The movie will premiere in NYC and LA on October 4; will open extra extensively within the US and Canada on October 6 and seven.
AMC Theaters experiences that the anime movie will likely be proven on October 4 Chainsaw Man Creator Tatsuki Fujimoto‘S “Look again“one-shot manga will host director Kiyotaka Oshiyama for a dwell Q&A session in AMC Burbank 16 in Burbank, California. It’s unclear whether or not the dwell Q&A will likely be by way of video feed or if Oshiyama will likely be current in particular person.
Different screenings will embody a 20-minute interview with Oshiyama and the movie’s forged.
GKIDS will display the movie in New York and Los Angeles on October 4, and extra broadly in North America on October 6 and seven. GKIDS confirmed that the screenings will even happen in Canada.
The movie opened in Japanese theaters on June 28. The movie ranked #2 in ticket gross sales (however #1 in weekend grosses) in its opening weekend, promoting 135,000 tickets for $227 million (roughly $1.4 million) in its first three days. The movie has bought over 1 million tickets in Japan and has earned over 1.73 billion yen (roughly $12 million) on the Japanese field workplace as of August 23.
Yumi Kawai And Mizuki Yoshida star within the movie. Kawai performs Fujino, a fourth-year pupil who attracts four-part comedian strips for the college newspaper. Yoshida performs Kyomoto, Fujino’s classmate who skips faculty.
Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Flip-flappers) directed the anime and was additionally answerable for the screenplay and character designs. Oshiyama’s Studio Durian produced the movie.
The workers additional consists of:
Singer you sleep performs the theme of the movie “Gentle music” by composer Haruka Nakamura.
Fujimoto debuted the one-shot manga on Shueisha‘S Shonen Leap+ in July 2021. The manga was seen greater than 2.5 million occasions on its first day. Viz Media And MANGA Plus launched the manga digitally in English. Viz Media printed the manga in print in September 2022. The corporate describes the story:
Overconfident Fujino and reclusive Kyomoto could not be extra totally different, however a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town ladies collectively. A poignant story about rising up and shifting ahead that solely Tatsuki Fujimotothe creator of Chainsaw Manmay have made.
The manga gained the primary Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards in Could 2023 and was ranked #1 within the 2022 version Takarajimasha‘S Kono Manga go Sugoi! (This Manga Is Superb!) information. It was additionally nominated for final 12 months’s Will Eisner Comedian Business Awards and was runner-up on the fifteenth Manga Taisho awards.
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