When released, it 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 Spirited Away (2001), which grossed ¥32 billion.
The most attended movie in Japan, selling 29 million tickets. The previous record holder was Spirited Away (2001), which sold 24 million tickets. According to Toho, the wartime propaganda film The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1942) sold 100 million tickets in Japan and its occupied territories, which were freed from Japanese rule after the empire was dissolved in 1947.
The highest-grossing film of 2020 worldwide. This is the seventh animated film to be the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide, after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Shrek 2 (2004), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Frozen (2013), and only the second non-Disney animated film to do so, after Shrek 2.
Overtook Mortal Kombat (2021) and ranked #1 at the U.S. Box Office, the first Japanese anime film to do so since Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998), which debuted in the U.S. in 1999.