Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Now the 50th Highest-Earning film in Japanese Box Office History
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 has become the 5th highest-earning film in Japanese box office history after selling 6,812,266 tickets and earning ¥9,310,477,450 (roughly US$81.7 million) in 31 days.
The popular prequel film has now surpassed the Code Blue film, Arrietty, Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer, and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in Japanese box office performance.
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Last year’s highest-earning film in Japan, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, earned around \10.22 billion yen (roughly US$88 million) during its run. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is currently outpacing the film, which took 42 days to earn ¥7,799,314,050 (roughly US$71.7 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.
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