A Silent Voice Anime Film Earns 283 Million Yen in 2 Days, Ranks #2 

A Silent Voice Anime Film Earns 283 Million Yen in 2 Days, Ranks #2

film earns 1 billion yen over the weekend to rank #1 for 4th week

) manga opened on Saturday, September 17 on 120 screens, earning 283,000,000 yen (about US$2.8 million) and selling 200,000 tickets to rank #2 on the Japanese box office for the weekend. By comparison,

film earned 316,310,000 yen in its first two days on 137 screens.

) anime film stayed at #1 in the box office in its fourth week. The film sold 800,000 tickets over the weekend for 1,076,000,000 yen (about US$10.6 million). As of Monday, the film has earned 9.1 billion yen (about US$89 million) and sold 6.98 million tickets after 24 days in theaters.

\'s 6-billion-yen (US$59 million) revenue projection for the film, and is now projected to possibly earn over 10 billion yen (about US$98 million). That would make it the first anime film since 2013 to earn over 10 billion yen — and the first anime film not made by

) manga fell from #3 to #5 in its second week. The film opened in Japan on September 10 on 294 screens. The film is projected to earn 1.5 billion yen (about US$15 million).

film fell from #5 to #6 in its eighth week. As of September 6, the film sold more than 4.2 million tickets, the highest among all Heisei-era

films. As of September 4, The film had earned 6,017,239,800 yen (about US$58.18 million) in the 38 days since its July 29 opening in Japan.

(Yell for the Blue Sky) manga fell off the ranking in its fifth weekend.

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