In its fifth week since its release on July 15, the “No Game, No Life” film has been announced by its official Twitter account to have earned a total of 500 million yen (about US$4.6 million).
The “No Game No Life” film, which is titled, “No Game, No Life: Zero” is the first film of the series and first premiered on July 15.
The story of the film sets up six thousand years before even protagonists Sora and Shiro were brought into the world of Disboard. During this time, Disboard was under a great war. Lands were destroyed, the heavens were torn apart, stars were obliterated and at the rate the war was going humanity was about to enter into extinction.
But even in this grimmest of times, hope still lives in one young man’s heart, and his name is Riku. One day, as he enters into the ruins of an Elf City, he encounters a female exiled “Ex-machina” android Shuvi. Upon meeting Riku, Shuvi requests for him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.
The cast for the film consist of the same people who voice the characters of the series; but rather than play their original characters they are playing historical characters and consist of:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Riku
Ai Kayano as Shuvi
Yoko Hisaka as Corone Dola
Yukari Tamura as Jibril
Yuka Iguchi as Nonna Zell
Mamiko Noto as Sync Nilvalen
Miyuki Sawashiro as Hatsuse Izuna
Rie Kugimiya as Tet
Starting on September 9 the film will be having 4DX screenings at 48 theaters in Japan. Furthermore there will be an English dub version of the film to be handled by Sentai Filmworks and screened at the Los Angeles Anime Film Festival on September 15 with a Japanese dub with English subs to show the next day. Azoland Pictures will also be taking a hand in distributing the films in theaters for the United States later this fall.
“No Game, No Life” is a series that first began as a light novel series by Yuu Kamiya and was later adapted into a manga series by Monthly Comic Alive in 2013. The series then turned into an anime in between April and July 2014 by Madhouse.
Source: AnimeNewsNetwork