Japan Box Office: Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Art World Tales Keeps No.1 Spot for 4 Consecutive Weekends

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Art World Tales , the 44th theatrical film from the Doraemon anime franchise, earned 435 million yen (2.9 million USD) on 358,000 admissions in its fourth weekend, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha . The gross was up 121 percent from the previous third weekend (likely relating to Japanese schools entering spring break last week) and enough to keep the film in first place for four consecutive weekends. Between 1998 and last year, five Doraemon movies that stayed at the top spot for more than four weekends — Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King ( 2010 / 5 weekends ), Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure ( 2012 / 5 weekends ), Nobita's Space Heroes ( 2015 / 4 weekends ), Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration ( 2019 / 6 weekends ), and Nobita's Sky Utopia ( 2023 / 5 weekends ). Nobita's Art World Tales ' cumulative total gross has almost reached three billion yen (20 million USD) earned from 2.47 million ticket sales, which was 90.62 percent of the four-week gross of the franchise's top-grossing non-3DCG anime film, Nobita's Treasure Island , which stayed on No.1 for three weekends in March 2018 . A live-action film adaptation of Mashiro's romantic comedy manga My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 opened on March 28 and made a fifth-place debut. The film also ranked sixth in Filmarks' first-day satisfaction ranking with an average rating of 3.75/5.0 based on 342 reviews. In its sixth weekend, HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- , the first feature film from the rap battle-themed HYPNOSISMIC project, stayed in the same tenth place spot from last weekend. The live-action film adaptation of Hatsuharu's romantic comedy manga series A Girl & Her Guard Dog did not appear in Top 10 in its third weekend. Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon , a recap film of the first season of the Kaiju No. 8 TV anime followed by a new original episode titled Hoshina's Day Off , released in 32 theaters on March 28 for a limited three-week run in Japan. The film did not debut on the overall Top 10 ranking nor Kogyo Tsushinsha's mini-theater ranking for the weekend. RELATED: Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon Anime Movie International Release Dates, Tickets on Sale Announced Outside the Top 10, the official X (formerly Twitter) for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime confirmed on March 31 that advance theatrical screenings of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- , the re-edited episode version of its upcoming TV series, built up a 73-day cumulative total of 3.34 billion yen (22.3 million USD) on 2.028 million admissions since debuting in Japanese theaters on January 17. Weekend box office Top 10 in Japan (March 28-30, 2025) (ticket sales basis with notes in parentheses marking previous week's placement) Sources : Kogyo Tsushinsha weekend ranking / mini-theater ranking , Eiga.com , Filmarks , "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" official X (formerly Twitter) ©FUJIKO PRO, SHOGAKUKAN, TV ASAHI, SHIN-EI, ADK 2025

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