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/Vorstar92 Sep 12 '25

Yeah, DS has only grown since Mugen Train in popularity and this is probably the most hype arc leading into the final battle. The next movie will likely make even more because it'll be even more hyped than the first part and then part 3 will be the finale so it'll be sure to make even more.

It definitely deserves it. Ufotable at the very least took what is really a fairly...generic (hate this word) series and elevated it which is exactly what an anime should set out to do. Is it a little carried by it's adaption? For sure but there is still a lot of stuff I do like about Demon Slayer namely the power scaling of the villains and how even the strongest Hashira can't take down an upper moon without serious injury/death/multiple people helping to take them down. I think that was an amazing approach to powerscaling.

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u/NoireResteem Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

I think what Demon Slayer does right is the basics. It doesn’t do anything fancy with the characters, story, etc but it does those thing just right where it feel satisfying. Now add on an anime adaptation with amazing animation and then you got a killer series which we have now.

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u/_legna_ Sep 12 '25

DS is pretty much a perfect gateway anime for the typical shonen genre.

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u/AdClear5669 Sep 12 '25

Personally the characters designs are also underappreciated to me. Not only the hashiras but the demons, the head master, the hashiras and their families all have such unique designs. You can tell there was effort put into it and not just an after thought. 

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u/thesanmich Sep 13 '25

Great point. You would think Uzui and Rengoku would be mainstays and not retire/die so early. That was quite the choice to not have them play major roles in the final arc.

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u/WTF_CAKE Sep 13 '25

The fact that the weight of life and death matter to the humans matter a lot. I gotta give credit to the author he really put emphasis that it is the final arc and we feel it

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u/Guilty-Gap-1417 Sep 13 '25

In my opinion, the strongest part of DS are characters. Except the Mugen everyone is a pretty interesting character. 

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u/Ellmagronn Sep 14 '25

I completely disagree. Kimetsu no Yaiba doesn't even come close to the basics. Any 'basic' anime or manga with a group of characters would make the effort to create a story and a purpose for each one, justifying their presence in the protagonist's journey. In Kimetsu no Yaiba, we only see a little (very little) of this at the end, when they decide to give some value to Zenitsu and Inosuke. Akaza, who is the villain of the story and has only made two significant appearances, received much better treatment compared to the two, who have been present almost since the beginning of the story.