The successes of the anime film 'your name.' follow one after another. On Sunday, December 4, it won the award for Best Animated Film (anime) 2016 of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Now we learn that the film surpassed the Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle in earnings.

Specifically, the earnings only for Saturday, December 3, reached 19,957,000,000 yen (about 163 million EUR), leaving behind the Howl's Moving Castle with 19.6 billion. In total, 15,352,600 were tickets sold, 101 days after it opened in Japan.

'your name.' currently holds the second place in the chart at the Japanese box office. It is now the fifth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan and the second highest-grossing anime film. The first place still holds Spirited Away with 30.8 billion yen.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com