The latest box office info for My Hero Academia: You’re Next has been revealed that the film has drawn 1.22 million viewers and earned 1.77 billion yen in revenue within 11 days of its release.
To celebrate this milestone, the staff of the film announced a second round of promotional gifts for the theatregoers.
Starting Aug 17, a limited edition set of mini shikishi featuring original artwork by Kohei Horikoshi. The artwork showcases Deku, Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki, along with Julio, an original character from the movie, all styled with neatly parted hair in a butler fashion.
It will be distributed to the first 500,000 moviegoers nationwide.
In addition to this, the non-credit video of the film’s theme song, Homonculus, performed by Vaundy, has also been revealed.
My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: You’re Next is hit the Japanese theatres on Aug 2, 2024.
It earned 370 million yen in its opening day, surpassing the opening day revenue of the previous series record holder, My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes’ Mission, by 118%.
Tensai Okamura served as the director for the anime film.
Other staff includes:
- Scriptwriter: Yosuke Kuroda
- Character Designer: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
- Music Composer: Yuki Hayashi
- Animation Advisor: Kenji Nagasaki
- Animation Studio: bones
The movie is based on an original story by author Kohei Horikoshi, who also handled the character designs and was in charge of general supervision of the movie. The author said that the events of the movie will align with the chronology of the My Hero Academia anime.
The movie is set in the same timeline as the seventh season of the anime.
My Hero Academia is a manga series written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2014 to Aug 2024, with its chapters collected into 41 tankobon volumes as of August 2024.
The series has numerous spin-off manga, including My Hero Academia: Smash!!, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions.
It has also been adapted into an anime series by Bones.
The first season aired in Japan from April to June 2016, followed by a second season from April to September 2017, then a third season from April to September 2018, a fourth season from October 2019 to April 2020, a fifth season from March to September 2021, a sixth season from October 2022 to March 2023, and a seventh season which premiered in May 2024.
It has also received three animated films, titled My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, and My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, and nine original video animations (OVAs).
Source: Oricon