Attack on Titan Finale Compilation Film Stays at #2

2nd Yamato yo Towa ni: Rebel 3199 film opens at #10

Updated on November 27, 2024

The film opened on November 8 for a three-week limited engagement in Japanese theaters It sold 175,000 tickets and earned 249,435,720 yen (about US$1

59 million) in its first three days

The film is 145 minutes long, with 5

1ch surround sound, and is a "brushed-up" edition of the two parts of the final season Linked Horizon's "Nisen-nen

Moshiku wa

Niman-nen ato no Kimi e" (To You in 2,000

or

20,000 Years From Now) returns as the theme song

The Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS (Shingeki no Kyojin The Final Season Kanketsu-hen) Part 1 anime aired as a one-hour special in March 2023 The Part 2 anime aired in November 2023

Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS parts 1 and 2 also streamed in Japan in single-episode format, serving as episodes 88-94 of Attack on Titan The Final Season Toonami aired Part 2 on January 6

The compilation began its three-week limited screening in Japan on November 22

The first of the new Gintama on Theater 2D compilations, Gintama on Theater 2D: Baragaki-hen (Thorny Arc), opened a three-week limited engagement in Japanese theaters in November 2023 The second compilation, Gintama on Theater 2D: Ikkoku Keisei-hen, opened its three-week run on June 21

The compilations are part of the Gintama franchise's 20th anniversary celebration, with 2023 being the 20th anniversary of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga debuting, and 2026 being the 20th anniversary of the television anime's premiere The Yorinuki Gintama-san rerun of the television anime also spawned two "on Theater 2D" compilations in 2012 and 2013 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei (Class 3-Z's Teacher Ginpachi), Tomohito Ōsaki's spinoff novel series of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga, will also have an anime adaptation

The film opened on November 22 Participating theaters are offering a special limited edition Blu-ray Disc of the film during its screening run The film will then ship on retail Blu-ray Disc and DVD on January 29

Daisuke Ono performs the ending theme song for the second film Ono stars in the films as Susumu Kodai, and he wrote the lyrics for the new ending theme

The anime will premiere as seven films Crunchyroll is streaming the anime under the title Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199"Kuro no Shinryaku" (Dark Invasion), the first film, opened on July 19 The film earned 58,863,050 yen (about US$385,100) in its first three days "Gunjō no Asteroid" (Ultramarine Asteroid), the third film, will open on April 11

Megumi Han is taking over as the role of Sasha in the second film Megumi Han's mother Keiko Han voiced the role in the Be Forever Yamato film

Naomichi Yamato (From the New World, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans episode director) is directing the new anime, with Harutoshi Fukui now also credited as supervising director along with his roles as head writer and scriptwriter as in previous anime in the series Hideki Oka is also returning as co-writer on the script Nobuteru Yuki is returning as character designer Junichirō Tamamori, Mika Akitaka, and Yasushi Ishizu are credited for mechanical designs Hiroyuki Goto is the CG producer, while Shōsuke Uechi is credited as CG director Tomohiro Yoshida is the sound director

As with prior anime in the series, late producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki is credited for the original work, and his son Shōji Nishizaki is credited as chief production supervisor and copyright chief supervisor Akira Miyagawa is returning to compose the music alongside Shu Kanematsu (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses) Akira Miyagawa's late father and original Space Battleship Yamato composer Hiroshi Miyagawa is also credited for music

The new project is a sequel to the Uchū Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi - Kōshō -STASHA- (Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage Part II: Stasha) film, which opened in February 2022

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, comScore via KOFIC