Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahō no Ko (The Magical Little one of the Blue Moonlit Night time), the second movie in San-X‘s Sumikko Gurashi franchise, dropped from #1 to #3 in its fourth weekend. The movie earned 86,446,080 yen (about US$760,600) from Friday to Sunday and has earned a complete of 850,419,460 yen (about US$7.48 million).

The movie opened in Japan on November 5, and offered about 200,000 tickets to earn about 250 million yen (about US$2.22 million) in its first three days.

Takahiro Ōmori (Durarara!!, Natsume’s Ebook of Buddies, Princess Jellyfish) directed the movie. Reiko Yoshida (Violet Evergarden, Lu over the wall, Okay-ON!) penned the script, and Kaori Hino (Modest Heroes, Napping Princess) returned from the primary movie because the artwork director. Fanworks returned to animate the movie, and ASMIK Ace is distributing.

Within the movie’s story, the primary characters go on a tenting journey at some point within the fall, and that night time they recall a legend: that when each 5 years, on the night time of a big and blue full moon, magical creatures will go to the city. The characters search for, solely to see a big and blue moon overhead.

Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 as barely detrimental characters who like to remain within the nook of a room. The characters embody “Shirokuma,” a polar bear who’s delicate to chilly; “Penguin?” (with a query mark in its title), a penguin who’s not sure whether it is truly a penguin; “Tonkatsu,” a bit of pork cutlet that was left uneaten; “Neko,” a shy cat; and “Tokage,” who hides his nature as one of many final dinosaurs.

The dwell motion movie adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga‘s What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinō Nani Tabeta?) manga dropped from #5 to #6 in its fourth weekend. The movie earned 49,505,850 yen (about US$435,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative 1,108,075,900 yen (about US$9.75 million).

The movie premiered in Japan on November 3, and offered 100,000 tickets to earn about 145 million yen (about US$1.28 million) from November 6-7.

Seiyō Uchino and Hideotshi Nishijima reprised their roles from the manga’s live-action tv sequence adaptation as Kenji Yabuki and Shirō Kakei, respectively. Kazuhito Nakae and Naoko Adachi additionally returned from the live-action sequence as director and scriptwriter, respectively. Different solid members together with Kōji Yamamoto, Hayato Isomura, Makita Sports activities, Misako Tanaka, and Meiko Kaji returned as their characters Daisaku Kohinata, Wataru Inoue, Hiroshi Miyake, Kayoko Tominaga, and Hisae Kakei, respectively.

The manga facilities on a hard-working middle-aged homosexual couple in Tokyo and the meals they share collectively on the dinner desk.

Mogura no Uta Last, the latest live-action movie primarily based on Noboru Takahashi‘s Mogura no Uta manga, dropped from #3 to #7 in its second weekend. The movie earned 45,072,450 yen (about US$396,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a complete of 254,856,650 yen (about US$2.24 million).

The movie opened in Japan on November 19. The story revolves round Reiji Kikukawa, a police officer who goes undercover to infiltrate a gangster syndicate.

Mogura no Uta: Senyū Sōsakan Reiji, the primary live-action movie primarily based on Mogura no Uta, opened in February 2014. Mogura no Uta: Hong Kong Kyōsōkyoku, the second movie, opened in December 2016.

Takahashi launched Mogura no Uta in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Younger Sunday journal in 2005, however he moved the manga to Weekly Massive Comedian Spirits after Weekly Younger Sunday ceased publication in 2008. Shogakukan revealed the 74th compiled e book quantity on November 12.

The Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie dropped from #6 to #9 in its fifth weekend. The movie earned 45,769,620 yen (about US$402,700) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a complete of 1,212,803,734 yen (about US$10.7 million).

The film opened in Japan on October 30 in customary and IMAX theaters, and topped the field workplace in its first weekend.

Funimation will current the movie in each customary and IMAX theaters in the USA and Canada on December 3 and in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The film may even display quickly in the UK, Eire, and Latin America. The movie will open in over 40 nations and territories all over the world. Odex will display the movie in Southeast Asia this yr.

Ayako Kohno (unit director on Black Butler: Ebook of the Atlantic, Excessive Faculty Fleet, The Seven Lethal Sins the Film: Prisoners of the Sky) directed the movie at A-1 Footage, and Kento Toya (Sword Artwork On-line: Alicization – Conflict of Underworld, The Seven Lethal Sins: Revival of The Commandments) designed the characters. Yasuyuki Kai served as motion director, and Yuki Kajiura returned to compose the music.

A brand new movie titled Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Kuraki Yūyami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Darkish Nightfall) will open in 2022.

Eiga Tropical-Rouge! Precure: Yuki no Princess to Kiseki no Yubiwa! (Tropical-Rouge! Precure the Film: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring), the brand new anime movie for the Tropical-Rouge! Precure anime, dropped off the highest 10 in its sixth weekend. The movie nonetheless earned 13,750,810 yen (about US$121,000) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a complete of 562,977,650 yen (about US$4.95 million).

The theatrical screening of the ultimate three episodes of the Sōkyū no Fafner THE BEYOND anime stayed at #1 within the mini-theater rating in its fourth weekend.

“Summer season Ghost,” the anime directorial debut of illustrator loundraw (I need to eat your pancreas, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Track-), dropped from #4 to #5 within the mini-theater rankings in its third weekend.

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