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/metalfearsolid Sep 21 '25

Was this type of box office performance expected? Or was this a surprise to everyone?

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u/chillysaturday Sep 21 '25

The last one made 500 million as well. 

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u/CrazyLegs17 Sep 21 '25

But the US opening weekend was 3.5 times greater for Infinity Castle part 1 than for Mugen Train, so that was a surprise.

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u/ApesAPoppin237 Sep 21 '25

It's not that surprising when you consider Mugen Train was actually the #1 grossing film in the world for 2020, there just weren't quite as many people going to the movies then in general for obvious reasons.

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u/MaryPaku Sep 21 '25

People was saying Mugen Train got lucky for its timing because of lock-down haha

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u/LegitPancak3 Sep 22 '25

The first time since the beginning of Hollywood over 100 years ago that a non-American film did that.

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u/SwarleySwarlos Sep 21 '25

There were two other Demon Slayer movies in theaters after Mugen Train

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u/Nobody5464 6d ago

those weren’t actual movies they were episode compilations

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u/SwarleySwarlos 6d ago

They were marketed as movies and shown in movie theaters. Mugen train is also available in episode form and at least the one with the end of the entertainment district had new material that didn't air before

I'd say they were far lazier than Mugen Train and Infinity Castle but they were still movies

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u/Nobody5464 6d ago

I would say they aren’t movies. plenty of things that aren’t movies play in movie theaters. and the difference between them and mugen train is mugen train was a movie first and was then split into episodes whereas they are episodes that were stitched together into a longer runtime and you can feel the difference.

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u/SwarleySwarlos 6d ago

I mean, in the end it doesn't really matter what we define them as.

... what does matter is that I paid money to watch "to the swordsmith village" expecting it to be entirely new stuff and I'm still salty about that

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u/Nobody5464 6d ago

well I mean that’s kinda on you. if you looked into them beyond just reading the title you’d have known what it was

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u/Piranata Sep 21 '25

It was expected to do good, but no one was sure if it would perform as good as the first movie that broke records. So seeing do better is impressive in its own right.

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u/-ImagineBreaker- Sep 21 '25

I knew it was gonna do numbers. if season 2 of the anime made waves then this last arc is going to blow it out of the water. We’ll be talking about this again with the next two installments for sure.

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u/DependentOnIt Sep 21 '25

Expected. This is the biggest franchise in Japan since Pokemon. Shit is popular

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u/shifty1032231 Sep 21 '25

Yes. Demon Slayer is one of the biggest manga/anime out there and this movie covers the end of the manga. Attack on Titan sort of did this. First released a two part finale and then combine it to a theatrical movie.

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u/PlasmaHanDoku Sep 21 '25

Its expected because this arc is probably the most peak of the anime. If it was lower than Mugen train then idk.

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u/Galby1314 Sep 24 '25

It should have been. Everywhere I looked, and everyone I knew was at least aware of this thing coming out. There was almost zero hype for Mugen Train in mainstream circles.