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Odex to Screen MHA: World Heroes' Mission, Free! The Final Stroke Films in Southeast Asia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Odex announced on Tuesday that it will screen My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission, the Free! The Final Stroke films, and the Eureka: Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution film in Southeast Asia. The company did not reveal a release date for the films.
My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission is the third anime film in the My Hero Academia franchise. The film opened on August 6, and sold about 720,000 tickets to earn about 940 million yen (about US$8.51 million) in its opening weekend. The film has earned a cumulative total of 3,295,467,500 yen (about US$29.07 million).
The film is the highest-earning among all three My Hero Academia franchise anime films, surpassing the 1.79 billion yen (about US$16.2 million by current conversion) of the second film, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising.
In the story of My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission, a mysterious organization dedicated to the destruction of people with Quirks has issued a threat and set bombs all over the world. Pro Heroes and those in Hero Internships scramble to find the bombs. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki encounter Rody, a boy living in a mobile home in their designated area of Otheon, and end up working with him.
Original manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi again served as chief supervisor and original character designer. Kenji Nagasaki returned from the television series and two previous films in the franchise to direct the new film at BONES. Other returning staff members include scriptwriter Yousuke Kuroda, character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and composer Yuki Hayashi. Asian Kung-Fu Generation performed the film's theme song "Empathy" and the film's insert song "Flowers."
Free! The Final Stroke is Kyoto Animation's new two-part anime film project in the Free! franchise.
The first film opened on September 17, and ranked at #3 to earn 137,272,340 yen (about US$1.23 million) in its opening weekend. The film has so far earned a cumulative total of 478,124,020 yen (about US$4.21 million).
The second part will open in Japan on April 22, 2022. The films' trailer previously teased that the films are the "final chapter" for the franchise. The project's tagline is, "Let's go, to the stage of glory."
Eisaku Kawanami returned from previous installations in the franchise to direct the film at Kyoto Animation.
The Free! franchise about the Iwatobi High School Swim Club includes three television anime seasons that aired in 2013, 2014, and 2018. The High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- prequel film opened in 2015. The Free! The Movie -Timeless Medley- the Bond and Free! The Movie -Timeless Medley- the Promise compilation films opened in April 2017 and July 2017, respectively. The Free! -Take Your Marks- omnibus film of short stories then opened in October 2017.
The franchise's most recent entry was Free! ~Road to the World~ Yume (Dream), which opened on July 5, 2019, and was a "reconstruction" of the Free! Dive to the Future television anime series, as well as a "bridge" to the new films.
Eureka: Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution is the third and final film in the Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution (Kōkyōshihen Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution) trilogy. The film will open in Japan on November 26.
The film was originally slated to open in 2019, but was delayed to early summer 2021, and then delayed again to November 26 due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its influence on the production schedule.
The third film's story is set 10 years after the end of the previous film's "Great Unification," which brought the people from the virtual world inside the Scub Coral into the real world. The population of the world is now divided into the Green Earth, the people from the Scub Coral world; and the Blue Earth, the people of the real world. Their co-existence is far from peaceful, with many conflcits behind the scenes unfolding. Dewey Novak, the military leader of the Green Earth, decides to conduct terrorist attacks as a way to protect themselves.
Eureka, hated by the world as a symbol and origin of the world's division, now works as a top military operative in the U.N. covert ops agency A.C.I.D., still fighting to protect a fragile peace as a form of atonement. Her special mission is to protect Iris, a "new Eureka," born from the Scub Coral like her, and wielding her old ability to manipulate it. While confrontational at first, they grow to understand each other's loneliness. Eureka will have to push herself to the limit to keep both Iris and the world safe.
Dai Sato is no longer writing the film, with director Tomoki Kyoda and Eureka Seven scriptwriter Yuuichi Nomura now collaborating on the film's script.
