Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom (Gekijō-ban Overlord Sei Ōkoku-hen), the brand new film mission for the Overlord anime, ranked at #2 in its opening weekend. The movie offered 198,000 tickets and earned 317,859,004 yen (about US$2.19 million). The movie opened with common screenings in Japan on September 20, but additionally had IMAX screenings starting one week earlier on September 13. If the sooner IMAX screenings are included, the movie has offered a complete of 270,000 tickets and earned a cumulative complete of 457 million yen (about US$3.15 million).
Naoyuki Itou returned to direct the movie at Madhouse, and can be credited as scriptwriter and for composition. Yukie Sugawara returned for the movie and is credited for script collaboration. Satoshi Tasaki additionally returned as character designer and chief animation director. Fumiyuki Go returned because the sound director at Bit Grooove Promotion. Shūji Katayama of Team-MAX returned to compose the music at Kadokawa. Kadokawa Animation is distributing the movie.
Crunchyroll will screen the movie in North America on November 8, and also will display the movie in Europe, the Center East, Africa, and Latin America.
The Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Doki Doki Sport no Sekai de Daiboken (Great Precure! The Film! Grand Journey in a Thrilling Sport World) movie dropped from #2 to #4 in its second weekend. The movie earned 189,101,930 yen (about US$1.30 million). The movie has earned a cumulative complete of 723,538,940 yen (about US$4.99 million).
The movie opened in Japan on September 13. The movie ranked at #2 in its opening weekend. The movie offered 295,000 tickets and earned 367 million yen (about US$2.59 million) in its first three days, marking the second-highest three-day opening weekend for the Precure franchise, slightly below final 12 months’s Precure All Stars F film. Great Precure! The Film! Doki Doki Sport no Sekai de Daiboken offered 405,000 tickets and earned 497 million yen (about US$3.51 million) in its first 4 days, together with September 16 (which was the Respect for the Aged Day vacation in Japan).
The movie follows Komugi and Iroha on a brand new journey, when they’re sucked into the world of the online game Doki Doki Tanukingdom (Thrilling Raccoon-Dogkingdom). Characters from the Hovering Sky! Precure (Hirogaru Sky! Precure) and Maho Women Precure! (Mahō Tsukai Precure!) anime additionally seem within the movie.
Naoki Miyahara (The First Slam Dunk unit director) directed the movie. Yoichi Kato (Yo-kai Watch) penned the script. Takayuki Murakami was the unit director. Erika Fukasawa composed the music.
The Quintessential Quintuplets Specials 2, the most recent anime particular of Negi Haruba‘s The Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotōbun no Hanayome) romantic comedy manga, ranked at #5 in its opening weekend. The anime earned 154,182,270 yen (about US$1.06 million) in its first three days.
The anime debuted its three-week restricted screening on September 20.
Masato Jinbo (The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie) directed the anime at Bibury Animation Studio, and was in command of sequence scripts. Haruba is credited for collaborating on the scripts, and Masato Katsumata (The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬, The Quintessential Quintuplets the Film) designed the characters.
Mrs. Green Apple // The White Lounge in CINEMA, the screening of the Mrs. Inexperienced Apple band’s 2023-2024 live performance tour, dropped from #4 to #6 in its second weekend. The movie ranked at #4 in its opening weekend.
Transformers One, the brand new animated film prequel to the Transformers franchise, ranked at #8 in Japan in its opening weekend. The movie earned 117,529,500 yen (about US$811,100) in its first three days.
The movie additionally opened within the U.S. on September 20 and earned US$25 million over its opening weekend, touchdown at #2 on the U.S. field workplace.
Transformers One facilities on the connection between Optimus Prime and Megatron, and takes place on Cybertron, the shared homeworld of each the protagonist Autobots and antagonist Decepticons.
Steven Spielberg is an government producer for the animated movie, alongside Brian Goldner, Brian Oliver, Bradley J. Fischer, and Valerii An. Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley directed the movie. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man and the Wasp) wrote the script. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian, and Aaron Dem are producers.
The particular edition of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM ranked at #9 in its opening weekend. The movie earned 128,921,900 yen (about US$889,700) from Friday to Sunday. Along with earlier screenings of the movie, the movie has earned a cumulative complete of 5,048,982,557 yen (about US$34.8 million) as of September 25, and has offered 3,005,829 tickets.
The particular editions of the movie function over 500 cuts of footage up to date. The primary particular version of the movie, with an epilogue lower (or cuts) added, will play from September 20 to October 3. One other particular version, with a special epilogue lower (or cuts) added, will run from November 1 to November 14.
Director Mitsuo Fukuda defined that as a consequence of time, the employees members couldn’t full each part to their satisfaction within the model that opened in theaters on January 26. With the particular editions, they up to date these cuts and refined components that felt off after screenings. Fukuda added, “I feel we will name this the entire version of Seed FREEDOM.”
Cellular Swimsuit Gundam Seed FREEDOM opened in Japan on January 26. The movie debuted at #1 within the Japanese field workplace. It sold 634,182 tickets for 1,065,983,130 yen (about US$7.20 million) in its first three days, marking the Gundam franchise‘s highest three-day opening in field workplace earnings. The movie is the highest-earning Gundam movie in Japan ever.
Bandai Namco Filmworks and Fathom Events screened the movie in the US and Canada on Could 7-8, screening with subtitles on Could 7, and with an English dub on Could 8.
Eiga Given: Umi e (Given The Film: To the Sea), the second movie within the two-part sequel anime film mission, ranked at #1 within the mini-theater rankings in its opening weekend. The movie opened on September 20.
Eiga Given: Hiiragi mix, the primary movie within the two-film mission based mostly on Natsuki Kizu‘s Given manga, debuted in Japan on January 27.
The manga’s tv anime adaptation premiered on Fuji TV‘s Noitamina programming block in July 2019. The anime is the “first anime based mostly on a boys-love manga” to air on Noitamina. Crunchyroll streamed the sequence because it aired, and began streaming an English dub in August 2022.
An anime film based mostly on the manga opened in Japan in Could 2020. Crunchyroll is streaming the movie.
An authentic anime disc (or authentic video anime) titled Given: Uragawa no Sonzai (Given – however) – which targeted on Mafuyu and Ritsuka throughout the occasions of the Given movie – shipped with the restricted version of the manga’s seventh quantity in December 2021. Crunchyroll began streaming the OVA episode in July 2022.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore through KOFIC, Cellular Swimsuit Gundam Seed FREEDOM press launch
