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Dōkyūsei/Classmates Boys-Love Anime Film Tops 100 Million Yen
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official boys-love manga announced on Wednesday that the film has earned more than 100 million yen ($881,000) in 11 days of theatrical screenings.
The film opened at #9 in the Japanese box office on February 20. It sold 23,395 tickets for 34,308,700 yen ($305,611) on 30 theaters in its first weekend.
Original manga creator Nakamura commented on Twitter that she is very happy the film had such a wonderful staff, and that she would like to see the film again and again.
The story begins during music class before the chorus festival, when male student Hikaru Kusakabe notices that the bespectacled honor student Rihito Sajō is not singing. Although he thinks that Rihito just doesn't like singing, he finds him practicing alone in the classroom after school. Without even thinking, Hikaru calls out to him.
Hideo Ishikawa plays Manabu Hara.
Haikyu!! Second Season) performed the film's theme song "Dōkyūsei." Oshio also composed the film's music.
streamed an English-subtitled trailer.
Nakamura published the original manga in Japan in 2006 in one compiled volume. The series was followed by the spinoff Digital Manga Guild has licensed Dōkyūsei and Sotsugyōsei in English, although the company has not yet released Sotsugyōsei.
[Via Yaraon!]
Update: The film sold 68,944 tickets for 101,781,100 yen (US$892,000) as of March 1, its 11th day in theeaters. It topped the "mini theater ranking" for two weeks in a row. Source: animeanime.jp
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