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Tokyo Theater Brings Back 1st Girls & Panzer Film Even After 1-Year Run Ended
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Cinema City theater in Tokyo announced on Sunday that it will intermittently screen the Girls und Panzer der Film anime movie even after the film ended its one-year run. The theater noted that screening the film on Fridays and weekends will become more difficult during the openings of big movies, but it will find time to screen the film irregularly on weekdays. The theater didn't indicate when it will end the screenings.
Certain theaters in Japan, including Cinema City, continued to screen the film through its one-year anniversary on November 21, and has continued to add to its earnings. Cinema City recently ended screenings of the film, which lasted until Friday.
The Girls und Panzer film is director Tsutomu Mizushima's follow-up to his 2012 Girls und Panzer television anime about schoolgirls who learn to battle in tanks with other teams nationwide. The film opened in Japan in November 2015, and it ranked #38 in the top 39 highest grossing Japanese domestic films of 2015 (tied with Grasshopper). Sentai Filmworks screened the film with an English dub in 33 theaters in the United States on November 18.
The film shipped in Japan on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on May 27, and the release came with a new OVA that takes place after the events of the movie, as well as an episode of the "Akiyama Yukari no Sensha Kōza" (Yukari Akiyama's Tank Lecture) shorts. The limited special edition Blu-ray Disc of the film sold 162,361 copies in its first week and topped Oricon's overall Blu-ray Disc chart for the May 23-29 week.
The film won a Seiun Award in July for Best Dramatic Presentation.
The franchise is also getting the Girls & Panzer Saishūshō (Girls & Panzer: The Final Chapter) anime project, which will be a six-part theatrical event anime. The first anime will premiere in December 2017.
[Via Otakomu]
