Gundam Seed FREEDOM Anime Film Earns 3.1 Billion Yen in 3 Weeks

The staff for the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM anime film announced on Monday that the film has sold 160,104 tickets for 318,026,540 yen (about US$2.12 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has sold 1,869,442 tickets for a cumulative total of 3,126,307,990 yen (about US$20.84 million).

The film is now the highest-earning film in the Gundam franchise at the Japanese box office, overtaking the 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space anime film’s 2.3 billion yen (US$15.5 million by current conversion).

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed director Mitsuo Fukuda directed the film at Bandai Namco Filmworks.