Kyoto Animation’s anime film of Yoshitoki Ōima’s A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) manga has sold 1,253,393 tickets for 1,634,327,300 yen (about US$15.787 million) as of October 11.
Naoko Yamada (Tamako Market, Tamako Love Story, K-ON’s two anime seasons and anime film) directed the film at Kyoto Animation.
By comparison, Kyoto Animation’s 2011 K-ON! film earned 316,310,000 yen in its first two days on 137 screens.
Starting October 15, participating theaters will give out large postcards with illustrations by character designer Futoshi Nishiya, while supplies last.