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King of Prism -Your Endless Call- Anime Film Rises Back to #10 at Japanese Box Office
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The film was originally scheduled for a February 14 release, but was postponed due to "various circumstances." The preview screening scheduled on January 21 was also canceled. The film opened on July 4. The film sold 100,000 tickets and earned 134,597,080 yen (about US$922,800) in its first three days.
The live-action film also stars Rihito Itagaki as Rihito Tatsuno, and Nanoka Hara as Aoi Shinozuka.
The BL (indicated here as standing for "Bloody Love Comedy") manga centers on a 450-year-old vampire named Ranmaru, working part-time at an old public bath. He desires the blood of an 18-year-old virgin, and so watches over the growth of 15-year-old Rihito, the son of the bathhouse owners, and tries to prevent him from losing his virginity.
The Baban Baban Ban Vampire anime adaptation premiered in Japan on January 11. The anime is streaming on Netflix.
The film opened in Japan on June 27.
The film's story is set a few months after the "PRISM.1" tournament, when Shin Ichijo performed without any recollection, and gave his fans the performance he had always wanted to do at "Rose Party," but Shin is still left with a gloomy feeling. To cheer him up, other members of the SePTENTRION unit invited Shin to get into a secretly developed time machine, and go back to the time when the seven of them performed for the first time, the "Dear Crown Christmas Live" concert. The group gets a blast touring other past Prism Shows, including shows performed by the legendary "Big Three."
The film stars new cast Japanese model and actor Satsuki Nakayama, who voices the new character Ai Kannazuki, a mysterious young man sent from the Prism World as the final messenger, with the order to eliminate Louis.
The characters from the Idol Time PriPara and Pretty Rhythm anime series appear in the film.
The new song "Lovepara! -Endless Love,Love-" performed by the SePTENTRION unit, is an insert song of the film. The band perform the ending theme song "Sparkling Days."
In addition to the cast reprising roles, Masakazu Hishida returns for the new film as chief director at Tatsunoko Productions and is also credited as Jou Aoba for the script. Other franchise veterans in the staff include character designer Mai Matsuura; series guest character designers Shōji Hara, Hisashi Kawashima, Rie Saitou, Hajime Mitsuda, and Sayaka Toda; CG director Yoshihiro Otobe; original Prism Jump designer Daisuke Katō; and composer Rei Ishizuka. Nobuto Kojima is directing the sound, and Avex Film Labels is distributing.
King of Prism is a spinoff of the Pretty Rhythm franchise.
Soreike! Anpanman: Chapon no Hero!, the 36th film in the franchise, dropped off the top 10 in its third weekend.
Gekijōban Utano☆Princesama♪ TABOO NIGHT XXXX (read as: TABOO NIGHT KISSES), the new Utano☆Princesama Maji LOVE film, left the list again in its 10th weekend. The film still earned 71,353,000 yen (about US$479,200) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 1,528,707,100 yen (about US$10.26 million).
Yumi Cells The Movie, the live-action and 3D animation hybrid film version of the Yumi Cells K-drama ranked at #2 in the mini-theater rankings.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC
