This little rascal goes to great lengths to appear menacing. But he is still popular everywhere in China: „Nezha 2“ has become the biggest Chinese box office hit of all time. Within nine days, the animated film grossed more than 5.8 billion yuan (768 million euros). The film about a mythical boy with magical powers set the box office buzzing, especially during the New Year celebrations. The first film in the series was already a box office hit in 2019. The character Nezha (哪吒) is based on a protective deity in Buddhism, Taoism and other religious movements. As so often in China’s pop culture, the film also borrows from classical literature, in this case from Fengshen Yanyi (封神演义), an epic from the Ming Dynasty about the lives of gods and demons.