ハレ晴レユカイ - or when otakus flex their muscles
(this must be a week of Oricon ranking posts XD)
So what happens when a bunch of otakus decides to influence the Oricon charts? Well you get something like this:
A bunch of loyal followers of Haruhiism decides to get together and flex their muscles to show how much influence they can make. Via simple actions such as constructing a webpage (sadly the webpage has now been taken down) and posting on the infamous Japanese BBS 2ch, they managed to spike the sales of the Haruhi ED theme single “ハレ晴レユカイ” (Hare Hare Yukai) - performed by seiyuu Hirano Aya, Chihara Minori and Goto Yuko - to an astonishing 34,881 copies in a week and ranked it into 5th place on the singles weekly chart. Taking into consideration such as older weekly sales numbers and that the fact on the same week you have mainstream big artists Orange Range releasing their new single, it would not be too much of a stretch to say that this kind of sales number would have placed this single it on the top 3 if it was released on any other slower week.
The power of the otaku is not to be under-estimated.
June 1st, 2006 at 16:50
Not to mention that ハレ晴レユカイ has remained in the Oricon Top 20 for the past 3 weeks.