Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahō no Ko (The Magical Little one of the Blue Moonlit Evening), the second movie in San-X‘s Sumikko Gurashi franchise, dropped from #4 to #5 in its sixth weekend. The movie earned 53,521,800 yen (about US$470,900) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a complete of 1,025,155,830 yen (about US$9.02 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 E-book of Mates, 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 sooner or later within the fall, and that evening they recall a legend: that after each 5 years, on the evening of a big and blue full moon, magical creatures will go to the city. The characters lookup, solely to see a big and blue moon overhead.

Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 as barely destructive characters who like to remain within the nook of a room. The characters embrace “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 really 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 Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening anime movie dropped from #7 to #8 in its seventh weekend. The movie earned 27,027,800 yen (about US$237,800) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 1,326,146,793 yen (about US$11.67 million).

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

Funimation screened the movie in each customary and IMAX theaters in america and Canada on December 3 and can display screen the movie in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The film may even display screen 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 screen the movie in Southeast Asia this yr.

Ayako Kohno (unit director on Black Butler: E-book 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 – Struggle 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.

The dwell motion movie adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga‘s What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinō Nani Tabeta?) manga dropped from #6 to #9 in its sixth weekend. The movie earned 25,488,650 yen (about US$224,300) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 1,284,242,100 yen (about US$11.30 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 collection adaptation as Kenji Yabuki and Shirō Kakei, respectively. Kazuhito Nakae and Naoko Adachi additionally returned from the live-action collection as director and scriptwriter, respectively. Different forged 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.

Aria the Benedizione, the third anime movie for the Aria franchise, dropped off the highest 10 in its second weekend, but it surely nonetheless earned 18,864,290 yen (about US$166,000) from Friday to Sunday. It has earned a cumulative whole of 94,339,090 yen (about US$830,200).

Mogura no Uta Ultimate, the most recent live-action movie based mostly on Noboru Takahashi‘s Mogura no Uta manga, dropped off the highest 10 in its fourth weekend, but it surely nonetheless earned 13,447,550 yen (about US$118,300) from Friday to Sunday. It has earned a cumulative whole of 358,270,900 yen (about US$3.15 million).

“Summer time Ghost,” the anime directorial debut of illustrator loundraw (I need to eat your pancreas, Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Tune-), dropped off the mini-theater rankings in its fifth weekend.

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