The blockbuster animated movie “Monster Slayer” manga series has become the highest-grossing film in Japanese box office history, its distributors said on Monday. The regime is coming to an end. ) Since 2001.
The film, the story of a teenage boy fighting human food monsters, has grossed 32.47 billion as of Sunday and has drawn more than 24 million copies since its launch on December 16, according to co-distributor Aniplex Inc. And Toho Co.
Despite a coronavirus epidemic limiting cinema audiences, the movie grossed 32.12 billion as of Saturday, surpassing -scar-winning director Miyazaki’s film, which boosted box-billion fee sales by 31.68 billion dollars.
Miyazaki’s movie took 253 days to reach the 30 30 billion mark in sales of the BX-billion fee, but “Monster Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – Movie: Mugen Train” did just that in 59 days.
Directed by the sequel to the anime television series Haruo Sotozaki, which aired in Japan last year, the movie became the first film in the country to earn 10 10 billion within 10 days of its premiere.
As the second highest-grossing movie in Japan on November 30, it surpassed the American romance film ‘Titanic’ on the bad cruise liner of the same name.
In mid-December, when “Monster Slayer” was on track to break the record for “Spirit Away,” Tohu raised Miyazaki’s film sales from .8 30.8 billion to 31 31.68 billion through re-screenings in the summer.
“Monster Slayer”, founded about 100 years ago in Japan, is the story of a boy who is forced to fight monsters after his family is massacred and his younger sister, Nezuko, is turned into one. It is based on the manga series by Koyoharu Gotej that was released in 2016 and earlier this year.
The manga series, now a global success, has been translated into 14 languages and is available in 33 countries and territories, according to publisher Shuisha Inc.
Hero Tanjiro Kamado, along with his sister and fellow monster assassins, are movie centers on the efforts of Japan to save the lives of passengers aboard the “Mugan Train” in the name of the infinite word, on which numerous people are missing.
Its English-dubbed and subtitled versions will hit movie theaters in North America in early 2021, according to Aniplex. The film was shown on October 30 in Taiwan and earlier this month in Thailand.
The “monster slayer” boom had an economic impact of about 27 270 billion earlier this month, according to estimates by Toshihiro Naghama, chief economist at the Da-Ichi Life Research Institute.
Accelerating the “monster slayer” boom, the final volume of its manga series in book form sold out earlier this month. Shuisha said that 3.95 million copies have been published as the first edition of the 23rd volume, with the combined number of all parts, including digital sales, topping 120 million copies.
The latest version of the story was the best seller of the year in the rankings compiled by information provider Oricon Inc., while the ‘opening theme song’ of the series sung by Lisa is the top seller.
Companies have also increased the popularity of the “monster slayer” through toys and other commercial means, while the title of the series has also been chosen as this year’s Japanese Basewords.
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