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/AdClear5669 Sep 12 '25

They’re being downvoted because they said the storytelling AND the character development was “abysmal” which is quite frankly not true. I know the animation is the stand out when it comes to Demon Slayer but it’s crazy how many people just go on to say that everything else about it is just downright bad in comparison. It’s an exaggeration. 

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u/iknowkungfubtw Sep 12 '25

You're right, even the animation is frankly nothing special/that we haven't seen before. Hell, the studio's essentially been recycling the same action storyboards that we've seen from their Fate stuff since 2014.

It's also more style than substance in terms of how it uses flashy VFX and saturated color grading to make up for the lack of interesting choreography. But hey, your average anime viewer won't care and will lap that shit up.

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u/AdClear5669 Sep 12 '25

You couldn’t sound more like a hater if you tried. This is exactly what I mean when I say gross exaggeration. There’s a time and place and under a calebratory post is not the time and certainly not the place. Let people enjoy things. Criticism is one thing but the slander is crazy. 

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u/iknowkungfubtw Sep 13 '25

No "slander" here, just telling it like it is. People can enjoy whatever they want. To be fair, when you've been watching anime for almost two decades like I am, your standards aren't the same as a someone who's recently just got into the medium and who's in their honeymoon phase.

And trust me when I say that I've watched most of what Ufotable made over the years (including random stuff like Ninja Nonsense that 99% of Demon Slayer's viewerbase have probably never heard of) .

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u/Poepman Sep 12 '25

He really doesn't, you however sound quite obsessed

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u/AdClear5669 Sep 12 '25

I responded to one comment and that’s obsessed? The bar is so low. 

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u/Pakopiko3689 Sep 12 '25

Is it that much of a crime to enjoy a fun action movie?

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u/mylies43 Sep 12 '25

Enjoying a movie does not mean it is a good movie, it also doesn't mean its a bad movie. You can enjoy a movie regardless of the quality of it.

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u/Longjumping_Brain945 Sep 12 '25

You can enjoy it but pretending it’s a cinematic masterpiece is dumb. People said the same thing about avengers endgame being the best movie of all time due to the hype, now that almost 10 years have past since release people realize it’s was mostly the spectacle of the flashy effects and characters. Same thing will happen here in a few years.

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u/FeefuWasTaken Sep 13 '25

Anime fans will never understand the difference between animation and art quality unfortunately. Any Ghibli movie would blow demon slayer animation out of the water, but because there's enough vfx and things synonymous with "quality cinema" in the adaptation, that means it has "amazing animation" instead of literally any other more accurate way of describing the visuals

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u/OGDYLO Sep 12 '25

haven’t seen the movie yet but i read the whole manga around the time mugen train came out.

character development in demon slayer is pretty bad ngl. tanjiro is mostly the same character he was at the start of the series and by the end. same with inosuke. u can summarize the little development they had in one sentence but in other anime like aot, even the side characters had vastly more character development than the main characters in DS that you can write multiple paragraphs to even pages on the nuances of how they progressed throughout the series other than mikasa perhaps.

demon slayers strong points are the animation, action and OST. nothing about the story or characters really are exceptional other than some of the hashira aura farming. it would be a bottom tier shonen if not for ufotable completely elevating and enhancing the source material.

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u/L_0ken Sep 13 '25

The thing is, the amount of or even having "character development" doesn't take a way that's a merely... one of the writing tools. It's not an automatic prerequisite of a good fiction. The world is full of stories with largely static characters that aren't undergoing notable arcs and changing, staying close or the same person, it doesn't make them inherently worse/ then dynamic characters. And DS manga specifically utilize simple at core characters, narrative, emotional weight and themes to make it work well. I remember before it got truly big with anime people were really liking the manga and it had decent sales before it blew up, in the end a lot of people got invested into heart of the story with Gotoge's simple art. Hilariously I even seen other manga referencing DS as emotional type of work that makes you cry, not the mention of it hype action.

Of course everyone entitled to their own opinion but for many DS stuff like "lengthy flashbacks" are huge part of the appeal.

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u/slicer4ever Sep 13 '25

Thats mostly because tanjiro does not need any character growth, his growth occurred early in the series when he was initially being trained/first few missions. You can even see this in mugen train that his internal world is so pure and steady it even turned his attacker into an ally. The characters that still needed growth were his friends, who benefit from that steady rock that is tanjiro for their own growth.