This post is originally from my blog Karma.moe but I thought you guys might also like to know 😛 Links to all the stories are on there! http://www.karma.moe/2016/12/the-success-of-kimi-no-na-wa-worldwide.html
This is just a roundup of all different stories for all those people who are curious about what is happening with Your Name worldwide - it's releases and success.
"Makoto Shinkai's your name. anime film ranked #1 at the box office in China this past weekend with the equivalent of US$41 million."Â (ANN)
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"...the anime Your Name, directed and written by Makoto Shinkai based on his novel of the same name, won Best Animated Film (LA Film Awards). In a year that includes Kubo and the Two Strings and Disney’s Zootopia and Moana, Your Name is likely to have strong competition. That said, last year’s LAFCA animated favorite was Inside Out, which subsequently won the same at the 2016 Oscars. " (Deadline)
Your name releases on the 8th of December in Malaysia (Cinema Online) and on the 15th of December in the Philippines (AnimePH Project)
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"Last week Makoto Shinkai’s smash hit film Your Name passed Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke, and this week it has overtaken Howl’s Moving Castle!The film has currently earned $172,165,960 USD (¥19.711 billion) and is now the second highest-grossing anime film of all time in Japan. Spirited Away is still the #1 film." (Madman)
Your name is now at $485,452 total box office in Australia - that is 9th and only showing on 46 screens. (CineFile)