Last Tuesday, the anime feature film
Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance, sold 195,000 Blu-ray Discs in Japan, easily beating the first-day sales record for a Blu-ray release in that country (which previously belonged to
Michael Jackson's This Is It with 122,000 copies). Over 60% of the total disc sales of this title came from the Blu-ray version.
This is the second of four parts in the theatrical remake of the
Neon Genesis Evangelion series. The first part,
Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone, was released in the US by FUNimation in March.