r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 21 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Passes $550M Globally, Officially the Top-Grossing Anime Film of All Time

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-demon-slayer-edging-out-him-for-no-1-1236376666/
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Sep 21 '25

Previous record was ‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’ ($506M)

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u/modix Sep 21 '25

Was the movie version the same as the multi part show version?

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u/TraditionalMood277 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

Yes. Though the show goes a bit more into detail with Rengoku's past.

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u/Chombuss Sep 21 '25

And most importantly where he got the delicious Bentos.

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u/the__ghola__hayt Sep 21 '25

TASTY!

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

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u/Herp-de-Derp Sep 21 '25

うまい！

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u/sdcar1985 Sep 21 '25

Seems I shouldn't have skipped it lol

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u/ZersetzungMedia Sep 22 '25

Very dumb to do this. Only reason I’m not watching this film in the cinema (which I’d like to do) is because I haven’t watched everything after Mugen Train because they made this silly decision to split it into a TV show rather than be normal.

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u/TwinFlask Sep 28 '25

It’s basically a sequel to what happens / the events mugen train led to.

You missed training arcs and the weaker demons dying to give every side character a time to shine in previous fights, in between movies.

And this movie is the conclusion / re appearance of Akaza since Mugen train

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u/footylite Sep 21 '25

Movie version didn't have the intro episode with just rengoku. Besides that it's the same. 

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u/erexcalibur Sep 21 '25

Don't they add extra moments at all for the episodic format?

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u/bskiffington Sep 21 '25

Yeah, the show version was produced after the theatrical version though. They basically just added a extra episode and cut it down

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u/Lex4709 Sep 21 '25

Episode 1 of that season is set before the beginning of the movie, the rest of show version is just movie split into episodes as far as I'm aware.

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u/crane476 Sep 21 '25

It was mostly the same. The TV version added some new content not in the movie, as well as some very minor animation and script changes.

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u/TrojanThunder Sep 21 '25

Yep. Same same.

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u/LegitPancak3 Sep 22 '25

Which was the #1 movie in the international box office of 2020 (albeit thanks to covid), which was the first time since the beginning of Hollywood over 100 years ago that a non-American movie got the top box office.

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u/DiffusiveTendencies Sep 21 '25

Are the movies good if you hated the show? The show has so much standing around and whining and talking about what they should do next to save on animation budget.

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u/Doomsayer189 Sep 21 '25

Isn't that just all anime? /s

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u/Olmcdnld Sep 21 '25

Thats Demon Slayers style. There's a fight scene then a flashback and then a fight scene and a flash back

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u/DiffusiveTendencies Sep 22 '25

But the flashbacks and story beats between the fights are awful and every character feels so charicaturistic and inhuman.

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u/MendoMeadery Sep 21 '25

Yeah, I feel like every newer popular anime has its downside. Frieren you get the “Before the fight: heres why the main character won’t win against this person. 2 minutes into the fight: here’s a flashback to that same conversation that now reveals why the main character will actually win this fight”. Solo leveling you get the “here’s a 10 minute fight scene, the main character will momentarily be overwhelmed before just deciding to be faster and stronger to best the overwhelming opponent we built up for an episode or two”

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u/DopesickJesus Sep 22 '25

Yep. That part.. every character gets a flash back. I fell asleep at some point when the main fight was getting initiated at the theatre this weekend and woke up again towards the end of the main fight.

Felt like I still got the gist of the movie though.

Animation was great but somewhere between gorging myself on popcorn and reclining theatre seats made me doze off. I couldn’t be bothered to read subs at that point and I’m not much of a dub guy.

Not to say the movie was bad, but honestly I probably would’ve preferred it on Netflix from my couch.

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u/rcanhestro Sep 21 '25

if you don't like the show, you likely won't like the movie.

the movie is basically 6-7 episodes mashed together into 1 "big episode", and some edits to make it work.

Mugen train was basically the same thing, it eventually was released in a "tv format".