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1st Girls & Panzer Finale Film Tops 500 Million Yen at Box Office
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the Girls und Panzer franchise announced on Friday that the first film in the Girls und Panzer das Finale film series has earned more than 500 million yen. As of January 18, the film has sold 425,236 tickets to earn 516,181,000 yen (US$4.66 million).
The film opened on December 9 and is screening at 59 theaters in Japan. It earned 145,981,740 yen (about US$1.28 million) to rank #4 at the Japanese box office.
The new film features new characters from BC Freedom High School as they engage in a winter battle.
The Finale anime project will also have immersive 4DX and MX4D screenings, after the project's second episode ends its initial run of regular screenings. Each of the immersive screenings will combine two episodes; the first ones will combine the first and second episodes. The next set of immersive screenings will combine the third and fourth episodes, and the last set will combine the fifth and sixth episodes.
The Girls und Panzer der Film anime film followup to the original Girls und Panzer television anime opened in Japan in November 2015. Certain theaters in Japan continued to screen the film through its one-year anniversary on November 21, 2016, earning the film 2,440,849,294 yen at the box office over the course of the year. As of August 13, the film has sold 1,454,048 tickets to earn 2,501,970,524 yen (about US$22.9 million).
Source: Moca News
