It has been also highly acclaimed by critics and received various movie awards, including the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film and the Jury Award at the 41st Annecy International Animated Film Festival. that was included in the DVD/Blu-ray released in September 2017.
Supported by the very successful crowfunding project, the Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon)-directed 129-minute film was released in Japan on November 12, 2016, and achieved an unexpected box office success of 2.6 billion yen to a 250 million yen budget.
It will be more that the film’s initial theater count of 63 in November 2016.