{"id":90497,"date":"2024-07-02T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=90497"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:18:24","slug":"look-back-takes-2-spot-on-japan-weekend-box-office-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/look-back-takes-2-spot-on-japan-weekend-box-office-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Back Takes #2 Spot on Japan Weekend Box Office Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The<em> Look Back<\/em> anime film is the second best-performing film of the June 28-30 Japanese weekend box office ranking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kogyotsushin.com\/archives\/topics\/t8\/202407\/01154210.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kogyo Tsushin reports<\/a> a moviegoer count of 135 thousand and takings of 227 million yen (~US$1.4 million) for the roughly one-hour film, which is an adaptation of the 2021 one-shot of the same name by <strong>Tatsuki Fujimoto<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Taking the first spot on the audience-based ranking was <em>Sore Ike! Anpanman Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun<\/em>, an anime film of similar length and the 35th movie in the Anpanman franchise, with 137 thousand viewers. Its three-day gross was 172 million yen (~US$1.6 million). <em>Sore Ike! Anpanman Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun\u00a0<\/em>and <em> Look Back\u00a0<\/em>both premiered on June 28.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The other anime in the ranking was <em>Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram<\/em> at 7th. The 27th <em>Detective Conan\u00a0<\/em>film is now the 15th highest-grossing movie in Japan with 15.2 billion yen (~US$94.07 million), positioned between <em>Ponyo<\/em> and <em>Suzume<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Kiyotaka Oshiyama\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>Flip Flappers<\/em>\u00a0director,\u00a0<em>Chainsaw Man<\/em> devil designer) directed <em>Look Back<\/em> and also took on scriptwriting and character design duties. The drama, about a talented manga artist and the reclusive classmate she befriends, was produced by\u00a0<strong>Studio Durian<\/strong>, which Oshiyama is the representative director of. <b>Yumi Kawai<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Mizuki Yoshida <\/b>voice the main characters\u00a0Fujino and Kyomoto, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for more news stories, plus updates on our user-voted chart rankings.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Kogyo Tsushin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Look Back anime film is the second best-performing film of the June 28-30 Japanese weekend box office ranking.\u00a0 Kogyo Tsushin reports a moviegoer count of 135 thousand and takings of 227 million yen (~US$1.4 million) for the roughly one-hour film, which is an adaptation of the 2021 one-shot of the same name by Tatsuki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":87304,"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":[14,1625,97,8402,122,8403],"class_list":["post-90497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-anime-movie","tag-look-back","tag-manga","tag-studio-durian"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/lookback_keyvisual-e1717169589320.webp?fit=566%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-nxD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90497"}],"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=90497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90502,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90497\/revisions\/90502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}