The staff at Jujutsu Kaisen 0 enjoyed international box office success, but were suddenly caught up in a storm of controversy. At the heart of the debate is the thorny issue between China and Taiwan. Jujutsu Kaisen has to apologize publicly!
On the day of March 22, it was revealed what the prequel feature has exceeded 13 billion yen at the box office. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is among the ten highest grossing anime films in the history of Japanese cinema. However, the celebrations were ruined by a heated controversy.
Jujutsu Kaisen will have a panel at Anime Japan, but there is a burning issue that needs to be resolved first. To open the debate, another sentence was included in the same celebratory tweet, which you can find at the bottom of the article. The staff reported that the film will be released in all countries around the world and even cause a stir abroad. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is indeed also ranked first in South Korea and Taiwan.
With those words, Taiwan was obvious recognized as an independent country, regardless of the Chinese. This led to some protests from the Chinese public leading to this Unsubscribe from Twitter. It was later re-released correctly.
On Chinese social media Weibo, where the controversy arose, Jujutsu Kaisen’s official account attempted to minimize the damage. apologize publicly. “SWe pay attention to the announcements of the official Japanese Twitter account. We immediately contacted the Japanese site and the content of the tweet was revised. We sincerely apologize for hurting many web users, especially Jujutsu Kaisen fans. “.
The Chinese market is one of the most profitable, and such a mistake may have caused huge economic losses for Jujutsu Kaisen. However, the issue between Taiwan and China is currently one of the most sensitive, almost on a par with that between Ukraine and Russia.
昨日迄で『# 劇場版呪術廻戦 0』国内興行収入が130億円を突破！
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– 『呪術廻戦』アニメ公式 (@animejujutsu) March 22, 2022
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