The official X (formerly Twitter) for the HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- anime film announced on October 17 that the film's cumulative total tickets sales had finally surpassed one million (according to Kogyo Tsushinsha). The cumulative total box office gross had also reached 2.5 billion yen (16.9 million USD). HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle has now become the sixth top-grossing Japanese anime film of 2025, surpassing the 33rd Crayon Shin-chan film, Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers. The film's main visual As the first feature film from the rap battle-themed HYPNOSISMIC project and Japan's first interactive film, HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- opened in 85 theaters in Japan on February 21, 2025. The reason it is called an "interactive film" is that the winners of the rap battle that unfolds on screen are determined by the audience's voting via a smartphone app, which held five times during the screening. 48 different patterns and seven different endings are prepared for the film. The film has steadily increased its box office gross sine its release, and as reported , it had reached two billion yen (13.53 million USD) by early September. To commemorate the HYPNOSISMIC franchise's eighth anniversary, a large-scale revival screening began at 66 theaters nationwide on September 2. This means that the box office gross has increased by about 500 million yen (3.38 million USD) through this revival screening. RELATED: HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Anime Film Surpasses 2 Billion Yen in Box Office Gross Takanori Tsujimoto ( Resident Evil: Vendetta ) directed the HYPNOSISMIC -Divison Rap Battle- anime film at studio Polygon Pictures ( Kaina of the Great Snow Sea ), with a script by Yuichiro Momose ( The Witch and the Beast ) and character designs by Kazui. HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Film Trailer Katsumi Ono directed the first anime season, which premiered in October 2020, at studio A-1 Pictures. Crunchyroll streams the series and its 2023 sequel, describing the overall story as such: Legendary rap group The Dirty Dawg could have taken Japan by storm, but then they broke up. Now each member fights in one of the four rival groups. Battles for turf are fought with rap and the Hypnosis Mic, a microphone that can affect the human spirit. RELATED: HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Anime Movie Releases New "MIC AS ONE" Trailer Source: "HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle-" anime film official X (formerly Twitter)
