In its fifth week of exhibition, the film The Boy and the Cranethe studio’s latest feature film Ghibliregistered 15,082 new viewers, totaling more than 426 thousand spectators in cinemas. This number exceeds the mark of 422,813 tickets Chihiro’s tripa feature film from the same studio, released in 2003.
Like this, The Boy and the Crane it becomes the 7th most watched anime film in Brazilian cinemas, with a box office of more than R$7 million, and also Hayao Miyazaki’s film with the largest audience and highest revenue recorded in Brazil.
Already Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To The Hashira Trainingwhich compiles the first episodes of the new season (scheduled for May), ends its season in Brazilian cinemas with 255 new viewers, for a total of 384,676 viewers and R$5.4 million in box office.
It is the biggest Sony/Crunchyroll anime release in Brazilian cinemas in terms of number of spectators, although not in terms of box office — Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero earned R$5.7 million in 2022. This difference is due to the fact that so much Demon Slayer how much The Boy and the Crane premiered during Cinema Week, a commemorative week where multiple cinema chains sold tickets at a promotional price of R$12.00, well below the current average.
Despite having strong retention throughout its 40 days of charts, the week’s preliminary results published by MovieB indicate that the season The Boy and the Crane will come to an end.
With the launch of Godzilla vs. Kongthe biggest release of the year so far with almost 600 thousand tickets sold, anime only returns to Brazilian screens at the end of the month, with the premiere of SPY X FAMILY CODE: Whitecontinuation of the popular anime of the same name about a family trying to lead a normal life while hiding secret identities and abilities from each other.
Check out below updated list of the 10 anime films with the largest audience in Brazil:
- Pokémon: The Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back (1,809,124 tickets)
- Dragon Ball Super: Broly (1,293,065 tickets)
- Pokémon: The Movie 2000 – The Power of One (1,184,301 tickets)
- Knights of the Zodiac – The Movie (1,048,203 tickets)
- Pokémon: The Movie 3 – Spell of the Unown (583,997 tickets)
- The Knights of the Zodiac – The Legend of the Sanctuary (510,641 tickets)
- The Boy and the Crane (426,385 tickets)
- Chihiro’s trip (422,813 tickets)
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To The Hashira Training (384,676 tickets)
- Dragon Ball Z – Battle of the Gods (378,235 tickets)
See too:
⇒ Criticism | The Boy and the Craneby Hayao Miyazaki
About The Boy and the Crane
The Boy and the Crane (Kimi-tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka) was released in Japan in June 2023 (after more than 6 years of production), with a campaign that did not use any images or trailers — which did not prevent its instant success, becoming the highest-grossing domestic opening in the history of the film. Studio Ghibli, surpassing The Animated Castle.
Internationally, it became the studio’s first film to reach the top of the box office in the USA and Canada. In Brazil, it debuted on the day February 22.
Due to the lack of publicity, nothing was known about the film’s story until its premiere. The title of the film in Japan is the same as that of a book written in 1937 by Yoshino Genzaburouwhich in free translation would be “How Do You Live?”making one believe it was an adaptation.
However, the film is an original story, featuring the plot of Mahito Maki, a teenager living in Japan during the Pacific War (1941-1945).
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⇒ Criticism | The Boy and the Craneby Hayao Miyazaki
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