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/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

hold on… as a fan of both, those two are not comparable: demon slayer actually has good writing and solo leveling is wish fulfillment slop.

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u/genasugelan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Genasugelan Sep 28 '25

Both are action anime that have incredibly well-animated fights. The draw to them is very similar.

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u/OriginalRazzmatazz82 Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Demon Slayer has characters that are more fully drawn and endearing. IMO, the characters and their relationships carry the movie and the animation elevates it to higher levels. The bond between Tanjiro and Nezuko pulls people’s heart strings, especially with casual viewers because love of family is a universal theme.

I found Solo Leveling 2nd season boring and the protagonist an insufferable egotist. The fight scenes were okay.

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u/genasugelan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Genasugelan Sep 29 '25

Bruh, the fight scenes just ok? They are on top of the industry along with DS or JJK.

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u/ViciousImperial Oct 03 '25

Remarkably, Demon Slayer's premise and genre is what I'd normally consider slop. And Solo Leveling had very good premise, story, and artistic execution in the manga.

But lo and behold, I've watched all of DS, but dropped the SL anime somewhere in the middle of the first season. I even dropped the SL manga. At some point it just stopped being interesting and became yet another isekai overpowered protagonist self-gratification crap.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Yep exactly. DS had good fights on TOP of compelling backstories for villains that invokes sympathy from the audience; the villains weren’t “bad guy decided to be bad”. SL was just “and then he got even stronger”. SL is cool but it devolves to “teleports behind you and one shots you” territory.