Toei revealed today that the final Evangelion anime has topped 7.42 billion yen at the domestic Japanese box office, making Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time the highest-grossing film in the franchise worldwide.
Anno also discussed the possibility of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 surpassing Shin Godzilla’s Japanese box office of 8.25 billion yen (US$79 million), which is Anno’s highest-grossing box office film ever, saying “If it exceeds (Shin Godzilla), it will be a record for me, and if it exceeds 10 billion yen, it will be good for revitalizing the animation industry.”
This milestone means that the final Evangelion film has surpassed the worldwide box office gross of Evangelion: 3.0, which stands at US$67,282,623.