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2024 Crayon Shin-chan Film Opens at #2, Bocchi the Rock! Re:Re: at #6

posted on by Adriana Hazra
Kingdom film to #5

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Image via Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Ora-tachi no Kyōryū Nikki film's website
opened at #2 at the Japanese box office for the weekend of August 9-11. The film sold 365,000 tickets and earned 455,302,200 yen ($3.05 million) in its first three days, and sold 510,000 tickets and earned 636 million yen ($4.32 million) in its first four days including Monday (August 10 was the Mountain Day holiday in Japan).

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.

Duel Masters 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).

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Image via My Hero Academia: You're Next film's Twitter
dropped from #1 to #3 in its second weekend. The film sold 232,000 tickets and earned 346,080,600 yen ($2.32 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 1.22 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 1.7 billion yen ($11.41 million).

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.

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Image via Kingdom live-action films' website
film, dropped from #4 to #5 in its fifth weekend. The film earned 326,262,100 yen ($2.19 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has earned a cumulative total of 6.1 billion yen ($41.45 million), selling 4.16 million tickets in total.

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.

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Image via Bocchi the Rock! anime's Twitter
films, opened at #6. The film earned 218,143,560 yen ($1.46 million) in its first three days.

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."

Wonder Egg Priority) designed the characters.

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Image via Blue Period film's Twitter
The live-action Blue Period
manga ranked at #8 in its opening weekend. The film earned 113,134,680 yen ($759,300) in its first three days.

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


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