It was officially announced yesterday on February 27 that the first feature film based on Bandai's popular arcade collectible card game and TV anime series Aikatsu!, tentatively titled as Gekijyoban Aikatsu!/Aikatsu! The Movie, is set for December 2014 and its official site was also launched.
Aikatsu! was originally started as a trading card arcade game using Bandai's arcade machine Data Carddass in October 2012, and the TV anime series produced by Sunrise (Mobile Suit Gundam series, Cowboy Bebop) to promote the franchise started simultaneously on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. Since then, the series has been passionately supported by elementary school girls in Japan (and some older male fans called "Aikatsu Ojisan"). The number of total shipment of the cards will reach 100 million by the end of March.
According to Bandai's latest financial report released on February 4 (via: Inside), the year around sales
(April 2013 to March 2014) of the Aikatsu! franchise in Japan is expected to reach 14.1 billion yen (about
US$141,000,000), which was 6.3 times more than that of the previous year. Surprisingly, it surpasses the
sales of the Dragon Ball series (11.7 billion) and PreCure series (10.2 billion). Aikatsu! has become the 5th
top-selling brand of Bandai following Gundam, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and One Piece.
Key visual
via: Kai-You
(C)2014 SUNRISE/BANDAI, AIKATSU THE MOVIE
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