Jujutsu Kaisen 0 has maintained its place atop the Japanese box office for the ninth-straight weekend. The popular prequel film sold 213,000 tickets, earning ¥336 million (roughly US$2.93 million) this past weekend.
The film premiered in Japanese theaters on December 24 and has sold a total of 8.34 million tickets, earning ¥11.6 billion yen (roughly US$101 million) throughout its run so far. It is currently the 27th highest-grossing film in Japan of all time.
The highly popular prequel film recently became the 10th anime film to make more than ¥10 billion, as well as the 9th highest-grossing anime film in Japan of all time. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 was technically released after the cutoff for the 2021 box office year according to box office reporter Kogyo Tsushinsha, but the film still stands as the highest-grossing Japanese film released that year.
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 Kaisen 0. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and VIZ Media owns the home video rights. Crunchyroll recently announced that they would be distributing Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in U.S. and Canadian theaters starting March 18. Tickets will go on sale starting February 25.
Source: Anime News Network
