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The film Detective Conan: Hyakuman Doru no Michishirube (Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram) ranked third at the Japanese box office in its eighth weekend of release. The film sold 172,000 tickets and earned 228,653,620 yen (about $1.47 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of 10.06 million tickets, breaking the record for number of tickets sold for the series. The film grossed a total of 14,408,089,360 yen (about US$92.79 million).
The film surpassed a total of 9.77 million tickets sold and grossed a cumulative total of 14,015,105,000 yen (about US$89.32 million), making it the highest-grossing film in the industry. series, beating last year's Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (Iron Submarine) with a revenue of 13.83 billion yen (about 88.23 million USD).
The film was the second in the series to earn 10 billion yen, but Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram earned it two days faster than Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine. Detective Conan is currently the first Japanese animation franchise to have two consecutive films surpassing the 10 billion yen mark in revenue in Japan.
The film ranked No. 1 in its opening weekend, selling 2,274,333 tickets and grossing 3,352,494,500 (US$21.7 million) yen in the first three days. The new film surpassed the opening weekend of Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (Iron Submarine), the 26th film released last year, to become the best new three-day opening of the franchise. The new film also had the biggest opening weekend for a film this year in Japan.
Case Closed: The Million Dollar Pentagram is the 27th film in the Detective Conan series. AIKO performed the film's theme song “Sōshi Sōai” (Common Love).
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Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Shinjidai no Tobira (Uma ume Pretty Derby: The Beginning of a New Era), a new anime film in the Uma Musume Pretty Derby franchise, dropped from 2nd to 4th place in its second week of release. . The film sold 138,000 tickets to earn 190,196,090 yen ($1.22 million) from Friday to Sunday and sold a total of 430,000 tickets to earn 648,455,760 yen ($4.17 million). US dollars).
The film opened in Japan on May 24. The film sold 226,600 tickets and earned 354 million yen (about US$2.25 million) in its first three days of release.
The film tells the story of Jungle Pocket, who wishes to participate in the Triple Crown Classic race, a race that can only be run once in a lifetime. She faces rivals Agnes Tachyon and Manhattan Cafe.
Ken Yamamoto (Pokémon: Hisuian Snow) is directing the anime at Cygames. Kiyoko Yoshimura (Cardfight!! Vanguard G) is writing the script. Tetsuya Kobari (Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 3) is named as script director and series composer. Jun Yamazaki (Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top) is the character designer and animation director. TOHO is distributing the film.
The anime franchise includes three previous television anime seasons, the Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top net anime and the Umayon spinoff television anime.
Uma Musume Pretty Derby game launched in February 2021 for iOS and Android. The game was originally scheduled to release in winter 2018 and was delayed to improve the quality of the game. The game launches on PC via DMM Games in March 2021.
The concept of the game starts with Uma Musume (Equestrian Girls), girls who have excellent running abilities and aim to become top idols and compete in the national tournament. sports entertainment program “Twinkle Series.” Players will act as both a teacher and coach for the girls at the Nihon Uma Musume Gakuen Training Center (Japanese Horse Girls Training Center Academy). ) and help them launch.
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Sōichirō Yamamoto's live-action Tease Manga Master Takagi-san (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san) opened at No. 5 on Friday. The film sold 129,000 tickets from Friday to Sunday and grossed 166,758,140 yen (about US$1.07 million) in its first three days of release.
The film tells an original story set 10 years after the middle school setting of the original manga. Mei Nagano (live-action My Broken Mariko, Ni no Kuni, Peach Girl, Burn the House Down) plays Takagi, currently a trainee teacher at her old school, while Fumiya Takahashi (Kamen Rider Zero-One) plays as Nishikata, currently a gym instructor at the same school.
Yōsuke Eguchi takes on the role of Mr. Tanabe, Takagi and Nishikata's former junior high school homeroom teacher, who is currently the vice principal in the film. Eguchi is the only cast member returning from the previous television series. Takagi's classmate was also selected. Jin Suzuki plays Nakai, Yūna Taira plays Mano, Oshirō Maeda plays Hamaguchi and Sara Shida plays Hojo. Tamaki Shiratori plays Miki Ozeki, Nishikata's classmate, and Jun Saito plays Ryo Machida.
The manga also recently inspired a live-action film adaptation that premiered on March 26.
Rikiya Imaizumi (live)-action Hōzuki-san Chi no Aneki, Chihiro-san, Just Only Love) will direct both the live-action series and the film adaptation. Like the live-action series, Imaizumi also co-wrote the script with Tomoki Kanazawa (Sanctuary, Sabakan) and Jun Hagimori (Sabakan). Takashi Ohmama (Dances with the Dragons, Mobile Suit gundam: The Witch From Mercury, The Gene of AI) is composing the music. Both adaptations were filmed entirely on location in Kagawa Prefecture's Shōdo Island, the setting of the previous anime adaptation.
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HAIKYU!! Trash Battle (Gekijōban Haikyu!! Gomi Suteba no Kessen), the first of the two Haikyu!! The sequel project eventually rose from 9th to 8th place in its 16th weekend. The film earned 48,700,840 yen (about $313,500) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of 7.62 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 10,914,148,720 yen (about 70.27 million USD).
The film opens in Japan on February 16 and is also being shown in IMAX. Susumu Mitsunaka (first, third Haikyu!! TV anime) both directed and wrote the film.
The film sold 1,529,000 tickets and earned 2,230,465,540 yen (about US$14.83 million) in its first three days of screening.
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The second film in the two-part anime adaptation of Inio Asano's Dead Demon's Dedededestruction manga dropped from #4 to #10 in its second weekend. The film earned 45,951,430 yen (about $295,800) from Friday to Sunday. The second film earned a cumulative total of 217,038,250 yen (about US$1.39 million).
The second film opens on May 24, after being delayed from April 19.
The first film opened in Japan on March 22 and earned 83,773,890 yen (about $553,300) in the first three days. The series also has a new television anime version that premiered worldwide on May 23, with 18 episodes scheduled to air weekly. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs along with the English dub version.
Production +h. produced the anime film — the first full anime adaptation of any of Asano's works. Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Psychic Detective Yakumo, Break of Dawn, Dragonar Academy) directed the film and Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, Tamako Market) wrote and supervised the film's script. Nobutake Ito (The Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Kemonozume) is the character designer and animation director, Mika Nishimura (assistant art director for Dorohedoro) is the art director, and Taro Umebayashi (Space Dandy both seasons , Yuri!!! on Ice) composed the music.
The manga revolves around the strange daily lives of very ordinary high school girl Kadode Koyama, her friend Ouran Nakagawa, and others in a world where a giant mother ship has appeared over Tokyo.
The theatrical run of the musical Touken Ranbu Suehirogari Ranbu Yagaimatsuri earned 48,501,620 yen (about US$312,300) from Friday to Sunday in its second weekend. The screening grossed a total of 104,392,820 yen (about 672,100 USD). The show opened on May 24.
Source: Comic Natalie, Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC
