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The second special edition of Mobile Suit Gun Seed FREEDOM ranked 6th in its opening weekend. The film earned 76,383,100 yen (about $494,500) from Friday to Sunday. Including the previous first edition of the film, as well as the first special edition, this is the film's 41st week at the Japanese box office. The film earned a cumulative total of 5,222,894,120 yen (about US$33.80 million).
The first special edition of the film, with an additional ending (or cuts) added, ran from September 20 to October 3. This second special edition, with a cut (or cuts) cuts) an additional ending is added, which will run from November 1 to November 14.
Director Mitsuo Fukuda explained that due to time, the staff could not complete every part as they wanted in the film. version hit theaters on January 26. With the special editions, they updated the cuts and tweaked the parts that felt uncomfortable after the screening. Fukuda added, “I think we can call this the complete version of Seed FREEDOM.”
Mobile Suit GTA Seed FREEDOM opened in Japan on January 26. The film debuted at No. 1 at the Japanese box office. The film sold 634,182 tickets for 1,065,983,130 yen (about US$7.20 million) in its first three days of release, marking the highest opening three-day box office revenue of an anime series. The film is the highest-earning Gundunda film ever in Japan.
Bandai Namco Filmworks and Fathom Events screened the film in the United States and Canada on May 7–8, with subtitles on May 7 and with an English dub on May 8.
Acma:Game: Saigo no Kagi (Acma:Game: The Final Key), the live-action film adaptation of Kōji Megumi and Meebu's Acma:Game manga, debuted in the top 10 in its second weekend.
Give It All, a theatrical anime based on the novel Ganbatte Ikimasshoi by Yoshiko Shikimura, also dropped out of the top 10 in its second week of release.
Eiga Given: Umi e (Given The Movie: To the Sea), the second film in the two-part anime sequel project, held the No. 1 spot in the small theater rankings for its seventh weekend. mat.
Source: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2) (link 3), comScore via KOFIC
