CATDOLL: The movie "The Secret of the Birth of Yo-kai Watch" has box office revenue exceeding 5 billion

The movie "The Secret of Yo-kai Watch" which was released on December 20, 2014, has always been extremely popular. After the box office exceeded 1.6 billion yen in the first two days of its release, the official announced yesterday that as of January 4, 2015, the box office revenue of the movie "The Secret of Yo-kai Watch" exceeded 5 billion yen, which is 5,424,234,000 yen, and a total of 4,913,787 people attended the movie.

"Yo-kai Watch" is a TV animation based on the Nintendo 3DS exclusive game software of the same name released by LEVEL-5. It is part of the cross-media project. The animation was produced by OLM TEAM INOUE and aired on TV Tokyo on January 8, 2014, becoming a popular animation. On January 11 of the same year, the toy "Yo-kai Medal" was launched to match the animation, which was very popular among elementary school students and became a popular product in society that was in short supply.