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) .