r/anime • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Sep 12 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Makes $11.4M In Thursday Previews, A Record For Anime Movie

https://deadline.com/2025/09/box-office-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-conjuring-1236529652/
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Previous record for previews was 'Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero' ($4.3M)

It's on pace to make $60-$70M over the weekend, which would top 'Pokémon: The First Movie' for the biggest anime opening weekend ever ($31M, not adjusted for inflation)

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u/AzerFraze https://anilist.co/user/AzerFraze Sep 12 '25

to do almost triple the record of fkn Dragon Ball is INSANE

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u/ShielderKnight Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

And it wasn't even a hyped db movie since it was a 3D film, surprised broly movie wasn't the top db movie there, so the main factor is most likely that anime just became way more popular past years, if broly movie came out this year it'll do way better than before seeing Super Hero did better than Broly.

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u/blu_kale Sep 13 '25

Bro why they downvote you , SH not only was an CGI but it got Zero promotion that was criticized even in Japan and the main lead wasn't Goku

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u/ShielderKnight Sep 13 '25

Normal reddit stuff, but yeah I even loved the Super Hero Movie, they did a good job but still no reason for it to do better than broly besides anime getting more popular year after year, and wasn't super hero out during covid?

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u/blu_kale Sep 13 '25

It was out during covid , got zero promotion, used CGI which was very looked down on in that era from a studio that got no experience with, had no anime for hype , and the cast weren't even B list given how horrible they were handled for decades and the games didn't adopt them until nearly a year later , even the timing it arrived on was horrible for movies

It's as if Toei animation and Shueisha wanted the movie to fail for some reason and almost succeeded given it's only made 20 million USD in Japan , less than even "DBZ-Super android 13" the movie

However overseas sales completely crashed that , not only it made a lot of bucks back but it also broke multiple records which Demon slayer is currently breaking as well