When are we going to stop writing about the amazing box office returns of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You? Well, when they stop being amazing, that’s when. Here are the latest numbers on Shinkai’s mega-hit: It’s now sold over 10 million tickets and made over 13 …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime film has been running in Japan for 10 weeks now, and its only big shakeup this week was that it dropped down from third to fourth place. Pulling in another 150 million yen put its grand total at around 13 billion …Read more »
Another week, another look at the Japanese box office, and this one marks the sixth week for Makoto Shinkai’s smash hit Weathering With You. This time around the anime film managed to secure the top spot once again, marking the fourth time for it to come …Read more »
The Persona video game series, which kicked off in 1996, has topped sales of 10 million units. It all started in 1996, with Revelations: Persona, a spinoff of Atlus’s Megami Tensei series. With its unique take on the RPG genre, the series has gained a huge following in Japan and …Read more »
The milestones keep coming for Makoto Shinkai’s latest hit anime film, Weathering With You. According to the latest announcement from Toho, the movie has earned over 10 billion yen in the Japanese box office since it opened on July 19, with the total number of admissions …Read more »
Promare, the new flick from the folks behind Kill la Kill, has topped 1 billion yen at the Japanese box office: no mean feat for an original anime film. Now fans have a reason to go see the film again. From August 23 to the end of September, …Read more »
Promare is a hit. The original anime film from the creative team behind Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill has made over 1 billion yen at the Japanese box office since it opened May 24. At the current exchange rate, 1 billion yen is $9.4 million. Earning a billion yen …Read more »
The 14th One Piece anime film, One Piece Stampede, opened in Japan on Friday, and it made a big splash while doing so. Following up on series creator Eiichiro Oda’s official comments on the final version of the movie, Toei announced that Stampede officially earned the largest first-day attendance numbers at the …Read more »
My Hero Academia may rule the roost when it comes to graphic novel sales in North America, but One Piece and Attack on Titan still have it on lockdown in Japan. Oricon published its charts for manga volume sales in the first half of 2019, marking the 11th year in a row …Read more »
Were you a fan of last season’s Rewrite ? If so, you were part of a very exclusive club, apparently. That’s according to sales figures for the first volume of the series, at least, which place Rewrite far below other anime based on game studio …Read more »
Nintendo just hired Mario’s arch-nemesis as its vice president of sales. Oh, my bad, not that Bowser: it’s normal human being Doug Bowser, formerly of Electronic Arts, who’s being hired to oversee sales at Nintendo of America. Still, you can’t tell me the name had …Read more »
Since its debut three years ago, Zaku Tofu – tofu packaged in the shape of Mobile Suit Gundam ’s Zaku robots – has sold over 4 million units, according to Japanese news source Sankei Biz. Zaku Tofu is the result of a collaboration between Gundam …Read more »
Sometimes you forget just how much of a force Pokémon really is. Then you find out that the latest installments of the franchise -- Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire -- sold over 3 million copies worldwide this past weekend. And then you find out that’s …Read more »
At a recent lower house budget committee meeting, opposition lawmaker Tomohiko Kinoshita used the floor to express his reservations about the government’s Cool Japan program, which gives financial support to companies that promote Japanese pop culture, according to Japanese news blog Livedoor. To make his …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto's Inferno , the sequel to the live-action film based on the popular swordfighting manga, had an impressive weekend at the box office, opening at number one and having the biggest opening for a live-action film in Japan this year. Kyoto's Inferno , …Read more »
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