Shinkai's 'your name.' is #1 in 13th Week 

Shinkai\'s \'your name.\' is #1 in 13th Week as Gundam the Origin IV Debuts at #9

anime film stayed at #1 during its 13th weekend at the Japanese box office. It sold 191,000 more tickets for 254 million yen (about US$2.29 million) for a new grand total of 18.9 billion yen (about US$170 million) — just a little over 400 million yen (about US$ 4 million) behind

Shinkai\'s latest film had topped the Japanese charts for nine straight weekends since it opened on August 26, and in its 10th weekend dropped to #2 to

, before regaining the top spot in its 11th weekend. The film had earned 18.5 billion yen (about US$166 million) as of November 16.

The film is the seventh highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the fourth highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan, and the fourth highest-grossing anime film in Japan. The three highest-grossing Japanese films in Japan include

is projected to possibly approach 20 billion yen (US$200 million).

film stayed at #2 for its second weekend. The film adapts Ryōsuke Tomoe\'s

) suspense horror manga, which centers on a series of bizarre murders by a man wearing a frog mask. The man calls himself a vigilante and performs the murders based on themes such as "dogfood punishment," or "punishment of knowing a mother\'s pain." Detective Sawamura is leading the investigation, but becomes aware that his wife is one of the killer\'s targets.

film fell from #6 to #7 during its third weekend. The

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anime film dropped from #7 to #8 in its fourth weekend.

anime, debuted at #9. The film screened at 15 Japanese theaters on Saturday.

The current Char/Sayla arc of the anime ends with the fourth episode. The episode features Char\'s "fateful encounter" with the girl Lalah Sune, the first

anime\'s protagonist Amuro Ray, and "the legendary Dr. Minovsky" (whose physics breakthroughs eventually led to mobile suit warfare). The episode also covers the development of the MS-04 and the RX-78

mobile suits, as well as the first ever mobile suit battle in history.

began streaming the episode last Friday with an English

and English, Japanese, French, Korean, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), and Simplified Chinese subtitles.

anime film stayed at #10 in its second weekend. It expanded to 68 screens and thus actually increased its box office from its first weekend to its second weekend. It sold 39,638 more tickets for 56,798,980 yen (about US$513,000) in its second weekend. In total, it has now sold 117,332 tickets for 162,899,760 yen (about US$1.47 million)

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