The new movie of ‘one piece‘ celebrates a week in theaters, and has been released in style outside of Japan and with very good numbers in the bag. This 2022 has been great in terms of anime in theaters and we have been able to enjoy very different hits on the big screen, but without a doubt ‘One Piece Film Red’ has managed to be crowned like none of its competitors.
A round year for anime on the big screen
And that ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ broke records in Spain and became the highest grossing film of the franchise in our country. But nevertheless a little corner was stuck, since failed to reach the top of the Spanish general box office because ‘Tadeo Jones 3’ did not allow it.
Well, as confirmed by Selecta Vision, not only ‘One Piece Film Red’ has been the highest grossing anime film of 2022 on its opening dayif not that it also managed to position itself in the Top 1 during Thursday and Friday of last week, dominating the billboard during its first two days in Spain.
During the following days he was no longer able to face ‘Black Adam’, but even so he managed to remain firm at the top of the list, showing that indeed anime premieres are doing well in Spain and fans are complying when it comes to going to theaters.
So during its first four days in theaters, ‘One Piece Film Red’ has raised a total of €724,632which is not bad at all and is very close to the €738,000 that ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ grossed in its first weekend in theaters.
In third place for anime premieres would be ‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’, which managed to raise €464,900 at its premiere. Between these franchise premieres alongside ‘Detective Conan: Halloween Bride’ and ‘The Stag King’ and ‘Goodbye, Don Glees!’ a very interesting year of anime in theatersso we hope that the distributors continue to encourage us to bring us more films.
For now, next January is finally released in theaters ‘Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: Thrice Upon a Time’, the last installment of the saga ‘Rebuild of Evangelion‘. Although the international premiere could already be seen on Prime Video, fans of Hideaki Anno They are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to see it on the big screen, so we’ll see if it can beat the record of ‘One Piece’ and the Straw Hats.