Japan Box Office: Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Opens at No.2

Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Dokidoki ♡Game no Sekai de Daibouken! (translated to "Heart-Pounding — A great adventure in the world of games!") opened in 350 theaters across Japan on September 13, making its second-place debut in the Japan box office Top 10, a

Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Dokidoki ♡Game no Sekai de Daibouken! (translated to “Heart-Pounding — A great adventure in the world of games!”) opened in 350 theaters across Japan on September 13, making its second-place debut in the Japan box office Top 10, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha.The 33rd feature film in the 20-year-old Precure franchise earned 367 million yen (2.58 million USD) on 295,000 admissions in its first three-day weekend between Friday and Sunday. It was the second-highest opening weekend gross in the franchise, following last year’s Precure All Stars F, which earned 437 million yen (3.07 million USD) in its first weekend. September 16 was Respect for the Aged Day in Japan, marking a national holiday. The box office revenue for the first four days from Friday to Monday, including the holiday, was 497 million yen (3.5 million USD) earned from 405,000 ticket sales, which was about 84 percent of that of Precure All Stars F.Wonderful Precure! The Movie! also ranked third in Filmarks’ first-day satisfaction ranking with an average rating of 3.97/5.0 based on 284 reviews.

In its seventh weekend, the latest feature film in the My Hero Academia anime franchise remained in seventh place, the same as last weekend.Eiga: Crayon Shin-chan: Oratachi no Kyoryu Nikki (“Crayon Shin-chan The Movie: Our Dinosaurs Diary”), the 31st feature film from the Crayon Shin-chan anime franchise, ranked eighth in its sixth weekend of release, down three places from last weekend.After making its fourth-place debut last weekend, the live-action film adaptation of Taro Nogizaka’s psychological thriller manga Natsume Arata no Kekkon (“Natsume Arata’s Marriage”) was down five places to ninth in its second weekend. Kingdom: Daishougun no Kikan (“Return of The Great General”) slipped to tenth in its tenth weekend, four positions down from last weekend. Its cumulative since its release on July 12 now stands at 7.7 billion yen (54.25 million USD) on 5.23 million admissions. The movie now also ranks 91st in Japan’s all-time box office ranking according to Kogyo Tsushinsha, surpassing The Sixth Sense (2017) with 7.68 billion yen (54.62 million USD).

Meanwhile, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re: Re:, the second of the two-part recap films based on the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime series, has earned a cumulative 540 million yen (3.8 million USD) earned from 360,000 ticket sales in the Japanese box office according to Mantan Web. The first part has earned 640 million yen (4.51 million USD) on 420,000 tickets from its theatrical run, bringing the cumulative total gross for the two films to over 1.19 billion yen (8.38 million USD).The first of the two films, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, opened in Japan on June 7, 2024, followed by BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: on August 9, 2024. As previously reported, Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will screen both movies as one release worldwide in October.