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Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- Film Drops to #2, New The Rose of Versailles Anime Film Opens at #9
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The film debuted at #1 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. It sold 352,500 tickets and earned 598,832,300 yen ($3.83 million) in its first three days. The film opened in Japan on January 17.
The story of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, a re-edited version of the first four episodes of the anime, centers on Amate Yuzuriha, a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.
Under the entry name "Machu," she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shūji.
Yukikaze) is the mechanical designer.
The film opened in Japan on December 20. It sold 198,000 tickets in its first weekend, including advanced screenings, earning 295 million yen ($1.87 million) from Thursday through Sunday.
The movie is based on Kazuhisa Sakaguchi's 2013 novel of the same name, which centers on Rantaro's teacher Hansuke Doi losing a battle against Sonnamon and Zatto Konnamon becoming a teacher at Ninjutsu Academy.
Jōichirō Fujiwara appear in the film as guest voice actors.
Ajia-do, the same animation studio for the television series. Original novel writer Sakaguchi wrote the screenplay.
The film opened in Japan on December 13 and ranked at #1. The film sold a total of 612,000 tickets and earned a total of 844,768,310 yen ($5.49 million) in its first three days.
The film has 4D (4DX and MX4D) and IMAX screenings in Japan.
performed the theme song "50%."
The film debuted at #2 and sold 232,500 tickets and earned 306,817,000 yen ($1.96 million) in its first three days.
Sega collaborated on the film, which is getting a global release.
The original story follows Ichika Hoshino, who hears a Miku song that she has never heard before at a CD shop and sees a Hatsune Miku whom she had never seen before. Ichika calls out to Miku, who surprised by the voice, disappears shortly after making eye . Miku later appears on Ichika's smartphone to tell her that she would like to reach others with her songs, but no matter how much she sings, her songs cannot reach them. After seeing Ichika reach others' hearts with her live street performance, Miku asks for her help.
Ruriko Noguchi stars as Ichika Hoshino. The cast also includes returning from the franchise.
Aggretsuko) composed the music.
The film ranked at #3 in its opening weekend. The film sold 160,000 tickets and earned 225,933,800 yen ($1.46 million) in its first three days.
The film premiere in Los Angeles on January 8.
Saint Young Men, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. films) wrote and directed the film.
performs the theme song "doppelgänger."
Manga publisher releasing the manga in English, and it describes the series:
A high school loner is given the part-time job of a lifetime as a modern day ninja tasked to perform international assassinations.After World War II, Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence within the Pacific region. The agency was staffed with ninja and they were initially tasked to handle domestic affairs. Eventually that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninja across a range of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninja happens to be Kurō. The seventeen-year-old high school loser is now poised to be the next line of defense against a potential surge in foreign assassins invading Tokyo.
The manga Tarusuke Shingaki
as Katō.
releasing the manga in English. Manga UP! describes the manga:
Everyone in Class 2-D of Kairei Private Middle School receives an e-mail at the beginning of the school year detailing a “class hierarchy.” But the number one ranked Tsubaki Himeyama clears away the unrest this causes with her sunny disposition. Normalcy returns to the class… until Himeyama is found to have killed herself on campus. And once her classmates return from her funeral, they find suicide notes addressed to them on their desks! Will these notes expose the darkness class 2-D conceals?!
Minami launched the manga in Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine in 2017. Square Enix published the manga's ninth and final compiled book volume in February 2022.
Manga UP! is also releasing Minami's Birdcage Castle (Torikago no Tsugai) manga in English.
The mini-anime "Berubara Mini!" is debuting alongside the film with a different episode for every week of the film's screening in Japan.
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Ayaka performs the theme song "Versailles."
The staff describes the story:
Oscar François de Jarjayes, raised as the "son" and heir of a general's family, masquerades as a beautiful woman in men's clothing. Marie Antoinette arriving from neighboring Austria as a bride to become a noble and graceful queen.. Oscar's servant and childhood friend, the commoner André Grandier. Hans Axel von Fersen, a handsome and intelligent count from Sweden. They meet in Versailles, in the prosperous late 18th Century and live their respective destinies beautifully while being tossed about by the tides of times.
The Sk8 the Infinity Extra Part dropped from #1 to #4 in the mini-theater rankings in its second weekend.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC
