Your Name (2016) is Makoto Shinkai's animated romance about two teenagers who mysteriously swap bodies across time and distance. Its box-office story has three parts: a dominant run in Japan, a wide rollout abroad, and a worldwide total that combines both. That split helps readers understand the film's reach. Japan shows home-audience demand, international releases show travel power, and the worldwide sum allows fair comparison with other major anime films.
Table of Contents
- Why Japan Anchored the Gross
- How Did International Releases Build the Total?
- What Goes Into a Worldwide Total?
- How Should You Compare It to Other Anime Hits?
Why Japan Anchored the Gross
Your Name opened as a domestic Japanese feature for a Japanese audience. The story, voice cast, music, and seasonal setting spoke directly to local viewers. Strong word of mouth kept it in theaters for many weeks.
In Japan, box-office reporting tracks ticket sales and revenue from theaters across the country. Long runs, school holidays, and repeat visits can lift a hit well beyond its opening weekend. For a locally rooted anime, that home run forms the base of all later success.
How Did International Releases Build the Total?
International gross means all paid admissions outside Japan. Each territory sets its own release date, distributor, and screen count. Your Name traveled in subtitled and dubbed prints to reach fans and new viewers alike.
Nearby markets often open first because anime already draws a wide audience there. North American and European runs tend to follow with fewer screens and targeted promotion. For Your Name, those staggered openings let positive buzz carry from one region to the next.
What Goes Into a Worldwide Total?
The worldwide total adds the Japanese gross to all international grosses. Analysts convert each local currency into U.S. dollars to make one comparable sum.
Readers can then place Your Name beside other large anime features on the same scale. The sum can rise after the first cycle ends. Anniversary screenings, festival dates, and special reissues sell additional tickets. Any worldwide figure therefore reflects its cutoff date as well as the original theatrical wave.
How Should You Compare It to Other Anime Hits?
Use each number for a different question. The Japanese figure shows home demand, the international figure shows export reach, and the worldwide figure shows total commercial weight. Mixing them leads to unfair comparisons.
Keep comparisons clean with four habits. They take little time and prevent common errors. Pick one box-office tracker and record its date when you cite Your Name. The same habit helps with any anime comparison you make next.
- Compare Japan with Japan and worldwide with worldwide.
- Use admissions for audience size and dollars for business size.
- Allow for exchange-rate shifts in dollar totals.
- Note the reporting date and whether reissues count.