The North American Box Office has been described best as a Tale of Two Cities, the best of times, and the worst of times but that’s not the case with the debut of Kazuya Tsurumaki’s Mobile Suit Gundam: GQUUUUUUX -Beginning-, which debuted at No. 6 on Friday night.
According to The Numbers, it made its debut at No. 6, bringing in $532,173 on Friday in 784 theaters across North America. The next day bringing in $213,337 while staying at the same rank. The Final day brought $171,154, bringing in a total of $916,664. It was already estimated that it would bring in over 890k, its estimated gross worldwide sits at $19,997,898.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- made its debut in theaters on January 17, and debuted at #1 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. It sold 352,500 tickets and earned 598,832,300 yen (about US$3.85 million) in its first three days. It stayed at #1 in its second weekend in the Japanese box office, selling 306,000 tickets and earning 527,562,300 yen (about US$3.39 million). To this day, The film has sold over 1.55 million tickets for over 2.5 billion yen (about US$16.7 million) in the 31 days since it opened in Japan. The film has now surpassed the total all-time Japanese earnings of the 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in a Space anime film, which earned 2.3 billion yen (about US$15.41 million in current conversion) at the Japanese box office. This made it the second-highest-earning film in the Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise, with Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM holding the all-time high of 4,796,455,740 yen (about US$32.14 million) as of its initial run’s final weekend in May 2024.
Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space.
When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.
Under the entry name “Machu,” she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shuji.
Now their world is about to enter a new era.
Source: The Numbers, DEADLINE
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