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My Hero Academia The Movie: World Heroes' Mission Film Debuts at #2, Belle Falls to #3
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sold about 720,000 tickets to earn about 940 million yen ($8.51 million) from Friday to Monday (Monday was a national holiday in Japan).
In the story of My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission, a mysterious organization dedicated to the destruction of people with Quirks has issued a threat and set bombs all over the world. Pro Heroes and those in Hero Internships scramble to find the bombs. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki encounter Rody, a boy living in a mobile home in their designated area of Oseon, and end up working with him.
Original manga creator and the film's insert song "Flowers."
film fell from #1 to #3 in its fourth weekend, after topping the chart for its first three weekends. The film earned 231,750,500 yen ($2.1 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 3,940,894,050 yen ($35.6 million). The film has sold 2.92 million tickets.
BELLE licensed the film for North America, and will release the film in English and in Japanese with English subtitles this winter.
Hosoda (Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, The Naked Director) is the film's music director and composer.
Crayon Shin-chan franchise, fell from #2 to #4 in its second weekend.
The film was originally slated to opening on on July 30. The film earned 144,722,100 yen ($1.31 million) on Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 705,022,800 yen ($6.37 million).
The film's story begins with Shinnosuke and friends experiencing a one-week stay as part of the "defense force" of Tenkatōitsu Kasukabe Private Academy (nicknamed "Tenkasu"), an elite boarding school that is istrated by a state-of-the-art AI. But when Kazama is attacked, with his intelligence reduced, and strange bite marks left on his butt, the mood begins to change. The Kasukabe defense force s forces with the school's dropout student council president Chishio Atsuki to form a group of detectives and shed some light on the mystery.
Macaroni Enpitsu performed the film's theme song "Hashirigaki" (Scribbling).
The live-action Tokyo Revengers manga dropped from #3 to #5 in its fifth weekend. The film earned 135,691,170 yen ($1.23 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 3,151,025,280 yen ($28.45 million). The film has sold 2.42 million tickets so far.
The film was performed the film's theme song "Namae o Yobu yo" (I'll Call Your Name).
Wakui premiered on April 10.
The anime film fell from #5 to #8 in its second weekend. The film earned 55,139,831 yen ($497,800) on Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 280,653,377 yen ($2.53 million).
Ryo Kawasaki again composed the music.
The Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon anime adapts the Fate/Grand Order smartphone game's "The Grand Temple of Time Solomon" story, which is the Final Singularity in the game's first part. The staff from Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia anime returned to produce the new anime.
The live-action Godzilla vs. Kong film dropped off the top 10 in its sixth weekend, but the film still earned 16,110,950 yen ($145,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has a cumulative total of 1,801,950,100 yen ($16.27 million).
The film is still out of the top 10 in its ninth weekend, but it earned 18,291,300 yen ($165,100) from Friday to Sunday, and has so far earned 2,065,126,800 yen ($18.64 million).
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), Eiga.com, comScore via KOFIC
