The film opened in Japan on July 14, and sold 1.003 million tickets and earned about US$13.2 million in its first three days in Japan.
The film opened the 2023 Animation Is Film Festival, which ran at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese 6 Theatres from October 18 to October 22.
The Independent Film Festival Boston screened the film on October 23.
The film had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as the event’s opening film on September 7 at Roy Thomson Hall.