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1st Haikyu!! Final Film Crosses ₹4.95 Crores in India

IGN India reported on Thursday that HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle, the first film in the two-part Haikyu!! Final sequel film project, has crossed ₹4.95 crores (about US$592,000) in earnings in India as of Wednesday.

The film opened in Indian theaters on May 31. It earned ₹3.75 crores (about US$449,000) in its first week.

The film premiered in Japan on February 16 and is also screening in IMAX. It has sold a total of 7.71 million tickets to earn a cumulative total of 11,048,756,920 yen (about US$69.98 million) as of last Sunday. Susumu Mitsunaka (first, third Haikyu!! television anime) both directed and wrote the script for the film.

The film sold 1,529,000 tickets and earned 2,230,465,540 yen (about US$14.83 million) in its first three days of screening.

Haruichi Furudate launched the original Haikyu!! manga in 2011, and ended the series in July 2020. Shueisha published the manga's 45th and final volume in November 2020. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and published the manga simultaneously with its Japanese release digitally. MANGA Plus also published the manga digitally in English.

Source: IGN India (Rayan Sayyed)