The film sold 169,000 tickets for 229,400,150 yen (about US$2.08 million) from Saturday to Sunday, and sold over 220,000 tickets for over 300 million yen (about US$2.73 million) from Friday to Sunday during its opening weekend.
The official Twitter account for the live-action film of Fujita’s Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) manga revealed on Tuesday that the film has sold over one million tickets.
The film has earned a cumulative total of 1,297,699,850 yen (about US$11.76 million) as of Sunday.
The manga inspired an 11-episode television anime that premiered in April 2018.