Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Now 64th Highest Earning Film in Japanese Box Office History
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is now the 64th highest-earning film in Japanese box office history after selling 6,288,404 tickets for ¥8,576,429,150 (roughly US$74.9 million).
The film currently ranks 2nd at the Japanese box office after coming in at #1 in its first two weeks. The recent numbers put the film ahead of Back to the Future Part III, Shin Godzilla, and Stand By Me Doraemon in Japanese box office earnings.
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is outpacing Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, which was last year’s highest-earning film in Japan. The film ended its run at the Japanese box office having earned ¥10.22 billion (roughly US$88 million).
Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (renamed from Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School) manga ran in Shueisha’s Jump GIGA magazine from April-July 2017. The series serves as a prequel to Akutami’s popular Jujutsu Kaisen series, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in 2018. The series has amassed 18 collected volumes throughout its run so far. A free-to-play RPG developed by Sumzap was announced in June 2021, though nothing new regarding the project has been disclosed since.
MAPPA animated a 24-episode anime adaptation of the manga from October 2020-March 2021, with Sunghoo Park (Banana Fish, The God of High School) directing and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan, Dorohedoro) serving as screenwriter.
MAPPA returned to animate Jujutsu Kaisen 0, alongside Park and Seko. The film stars Megumi Ogata (Evangelion’s Shinji Ikari, YuYu Hakusho’s Kurama) as Yuta Okkotsu, with Kana Hanazawa (Steins;Gate’s Mayuri Shiina, Psycho-Pass’ Akane Tsunemori) voicing Rika Orimoto.
VIZ Media licenses the manga in English alongside Jujutsu
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