“If we announced [the Spirited Away revision] after Mugen Train passed 30.8 billion yen, it might look like we were trying to retroactively move the goalposts,” said Toho managing director Minami Ichikawa.
The big question now is whether or not Mugen Train will pass Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, the most successful film ever in Japan.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train continues to chug along at theaters in Japan.
With Mugen Train’s most recent reported earnings at just under 30.3 billion yen (US$288.6 million), it was drawing awfully close to Spirited Away’s 30.8 billion.