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Article ends with "And let’s not forget the monster 2020 success of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, whose 40 billion yen domestic gross demolished Spirited Away’s record of the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan."

Nitpick:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Japan... - it shows Demon Slayer at ¥40,430,000,000 (2020) and Spirited Away at ¥31,680,000,0000 (2001). This is like comparing $220 million to $290 million so it's not exactly 'demolishing' IMO.



If you factor in 19 years of inflation, I wonder who is the winner.


Coincidentally, Japan has spent the last 20 years in an extremely low-inflation, or even deflationary, environment.

31 yen in 2001 -> 32 yen in 2020




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