This was the most profitable film to be released in theaters during the COVID-19 pandemic, doing record breaking box office numbers in Japan while the theater industry struggled in other parts of the world.
Grossed ¥40 billion in Japan, becoming the highest-grossing film in the country, surpassing La città incantata (2001), which grossed ¥32 billion.
The highest-grossing film of 2020 worldwide. This is the seventh animated film to be the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide, after Biancaneve e i sette nani (1937), Aladdin (1992), Il re leone (1994), Shrek 2 (2004), Toy Story 3 - La grande fuga (2010), and Frozen - Il regno di ghiaccio (2013), and only the second non-Disney animated film to do so, after Shrek 2.
The most attended movie in Japan, selling 29 million tickets. The previous record holder was La città incantata (2001), which sold 24 million tickets. According to Toho, the wartime propaganda film Hawai · Marê oki kaisen (1942) sold 100 million tickets in Japan and its occupied territories, which were freed from Japanese rule after the empire was dissolved in 1947.
Overtook Mortal Kombat (2021) and ranked #1 at the U.S. Box Office, the first Japanese anime film to do so since Pokémon il film - Mewtwo contro Mew (1998), which debuted in the U.S. in 1999.