The 107-minute film has dominated the Japanese weekend box office for four consecutive weeks, and has a high chance to cross the 10 billion yen mark very soon.
The film has become the biggest surprise of the Japanese box office of 2016 (Shin Godzilla was the previous candidate).
The last Japanese anime film that reached the record was Hayao Miyazaki’s 2013 film Kaze Tachinu/The Wind Rises with 12 billion yen.