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NEWS: 'your name.' Anime Film Earns US$1.6 Million in 1st Weekend

Can someone point out what scene this boku/watashi thing was such an issue? I can't recall anything standing out during my screening so I question how serious a problem it really was.

Morry wrote:

Can someone point out what scene this boku/watashi thing was such an issue? I can't recall anything standing out during my screening so I question how serious a problem it really was.

Like Darksorrow29 said, it's the scene on the rooftop where the female-lead-in-the-male-lead's-body is talking to his friends. I wouldn't say it's a big deal if the joke doesn't come across, but the scene is quite funny. I only saw the sub, so I don't know how the dub handles it.

Morry wrote:

Can someone point out what scene this boku/watashi thing was such an issue? I can't recall anything standing out during my screening so I question how serious a problem it really was.

Like Darksorrow29 said, it's the scene on the rooftop where the female-lead-in-the-male-lead's-body is talking to his friends. I wouldn't say it's a big deal if the joke doesn't come across, but the scene is quite funny. I only saw the sub, so I don't know how the dub handles it.

Kougeru wrote:

Furthermore, I'm kinda mad at Funimation for not just releasing it on DVD/bluray already. They translated it around a year ago. They had it Anime Expo. There's no reason for it to be not be on bluray/DVD already except to milk that theatre money.

Like how others said already, they won't be able to release it until sometime after the Japanese disc release happens. Considering when the Japanese disc release is happening (I recall hearing somewhere that it's going to be around October or something), we shouldn't expect a North American physical release until early next year at best because I'm pretty sure Funi never wants to repeat their Kadokawa debacle ever again.

Kougeru wrote:

They could've done both theatre showing and released it on bluray/dvd and to give people a choice instead of forcing us people living in areas with extremely limited (or no) showings to wait well over a year after AX premiere to watch this.

The AX premiere was the WORLD premiere of the movie. That screening was almost 2 whole months ahead of its theatrical release in Japan. Okay, while I don't see why we couldn't have gotten a theatrical screening sooner (I wonder what the circumstances for that are), a simultaneous release just wouldn't make sense for such a movie on top of the above problem. The Killing Joke is the only notable simultaneous release movie and that was supposed to be direct to DVD only.



But yeah, I really loved the movie. Already confident enough to say it's my movie of the year (just like Mad Max for 2015) and I'll be watching it again today.

What kadokawa debacle are you talking about. didn't they once have an exclusive partnership with each other or was that noitamina? Anyways what happenned?

Lord Vaultman wrote:

What kadokawa debacle are you talking about. didn't they once have an exclusive partnership with each other or was that noitamina? Anyways what happenned?

around 5 years ago, funi tried to release two kadokawa shows the same time Kadokawa was going to release BD boxsets for the shows. they didn't like that, which is why it usually takes longer for funi to release Kadokawa shows and sometimes only on DVD

I saw the dub because that allowed me to put my full attention on the gorgeous visuals. I like subs fine but I know I miss a lot of visual stuff keeping up with the tiny wordy things at the bottom of the screen.

Update: Box Office Mojo reports that the movie's precise box office total for the weekend is US41,637,509 for a per-screen average of US$5,686. Thanks, Tenchi

The update in the article wrote:

Update: Box Office Mojo reports that the movie's precise box office total for the weekend is US41,637,509 for a per-screen average of US$5,686. Thanks, Tenchi

Thanks for the acknowledgement but I did a double take at that number before realizing that someone didn't press SHIFT when they pressed 4.

Your Name making $41.6 million on its opening weekend in the United States and Canada would have been a well-deserved box office performance but, alas, it wasn't exactly in the cards. $1.6 million is still a good performance for an anime film on under 250 screens.

$1.6 million is still a good performance for an anime film on under 250 screens.

It'd also mean that your name showed in 7,323 theaters in the US, which would make it a mainstream-level wide release. (I don't know if what they did here is considered a wide release though.)