Thanks to opening in more theaters than Violet Evergarden: Spin-Off – Eternity and Auto Memory Doll -, Violet Evergarden the Movie was able to attract 390,000 people to the cinema, bringing in a total of 559 million yen (US$5.32 million) at the Japanese box office in the first 5 days after release.
Kyoto Animation’s Violet Evergarden the Movie finally opened up in Japanese theaters on the September 18 Silver Week holiday weekend, doing very well for the sequel to the 2018 TV anime series, bringing in more box office revenue than the previous film, Violet Evergarden: Spin-Off – Eternity and Auto Memory Doll -, and tracking higher than A Silent Voice and K-ON! the Movie over their three-day opening weekends.
To compare, Eternity and Auto Memory Doll brought in 831 million yen (US$7.9 million) during its run in total.