The Sword Art Online stage panel at the “Dengeki Bunko Aki no Saiten 2017” (Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival 2017) event in Tokyo announced on Sunday that the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film has earned 4.3 billion yen (about US$38.2 million) in worldwide sales.
The stage panel also revealed that Bandai Namco Entertainment will host a five-year anniversary event for the Sword Art Online series of video games in Tokyo on February 17.
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale opened in China last month and ranked #3 in its first weekend, earning 40 million yuan (660 million yen or about US$6.11 million) in its first three days.
The film was the first anime film to rank #1 in both weekend attendance and weekend box office receipt totals since Makoto Shinkai’s your name.