The Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Doki Doki Sport no Sekai de Daiboken (Great Precure! The Film! Grand Journey in a Thrilling Sport World) 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, just under final yr’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 Monday (which was the Respect for the Aged Day vacation in Japan).
The movie opened in Japan on September 13.
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. Risa Miyadani (Aikatsu! Planet) designed the characters. Yoshio Tanioka was the artwork director, whereas Sayoko Yokoyama was the colour key artist. Yuki Ōshima and Kana Sasaki had been the administrators of pictures. Daiki Nakazawa was the CG director. Miho Sugawara was the sound director. Moeha Nochimoto and Chihaya Yoshitake carried out the movie’s ending theme music “Comfortable≒Future,” whereas Ami Ishii and Rie Kitagawa perfomed the insert song “Daisuki na Kizuna” (Beloved Bond).
Mrs. Green Apple // The White Lounge in CINEMA, the screening of the Mrs. Inexperienced Apple band’s 2023-2024 live performance tour, ranked at #4 in its opening weekend.
My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: You are Subsequent (My Hero Academia: You’re Next), the fourth anime movie within the My Hero Academia franchise, stayed at #7 in its seventh weekend. The movie earned 102,757,900 yen (about US$726,300) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative complete of three,285,242,700 yen (about US$23.21 million).
The movie opened in Japan on August 2. It sold 608,500 tickets, and earned roughly 895 million yen (about US$6.28 million) in its first three days. The movie is concurrently screening in IMAX, MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Cinema. TOHO International will bring the movie to U.S. theaters on October 11. The movie can be out there with English subtitles and dub releases.
The unique villain characters for the movie are members of a mysterious, massive prison group referred to as the “Gorrini Household.”
Tensai Okamura (Darker than Black) directed the movie at BONES. Returning employees members from the tv collection and former movies embody scriptwriter Yōsuke Kuroda, character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and composer Yuki Hayashi. Vaundy performs the theme music “Homunculus” in addition to the movie’s ending theme music “Present.”
Unique manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi served as the overall supervisor and authentic character designer. The movie has an authentic story that takes place across the similar time as the place the TV anime is presently, with the collapse of protected society. Within the movie, a mysterious large fortress and a person who resembles the previous “Image of Peace” out of the blue seem in a society that has collapsed attributable to warfare.
Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Ora-tachi no Kyōryū Nikki (Crayon Shin-chan the Film: Our Dinosaur Diary), the Crayon Shin-chan franchise‘s thirty first 2D animated film, dropped from #5 to #8 in its sixth weekend. The movie earned 72,421,400 yen (about US$511,800) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative complete of two,358,605,400 yen (about US$16.67 million).
The movie opened on August 9 at #2 on the Japanese field workplace for the weekend of August 11th of September. The movie offered 365,000 tickets and earned 455,302,200 yen (about US$3.05 million) in its first three days, and offered 510,000 tickets and earned 636 million yen (about US$4.32 million) in its first 4 days together with Monday (August 12 was the Mountain Day vacation in Japan).
The movie follows the friendship between the Nobara household’s pet canine Shiro and a “small dinosaur.” Their connection helps the expansion of Shinnosuke and the Kasukabe Protection Squad.
Takumi Kitamura guest stars within the movie as Billy, a biology researcher who loves dinosaurs and works with the Kasukabe Protection Squad. Ozwald comic duo Yū Hatanaka and Shunsuke Itō additionally visitor star within the movie as Chū and Ammoner Itō, respectively.
Shinobu Sasaki (director of many Duel Masters anime together with the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Duel Masters TV anime) directed the movie. Ethical, who writes scripts for the Crayon Shin-chan TV collection, wrote the screenplay.
Rock band My Hair is Bad carry out the movie’s theme music “Omoide o Kakenukete” (Run Previous Your Reminiscences).
The live-action film of Tarō Nogizaka‘s Natsume Arata no Kekkon (Arata Natsume’s Marriage) manga dropped from #4 to #9 in its second weekend. The movie earned 71,001,660 yen (about US$501,700) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative complete of 282,969,960 yen (about US$1.99 million).
The movie opened in Japan on September 6 and debuted at #4. The movie offered 87,000 tickets and earned 125,503,140 yen (about US$889,000) in its first three days.
Yukihiko Tsutsumi (director of live-action 20th Century Boys, Beck, Ikebukuro West Gate Park) directed the movie. OLIVIA Rodrigo’s music “Vampire” serves because the theme song for the movie.
The movie stars Yuuya Yagira (live-action Gintama‘s Tōshirō Hijikata) because the titular Arata, and Yuina Kuroshima (live-action Fullmetal Alchemist‘s Lan Fan) co-stars as Shinju Shinagawa.
Kingdom: Taishogun no Kikan (Return of the Normal), the fourth live-action Kingdom film, dropped from #6 to #10 in its tenth weekend. The movie earned 70,875,400 yen (about US$500,700) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has offered a complete of 5.23 million tickets, and earned a cumulative complete of seven,681,606,400 yen (about US$54.27 million).
The movie opened on July 12. It offered 1,065,000 tickets and earned 1.629 billion yen (about US$10.28 million) in its first three days. The movie offered 1.46 million tickets in its first 4 days, together with Monday (which was the Marine Day vacation in Japan), and earned 2.2 billion yen (about US$13.89 million) in that point.
The movie covers the manga’s Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc and the Battle of Bayou — the primary time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood on the battlefield collectively, to fend off the invasion by the mighty Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Anne Watanabe) returns to the solid because the pivotal character Shi Ka (Zi Xia). Different solid members embody Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fuu Ki (Feng Ji), Kōji Yamamoto as Chō Sō (Zhao Zhuang), Yuki Yamada as Man Goku (Wan Ji), Eri Murakawa as You Li (Yū Ri), Hinako Sakurai as Dong Mei (Tō Bi), and Yūki Araki as Kyō.
Kento Yamazaki, Ryō Yoshizawa, Takao Osawa, and Kanna Hashimoto all reprised their respective characters Shin (Xin), Ei Sei (Yin Zheng), Ō Ki (Wang Qi), and Ka Ryō Ten (He Liao Diao), respectively, from the earlier movies. Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Kōichi Satō from the second movie additionally reprised their respective characters Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping), and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).
Shinsuke Satō (live-action Gantz, Death Note Light up the NEW world, Bleach) returned as director. Manga creator Yasuhisa Hara and Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Gold, live-action Black Butler, GANTZ:O) returned to put in writing the script.
Within the manga’s story, Arata is a former delinquent who works at a youngsters’s welfare heart. After consulting with the bereaved relations of one of many victims of the serial killer Shinju Shinagawa, Arata visits Shinju in jail. With a purpose to attempt to get to the reality of the incident, he proposes marriage to her. Shinju, who’s on demise row, then begins to toy with Arata.
The primary movie of Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dōkōkai Kanketsu-hen, the Love Stay! Nijigasaki Excessive Faculty Idol Membership (Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dōkōkai) franchise‘s new anime movie trilogy, dropped off the highest 10 in its second weekend, however nonetheless earned 44,660,230 yen (about US$315,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative complete of 167,759,610 yen (about US$1.18 million). The movie opened at #8. The movie earned 98,052,020 yen (about US$695,000) in its first three days.
The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro), the brand new anime function film by Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada (K-ON!, The Heike Story, A Silent Voice), dropped off the highest 10 in its third weekend.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore through KOFIC
