The first day official sales for the Blu Ray and DVD sales for Evangelion 2.22 has exceeded expectation, with 124,000 DVDs and 195,000 Blu-ray sold, accounting for around 320,000 combined sales. This totally exceeds the first day sales of the former best selling anime Blu-Ray, the first volume of Kidou Senshi Gundam (UC) which sold around 56,000 copies. It also broken the record of the most Blu-Ray sold, formerly held by Michael Jackson’s This is It, which was around 122,000 copies.
This means that it could beat the record for blu-ray sales in Japan, which is currently also held by This is It, at 350,000 copies. It has already beaten Evangelion 1.11 as the most successful anime blu-ray sold ever. The record held by Evangelion 1.11 was a measly 125,000 copies.
Source: Oricon