One Piece Film: Red is the only One Piece movie in the Japanese Box Office Top-100.
It just overtook Princess Mononoke in 7th place.
It has every chance in the world to take the 6th place from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Over the years, One Piece had many claims to fame. From 2008 to 2018, it held the title of the best selling manga (and was a consistent member of the Top-10 club since then) and set a Guinness record for "The most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" at the end of 2014 with 320,866,000 copies printed worldwide. One Piece received many awards and accolades — and now, its One Piece Film: Red also holds the title of not just the 4th best-selling anime movie, but the 7th Highest-Grossing movie in the Japanese Box Office.
The success of One Piece Film: Red is strange
One Piece movies are always fun. Sure, few of them feature non-filler characters (apart from the Strawhat Crew), most of them are filler themselves, and they are often accompanied by annoying mini-arc tie-ins in the anime — but still, the movies themselves are fun. New locales, new colorful characters, and great action scenes abound.
Still, you can’t deny that One Piece movies in general are made for diehard fans — which makes it all the more surprising that Film: Red (which, unlike many movies, somewhat requires you to be relatively up to date with the anime) saw this much of a commercial success — it’s the only One Piece movie currently in the Japanese Box Office Top-100!
The Japanese Box Office is… Peculiar
If there’s anything the rankings of the Box Office of Japan show, it’s just how normalized the consumption of anime is within their domestic market. Take, for example, the Top-5 movies — it starts with Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) in 5th place, followed by Disney’s Frozen (of all things) in 4th, James Cameron’s Titanic in 3rd — and then Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) being 2nd and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Movie: Mugen Train (Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie: Mugen Ressha-hen) at the very top, whole 88 billion yen ahead of the second place. And the difference between Spirited Away and Titanic is almost 40 billion yen!
Though it’s the 6th-8th places that are especially fascinating. See, the 7th place was previously occupied by Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) at 201.8 billion yen. The new 7th place that overtook the longtime classic in the Box Office is One Piece Film: Red at 202.7 billion yen. And right above it, sitting at 203 billion yen is the Netflix live action adaptation of Mashle— uh, we mean, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. This means that One Piece Film: Red is just 0.3 billion yen away from taking the 6th place in this ranking — and given its current encore run in the movie theaters, it could very well happen too!
Another win for the One Piece fans!
Summary:
One Piece Film: Red is the only One Piece movie in the Japanese Box Office Top-100.
It just overtook Princess Mononoke in 7th place.
It has every chance in the world to take the 6th place from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Over the years, One Piece had many claims to fame. From 2008 to 2018, it held the title of the best selling manga (and was a consistent member of the Top-10 club since then) and set a Guinness record for "The most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" at the end of 2014 with 320,866,000 copies printed worldwide. One Piece received many awards and accolades — and now, its One Piece Film: Red also holds the title of not just the 4th best-selling anime movie, but the 7th Highest-Grossing movie in the Japanese Box Office.
The success of One Piece Film: Red is strange
One Piece movies are always fun. Sure, few of them feature non-filler characters (apart from the Strawhat Crew), most of them are filler themselves, and they are often accompanied by annoying mini-arc tie-ins in the anime — but still, the movies themselves are fun. New locales, new colorful characters, and great action scenes abound.
Still, you can’t deny that One Piece movies in general are made for diehard fans — which makes it all the more surprising that Film: Red (which, unlike many movies, somewhat requires you to be relatively up to date with the anime) saw this much of a commercial success — it’s the only One Piece movie currently in the Japanese Box Office Top-100!
The Japanese Box Office is… Peculiar
If there’s anything the rankings of the Box Office of Japan show, it’s just how normalized the consumption of anime is within their domestic market. Take, for example, the Top-5 movies — it starts with Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) in 5th place, followed by Disney’s Frozen (of all things) in 4th, James Cameron’s Titanic in 3rd — and then Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) being 2nd and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Movie: Mugen Train (Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie: Mugen Ressha-hen) at the very top, whole 88 billion yen ahead of the second place. And the difference between Spirited Away and Titanic is almost 40 billion yen!
Though it’s the 6th-8th places that are especially fascinating. See, the 7th place was previously occupied by Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) at 201.8 billion yen. The new 7th place that overtook the longtime classic in the Box Office is One Piece Film: Red at 202.7 billion yen. And right above it, sitting at 203 billion yen is the Netflix live action adaptation of Mashle— uh, we mean, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. This means that One Piece Film: Red is just 0.3 billion yen away from taking the 6th place in this ranking — and given its current encore run in the movie theaters, it could very well happen too!
