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

Ne Zha 2 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 RMB. Source: Maoy

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

From AnimeSignal, the daily anime business intelligence brief.