The official Haikyu!! X (formerly Twitter) revealed that Haikyu!! the Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump scored a three-day box office opening of 2.23 billion yen ($14.86 million), opening at #1 in Japan. This was despite its premiere on February 16, 2024 being a weekday. 4a3j6d
Spy x Family Code: White, which made 1.2 billion yen across its first three days of release. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train is still far and away the leader, however, with 4.6 billion yen (~$30.66 million).
Nevertheless, Code: White and Mugen Train‘s initial theater rollouts were much higher, at 432 and 403 theaters, respectively, while Toho’s official theater list puts Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump‘s number at 373 theaters.
Haikyu!! the Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump is directed by Susumu Mitsunaka, who directed most of the four anime TV seasons. Production I.G returned to animate the movie. The movie is the first of two adapting the final volumes of Haruichi Furudate’s Haikyu!! manga. The series was published in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2020. The latest trailer can be watched here, and the recent IMAX visual can be seen below:
Crunchyroll streams the Haikyu!! anime series, and describes it:
Based off of the original Weekly Shonen Jump manga series from Haruichi Furudate, Haikyu!! is a slice-of-life sports anime revolving around Shoyo Hinata’s love of volleyball. Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the “King of the Court” Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to sur Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata s the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also ed.
Source: Official Haikyu!! X (formerly Twitter), Oricon, Eiga Ranking News
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