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2018 Anpanman Film Opens at #4, Detective Conan Back at #7
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Soreike! Anpanman Buruburu no Takarasagashi Daibōken! franchise film, which eventually earned 540 million yen ($4.86 million).
The film is projected to earn more than 600 million yen ($5.40 million).
The film's story begins in Anpanman World, where everybody is bustling around, getting ready for the annual Star Festival. On that day, an egg emerges from Baikinman's garbage box, and when it hatches, a mysterious boy named Kurun emerges from within. Though Kurun does not know where he came from, he spends his days having fun with everybody. But one day, black stars begin raining down. Anpanman thinks that something suspicious might be occurring at the Star of Life, and he heads there.
Meitantei Conan: Zero no Shikkōnin (dropping to #3 in its eighth weekend.
Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer had sold 1,289,000 tickets in its first three days to earn 1.67 billion yen ($15.6 million). The film's opening Saturday and Sunday sales represented 100.7% of the total that last year's highest-grossing film in the franchise.
Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare, and centers on Tōru "Zero" Amuro. Police chief Hyōe Kuroda, who is rumored to be Rum in the Black Organization, appears for the first time in a film for the franchise.
The live-action film ranked #2 in its opening weekend.
The Kase-san and Morning Glories (Asagao to Kase-san) manga dropped from #3 to #5 in the Japanese mini-theater rankings in its fourth weekend. The anime debuted on June 9, and spent two weeks at #1 in the mini-theater rankings.
The new anime's staff remains mostly the same from the staff who worked on the five-minute animated perform the anime's theme song "Asu e no Tobira" (Door to Tomorrow). The song is a cover of the 2003 song of the same name by I WiSH.
Sources: Eiga.com, Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, comScore via KOFIC
