As reported, the 107-minute film has dominated the Japanese weekend box office for four consecutive weeks.
The last Japanese anime film that reached the record was Miyazaki’s 2013 film Kaze Tachinu/The Wind Rises that made 12 billion yen from its domestic run.
Now it also ranks 9th in the all-time Japanese film box office ranking, surpassing Studio Ghibli’s 2010 film The Secret World of Arrietty directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi.