By the Numbers: anime and donghua at the global box office

Published: 2026-07-18T04:10:14.087Z

Ne Zha 2: The Devil's Fate ranks #1 among the world's highest-grossing animated films at RMB 16.4 billion, the top-ranked anime or donghua title on the chart. Figures are cumulative worldwide gross in

Why it matters: Theatrical gross is the hardest read on which anime and donghua IP has mass commercial pull, and that pull is what drives the licensing bids, sequels, and merchandise programs operators plan around, especially as Chinese animation scales globally.

Source: https://piaofang.maoyan.com/i/globalBox/realtimeRank/anime#1-ne-zha-2-the-devil-s-fate

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