What this is
Japanese box office for all 23 Pokémon films, 1998–2020: ¥90.5bn in total, with the average film down about 45% from the first five to the last five.
How it’s built
- Added the 1998–2012 total printed by eiga.com (¥68.03bn) to the eight films from 2013 to 2020, giving ¥90.51bn, or ¥3.9bn per film.
- First five films averaged ¥4.97bn; the last five ¥2.76bn. The 2020 film grossed 72% less than the 1998 film.
What we assumed
- The 2014 and 2015 grosses come from an aggregator site, not the official film association list.The official list could not be reached for those years; the 2013 aggregator figure matched an official-sourced report.
- The 2020 film’s admissions (1.71m) are an estimate.Only the admissions comparison depends on it; the yen totals do not.
Sanity check
No Pokémon film has been released since December 2020; the next, Wild Card, is due in 2027. These are cinema grosses, not what the rights holders received.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Show the working
- Total 23 films 1998 2020 oku: 905
- Total: ¥90.5bn
- Mean per film oku: 39.4
- Avg 1998 2002 oku: 49.7
- Avg 2016 2020 oku: 27.6
- Change: -44.5%
- 680.3 (1998-2012,) + 31.7+29.1+26.1+21.5+35.5+30.9+29.8+20.2 (2013-2020) = 905.1
- /23 = 39.35
- (72.4+62.0+48.5+39.0+26.7)/5 = 49.72
- (21.5+35.5+30.9+29.8+20.2)/5 = 27.58
- 27.58/49.72-1 = -44.5%
- 20.2/72.4-1 = -72.1
Where it’s used
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