Yeah the Dark Hero thing caught my eye, is this interview recent? If so it's probably one to come, Overhaul maybe? I've always like the comic book vibes MHA gives off so if there's one thing that stands out Hori did was to mix regular Japanese manga aesthetics with American comic book fluidity, the scenes real life stand out and it's dope.
I checked the date, it was March 4th when it was posted it so it's gonna be someone new. Can't be Stain. Overhaul I threw out there because of his ideals, he's a villain but his motives are something that would hope to have a positive impact on society in its aftermath
I checked the date, it was March 4th when it was posted it so it's gonna be someone new. Can't be Stain. Overhaul I threw out there because of his ideals, he's a villain but his motives are something that would hope to have a positive impact on society in its aftermath
It is from the last Jump Festa so yes it is recent. I don't think it means anything though. He said that he would like to use the Dark Hero element, it's not like he gave hints regarding a character, it could be a character who has yet to appear. I only mentioned Stain because I think he talked about him like that in one of his interviews. Personally I don't see anything heroic in him.
Heroaca's ending, "dakara hitori janai" by Little glee monster sold 28316 copies in the first week, ranking in at #3, in between Idolmaster and Love Live Sunshine's AZALEA. This is apparently the highest first week sales for the group.
Looking at the Top 5 for this past week, excluding non-anime releases (basically AKB48 which is unbeatable by any group):
**2 --- *48,964 *48,964 *1 THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT MASTER 11 あんきら!?狂騒曲
**3 --- *28,316 *28,316 *1 だから、ひとりじゃない Little Glee Monster
**4 --- *27,024 *27,024 *1 GALAXY HidE and SeeK AZALEA
**5 **1 *25,297 *62,734 *2 THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS LITTLE STARS! エチュードは1曲だけ
Little Glee monster is not really a small group as they perfomed at Budokan, a huge and prestigious stage, but they are relatively new, having their major debut in 2014.
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To add a little more:
This is Little Glee Monster's highest oricon ranking:
Also from Billboard Japan: the ending in number one on the anime chart:
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2017 Half Yearly top Anime song singles:
29 *30,475 だから、ひとりじゃない Little Glee Monster 僕のヒーローアカデミア ED 2017年5月31日
30 *30,381 GALAXY HidE and SeeK AZALEA ラブライブ! サンシャイン!! キャラソン 2017年5月31日
Its sold more than half the previous single's first week sales in the "フライングゲット" (literally flying Get) day, which is the day before the single is officially released in all stores. Its also #1 on itunes and is supposed doing incredibly well. It supposedly already got around 10000 downloads which is one of the highest first day downloads for an anison. Yonezu's previous songs are also showing up lower down in the rankings.
From Billboard Japan:
◎Billboard JAPANシングルセールス集計速報 (Single Sales)
（2017年6月19日〜6月21日までの集計）(For 6/19 to 6/21 as of now)
1位『おーさか☆愛・EYE・哀/Ya! Hot! Hot!』ジャニーズWEST 116,411枚(Johnny's west)
2位『愛さえあればなんにもいらない/ナミダイロノケツイ/魔女っ子メグちゃん』アンジュルム 54,590枚 (Angerme)
3位『ピースサイン』米津玄師 41,286枚 (Yonezu Kenshi)
4位『コワレヤスキ』Guilty Kiss 15,496枚 (Guilty Kiss)
5位『謳おう』ゆず 13,622枚 (Yuzu)
Note that all of these singles were officially released on the same day (6/21) but were released a day early as previously explained. Billboard Japan might have some discrepancies from Oricon's numbers possibly due to differences in POS.
Peace Sign has pretty much completely overtaken the previous first week sales in 2 days and will continue to sell for this week. Some people on twitter said that the CD was sold out in some places.
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Weekly CD Single sales were released:
**2 --- *58,686 *58,686 *1 ピースサイン 米津玄師
Peace Sign debuted at #2, a tie with its previous highest single ranking," Loser". However, Peace Sign is the highest first week sales for Yonezu so far. Loser debuted at #2 with around 48k sales in first week whereas Peace Sign did 10k more sales. For comparison with other artists, the top 5 are:
*1. 137,608 *,137,608 Johnny's West "Osaka☆Ai Eye Ai / Ya! Hot! Hot!"
*2. *58,686 *,*58,686 Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season OP "Peace Sign" by Kenshi Yonezu
*4. *31,178 *,*31,178 Koware Yasuki by Guilty Kiss
*5. *20,827 *,*20,827 Yuzu "Utaou EP (Kanaria / Tatta / Tengoku / Hodogaya By Bus)"
Johnny's are pretty much unbeatable, being AKB48 level in recognition.
