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NEWS: Kizumonogatari III Anime Film Earns 87 Million Yen in 1st Weekend

I didn't even know this had already released.

Each part seems to be making less than the previous one. Kind of the opposite phenomenon you want to happen with an epic film trilogy. But I'm pretty sure the franchise sells mainly to the Japanese weeb shut-in market, going by the previous films' high BD sales, and not the types who go to the theaters. Still then, why haven't the films been at least performing on par with the first part's box office? All well, the copy of part one I ordered should be arriving in the post tomorrow, and I'm very excited to finally be able to watch it, since it was what convinced me to get into the series in the first place.

Do we know the number of screens this had? That seems awfully low. I can't help by wonder if the JP fans are either a little bit tired of having this stretched out so much, or if it just had a really small release.

I think you might be partly right about that. It's likely not a particularly out-going audience in Japan. My only thought as to the decrease between each release is that people might actually be tired of the lacking length of these movies. That's probably more wishful thinking than anything else, but I can't really think of any other reason as to why they would drop like that. Personally, I hate how AoA is releasing them in the US, especially since they are even more expensive then the JP release, and hate the 3 part release in general, but the first two have been utterly fantastic in theaters and I can hardly wait to see the third one, even if I have to pay $210 to own what is essentially just one 3 hour movie.. that's really pretty ridiculous, even by Aniplex standards.