The film earned 283,000,000 yen (about US$2.8 million) and sold 200,000 tickets in its first two days.
By comparison, Kyoto Animation’s 2011 K-ON! film earned 316,310,000 yen in its first two days on 137 screens.
Kyoto Animation’s anime film of Yoshitoki Ōima’s A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) manga has sold about 1.7 million tickets after its eleventh weekend for 2.2 billion yen (about US$19.34 million) as of Wednesday.
A Silent Voice opened on September 17 on 120 screens and ranked #2 at box offices in Japan.