HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle Passes 10 Billion Yen Milestone at Japan Box Office
As of April 30, the film’s 75th day in theaters, HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle passed 10 billion yen (US$66.43 million) with over 6.99 million tickets sold. This makes it the 15th highest-grossing anime film of all time in Japan and the 46th overall of all films released in the country.
Toho Animation returns to produce the two Haikyu!! FINAL anime films with the animation continuing to be made by the team at Production I.G, including Susumu Mitsunaka as director and screenwriter, Takahiro Kishida as character designer and Takahiro Chiba as chief animation director. The first film, titled Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, was released in Japan on February 16, 2024. No date for the second film has been announced as of yet. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will release the film internationally starting May 30.
Haruichi Furudate published the original Haikyu!! manga series in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2020 for a total of 45 volumes. VIZ Media releases an English-language version of the manga.
Crunchyroll currently streams each previous season of the Haikyu!! anime, and describes HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle movie:
Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High’s volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the “Little Giant.” But, Hinata soon finds that he must team up with his middle school nemesis, Tobio Kageyama. Their clashing styles turn into a surprising weapon, but can they beat their rival Nekoma High in the highly anticipated “Dumpster Battle,” the long awaited ultimate showdown between two opposing underdog teams?