Colorful Stage! The Movie Grosses US$2.77 Million at U.S. Opening Box Office

Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing has enjoyed considerable success in the U.S., grossing a total of US$2.77 million dollars during the opening weekend box office. The total weekend box office revenue in the U.S. surpasses the film’s opening weekend total in Japan. 

Colorful Stage! The Movie ranked in seventh place on the domestic U.S. box office chart between April 18, 2025 to April 20, 2025. An estimated 230,000 people watched the film in the U.S. overall. 

Meanwhile in Japan, the film grossed a total of US$2.17 million during its opening weekend in the country, with an estimated 232,500 attendees. It placed second behind Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- and grossed over 1.28 billion yen (US$8.99 million) as of February 18, 2025. The film premiered in Japanese theaters on January 17, 2025. 

Hiroyuki Hata (Lapis Re:LiGHTs) is directing the anime film, with Yoko Yonaiyama (A Sign of Affection series scriptwriter and screenwriter) as screenwriter, Yuki Akiyama (The Aquatope on White Sand) as character designer and chief animation director, Masatoshi Tsuji (Vivid BAD SQUAD Digest Animation – Journey to Bloom “Resolve”) as sub-character designer and chief animation director. P.A.WORKS was in charge of the film’s animation production. 

Saki Fujita reprises her role as Hatsune Miku from other works in the game franchise, while Ruriko Noguchi voices the film’s protagonist Ichika Hoshino. Several members from the Vocaloid media franchise also reprised their roles in the film. 

The anime film is inspired by the Project Sekai rhythm game (known in English as Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!), which was originally launched for iOS and Android on September 30, 2020 before getting a Western release in December 2021. It is a spin-off of Sega‘s Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series and features several other virtual singers, such as Kagamine Rin and Len.

GKIDS screened Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing in the U.S., describing the film’s main synopsis as: 

COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing is an animation film by studio P.A.WORKS featuring an all-new Hatsune Miku and the first film with the iconic Virtual Singer. Based on HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE!, a game about high school students finding their true feelings through music in an alternate world called “SEKAI” with the help of Hatsune Miku.

Ichika is a high school musician who can enter a mysterious place called “SEKAI,” where she and her friends express their innermost emotions through music alongside Hatsune Miku. One day after giving a live performance, Ichika meets a new Miku that she has never seen before. No matter how hard this new Miku tries to sing, she struggles connecting with the hearts of her listeners. Miku must rely on the help of others to find a way to sing again.

Source: Box Office Mojo, Kogyotsushin