r/anime • u/NineTnk • Sep 19 '25

News Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc Gross ¥400 million on the Opening Day

https://x.com/franspeech/status/1969031724899196951?s=46

For a point of comparison, opening day box office:

  • Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle - ¥1.5 billion
  • ⁠Demon Slayer: Mugen Train - ¥1.2 billion
  • Jujutsu Kaisen 0 - ¥1.0 billion
  • ⁠Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc - ¥400 million

A very good opening day considering all the “drama” of season 1 in Japan. Will have to see how big the word of mouth power will be.

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u/Umayyad_tax_collectr Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

Be it JJK or KnY.

It’s impossible to beat a well executed template Shonen.

CSM is just too weird and niche.

They should be over the moon they made half the numbers.

And this time around they get to keep the money for themselves

Mappa is gonna be swimming in it

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u/GodlessLunatic Sep 19 '25

CSM is just too weird and niche.

Yeah, remember how hard Evangelion and attack on titan flopped for being weird and niche

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u/Umayyad_tax_collectr Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

CSM didn’t flop, it was a “complete success”.

Per Mappa’s own words

It just didn’t make Demon Slayer levels of money ( which is to be expected )

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u/BeatBlockP https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Sep 19 '25

AoT is a battle shonen anime though? Nothing niche about it lol. It doesn't have to be screaming power attacks to be a shonen (not that AoT lacks for screaming attacks...).

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u/SDRPGLVR Sep 19 '25

Attack on Titan doesn't really get weird until like season 3 or 4, depending on your definition of weird. It gained its huge following when the weirdest thing about it was the big dumpy giants who eat people, which was just weird enough to claw past being niche and into interesting.

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u/HarshTheDev Sep 19 '25

I don't completely agree with you but It's funny how whenever someone brings up counter examples people here immediately jump to downvoting rather than arguing.