The animated hit "All Wishes Come True" has grossed more than 1.4 billion yuan (around $195 million) at the box office as of August 9, according to film data platform Beacon, putting it among the year's highest-grossing domestic animated films. Pair that with "Ne Zha 2" winning top prize at China's audience-voted film awards (as reported by The Macau Post Daily) and a broader C-animation push getting global stage time, and you're looking at something bigger than any single title.
A new world-building playbook
Here's what I love about this moment: the numbers tell a story every animation fan should be paying attention to. China's National Film Administration says animated films generated a combined 25.49 billion yuan at the box office in 2025. That's not a niche category anymore — that's an industry flex. Ne Zha 2 alone grossed 15.45 billion yuan in China and more than 400 million yuan overseas, placing it among the five highest-grossing films of all time and the highest-grossing animated film in worldwide box-office history. If you've been quietly tracking Chinese animation like I have, this isn't a surprise so much as confirmation: the "imported titles dominate" era is genuinely closing.
Why the tech leap matters
Think about this: Ne Zha 2 features more than 1,900 visual-effects shots and over 10,000 visual-effects elements contributed by 138 different Chinese animation companies. Fully domestic production processes — no dependence on overseas pipelines. The film also blends traditional ink-wash aesthetics with 3D animation through a locally developed dynamic ink-wash rendering engine. For anyone who follows how animation gets made (not just how it looks on screen), this is the real headline: the tooling is now being built inside China too, not rented from abroad.
Where to watch and what's next
"All Wishes Come True" is set to roll out to Australia, New Zealand, North America, the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands in the coming months — building on Ne Zha 2's established footprint across Australia, the US, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Two titles, two vibes, same trajectory. So what should you actually do with this? Check your local release calendar instead of waiting for a dubbed bluray six months later, because the next wave of C-animation worldbuilding is about to land on screens you already watch. And if you're wondering whether this is a one-hit story or a real shift? Watch the international box-office splits when these titles hit — that's where the answer lives.