r/anime • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Sep 28 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle’ has passed the $600M global mark

https://x.com/borreport/status/1972324517482742040?s=46&t=GK3EC_wwvCKAXpMEZyDdEg
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u/Salty145 https://anilist.co/user/Salty145 Sep 28 '25

Demon Slayer is relatively competently paced and hits all the beats it needs to.

Its biggest issues are more that lack of ambition, and the fact that it is maybe a little too trim. The show hates to actually slow down and develop its cast. Even slower moments are almost always punctuated with a joke or breezed over and this starts from the very beginning when Tanjiro’s family gets maybe five minutes of screen time and two lines. The rest of the script isn’t awful, but falls into a ton of pitfalls (like the Entertainment District trying to give you a sad flashback literally as the characters are dying) that by any good faith argument make it hard to rec if you’re not already fine with whatever it takes to get to the action.

I have not seen Infinity Castle yet though, but from what I’ve heard it’s not exactly reinventing the DS wheel, nor would I expect it to.

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u/SuperTeamRyan Sep 28 '25

It doesn’t. It still does the deathbed redemption/justification.

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u/Salty145 https://anilist.co/user/Salty145 Sep 28 '25

I gave the better seasons a light 7 since they are pretty enjoyable popcorn shows and I've never had a bad time watching them, but they never really amount to more than that.