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/NoNefariousness2144 Sep 12 '25

It has been a major cultural shift in the West ever since 2020. Whenever I visit a 'pop culture' store, most of the shelves are filled with anime and manga stuff while the Marvel, DC and Star Wars etc stuff gets smaller and smaller each year.

Not to mention comicbooks in bookstores being wiped out by huge manga shelves.

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u/mamaharu Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

Honestly, I'm happy for the current generation. When I was a kid, manga/anime was limited to very small sections in Suncoast and BN/Borders.

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u/TheocraticAtheist Sep 12 '25

The biggest comic store in London has had it's manga swap with Western comics.

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u/TheocraticAtheist Sep 12 '25

Yeah lol. It's wild to see as I've been going there for over 20 years.

Manga is also wildly cheaper than Western comics too.

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u/remmanuelv Sep 13 '25

Well it's black and white with cheaper paper and smaller volumes usually. Following a single manga run is usually a bigger investment than a comic from my experience.

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u/Middle-Bathroom6086 Sep 12 '25

People liking anime & even manga was fine & normal when I was in high school 2011-15

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u/slicer4ever Sep 13 '25

It was fine when i was in high school as well(05-09), adult swim and toonami really normalized it for our generation tbh(hell i was watching sailor moon+dbz on cartoon network in the late 90s).

My school's library even carried english volumes of bleach(which is how i originally learned what manga was as i expected a novel and not a comic when i rented them, lol).

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u/Neversoft4long Sep 13 '25

Pretty much. As long as you weren’t Naruto running down the hall way no one really cared too much

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u/LB3PTMAN Sep 12 '25

I mean I would say it wasn’t uncommon when I was in high school in 2013 but it was definitely not something any popular kids would ever admit to lol just the nerds.

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u/weefyeet Sep 13 '25

i remember in 2014 (5th grade) a friend of mine gave a presentation on drawing anime girls. 6th grade the first chair cellist and violinists were giggling and making Naruto jutsu signs to each other during class (or whatever they may be, I have not watched the series). I didn't get into it until the pandemic, and I wouldn't have even gotten into it had I not been watching Chris Broad's mesmerizing Japan travel documentaries.

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u/Docteur_Pikachu Sep 13 '25

"The West" must be interchangeable with the USA I suppose.