The film earned 22% more than the first weekend of Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Nankyoku Kachi Kochi Daibōken.
Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Nankyoku Kachi Kochi Daibōken (Doraemon the Movie 2017: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi), the 37th anime film in the franchise, earned more than 4.14 billion yen (about US$38.2 million at the time) in 44 days at the box office in Japan, eventually earning 4.43 billion yen (about US$39.3 million at the time) in total.
Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Nankyoku Kachi Kochi Daibōken was the second highest-grossing domestic film in Japan last year.
The film is now the highest-grossing anime in the current 13-installment Doraemon film series that began with the 2006 film Doraemon: Nobita No Kyoryu.