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The Cell Swimsuit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Starting- anime film debuted at #1 in the Jap field gain of enterprise in its opening weekend. It sold 352,500 tickets and earned 598,832,300 yen (about US$3.83 million) in its first three days.
The chronicle of Cell Swimsuit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Starting-, a re-edited model of the principle four episodes of the upcoming Cell Swimsuit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as “g-kwux”) television anime, amenities on Amate Yuzuriha, a high-school student living peacefully in a dwelling colony floating in outer dwelling. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal cell suit dueling sport identified as Clan Battle.
Underneath the entry name “Machu,” she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam cell suit pursued by each the dwelling force and the police appears to be like to be sooner than her, alongside with its pilot, a boy named Shūji.
Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL, Gunbuster 2: Diebuster) is directing the anime, and Yōji Enokido (Bungo Stray Canine, Sailor Moon Gigantic S, Innovative Lady Utena, Ouran Excessive Faculty Host Membership) is supervising the assortment scripts and writing the scripts with Hideaki Anno (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla). Illustrator Elevate (Katanagatari, Zaregoto, Pokémon Solar & Moon) is designing the characters, and Ikuto Yamashita (Evangelion, Shin Kamen Rider, Yukikaze) is the mechanical vogue designer.

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COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can not Verbalize (Gekijо̄ban Venture Sekai: Kowareta Sekai to Utaenai Miku, or The Broken World and a Miku Who Can not Verbalize), an anime film in accordance with the Venture Sekai: Vivid Stage feat. Hatsune Miku smartphone game, debuted at #2 and sold 232,500 tickets and earned 306,817,000 yen (about US$1.96 million) in its first three days.
Vivid Palette, a subsidiary of Craft Egg, and Sega collaborated on the film, which is getting a international free up.
The fresh chronicle follows Ichika Hoshino, who hears a Miku music that she has in no diagram heard sooner than at a CD shop and sees a Hatsune Miku whom she had in no diagram viewed sooner than. Ichika calls out to Miku, who stunned by the remark, disappears quickly after making model contact. Miku later appears to be like to be on Ichika’s smartphone to remark her that she would desire to be triumphant in others with her songs, however no topic how worthy she sings, her songs can no longer reach them. After seeing Ichika reach others’ hearts with her live boulevard performance, Miku asks for her lend a hand.
Saki Fujita reprises her feature as Hatsune Miku from assorted works in the franchise. Ruriko Noguchi stars as Ichika Hoshino. The solid also involves returning contributors from the franchise.
Hiroyuki Hata (Lapis Re:LiGHTs) directed the anime at P.A. Works. Yoko Yonaiyama (Ya Boy Kongming!) wrote the screenplay. Yuki Akiyama (IRODUKU: The World in Colours) designed the characters and used to be a major animation director, alongside with Masatoshi Tsuji (chief animation director for Summer Time Rendering), who used to be also a sub-persona vogue designer. Satoshi Hōno (Aggretsuko) peaceable the music.

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The live-motion film of Akane Shimizu‘s Cells at Work! (Hataraku Saibō) manga dropped from #2 to #4 in its sixth weekend. The film earned 237,368,080 yen (about US$1.52 million). It has sold a complete of 3.9 million tickets, and earned a cumulative total of 5,240,061,690 yen (about US$33.59 million).
The film opened in Japan on December 13 and ranked at #1. The film sold a complete of 612,000 tickets and earned a complete of 844,768,310 yen (about US$5.49 million) in its first three days.
The film has 4D (4DX and MX4D) and IMAX screenings in Japan.
Hideki Takeuchi (live-motion Nodame Cantabile, Thermae Romae, Cruise Me to Saitama) directed the film, with a script by Yūichi Tokunaga (live-motion Kaguya-sama: Like is Battle, Liar x Liar, Princess Jellyfish). Warner Bros. Japan disbursed the film. Reputable HiGE DANdism performed the theme music “50%.”

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Gekijо̄-ban Nintama Rantaro Dokutake Ninja-tai Saikyо̄ no Gunshi (Nintama Rantaro the Movie: The Dokutake Ninja Group’s Strongest Strategist), the principle anime film in the Nintama Rantaro anime franchise in 13 years, dropped from #5 to #6 in its fifth weekend. The film earned 169,443,770 yen (about US$1.08 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 1,535,406,280 yen (about US$9.83 million).
The film opened in Japan on December 20. It sold 198,000 tickets in its first weekend, including developed screenings, earning 295 million yen (about US$1.87 million) from Thursday thru Sunday.
The film is in accordance with Kazuhisa Sakaguchi‘s 2013 original of the identical name, which amenities on Rantaro’s instructor Hansuke Doi shedding a battle in opposition to Sonnamon and Zatto Konnamon changing right into a instructor at Ninjutsu Academy.
Yasuhiro Mamiya voices Happōsai Hieta, replacing the leisurely Shōzō Iizuka, who voiced the persona in the anime assortment. Besides, Naniwa Danshi contributors Ryūsei Ōnishi and Jōichirō Fujiwara seem in the film as visitor remark actors.
Masaya Fujimori (Doraemon movies) returned from the old film to verbalize the original one at Ajia-make, the identical animation studio for the tv assortment. Customary original author Sakaguchi wrote the screenplay.

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The live-motion film of Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi‘s Kodoku no Gourmand (Solitary Gourmand) manga dropped from #3 to #9 in its 2nd weekend. The film earned 127,987,100 yen (about US$820,100) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 551,676,100 yen (about US$3.fifty three million).
The film sold 167,000 tickets and earned 242 million yen (about US$1.fifty three million) in its first three days.
The film is in accordance with the manga’s live-motion assortment. The assortment’ lead actor Yutaka Matsushige yet again stars in the film, and also directed the film. He also co-wrote alongside Yoshihiro Taguchi. The film opened on January 10. The film also screened at the Tokyo Global Movie Festival, which ran from October 28 to November 6 final year.
The film is section of the Kodoku no Gourmand Venture, which celebrates the assortment’ 12 years of broadcast and TV Tokyo‘s sixtieth anniversary. The workers also announced Sorezore no Kodoku no Gourmand (To Every Their Have Solitary Gourmand), a program that debuted on October 4 final year. The omnibus assortment follows assorted most necessary characters (besides Yutaka Matsushige‘s Gorō, who used to be the principle persona in all the old tasks) on their have culinary journeys.
Both the Kodoku no Gourmand live-motion assortment and favorite manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local delicacies came all over on boulevard corners. The live-motion verbalize’s tenth season premiered in October 2022.
Saint Oniisan The Movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Men vs Demon Military), the principle live-motion film of Hikaru Nakamura‘s Saint Younger Men (Saint Oniisan) manga, dropped off the tip 10 in its fifth weekend.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin, comScore through the use of KOFIC