Kyoto Animation's A Silent Voice ऐनीमे Film Earns 410 Million Yen in 1st 3 Days 

Kyoto Animation\'s A Silent Voice Anime Film Earns 410 Million Yen in 1st 3 Days

Film sold 300,000 tickets, ranked #2 in opening weekend

) manga earned more than 410,000,000 yen (about US$4 million) and sold more than 300,000 tickets in its first three days. The film opened on September 17 on 120 screens (Monday was a holiday in Japan).

The film earned 283,000,000 yen (about US$2.8 million) and sold 200,000 tickets over Saturday and Sunday to rank #2 on the Japanese box office for the weekend. By comparison,

film earned 316,310,000 yen in its first two days on 137 screens.

Ōima drew a new episode of the manga for filmgoers, which appeared in a book titled "Eiga \'

\' Special Book." The manga portrays a story not in the original manga, and is not present in the film. The manga goes deeper into Shoko\'s family life, and her mother and grandmother appear in the story.

\'s two anime seasons and anime film) directed the film at

performed the film\'s theme song "Ai wo Shita no wa" (Loving Is).

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