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#6,082 All-time worldwide
#192 2018 releases

Movie profile

Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond

2018 · 104 min · Shuka

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $17.5M
Budget
Gross minus budget
ROI

Domestic gross

$7.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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Quick answer

How did Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond (2018) perform at the box office?

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Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond (2018) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $17.5M. In this database it currently ranks #6,082 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #192 among 2018 releases.

Worldwide gross
$17,473,797
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a “Yokai seed” that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras’ garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 29, 2018
Production
Shuka, Aniplex, NAS
Countries
JP

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2018, Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Fantasy, Drama title from Shuka. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $17.5M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,082 all-time in the current chart set and #192 among 2018 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.