Avatar: El Camino del Agua is on an incredible run, reaching $1,000 million in record time. All over the world, movie theaters surrender James Cameron’s film, but this does not happen in Japan, because anime is the leader of the box office.
The film One Piece: Raid is the twenty-fifth film in the long-running anime series created by Eiichiro Oda. The story of this movie introduces us to the world’s most beloved singer Uta. For a long time this legendary singer hid her true identity, so she decides to break free and show the world who she is at one of her concerts. Coincidentally, Utah’s headlining concert will be headlined by Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the most famous group of pirates.
One Piece Movie: Raid It was released in cinemas in Japan in August this year and by November the film had not reached cinemas in different parts of the world. According to figures released by Eiga.com, the anime film totals reached $134.04 million dollarsIt became the highest-grossing film in the Land of the Rising Sun this year.
Nor should we forget that two other anime titles in the collection have achieved this position, we are talking about Jujutsu Kaisen 0, although its premiere was at the end of 2021 and Suzume no Tojimari, the new film by Makoto Shinkai.
The five highest-grossing anime movies of 2022 (via Crunchyroll)
1 One Piece film Red – 18.78 billion yen (US$134.04 million)
2 Jujutsu Kaisen 0 – 13.8 billion yen ($121.15 million)
3 Suzume: 10.010 million yen (US$72.74 million)
4 Detective Conan: Halloween Bride – 9.78 billion yen (US$74.45 million)
5 Kingdom II: For the Far Land – 5.16 billion yen (US$37.8 million)
Talking about the current collection, there is no other film leading the box office first slam dunk, Takehiko Inoue’s first anime film is one of the most viewed movies of the month, with One Piece film: Red, they remain on top Avatar: Water Path,
