While dropping one spot again from last week to fifth place, the first part of the trilogy anime film project Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway had earned 1.35 billion yen (12.21 million USD) in three weeks since its release on June 11, 2021, and already surpassed the domestic gross of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, which was released in 1988 and earned 1.13 billion yen (10 million USD).
The top-grossing film in the Gundam franchise is Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, the third part of the compilation film series based on the first Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, which earned 2.3 billion yen (20 million USD).
And it is expected to be the third top-grossing one soon by surpassing the box office gross of Mobile Suit Gundam: Soldiers of Sorrow, which was released in July 1981 and earned 1.38 billion yen (12.48 million yen) from its domestic run.