It is getting released in July in Japan . We all know how much Miyazaki is well liked in anime community everywhere and this one actually seem like his last movie (he is in his 80s) suzume did very good business in China and Korea. So if it is good then we can at least expect that it’s performance would be good there. Miyazaki movie usually have good performance in Japan.
also I think that this Miyazaki movie would have more appeal to children compared to shinkai? In Western countries I am assuming that his movies are well liked and have cult following so expecting more business compared to shinkai movies and his movies are also kids friendly so we can assume that he would also get family audience not only anime audience.
And if I am not wrong then when it come to animinated family movie . There is not much competition between july to October. Wish is getting released in November and elemental in june.
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