Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Tops Box Office in 2nd Week 

Makoto Shinkai\'s \'your name.\' Tops Box Office in 2nd Week, Shin Godzilla Returns to #2

) earned 1.16 billion yen (about US$11.19 million) and sold 867,000 tickets over the September 3-4 weekend to maintain its #1 ranking in its second weekend. The film has earned 24.8% more on its second weekend than its opening weekend, when it earned 930 million yen (US$9.1 million). (However, its second weekend\'s earnings did not beat its first three days, which included its Friday opening day.)

The film has earned 3.8 billion yen (about US$36.75 million), 10 days after its August 26 opening in Japan.

predicts that the film will gross a total of 6 billion yen (US$58.8 million).

film rose from #3 back to #2 in its sixth week in theaters. The film earned 320 million yen (about US$3 million) and sold about 200,000 tickets during the weekend.

Cinema Nichigeki theater — a theater with deep roots in the

The film has earned 6,017,239,800 yen (about US$58.18 million) in the 38 days since its July 29 opening in Japan. The film has sold 4,129,595 tickets, which now surpasses the tickets sold for Anno\'s previous film,

(Yell for the Blue Sky) manga maintained its #5 rank in its third weekend. The film opened on 281 screens in Japan on August 20, and sold 160,000 tickets to earn 197,000,000 yen (US$1.96 million) in its opening weekend.

rose from #9 to #8 in its seventh weekend. As of August 28, the movie has earned 4,778,856,000 yen (about US$46.02 million) and sold 3,582,115 tickets since opening on July 23. The film is projected to earn 5 billion yen (about US$48.97 million) to surpass the 4.8 billion yen (about US$47 million) gross of 2009\'s

Answerman - Why Are UK Releases Slower Than North American Releases?

― Christopher asks: I live in the UK and one thing that has been bugging me for a while now is why there is such a big gap in releases of anime Blu-rays/DVDs between US and UK of the same series? One prime example of this is "One Piece". If a series is been released only in the US and not in the UK, that\'s different. But when the discs is been sold in both countries, why is the UK so far behind our...

Interview: Nami Sano, Author of Haven\'t You Heard? I\'m Sakamoto

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Love Live! The School Idol Movie Premium Edition Blu-Ray

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Komomo Confiserie is a nicely compact shojo romance of only five volumes, and this final book wraps things up very sweetly. ― Over the course of its five volumes, Maki Minami\'s Komomo Confiserie has touched on many of the various tropes that make shoujo manga recognizable – from the abusive love interest to the fanciful fashions to the Cinderella storyline. That in itself isn\'t particularly remarkabl...

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