Haikyu!! FINAL’s First Anime Film Scores More Milestones by Passing 5 Billion Yen

Haikyu!! continues to lead the Japanese box office, scoring more and more milestones through its third weekend, coming in at second place behind the newest Doraemon film and blowing past the 5 billion yen achievement as the film sets to give out more theatrical gifts to those who see the film in Japan and hold a special screening later this week.

As of March 3, the film’s 17th day in theaters, Kogyo Tsushin reports that the first Haikyu!! FINAL anime film has brought in 5.1 billion yen (US$33.94 million) with 3.59 million tickets sold. Haikyu!! FINAL’s first anime film passed the 5 billion yen milestone on the 17th day, doing it in the same time frame as other popular films such as Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween, Code Blue and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, all of which finished just shy of 10 billion yen. On the flip side, Frozen also made 5 billion yen in 17 days and is currently the 4th highest-grossing film of all time in Japan.

Haikyu!! ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 20, 2012, to July 20, 2020, with all 402 chapters collected into 45 volumes. All the chapters are available in English on the Shonen Jump app.

Crunchyroll is streaming all four TV anime seasons of the Haikyu!! adaptation, describing it as such:

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.