The primary movie of Free! The Remaining Stroke, Kyoto Animation‘s new two-part anime movie undertaking within the Free! franchise, dropped from #3 to #4 in its third weekend. The movie earned 49,532,360 yen (about US$446,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 387,208,020 yen (about US$3.49 million)

The movie opened on September 17, and ranked at #3 to earn 137,272,340 yen (about US$1.23 million) in its opening weekend. The second half will open in Japan on April 22, 2022. The movies’ trailer beforehand teased that the movies are the “ultimate chapter” for the franchise. The undertaking’s tagline is, “Let’s go, to the stage of glory.”

Eisaku Kawanami returned from earlier installations within the franchise to direct the movie at Kyoto Animation.

The Free! franchise in regards to the Iwatobi Excessive College Swim Membership contains three tv anime seasons that aired in 2013, 2014, and 2018. The Excessive Velocity! -Free! Beginning Days- prequel movie opened in 2015. The Free! The Film -Timeless Medley- the Bond and Free! The Film -Timeless Medley- the Promise compilation movies opened in April 2017 and July 2017, respectively. The Free! -Take Your Marks- omnibus movie of quick tales then opened in October 2017.

The franchise‘s most up-to-date entry was Free! ~Street to the World~ Yume (Dream), which opened on July 5, 2019, and was a “reconstruction” of the Free! Dive to the Future tv anime collection, in addition to a “bridge” to the brand new movies.

Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu‘s new BELLE (Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, actually “The Dragon and the Freckled Princess”) anime movie dropped from #4 to #6 in its twelfth weekend. The movie earned 34,209,250 yen (about US$308,400) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 6,346,134,800 yen (about US$57.22 million). The movie has bought 4.56 million tickets thus far. The movie is Hosoda’s highest-grossing movie. MX4D screenings for the movie will open on October 22.

BELLE opened in Japan on July 16. The movie has IMAX screenings in 38 theaters all through Japan. This makes BELLE the primary of Hosoda’s movies to have IMAX screenings. GKIDS licensed the movie for North America, and can launch the movie in English and in Japanese with English subtitles this winter.

Hosoda (The Woman Who Leapt By Time, Summer season Wars, The Boy and The Beast, Mirai) directed and scripted the movie, and can be credited for the unique work. The movie marks Studio Chizu‘s tenth anniversary. Taisei Iwasaki (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, The Bare Director) is the movie’s music director and composer.

My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes’ Mission, the third anime movie within the My Hero Academia franchise, dropped from #5 to #8 in its ninth weekend. The movie earned 32,013,400 yen (about US$288,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of three,249,072,650 yen (about US$29.29 million). The film has bought 2.35 million tickets.

The movie is the highest-earning amongst all three My Hero Academia franchise anime movies, surpassing the 1.79 billion yen (about US$16.2 million by present conversion) of the second movie, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising.

The movie opened on August 6, and bought about 720,000 tickets to earn about 940 million yen (about US$8.51 million) in its opening weekend.

Within the story of My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes’ Mission, a mysterious group devoted to the destruction of individuals with Quirks has issued a risk and set bombs everywhere in the world. Professional Heroes and people in Hero Internships scramble to search out the bombs. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki encounter Rody, a boy residing in a cellular dwelling of their designated space of Otheon, and find yourself working with him.

Unique manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi once more served as chief supervisor and authentic character designer. Kenji Nagasaki returned from the tv collection and two earlier movies within the franchise to direct the brand new movie at BONES. Different returning workers members embrace scriptwriter Yousuke Kuroda, character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and composer Yuki Hayashi. Asian Kung-Fu Technology carried out the movie’s theme tune “Empathy” and the movie’s insert tune “Flowers.”

The live-action sequel movie Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai – Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen Remaining stayed at #9 in its seventh weekend. The movie earned 20,458,250 yen (about US$184,400) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 976,682,600 yen (about US$8.80 million).

The primary movie bought 1.8 million tickets and earned 2.2 billion yen (about US$20.04 million) throughout its 2019 run.

The sequel to the primary live-action movie of Aka Akasaka‘s Kaguya-sama: Love is Battle (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai – Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen) manga opened on August 20.

The movie portrays the occasions of the unique manga’s “Sports activities Pageant and Cultural Pageant” arc, targeted on Yu Ishigami and Tsubame Koyasu. The arc was additionally portrayed within the second season of the anime.

The manga impressed a tv anime that premiered in January 2019 and aired for 12 episodes. Aniplex of America streamed the collection on Hulu, Crunchyroll, and FunimationNow. The corporate additionally launched the anime on Blu-ray Disc in February 2020.

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai – Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen, the second season of the tv anime, premiered in April 2020. Funimation streamed the anime because it aired in Japan. Funimation additionally dubbed each seasons of the anime.

The anime will get a 3rd season. An authentic video anime (OVA) undertaking shipped on Could 19.

The 4K launch Hayao Miyazaki‘s 1979 Lupin III: The Citadel of Cagliostro anime movie opened at #10. The screenings earned 19,072,100 yen (about US$171,900) from Friday to Sunday.

Discotek Media launched the movie on 4K UHD on January 26.

Lupin III: The Citadel of Cagliostro was the primary characteristic movie Miyazaki directed, and it options the grasp thief Lupin the Third, created by the manga artist Monkey Punch. Within the movie, Lupin and Jigen seek for a counterfeiter who swindled them, and find yourself within the secluded nation of Cagliostro. The story additionally entails a depraved rely and an harmless princess (the latter voiced in Japanese by Sumi Shimamoto, who would play Miyazaki’s heroine Nausicaä 5 years later).

The live-action movie of Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers manga fell off the highest 10 chart in its thirteenth weekend.

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (hyperlink 2), Eiga.com, comScore by way of KOFIC