The film sold 248,000 tickets and earned 362 million yen (about US$3.29 million) on January 11-12, and sold 437,000 tickets and earned 616 million yen (about US$5.60 million) from January 10-13 (January 13 was a national holiday).
The live-action film of Fujita’s Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) manga dropped from #1 to #4 in its second weekend.
The film earned 143,374,650 yen (about US$1.30 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 735,816,300 yen (about US$6.69 million).
The film’s opening weekend earnings are 3.5% higher than the opening weekend earnings of the previous 2011 film Kaiji 2 – Jinsei Dakkai Game.