However not all 2009 anime have had their DVD release yet.

Blu-ray top 100 sales rankings for 2009: (anime only)
(excerpt from Oricon BD Top 100)

DVD top 500 sales rankings for 2009: (anime only)
(excerpt from Oricon DVD top 500)

Related DVD sales that are not anime:

Sales rankings of volume 1 of each anime that started in 2009:
(4000 copies and above)(incomplete)

Via: 【速報】アニメDVD・BDの売り上げを見守るスレ3327

This post was supposed to be done a long time ago so it might already be pretty old news by now!

Famitsu has accidentally posted the magazine cover for next week’s issue of Famitsu on their website and it has revealed that they’ll be having a feature on a new game called “Love Plus+”.

It was posted here but it has since been removed.

Via: ラブプラスの続編「ラブプラス プラス」が発売決定

Edit: Fixed image

The one yahoo auction with the film containing Fate’s smile from the final scene in the Nanoha movie has ended at 532,000 yen (US$5,886).

People that watch the movie 3 times get a memorial film strip of 5 frames from random part of the movie, and this particular film strip shows the scene where Fate is wearing Nanoha’s ribbon and smiling.

Also it seems the seller of this film strip has already put 139 strips of film from the Nanoha movie on auction. I guess this is good business.

Programmable USB foot switches have gone on sale in Akihabara recently and Akibablog reports that it is now completely sold out everywhere, with at least one shop that sold everything on the same day that they received their shipment.

These USB foot switches can be programmed to do commands like double-click or ctrl+s, and can help to free your hands so your hands can be free to do… more important tasks.

It comes in two models, a single foot switch which sells at 2,980 yen, and a triple foot switch that sells at 5,980 yen.

Guy: I’d like to tattoo a picture of Fate-chan on my back

Shop: Ahhh Fate-chan is nice isn’t she!! What age should she be at? What about the barrier jacket?

Guy: Elementary school version, and please come up with some different clothes instead of the barrier jacket. Bardiche will need to be in there.

Shop: Okay, I’ll let you know once it’s ready

Result:

According to the guy that got the tattoo, it’s not completed yet and it has cost him 30,000 yen so far. After this it’ll cost 10,000 yen per hour and they estimate it’ll take at least another 40 hours to complete this.

Close up pic of Fate-chan

According to him, his parents cried when they found out about the tattoo. And his girlfriend cried too.

Via: フェイトちゃんが好きすぎて！！！！

Flying panties will go on sale starting on the 6th of March for 1000 yen. They’re ornithopter panties that flap their “wings” to fly, and were made under the supervision of Sci-fi writer Nojiri Housuke.

Also they will be holding a event called Sora fest! on the 6th of March, where everybody can get together and fly their panties together. And they’ll have a workshop on the day itself on how to make your own flying panties and also a talk session on flight by some famous people.

The panties can supposedly stay in flight for 20 seconds powered just by rubber bands. I can’t imagine how it’ll look when 100 people fly their panties.

Both Nanoha the movie and Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works went on cinemas on the same day on the 23rd of January.

Nanoha was screened at 19 cinemas across Japan, accumulating 61,292,300 yen at the box office with 39,863 people having watched it. That means an average of approximately 3,220,000 yen per cinema in two days.

Fate/Stay Night was screened at 12 cinemas across Japan, accumulating 37,699,500 yen in the box office with 24,407 people watching it, coming to an average of approximately 3,140,000 yen per cinema over two days.

Also the sales of goods for Nanoha at Shinjuku Mirano 1 on the first day hit 11,959,025 yen (total sales for one cinema), which beat the record set by Evangelion by 167%.

It’s pretty hard to comment on anything when both movies are a big success.

Via: 【興行】劇場公開アニメを語ろう31回目【収入】, bunkatsushin

A doujin opera adaptation of Higurashi no naku koro ni will apparently be held at the Nerima Bunka center on the 13th of March, with tickets going on sale starting on the 2nd of February at 2,000 yen each. This is a doujin production, meaning it’s not official or anything.

A number of the opera songs can be sampled here. They’re Hatsune Miku versions so if you want to hear the real thing you have to go watch the opera.

Media Magic has announced that they’ll be releasing new Evangelion themed bicycles designed personally by Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, the character designer for the Evangelion series. They commissioned him to design the bikes as cycling is one of his hobbies apparently.

They’ll be called the EVA00BIKE type-r and EVA02BIKE type-a, modeled after Rei and Asuka respectively. They’ll go for 98,280 yen (US$1093) each and are slated to release in mid June.

Media Magic also released a EVA01BIKE in 2006 which wasn’t designed by Sadamoto and goes for half the price and possibly look cooler too.

Link: Official site

Voting also ended for the best eromanga of 2009.

Back when Maid yome was released, it was apparently already sold out in some places even before the official release date because of early releases, and places like Akiba Toranoana 1 and Melonbooks were sold out on the first day of release of the book. Still out of stock in Amazon Japan right now.

There were a total of 568 eromanga released in 2009 that were eligible in the voting.

Results from 2008 and 2007.

1st place (22 votes)
Maid yome - Kizuki Aruchu

2nd place (19 votes)
Koisuru pantsu - Okada Kou

3rd place (18 votes)
Mai Favorite - Kisaragi Gunma

4th place (14 votes)
Chijou no hito - Tsukino Jougi

5th place (11 votes)
JC ecchi - Shiwasu no Okina

6th place (10 votes)
Muchipuri - Arima Zin

6th place (10 votes)
Tayutayu - Yamatogawa

8th place (9 votes)
Namanaka - Nora Shinji

8th place (9 votes)
Hajimeteno - Zukiki

10th place (8 votes)
Honey Blonde - Fukuda-da

10th place (8 votes)
Hajimete koi wo shita - Asagi Ryuu

10th place (8 votes)
Sayonara, oppai. - Aoki Kanji

10th place (8 votes)
I Love! - Yarii Shimeta

Bonus: 2009 sales ranking from Akihabara Toranoana A
Via: Akibablog

1st place
Maid yome - Kizuki Aruchu

2nd place
Mai Favorite - Kisaragi Gunma

3rd place (voted 1st in 2008)
Tsundero - Takeda Hiromitsu

4th place
Chijou no hito - Tsukino Jougi

5th place
Lucky na hi - Inu

6th place
Momozono gakuen danshiryou ni youkoso! - Sameda Koban

7th place
Konya no Sikorsky - F4U

8th place
Honey Blonde - Fukuda-da

9th place
Boitore! - PONPON

10th place
Koisuru pantsu - Okada Kou