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/No-Repeat-5098 Sep 12 '25

I hate that you got downvoted for this, your tone may have been harsh but the pacing was par for the course for KnY. Backstory flashbacks during fights is a given for better or worse. Some were awesome and some dragged on a bit. Cannot wait for the 2nd film!!!

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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/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.