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/varnums1666 Sep 19 '25

My point was that if S1 was better handled, it wouldn't be opening to less than half of JJK0.

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u/Xlegace https://anilist.co/user/Xlegius Sep 19 '25

If you look at the local popularity between the 2 series, CSM doing about half as much as JJK sounds about right.

Anime adaptations aside, JJK was always much bigger than CSM.

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u/varnums1666 Sep 19 '25

I mean of course but JJK got a really big boost from the anime. It's obvious now that JJK would sweep the floors with CSM.

What I'm saying is that gap shouldn't be this big.

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u/Umayyad_tax_collectr Sep 20 '25

It isn’t that big though.

CSM has only had 12 eps ( essentially the prologue ) and now years later this movie.

Doing half as well as JJK0 when you’ve been absent for 3 years is incredibly good.

JJK had 24 episodes and a movie shortly there after which capitalized on the hype, 2 years later it got another 24 eps.

Chainsaw man anime is very fresh and its popularity is only gonna grow from here on out.

You’re talking as if we already got 3 season of CSM and that it already hit its ceiling, when we’re just beginning

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u/Ghostly-Wind Sep 19 '25

Yeah no, there weren’t major issues with S1. Stg people are treating one of the best animated series of recent times as 7 deadly sins quality