MCM London is just around the corner and we hope you’re looking forward to it as much as we are. This year looks very promising and there’s so much going on. With all the noise and excitement building up we figured it was a good time to lay out our plans for MCM London May 2013.

Where will we be?

Anime Limited will be set up at Booth #1003 – just over from the main stage so stop by and say hello!

What are we up to?

There are quite a few things going on at our booth this year, including the following:

• Anime Limited will be partnering up with our friends at Kaze in order to bring you the latest in their and 101 Anime’s DVD offerings. The titles will include the latest parts of your favourite shows so make sure you stop by and catch up!
• Shinichiro Watanabe will be there! As you’ve all heard, Cowboy Bebop director and overlord Shinichiro Watanabe will be signing stuff at our booth once a day during the expo for an hour a day. Mr. Watanabe will be signing one piece per person, so please don’t bring everything you own and thus, weigh yourself down with possessions and disappointment.
• Anime Limited’s booth will come complete with a gorgeous panel dedicated to Cowboy Bebop (I’ve seen the designs, they’re pretty). So come along and have a look, feel free to take pictures, pose with it or what have you. If you do take pictures with our panel, don’t forget to share them with us on our Facebook page! (www.facebook.com/alltheanime)
• New title announcements! Yep, that’s right we’ve got several new title announcements to make at MCM London so make sure you pay special attention on the Saturday and Sunday. We will also be posting these announcements online so if you’re not there live, you won’t miss out.
• Finally, the big one everyone’s looking forward to: Shinichiro Watanabe will be taking part in a series of panels at MCM London on the Friday and Saturday. Make sure you make time to attend as they will definitely be one of the most sought after events of the conference.

We’ll be posting times and places for the signings and panels soon, so keep an eye out for more announcements.

So that’s it for now! We’ve got a busy couple of weeks ahead of us but it’s going to be fun. Come by and say hello, check out our booth and feel free to share your experiences with the world, or at least the conference. Whether or not you’re at MCM London, you can still find out what’s happening by following our Twitter account and Facebook page.

See you all there!

Kerry (Marketing)

Another month, another sales chart!  Trying to close that gap on time it takes us to post these now as we know people are interested by how the shows are doing and this time the chart was compiled by me [Andrew] and as I’m feeling extra talkative [*], you’ll get an extra layer of commentary.

Highest sales overall:

Notes from El Presidente:

- To make this chart you had to sell more than 300 copies.
- HOWEVER to sit at the top of it – you had to sell under 1,050.
- The above range is not out of the ordinary for a regular month.
- With HMV returning to the picture now, the range may shift by a few hundred units from June.

Top sellers for new releases in April:

Notes from El Presidente:

- To make the bottom of this chart you had to sell over 100 copies [EDIT: Apologies, Oblivion Island's shift to April 1st threw us as it showed up on a different date in sales data]

- To reach the top of it you had to sell under 800 copies.

- The difference between #10 and Vampire Princess Miyu (which didn’t make the top 10) was very small.

BONUS FACTOID: Perfect Blue:

Also a small factoid for people, while it was stated that Perfect Blue didn’t do so well vs the price for reacquiring it in the UK before in a previous podcast from our friends at Manga UK – we think there may have been a bit of confusion over what they meant.  BVA figures show it actually sold over 55,000 copies on DVD previously – a lot of which were pretty cheap but still represents lot of units!

That still puts it just inside Manga UK’s top 10 sellers of all time, so we suspect what was meant was that at the time everyone started looking for the license again it was in a rights management agency’s hands who wanted $$$$$$$$ for it beyond what was fair.  When the rights reverted, the fee went back to something more reflective of its actual value.  That said it also became much harder to find the correct rights holder at that point too!

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Hope these figures are proving interesting to people!  We’ll keep posting them up so long as there’s interest .

[*] OK – it’s that or focus on localising a booklet from French to English for one of Anime Ltd’s clients and I figure, why not procrastinate for a bit…

It’s May already? Everything is so exciting here that the time is flying by. Time for the March top sellers!:

Highest sales over all:

Highest sales of titles released in March:

Interesting to note that Code Geass still ranks number 3 despite being a re-release.

CELEBRATING BEBOP WITH STYLE

We’re very excited to announce that Shinichiro Watanabe – director of Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Kids on the Slope will be coming to the UK courtesy of London Comic Con as their Anime Guest of Honor for May expo!

It’s something we have had to keep quiet until now – but we’re finally at the stage where we can announce it.  He’ll be at the event to promote both the upcoming HD release of Cowboy Bebop as well as his most recent show – Kids on the Slope (Sakimichi no Apollon).

EVENTS AT MCM EXPO:

Asides from him participating in panels across MCM Expo’s weekend – we’ll have some exclusive signing sessions on the Anime Limited booth promoting both shows – with Sakimichi no Apollon coming out from our friends at MVM (www.mvm-films.com).

FOR PRE-ORDERS OF BEBOP ONLY:

Pre-order either at HMV or Amazon before MCM and bring proof of pre-order and while stocks last we’ll give you an exclusive A4 Bebop print to get signed.  These are extremely limited in volume so come early to avoid disappointment!  Preview image will go up online at AlltheAnime.com at the start of May.

Pre-orders will open no later than May 1^st

Look forward to seeing you at London Comic Con!  

Here are February’s top sellers, so fresh they’re still warm! It should be noted that there were only 6 titles released this month, so we’ve only done top 6 for new products.

Highest sales over all

Highest sales of titles released in February

What do you guys think? Surprised by what you see?