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BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- Anime Film Opens in the Philippines on July 31

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Film opened in Japan on April 19

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Medialink's Philippine page revealed last Friday that it will open the anime film of Kōta Sannomiya's BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- spinoff of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's Blue Lock soccer manga in the Philippines on July 31.

The film opened in Japan on April 19. The film has screenings in IMAX, MX4D, and 4DX in Japan, in addition to regular screenings.

The film sold 337,000 tickets to earn 463 million yen (about US$2.99 million) in its first three days, and ranked at #2 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. The film has earned a cumulative total of 1,749,988,280 yen (about US$11.12 million) as of June 9.

The film stars:

The film features returning cast and staff members. The television anime's assistant director Shunsuke Ishikawa directed the film at 8-Bit. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, 2019 Fruits Basket) supervised and wrote the series scripts, and the manga's Kaneshiro supervised the story. Nomura is credited as the character designer. Jun Murayama composed the music. Nissy and SKY-HI perform the theme song "Stormy."

The spinoff manga focuses on Seishirō Nagi before he enters the titular Blue Lock facility.

Source: Medialink's Philippine Facebook page


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