Top 25 Opening Weekends [Animation]
Rank - Weekend Gross ¥ ($) / Admissions [Screen Count] - Film (Release Year)

01. ¥1.629 billion ($14.0 million) / 1,484,916 [408] - Yo-Kai Watch: It's the Secret of Birth, Nyan! (2014)
02. ¥1.484 billion ($14.0 million) / 1,104,980 [448] - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
03. ¥1.372 billion ($16.7 million) / 1,140,081 [300] - One Piece Film Z (2012)
04. ¥1.209 billion ($11.1 million) / 933,781 [353] - Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (2016)
05. ¥1.155 billion ($10.9 million) / 820,830 [739] - One Piece Film Gold (2016)
06. ¥1.133 billion ($14.1 million) / 771,764 [223] - Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
07. ¥1.058 billion ($8.7 million) / 974,557 [434] - Yo-Kai Watch: Great King Enma and the 5 Stories, Nyan! (2015)
08. ¥1.038 billion ($11.9 million) / 819,738 [190] - One Piece Film Strong World (2009)
09. ¥1.034 billion ($9.8 million) / 812,557 [481] - Ponyo (2008)
10. ¥1.010 billion ($8.9 million) / 810,000 [318] - Spirited Away (2001)
11. ¥977.3 million ($11.1 million) / 649,249 [530] - Toy Story 3 (2010)
12. ¥960.9 million ($9.8 million) / 747,451 [454] - The Wind Rises (2013)
13. ¥960.6 million ($8.1 million) / 715,727 [653] - Dragon Ball Z: Revival of F (2015)
14. ¥930.0 million ($9.2 million) / 688,079 [301] - Your Name. (2016)
15. ¥907.4 million ($7.9 million) / 672,696 [435] - Tales from Earthsea (2006)
16. ¥898.0 million ($8.4 million) / 724,000 [654] - Finding Nemo (2003)
17. ¥895.6 million ($10.4 million) / 680,190 [447] - Arrietty (2010)
18. ¥874.8 million ($7.4 million) / 688,623 [349] - Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno (2015)
19. ¥847.5 million ($8.4 million) / 614,969 [661] - Monsters University (2013)
20. ¥789.3 million ($7.8 million) / 649,865 [341] - Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper (2014)
21. ¥780.9 million ($6.5 million) / 742,978 [351] - Pokemon D&P: The Rise of Darkrai (2007)
22. ¥767.2 million ($7.6 million) / 554,991 [319] - Stand By Me, Doraemon (2014)
23. ¥763.4 million ($7.5 million) / 602,347 [598] - Frozen (2014)
24. ¥751.8 million ($7.3 million) / 604,355 [689] - The Incredibles (2004)
25. ¥745.5 million ($7.1 million) / 553,066 [511] - Finding Dory (2016)

Your Name. is the only film on this list that isn't from an established studio (Studio Ghibli; Disney/Pixar), or an existing franchise (Yo-Kai Watch; One Piece; Dragon Ball Z; Detective Conan; Pokemon; Doraemon; Evangelion). All the other 24 films belong to one of those nine brands.

Corpse, are the Angry Birds games popular in Japan?

Based on what I know of the mobile gaming market, and after doing some quick searches, I'd say "mostly" no. Sony seems pretty confident in it, though, and the marketing campaign seems decent.

Japan is the world's leading mobile gaming market, and they've earned that title primarily with their own games. I couldn't find a year that Angry Birds managed to make the Top 200 iOS games in the market. But, as I mentioned, the mobile gaming market is dominated by Japanese games so that may not be the best indicator.

The Japanese gaming industry skews a lot older than most of the world, too, so perhaps Angry Birds simply doesn't chart well for that reason if we assume it appeals largely to young children? Additionally, nearly 80% of Japanese with phones play mobile games, so the Angry Birds brand itself must be, at the very least, recognizable to many in the market.

Hmm. So I am very interested to see how it performs now.

As of noon, Your Name. is up ~9% compared to last Saturday... If it actually manages to pull off a second weekend increase, after coming off a near ¥1 billion opening weekend, it'd have to be considered the most-impressive second weekend of all-time.  Just off the top of my head, here's a few accomplishments it could achieve this weekend:

>Seventh or eighth biggest second weekend ever, and biggest ever outside of Winter/Summer.
>Second or third biggest second weekend for an animated film, behind only Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away (could beat the latter) and way ahead of every Disney/Pixar film (yes, even Frozen).
>Only film to ever increase in its second weekend after debuting above ¥800 million and ¥900 million.

Its second weekend would also claim the biggest weekend of any film in September, opening or not. Also, its two-week total will likely be over ¥3.5 billion if it manages to increase this weekend. If that happens, it'll be outpacing every animated film after two-weeks other than, again, Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away.

Note: It's doing this without any holiday support, whatsoever, unlike the majority of other uber-blockbusters.

If it's not clear enough, Japanese audiences are fully embracing Makoto Shinkai as Hayao Miyazaki's successor.

Also, I think being #1 for 8 weeks is being conservative now. If the new Death Note film doesn't stop in on October 29th, it'll likely remain at #1 going into November.

Your Name. is up over 20% compared to last Saturday, and sold through over 50% of its available admissions for the day as well (versus the 43% it achieved last Saturday).

This is an absolutely incredible result, and even a Sunday decline (probably unlikely) could lock up a second weekend increase for a gross over ¥1 billion... As mentioned, no film to open above ¥800 million and ¥900 million has ever managed a second weekend increase.

If it actually exceeds ¥1 billion for its second weekend, it'll also become only the third Japanese film to achieve this astounding feat, after Howl's Moving Castle and Rookies.

Your Name. has increased its chances of exceeding ¥10 billion ($100 million) substantially, and I believe we could be in store for a truly historic performance; possibly a run at ¥15 billion+ ($150 million).

That's a long ways off, but it'll likely remain in 1st place at the box office until the last weekend of October, or possibly even into November considering it's achieved phenomenon status by achieving top rankings across every medium (box office; single sales; album sales; paperback sales).

Nice...

Wow!!

Oo this will be another fun run to follow!

Indeed.

As of 2PM today, it's up over 20% compared to last Sunday (selling through 60% of its available admissions so far today). This guarantees a second weekend increase, and such an increase that'll allow it to exceed ¥1 billion over the weekend, too. ¥1.1 billion+ does look quite doable.

Seems like it may have $200m+ potential... not to get ahead of ourselves.

Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Even if it stalls at some point and "only" exceeds the uber-blockbuster milestone of ¥10 billion ($100 million), it'd be an unprecedented and incredible result. Of course, it's very likely to go higher than that.

Have you seen any of Makoto Shinkai's previous films, Jiffy? My favorite is Children Who Chase Lost Voices, at the moment.

Also, thanks to Your Name.'s unprecedented performance, 2016 is guaranteed to increase over 2015 in yearly admissions. 2016 was already likely to increase over 2015 (up double digits back in July), but this locks it up for sure.

2016 will make the 5th-consecutive year that yearly admissions are up in Japan (2012-2016), besting the previous longest streak from 1955-1958. Japan's box office isn't so stagnant anymore. And if 2016 is able to increase "just" 5% over 2015's yearly admissions, it'll end up with the most admissions since 1974, too.

Additionally... 2015 was the second biggest year in terms of revenue (behind just 2010), and 2016 is looking very likely of beating 2015 (and 2010) there as well.

This is amazing about "Your Name". Perfect timing for me since I'm visiting my folks in Tokyo with my wife at the end of October. I hope the crowds won't be as bad by then so that we can all go watch it

I haven't but my interest is definitely piqued!

Will have to search that one out.

That's awesome. I hope you have a fantastic time.

I'll post the Weekend Actuals soon. They are very close to yesterday's estimates, and Your Name. did manage to go up a bit as well.