The Cellular Go well with Gundam Hathaway (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway) anime movie has earned a cumulative whole of two,209,628,200 yen (about US$19.57 million) within the Japanese field workplace as of Sunday. The movie has bought 1,088,061 tickets.

The 1982 Cellular Go well with Gundam III: Encounters in Area anime movie holds the report for highest Japanese field workplace income with a complete of about 2.3 billion yen (about US$21 million).

The movie is the primary Gundam movie since 1988’s Cellular Go well with Gundam: Char’s Counterattack to prime the 1 billion yen mark.

The movie bought 259,074 tickets for 523,943,800 yen (about US$4.77 million) in its first three days on the field workplace. It ranked at #3 (by way of tickets bought) in its opening weekend.

The movie opened in Japan on June 11, after beforehand being delayed 3 times. The film was initially slated to open in Japan in July 2020, however was delayed on account of COVID-19. The movie was delayed in April from Might 7 to Might 21, and was then delayed once more as a result of prolonged state of emergency declared in Japan.

Netflix U.S. started completely streaming the movie on July 1.

The movie mission shall be a trilogy, and the second half has a working title of Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway: San of Vibrant. The movie’s producer Naohiro Ogata elaborated that the Japanese katakana characters “San” (サン) will be learn as “solar” or “son.” The movie’s major character Hathaway Noa is the son of the character Vibrant Noa. Ogata acknowledged the second half can have some variations from Yoshiyuki Tomino‘s unique novel collection.

Sources: Cellular Go well with Gundam Hathaway anime’s web site, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Internet