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Boruto: Naruto the Movie Earns 680 Million Yen in 3 Days

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sets franchise record & outpaces The Last -Naruto the Movie- by 115.1%

The Boruto -Naruto the Movie- anime film earned a cumulative total of 680,134,700 yen (around US$5.46 million) in its first three days, selling a total of 516,146 tickets at 268 screens. This is the highest box office in the first three days for any Naruto movie. The film earned 270,488,500 yen (around US$2.17 million) in its opening night on Friday, and had earned a cumulative total of 409,646,200 yen (around US$3.29 million) by its second day.

The film is outpacing the preceding film in the franchise, December 2014's The Last -Naruto the Movie-, by 115.1% as of Sunday. The Last -Naruto the Movie- eventually grossed a total of 2 billion yen (US$16 million).

Weekly Shonen Jump describes the story of the new film as follows (Note: the below summary contains spoilers for those who have not finished reading the manga):

Boruto is the son of the seventh Hokage Naruto who completely rejects his father. Behind this, he has feelings of wanting to surpass Naruto, who is respected as a hero. He ends up meeting his father's friend Sasuke, and requests to become... his apprentice!? The curtain rises on the story of the new generation written by Masashi Kishimoto!

Yūko Sanpei plays Boruto (pictured top left in image below) and Kokoro Kikuchi is playing Sarada (pictured top right). Junko Takeuchi is returning to play Naruto Uzumaki, and Noriaki Sugiyama is returning to play Sasuke Uchiha.

The other cast members include:

Original Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto is credited with the original story, script, and character designs, as well as the chief production supervisor, for the film. Hiroyuki Yamashita (Naruto Shippūden episode director, Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie animation director) directed the film, and Ukyō Kodachi (Chaos Dragon, Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road) collaborated with Kishimoto on the script.

The rock band KANA-BOON contributed their "Diver" song as the theme song, after contributing their "Silhouette" single as the opening theme of the Naruto Shippūden television anime.

Theatergoers were able to choose one of two fans designed by Masashi Kishimoto as a special gift. The "Uzumaki Version" features Naruto and Boruto and the "Uchiha Version" features Sasuke and Sarada. The fans are limited to 100,000 units.

Those who watch Boruto -Naruto the Movie- in theaters throughout Japan in August receive 2 million copies of an official book — one with a brand-new one-shot manga by original manga creator Masashi Kishimoto. As the Naruto Hiden Zai no Sho Official Movie Book's title indicates, the book is a spinoff of the Naruto: The Official Character Data Book series.

The book debuts the manga short "Naruto ga Hokage ni Natta Hi" (The Day Naruto Became the Hokage) that Kishimoto personally drew. The story episode did not appear in the main Naruto manga's original run. The book also includes the main manga series' 700th and final chapter in full color.

Viz Media has licensed the film for a North American release, and Viz Media and Eleven Arts will screen the film in more than 80 cities starting on October 10.

Source: animeanime.jp


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