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2024 Crayon Shin-chan Film Opens at #2, Bocchi the Rock! Re:Re: at #6
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The film premiered in Japan on August 9.
The film follows the friendship between the Nobara family's pet dog Shiro and a "small dinosaur." Their connection helps the growth of Shinnosuke and the Kasukabe Defense Squad.
Shunsuke Itō also guest star in the film as Chū and Ammoner Itō, respectively.
anime including the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Duel Masters TV anime) directed the film. Moral, who writes scripts for the Crayon Shin-chan TV series, wrote the screenplay.Rock band My Hair is Bad perform the film's theme song "Omoide o Kakenukete" (Run Past Your Memories).

The film dub
releases.The original villain characters for the film are of a mysterious, big criminal organization called the "Gorrini Family."
performs the theme song "Homunculus" as well as the film's ending theme song "Gift."
Original manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi served as the general supervisor and original character designer. The film has an original story that takes place around the same time as where the TV anime is currently, with the collapse of safe society. In the film, a mysterious giant fortress and a man who resembles the former "Symbol of Peace" suddenly appear in a society that has collapsed due to war.

The film opened on July 12. It sold 1,065,000 tickets and earned 1.629 billion yen ($10.28 million) in its first three days. The film sold 1.46 million tickets in its first four days, including Monday (which was the Marine Day holiday in Japan), and earned 2.2 billion yen ($13.89 million) in that time.
The film covers the manga's Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc and the Battle of Bayou — the first time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood on the battlefield together, to fend off the invasion by the mighty Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Yūki Araki as Kyō.
Kōichi Satō from the second film also reprised their respective characters Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping), and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).
GANTZ:O) returned to write the script.

The second film had a first come, first served special gift bonus manga for moviegoers, drawn by Aki Hamaji titled Bocchi the Rock! Epigraph 2, that was distributed on the film's opening day.
Bocchi the Rock! Re:, the first of the two compilation films, opened in Japan on June 7. The film sold 140,000 tickets and earned 218,470,888 yen ($1.38 million) in its first three days.
The first film's opening sequence features newly created animation set to Kessoku Band's new song "Tsukinami ni Kagayaki" (Sparkle as Usual). Ritsuo Mitsui arranged the song.
The anime adapts Aki Hamaji's four- manga Bocchi the Rock!, which follows Hitori "Bocchi-chan" ("Loner") Gotō, a lonely high school girl whose heart lies in her guitar. She does nothing every day except strum her guitar by herself at home. However, she happens one day to meet Nijika Ijichi, who is looking for a guitarist for her group named "Kessoku Band."
) designed the characters.
The film opened in Japan on August 9. The film screened at the Japan Cuts film festival in New York on July 13.
Yaffle" Kojima composed the music.
Yamaguchi Afternoon
magazine in June 2017.publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately … a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!
The series inspired a television anime Netflix
in Japan in September of that year, and then later on Japanese television in October. Netflix began streaming the anime outside of Japan in October 2021, with weekly new episodes.The 25th anniversary screening of the Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie anime film ranked at #1 in the mini-theater rankings.
The live-action Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard) manga dropped off the top 10 in its second weekend.
The fourth and final part of anime project also dropped off the list in its second weekend.
Source: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC