Two anime movies, Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle and The First Slam Dunk, made sturdy comebacks on the Japanese field workplace throughout the weekend of August 16-18.
Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, a part of the Haikyu!! Remaining duology, held a particular occasion known as The Dumpster Battle Final Match in Tokyo on August 18, which was additionally streamed dwell in cinemas throughout Japan.
This occasion, mixed with the movie’s re-screening, noticed the movie attain No. 6 within the weekend field workplace charts for the primary time since mid-June.
Since its launch in February 2024, the movie has grossed 11.5 billion yen, making it the thirty fifth highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan.
THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, initially launched in December 2022, additionally returned to theaters with re-screenings in over 380 places starting August 13.
In its first weekend of launch, the movie reached quantity 9 on the field workplace, grossing 16.2 billion yen, making it the twelfth highest-grossing movie in Japan.
Notably, it surpassed Avatar within the Japanese all-time rankings. This revival marks a profitable continuation of THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, which had a powerful preliminary run that resulted in August 2023.
Different movies additionally did properly this weekend. Crayon Shin-chan: Oratachi no Kyoryu Nikki, the newest movie within the Crayon Shin-chan sequence, held on to its second place, incomes 321 million yen in its second weekend.
The most recent movie, My Hero Academia, additionally remained regular at third place with a complete gross of two.3 billion yen since its launch in August.
In the meantime, the fourth live-action Kingdom movie, Kingdom: Return of The Nice Normal, rose to quantity 4 in its sixth weekend, turning into the highest-grossing movie within the Kingdom live-action sequence.
Nevertheless, the live-action adaptation of Blue Interval, which debuted in eighth place the weekend earlier than, failed to stay within the prime 10 in its second weekend.
