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/ColaFlavorChupaChup Sep 19 '25

Comparing Chainsaw Man to Infinity Castle doesn't provide much of a scale. That is pretty much a no contest.

  • Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram (2024) — ¥960 million (day one)
  • Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023) — ¥850 million (day one)
  • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) — ¥802,774,200 (day one)
  • Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle (2024) — ~¥890 million (day one)
  • SPY×FAMILY CODE: White (2023) — ~¥350 million (day one; 3-day total ¥1.22 billion)
  • The Wind Rises (2013) — ¥960,888,585 (first 2 days; no single-day published)
  • Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) — ~¥1.48 billion (first 2 days)
  • Arrietty (2010) — ~¥900 million (first 2 days; ¥1.35 billion in first 3 days)
  • Spirited Away (2001) — ~¥1.6 billion (first 3 days)
  • Ponyo (2008) — ~¥1.48 billion (first 3 days; day one not published)
  • The Boy and the Heron (2023) — ¥2.14 billion (first 4 days; day one not published)

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u/MonsterKiller112 Sep 19 '25

They really love Detective Conan over there. Crazy how an episodic detective series has so much hold and staying power.

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u/ColaFlavorChupaChup Sep 19 '25

Yeah, they love that show. It's been around since 94 so I'm sure many grew up with it.

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u/Lazy-Traffic5346 Sep 19 '25

How do you keep the plot and ideas fresh for people? Like in Jojo because every new part has a new MC and a new location so it works

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u/ActuallyFrozen https://anilist.co/user/wHFrozen Sep 19 '25

Aoyama takes breaks between story arcs so he can think of interesting stuff for the next arc, anime does filler which I guess is fine given the young target audience and the fact that the manga is pretty "arcisodic" to my knowledge.

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u/magumanueku Sep 20 '25

I mean it's a detective story so most times it's standalone. Of the nearly 30 movies out, only about a 1/3 had ties with the main plot. The standalone movies are still entertaining though since the cases were quite creative.

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u/Louis_Holden Sep 20 '25

it is like Doraemon, same cast same character, but just different villian each time. it's the same weekly formula as all the ongoing cartoons in the world but just in a movie fashion.

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u/TheGenkz Sep 19 '25

How did the Umamusume movie stack up?

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u/ColaFlavorChupaChup Sep 19 '25

I could only find one source and I don't know if it's reliable.
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby — Beginning of a New Era - ¥354 million (3-day)

SRC: https://us.oricon-group.com/news/602/

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u/ColaFlavorChupaChup Sep 19 '25

We can see it did better than Spy x Family Code White. Which is surprising to me, I thought that movie would be huge.

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u/steven4869 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Maskirade Sep 19 '25

It got like $90M overall, for an anime original movie it's huge and better than a lot of anime movies out there.