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 #5 to #8 in its seventh weekend. The movie earned 35,798,320 yen (about US$314,800) from Friday to Sunday), and has earned a cumulative complete of 1,075,601,020 yen (about US$9.45 million)

The movie opened in Japan on November 5, and bought 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 Guide 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 in the future 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 search for, solely to see a big and blue moon overhead.

Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 as barely adverse 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 identify), a penguin who’s uncertain 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 live-action movie Kamen Rider: Past Generations opened at #4 in 343 theaters and earned 164,494,320 yen (about US$1.44 million) in its first three days.

The Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie dropped off the highest 10 in its eighth weekend.

The reside motion movie adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga‘s What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinō Nani Tabeta?) manga dropped off the highest 10 in its seventh weekend.

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