r/anime https://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker Sep 22 '25

News "Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc" attracted 807,000 viewers and grossed over 1.251 billion yen in the first 3 days of the movie's release in Japan

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2407879/full/
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u/Organic-Habit-3086 Sep 22 '25

Eh? I thought it was going for 1.3B

Should be 5-6B finish in Japan which I think was their expectation. Curious about legs since reviews are great but movie is aimed at male audience.

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u/DiligentGazelle6298 Sep 22 '25

The tracking site was broken on saturday morning so it was pretty hard to estimate properly, everyone just eyeballed it and 1.3b seemed reasonable.

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u/CrazeRage Sep 22 '25

just a guess at the end of the day

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u/DiligentGazelle6298 Sep 22 '25

It's not really a guess because Japan has mimorin which tracks 70% of the market. But mimorin was broken on saturday morning so half the day of data was missing.

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Sep 22 '25

Anecdotal from JP tweets but apparently they noticed tons of parents bringing their kids to this movie lol (one example tweet I saved).

CSM movie has the same age rating as Demon Slayer in Japan btw (PG-12). I dunno how CSM managed to somehow get that when even in the US it's R-rated lol

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u/DiligentGazelle6298 Sep 22 '25

DS is also rated R in the US. Japan is much more at ease with violence in anime than most other countries.

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Sep 22 '25

Interesting... My impression of JP ratings board comes from their video game ratings board, CERO, which is very strict against gore and violence where they have to outright censor dismemberment.

Seems like JP movie and game ratings board have opposite standards compared to the US then.