My Hero Academia: You’re Next Movie Earns 890 Million Yen In 3 Days Of Release

My Hero Academia: You’re Next, the latest anime film in the franchise, has earned 890 million yen in revenue in the Japanese box office and attracted 608,000 viewers within the first three days of its release.

The official X account celebrated the milestone, announcing, “The No.1 hit start of the series. In the three days up to Sunday, August 4, it has surpassed 608,000 viewers and 890 million yen in box office revenue! Thank you very much!!“

The film, released in 488 theaters nationwide, including 51 IMAX, 63 4DX, 13 MX4D, and 9 Dolby Cinema screens, had a strong opening day, with 260,000 viewers and 370 million yen in revenue.

This surpassed the opening day revenue of the previous series record holder, My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes’ Mission, by 118%. TOHO, the film’s distributor, stated that ‘You’re Next‘ has had the No.1 hit start in the series’ history and is on track to surpass 4 billion yen in total box office revenue.

My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: You’re Next is hit the Japanese theatres on Aug 2, 2024.

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