Last week saw the release of the first K-ON! volume and with it a new opening day sales record of 41,000 copies (33,000 Blu-ray and 8,000 DVDs sold). This makes K-ON! the best selling TV anime of all time, and one of the best selling anime titles ever.
Previous sales holders are:
- Code Geass Volume 1: 36,634 (68,821 total)
- Code Geass R2 Volume 1: 25,955 (59,041 total)
- Macross Frontier Volume 1: 17,548 (64,981 total)
No telling how many will be sold overall.
