The film opened in Japan on November 5, and sold about 200,000 tickets to earn about 250 million yen (about US$2.22 million) in its first three days.
The film eventually sold a total of 1.22 million tickets, and it earned 1.4 billion yen (about US$12.8 million) at the box office in Japan as of February 2020.
Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahō no Ko (The Magical Child of the Blue Moonlit Night), the second film in San-X’s Sumikko Gurashi franchise, has sold 1,008,057 tickets as of Sunday, its 10th weekend in the Japanese box office.
Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 as slightly negative characters who like to stay in the corner of a room.