags":[2224,488,122,504,38,486,18,17,94,489,490,2193,146,113,2189,2190,487,160],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-haruhi","category-news","tag-akiba","tag-akibaos","tag-akihabara","tag-cartoon-leap","tag-dvd","tag-e8","tag-endless-8","tag-endless-eight","tag-kadokawa","tag-photograph","tag-picture","tag-ryoko","tag-sales","tag-sankaku-complex","tag-suzumiya-haruhi","tag-suzumiya-haruhi-no-yuutsu","tag-swimsuit","tag-yuki-nagato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}