This summer is the summer of ‘One Piece’, between the manga’s 25th anniversary celebration and the premiere of ‘One Piece Film Red‘. The new movie in the franchise has broken records in theaters, though sadly the other big anime release of the summer has fallen far behind in numbers.
The second best opening for the Straw Hat Pirates
‘One Piece Film Red‘ has been in theaters for just over a week and is already the second best opening of the entire franchise, although it is expected to exceed the collection of ‘One Piece Film Z’. Not only that, but it is also the second best opening in the history of Japan and it has not surpassed ‘Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinite Train’ by very little.
If we get to figures, the new ‘One Piece’ movie has raised 6.474 billion yen in just nine days, which translates into 4,7191,549.26 euros, and accumulates 4.620 million tickets sold.
It must be borne in mind that the film has been in theaters for a very short time and that international releases are still ahead, with which is on its way to becoming the franchise’s biggest blockbuster. Using Shanks and his story as a teaser has hit the nail on the head with ‘One Piece’ fans, because despite the mixed reviews the film has been receiving, ‘One Piece Film Red’ is the anime film of the summer.
Which unfortunately brings us to ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’, which despite coming from the great anime franchise has fallen far behind expectations in terms of revenue.
A bad arrangement with the dates?
The premiere of ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ was scheduled for last April, so it had plenty of potential to sweep the spring box office. However, the Toei hack ended up causing several delays in the studio’s productions and the “Dragon Ball” movie was one of the victims, so the premiere went to June.
Although (how could it be otherwise) ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ had a great first weekend hype for the film has been dying during the weeks following its release. Officially It is already the franchise’s worst-performing movie in the last ten years.being even behind ‘Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods’.
It was originally going to be released on a holiday, which may have helped with the box office. It is also very possible that despite being a good experiment, fans have not responded too well to the CGI animation of ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’, and the more traditional ones may not be very keen on changing Goku and Vegeta for Gohan and Piccolo as protagonists.
Comparing to the blockbuster of ‘One Piece Film Red’, during its entire first month at the box office ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero‘ raised the equivalent of 14.25 million euros. The film has just started its international run, so now it remains to be seen if its arrival in more countries helps raise the box office.