Mangagamer 2015 review

[SilverLi]

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/01/13/2015-in-review/

 

MG posted their review of 2015 today and it is pretty interesting. It looks like the MG sales are really good compared to 2014. " Fun fact: nearly everything in the top 10 would have outranked 2014’s first-place ranking title! " quoted from MG. 

For our first-party titles, the 2015 ranking looks like this (excluding Steam and bundle sales):

1. Princess Evangile
2. eden*
3. No, Thank You!!!
4. Imouto Paradise
5. Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games
6. Demon Master Chris
7. euphoria
8. Sweet Sweat in Summer
9. Ultimate Boob Wars!
10. Higurashi Hou Ch. 1 Onikakushi

Interesting to see a BL on top 3. Sad that a lot of older titles still are fan favorites. But I guess it is part of the growing market when new customers buy the well known titles. 

For the third-party titles the top five are:

1. HuniePop
2. Beach Bounce
3. The Menagerie
4. Divine Slice of Life
5. Sakura Santa

 

Overall it looks like a good year for MG. Any opinions. I can't dig into this at the moment. Doing that later.

[Scorp]

Gahkthun is niche in the niche, so I am rather pessimistic. Same for Kara no Shoujo 2 - which is superior to most of the top-rated novels in the list - but never sold any good.

[DarkZedge]

35 minutes ago, Scorp said:

Gahkthun is niche in the niche, so I am rather pessimistic. Same for Kara no Shoujo 2 - which is superior to most of the top-rated novels in the list - but never sold any good.

Quite a shame honestly, KNS/ Cartagra and others are truly outstanding yet they can never manage to sell as good as others that aren't nowhere nearly as good... a sad truth indeed

[Deep Blue]

is nice to see eden in the second position

[Silvz]

2 hours ago, Zenophilious said:

Anyone win a free copy of something?  I didn't win anything, but that didn't surprise me, I never win stuff 

Have to say, I'm a bit bummed that Gahkthun isn't even on the list, but it did come out in the later part of December, so there's still hope of it doing well.  I'm glad HuniePop sold the most out of the original English titles, though.  Everything else in that category but HuniePop was complete garbage, IMO.

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[Deep Blue]

 

9 minutes ago, Zenophilious said:

Honestly, I was secretly hoping that Cum On! Bukkake Ranch! would take first place.  I think it is a massively underrated VN that is one of the better titles MangaGamer has translated, and the true brilliance of it just doesn't reach some people that are unwilling to open their minds and see the symbolism and deeper meanings that Bukkake Ranch is chock full of.  Truly a hidden gem.

all that talk about bukkake has made me hungry (yes the word comes from there)

[BookwormOtaku]

Glad to see No, Thank You!! did so well. Here's hoping this inspires them to make a sequel or fandisk

[Down]

Surprising and pleasing to see those titles in the top 3. A moege, a short naki/utsuge and a BL story-focused title, that's pretty diverse. I'd hoped for better rankings for KnS 2 and Gahkthun but what can you do... I guess those really are niche titles no matter what. If overall MG gets better sales they can keep having a more and more varied output.

Ofc the third party titles are all garbage, especially Huniepop

[Dergonu]

Oy! There is a list including Sakura Santa and you guys are picking on HuniePop?! 

SHAME ON YOU! 

 

[CeruleanGamer]

2 hours ago, Palas said:

Audrey wins. Fapality. 

Anyways, Manga fucking gamer, please hurry up on Princess Evangile W fucking Happiness please. This list should be more than enough to convince you what the people want!

[Tyrael]

8 hours ago, SilverLi said:

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/01/13/2015-in-review/

 

MG posted their review of 2015 today and it is pretty interesting. It looks like the MG sales are really good compared to 2014. " Fun fact: nearly everything in the top 10 would have outranked 2014’s first-place ranking title! " quoted from MG. 

For our first-party titles, the 2015 ranking looks like this (excluding Steam and bundle sales):

1. Princess Evangile
2. eden*
3. No, Thank You!!!
4. Imouto Paradise
5. Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games
6. Demon Master Chris
7. euphoria
8. Sweet Sweat in Summer
9. Ultimate Boob Wars!
10. Higurashi Hou Ch. 1 Onikakushi

Interesting to see a BL on top 3. Sad that a lot of older titles still are fan favorites. But I guess it is part of the growing market when new customers buy the well known titles. 

For the third-party titles the top five are:

1. HuniePop
2. Beach Bounce
3. The Menagerie
4. Divine Slice of Life
5. Sakura Santa

 

Overall it looks like a good year for MG. Any opinions. I can't dig into this at the moment. Doing that later.

that third party list is terribad...

[atorq]

9 minutes ago, Tyrael said:

that third party list is terribad...

Do they have any third party titles that are not terrible though? All I have seen is Sakura this and AJ Tilley that. Never even heard of that Menagerie-thing.

[CeruleanGamer]

At least none of that "High School" stuff got into that list. I played High School Possession for like an hour and I had the urge to eye bleach myself. 

[Tyrael]

12 minutes ago, atorq said:

Do they have any third party titles that are not terrible though? All I have seen is Sakura this and AJ Tilley that. Never even heard of that Menagerie-thing.

Batman reviewed it and gave it a low score so yeah...

 

5 minutes ago, CeruleanGamer said:

At least none of that "High School" stuff got into that list. I played High School Possession for like an hour and I had the urge to eye bleach myself. 

There are two other titles from AJTilley on the list so I don't know why you're so happy about that

[CeruleanGamer]

23 minutes ago, Tyrael said:

There are two other titles from AJTilley on the list so I don't know why you're so happy about that

I don't know any other games by AJTilley other than the horrifying Highschool stuff, so yeah that is bad news then. 

[Nashetania]

31 minutes ago, CeruleanGamer said:

At least none of that "High School" stuff got into that list. I played High School Possession for like an hour and I had the urge to eye bleach myself. 

Those noses though...

[Tyrael]

3 minutes ago, CeruleanGamer said:

I don't know any other games by AJTilley other than the horrifying Highschool stuff, so yeah that is bad news then. 

- Beach Bounce

- Sword of Asami

- Highschool Romance

- Highschool Possession

- Divine Slice of Life

Also, thanks for admitting you didn't bother to read any of my reviews

[CeruleanGamer]

4 minutes ago, Tyrael said:

- Beach Bounce

- Sword of Asami

- Highschool Romance

- Highschool Possession

- Divine Slice of Life

Also, thanks for admitting you didn't bother to read any of my reviews

I read this review: http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2015/12/20/highschool-possession/ before I played Highschool Possession.

I didn't bother going to his website though. This game alone is more than enough to tell me the games are of poor quality. 

[solidbatman]

I'm glad that MG is doing well. The past few years have been good for them, and they seem to have a nice system going on. Hopefully they can still bring over that niche stuff using what little profits they've earned this year. That third party list though.... disgusting. 

[Silver95280]

10 hours ago, SilverLi said:

 

1. Princess Evangile
2. eden*
3. No, Thank You!!!
4. Imouto Paradise
5. Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games
6. Demon Master Chris
7. euphoria
8. Sweet Sweat in Summer
9. Ultimate Boob Wars!
10. Higurashi Hou Ch. 1 Onikakushi

 

I wonder how many of Evangile's sales were from affiliate links?

I'm surprised Eroge! did so well considering it was released a little over two years ago, and I don't really see anybody talk about it.

[Silver95280]

1 hour ago, Zenophilious said:

A decent number of the sales were probably from Steam.  MangaGamer hit the number of sales needed for a physical release as per their own rules pretty damn fast, and I don't remember it selling really well on a consistent basis on their own site.  Steam does wonders at moving copies of games.

 

16 hours ago, SilverLi said:

For our first-party titles, the 2015 ranking looks like this (excluding Steam and bundle sales):

They weren't counting Steam sales in their rankings. It looks like it did sell pretty well on their own site.

[TexasDice]

If I remember correctly, MangaGamer didn't anticipate Princess Evangile to be a top seller at all. Their expectations were probably hoovering in the same realm as Harukoi Otome did. I personally blame thank the youtube exposure.

Probably also why the fandisk hasn't come out of the backlog yet. Mangagamer had no plans concerning Whappiness, until after unexpected hordes of people started to ask for it a few weeks past release.

[Suzu Fanatic]

Setting aside Princess Evangile, that list ahs to be ironic voting - kind of like Steam's voting system. I mean..besides the actual H-scenes, most of that list is terrible. I mean, has anyone ever tried to actually "READ" Imo para, Eorge! or Boob wars? It's like eating broken glass, and then washing out your mouth with gasoline.

 

It's a crime to see KnS2 and Cartagra being neglected as much as they are. At least there are some redeeming factors to the lsit - PE, Higurashi (albiet jsut barely), and Eden.

 

It's also concerning, because it means MG may shy away from Chuuni just when they were starting to explore it, based on those results... When Tokyo Babel and Himawari are my most anticipated titles. =/

[CeruleanGamer]

Shows how narrow minded the Western market is when it comes to visual novels. Slap cute girls with big boobs on them and wham.... you got sales! 

Thus we are stuck in an infinite loop of too much moeblob and erogeblob.

[Hijiri]

1 hour ago, CeruleanGamer said:

Shows how narrow minded the Western market is when it comes to visual novels. Slap cute girls with big boobs on them and wham.... you got sales! 

Thus we are stuck in an infinite loop of too much moeblob and erogeblob.

But doesn't that also describe the Japanese market as well?