New Haikyu!! Film Lands One of Japan's Biggest Box Office Openings Ever

The official Haikyu!! X (formerly Twitter) account revealed that Haikyu!! the Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump scored a three-day box office opening of 2.23 billion yen ($14.86 million), opening at #1 in Japan. This was despite its premiere on February 16, 2024 being a weekday.

Oricon put these numbers into perspective, revealing that Haikyu!!‘s box office opening puts it among the all-time biggest Japanese titles. Haikyu!! equaled One Piece Film: Red‘s opening (2.2 billion yen) and placed just below Jujutsu Kaisen 0‘s opening of 2.6 billion yen (~$17.32 million).

Eiga Ranking News also puts the opening as the fifth-largest in Japanese history. Haikyu!!‘s box office can also be compared with the recent Spy x Family Code: White, which made 1.2 billion yen across its first three days of release. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train is still far and away the leader, however, with 4.6 billion yen (~$30.66 million).

Nevertheless, Code: White and Mugen Train‘s initial theater rollouts were much higher, at 432 and 403 theaters, respectively, while Toho’s official theater list puts Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump‘s number at 373 theaters.

Haikyu!! the Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump is directed by Susumu Mitsunaka, who directed most of the four anime TV seasons. Production I.G returned to animate the movie. The movie is the first of two adapting the final volumes of Haruichi Furudate’s Haikyu!! manga. The series was published in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2020. The latest trailer can be watched here, and the recent IMAX visual can be seen below:

Crunchyroll streams the Haikyu!! anime series, and describes it:
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: Official Haikyu!! X (formerly Twitter), Oricon, Eiga Ranking News
©Haruichi Furudate/Shueisha, Haikyuu Production Committee, MBS