{"id":79231,"date":"2024-02-12T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=79231"},"modified":"2024-02-12T22:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:54:36","slug":"mobile-suit-gundam-seed-freedom-passes-2-68-billion-yen-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/02\/12\/mobile-suit-gundam-seed-freedom-passes-2-68-billion-yen-at-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom Passes 2.68 Billion Yen At Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">After roughly two weeks at the Japanese box office, <em>Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom\u00a0<\/em>has become the highest-earning Gundam movie (ignoring inflation adjustments) with a gross of over 2.68 billion yen (~US$17.9 million). It also has a moviegoer count of 1.63 million.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">At the February 9 to 11 weekend box office, the long-awaited sequel to 2002-2003\u2019s <em>Mobile Suit Gundam Seed<\/em> and 2004-2005\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny\u00a0<\/em>flew back to the top spot of the rankings, after being pushed to second place by <i>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training- <\/i>last week. It scored 309,865 moviegoers and 554,722,150 yen (~US$3.7 million).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfa5\u300e\u6a5f\u52d5\u6226\u58eb\u30ac\u30f3\u30c0\u30e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SEEDFREEDOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SEEDFREEDOM<\/a>\u300f<br><br>\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2<br>\u30fb\u52d5\u54e1\u3010\ud835\udfcf\ud835\udfd4\ud835\udfd1\u4e07\u4eba\u3011\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc66\u200d\ud83d\udc66<br>\u30fb\u8208\u884c\u53ce\u5165\u3010\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd4.\ud835\udfd6\u5104\u5186\u3011\ud83d\udc90<br>\u30fb\u30ac\u30f3\u30c0\u30e0\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u3010\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc28.\ud835\udfcf\u3011\ud83c\udfc6<br>\u30fb\u9031\u672b\u8208\u884c\u53ce\u5165\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0<br>\u3000\u518d\u3073\u3010\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc28.\ud835\udfcf\u3011\u7372\u5f97\ud83c\udf3c<br>\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2\u25e4\u25e2<br><br>\u7686\u69d8\u305f\u304f\u3055\u3093\u306e\u5fdc\u63f4\u3092<br>\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\ud83d\ude22\u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0SEED?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\u30ac\u30f3\u30c0\u30e0SEED<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hX8umS6EBB\">pic.twitter.com\/hX8umS6EBB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u6a5f\u52d5\u6226\u58eb\u30ac\u30f3\u30c0\u30e0SEED\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba (@SEED_HDRP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEED_HDRP\/status\/1757225972846514601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The previous record holder\u00a0for highest-grossing Gundam movie of all time (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oricon.co.jp\/news\/2313542\/full\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oricon News<\/a>) was 1982&#8217;s <em>Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space<\/em>, the third compilation movie of the original <em>Mobile Suit Gundam<\/em> series. It made 2.3 billion yen, or roughly 3 billion yen today.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom <\/em>began screening on January 26 and earned 1.06 billion yen (~US$7.09 million) during its opening weekend. 4DX, MX4D, and Dolby Cinema screenings started on February 9. The movie takes place in year 75 of the Cosmic Era, just four years after the beginning of <em>Seed<\/em> and two years after the start of <em>Seed Destiny<\/em>. The plot is set into motion when the Kingdom of Foundation, a nation that was formerly part of the Eurasian Federation, approaches Lacus Clyne&#8217;s peacekeeping organization C.O.M.P.S. with a plan to take on the base of the anti-Coordinator faction Blue Cosmos.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0Director:\u00a0<strong>Mitsuo Fukuda<\/strong>\u00a0(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Scriptwriter: the late Chiaki Morosawa (<em>Seed<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Seed Destiny\u00a0<\/em>series composer)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Scriptwriter:\u00a0<strong>Ryuu Gotou<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Seed Destiny<\/em>\u00a0novelization author)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Scriptwriter: Mitsuo Fukuda<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer:\u00a0<strong>Hisashi Hirai\u00a0<\/strong>(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical animation director:\u00a0<strong>Satoshi Shigeta<\/strong>\u00a0(credited as chief mechanical animation director for the series)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Art director:\u00a0<strong>Shigemi Ikeda\u00a0<\/strong>(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Art director:<strong>\u00a0Yukiko Maruyama<\/strong>\u00a0(art board artist on the series)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Compositing director:\u00a0<strong>Takeshi Katsurayama\u00a0<\/strong>(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:\u00a0<strong>Kunio Ookawara\u00a0<\/strong>(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:\u00a0<strong>Kimitoshi Yamane\u00a0<\/strong>(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:\u00a0<strong>Kazutaka Miyatake<\/strong>\u00a0(design assistance on the series)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:<strong>\u00a0Junichi Akutsu<\/strong>\u00a0(design assistance on\u00a0<em>Seed<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:\u00a0<strong>Hiroyuki Taiga<\/strong>\u00a0(design assistance on\u00a0<em>Seed<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:\u00a0<strong>Manabu Shintani<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru: Shichi Kon no Ryuujinmaru<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:<strong>\u00a0Shiba Zen<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer:\u00a0<strong>Takuya Io<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Color designer:\u00a0<strong>Akemi Nagao<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Hinomaru-Zumou<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music composer:\u00a0<strong>Toshihiko Sahashi\u00a0<\/strong>(returning)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 CG director:\u00a0<strong>Shigenori Toyooka<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Ayaka<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 CG director:\u00a0<strong>Matsuhiro Satou<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 CG director:\u00a0<strong>Kensuke Kushida<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 CG director:\u00a0<strong>Tomohiro<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Fujie\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway<\/em>\u00a0co-CG director)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production:\u00a0<strong>Bandai Namco Filmworks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Souichirou Hoshi<\/strong>\u00a0as Kira Yamato<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Rie Tanaka<\/strong>\u00a0as Lacus Clyne<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Akira Ishida<\/strong>\u00a0as Athrun Zala<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Kenichi Suzumura<\/strong>\u00a0as Shin Asuka<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Maaya Sakamoto<\/strong>\u00a0as Lunamaria Hawke<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Nanako Mori<\/strong>\u00a0as Cagalli Yula Athha\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Yukari Tamura<\/strong>\u00a0as Aura Maha Khyber<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<strong>\u00a0Hiro Shimono<\/strong>\u00a0as Orphee Lam Tao<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<strong>\u00a0Yuuichi Nakamura<\/strong>\u00a0as Shura Serpentine<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Sumire 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It also has a moviegoer count of 1.63 million. At the February 9 to 11 weekend box office, the long-awaited sequel to 2002-2003\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":73915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,97,4624,1066,2707,7209],"class_list":["post-79231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-movie","tag-bandai-namco-filmworks","tag-mobile-suit-gundam","tag-mobile-suit-gundam-seed","tag-mobile-suit-gundam-seed-freedom"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mobilesuitgundamseedfreedom_mainvisual-1-scaled-e1700368099382.jpg?fit=1809%2C1019&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-kBV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79238,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79231\/revisions\/79238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}