The anime film of Kōta Sannomiya’s BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- spinoff of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura’s Blue Lock soccer manga sold 337,000 tickets to earn 463 million yen (about US$2.99 million) in its first three days, and ranked at #2 in the Japanese box office.
The BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- film opened in Japan on Friday.
The spinoff manga focuses on Seishirō Nagi before he enters the titular Blue Lock facility.
The film will have four mini-anime titled “BLUELOCK Additional Time!” after the credits for the first four weeks of the film’s screening.