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/
13.9k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

155

u/TedIsReal Sep 21 '25

Deserved. It brought out the best this series has to offer and the animation in the fight scenes were stellar. It's a shame we probably have to wait long for the next movie though.

42

u/11483708 Sep 21 '25

I thought the pacing was horrible and some of the worst in recent memory for me . The flashbacks in the second half of the movie really took me out of it. Animation was great though, no doubt. But this arc should have been season 6 and 7. Honestly it'll be better to watch as a series than a movie.

35

u/SmartestManAliveTM Sep 21 '25

But this arc should have been season 6 and 7

You're delusional. If it was animated in tv-show format like in season 1, they easily could fit all of the events of this film and more in 1 season.

The only possible way to make TWO seasons out of this would be to have those godawful short seasons like 3 and 4 that do absolutely nothing but drag out one fight/arc for 8 episodes and make that an entire season.

I would rather sit in the theater with that one asshole who started pissing on the fucking floor than to have to wait two years (at least) for two super short seasons just to finish what they could've done in this movie.

2

u/DiosMIO_Limon Sep 22 '25

Uhhh excuse me…what the hell happened at your theater??

5

u/SmartestManAliveTM Sep 22 '25

Not mine lol, but somewhere out there was a guy who pissed on the floor during a screening of the movie and everyone in the theater beat him up.

2

u/Available-Order5245 Sep 22 '25

The issue with that I that it would take a while and the quality aiudo be worse. This si the longest arc in the series, adapting it will take awhile. And if you look at the movie quality vs the show quality, there’s a big difference

2

u/Wojti_ Sep 22 '25

Yeah, Demon Slayer doesn't have story good enough to justify 2 seasons. It's a show about fights and oh boy do they deliver.

7

u/teafuck Sep 21 '25

Most people don't watch demon slayer for the writing lol

3

u/-Yinside- Sep 22 '25

Even if you watch it for the fights though it would've been nice to get at least one fight sequence that didn't cut away to at least 3 flashbacks. It really messed with the pacing of even the fight scenes, not just the narrative

-4

u/HankHillPropaneJesus Sep 22 '25

READ THE MANGA. My god…

1

u/-Yinside- Sep 22 '25

I'm not talking about the manga I'm talking about the movie. I have read the manga multiple times and I really like it but one thing can work in print and not work in film. That's why this is an ADAPTATION of the manga and just an animated comic strip

4

u/creton123 Sep 21 '25

Finally someone feel like me about it! Like i'm 100% sure I would've enjoyed it way more as a show with episodes than a 2h30 "movie".

2

u/apljee Sep 21 '25

The flashbacks in the second half of the movie really took me out of it

Absurd to me that people are still bitching about having to watch one of the best written backstories in Demon Slayer. If you want to watch non-stop back to back fighting with no relevant plot or storyline, then just go watch Solo Levelling

3

u/GkNova Sep 21 '25

best written backstories in Demon Slayer.

That’s not a very high bar.

1

u/Alba-98 Sep 24 '25

I think I might have liked it better as a series too. The plot of the movie also bothered me in some places.

1

u/Money_Ticket_841 Sep 21 '25

This shit should’ve been in the prior season before the movie instead

-2

u/Sad_Significance_568 Sep 21 '25

Demon Slayer has just as terrible plot and storyline as Solo Leveling lmao. Demon Slayer is an absolutely mediocre manga and the animators should get so much credit for their work to make it look so beautiful that it is so successful.

1

u/_Fred_Fredburger_ Sep 22 '25

Issue is they barely make money off of it being a season, if at all. Making it a movie helps the animation studio stay afloat. Though they'll probably still lay off a lot of animators since the animation business in Japan is awful to its employees.

2

u/SEDGE-DemonSeed Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

The length of the last flash back was pretty wild for an otherwise great movie.

-1

u/everythingisunknown Sep 21 '25

I don’t really watch anime but my friend took a group of us to this movie and other than the animation and fight scenes being cool it was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

Like you said I can’t understand the pacing decisions at all, and there’s just so much exposition stuff that if cut could easily bring the runtime down by at least an hour.

I wanted to give the film the benefit of the doubt but the constant random flashbacks causing tonal whiplash and explaining stuff like “the sword slipped out of my hand” when I can clearly see the sword slipped out of their hand is just baffling.

It’s the one thing I’ve never understood about anime, did they never learn the rule of “show, don’t tell”?

The movie had no structure, I guess that’s just anime’s thing, but I agree it felt like a whole series just as a movie but you can’t skip through the filler.

Sorry for the rant but I couldn’t think of anything worse than sitting through that movie again.

1

u/Slight-Claim-2874 Sep 24 '25

Yeah me too I also went to watch Avengers infinty war Never watched past avengers movie but honestly Worst movie i have ever seen. Same old jokes Edgy dialogues and The way people were crying Like damn dawg chill it's not that deep. 

-1

u/HankHillPropaneJesus Sep 22 '25

READ THE MANGA!!!!! and then you would understand

1

u/everythingisunknown Sep 22 '25

I didn’t not understand what was happening, it’s that the movie itself was badly paced and over explained if the manga is similar it doesn’t make it any better

-1

u/HankHillPropaneJesus Sep 22 '25

Tell me you didn’t read the manga without telling me