Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle Crosses The 5 Billion Yen Mark In Japanese Box Office
Even Frozen, Japan’s 4th highest-grossing film of all time, also made 5 billion yen in 17 days, which Haikyu!! seems to be following suit.
According to Kogyo Tsushin, as of March 3, the first part of the Haikyu!! Final film series “Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle” generated revenue of 5.1 billion yen (US$33.94 million) on its 17th day in Japanese theaters from the sale of 3.59 million tickets.
This accomplishment was accomplished within the same timeframe as other highly acclaimed films, like Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween, Code Blue, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, all of which concluded their release with a total revenue slightly below 10 billion yen.
Even Frozen, Japan’s 4th highest-grossing film of all time, also made 5 billion yen in 17 days, which Haikyu!! seems to be following suit.
(Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle Official Poster)
About Haikyu!:
Haikyu!! is a manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 tankōbon volumes.
From April to September 2014, MBS broadcast a 25-episode adaptation of the Production I.G anime television series. Between October 2015 and March 2016, a second season consisting of 25 episodes was broadcast. Between October and December 2016, a third season consisting of ten episodes was broadcast. In two installments spanning from January to December 2020, a total of 25 episodes comprised the fourth season, which was officially unveiled at the Jump Festa ’19.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Haikyu! as follows:
Based off of the original Weekly Shonen Jump manga series from Haruichi Furudate, Haikyu!! is a slice-of-life sports anime revolving around Shoyo Hinata’s love of volleyball. Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the “King of the Court” Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.
Source: Crunchyroll
