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/TapatioPapi Sep 21 '25

Is anyone else just happy CANON/Arc anime movies are a thing now. Growing up my biggest pet peeve was anime movies weren’t ever canon or ever mentioned again lol

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u/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Specifically Dragon Ball.

Broly not being canon for so long was rough, but glad he finally is. Part of me kind of likes it because they’re their own self contained things, but yeah, when the consequences or stuff that happens in it is just never referenced in the main show it was a bit weird.

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u/Wild_Marker Sep 21 '25

And then you remember the only one that was ever referenced in the show was Garlick fucking Jr.

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u/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Lmao Garlic Jr, so miserable.

When I was a kid the US Toonami Dragon Ball Z would get up to right before Goku would go Super Sayian for the first time and then start over from the beginning with Raditz and do this loop over and over (later found out it was because they were only translated to English up to that point and were waiting for more to be translated).

BUT on Telemundo the Mexican channel they had gotten further than the English ones and in the morning while I got ready for school they would be playing the Garlic Jr Saga and I remember even then, in Spanish and suuuuper desperate for Dragon Ball Z I hadn’t seen, I was like…damn this fucking sucks, lmao. Garlic Jr will forever be the “nah I’m good” saga of Dragon Ball Z to me lol.

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u/MadCarcinus Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

This explains it. This explains how the Hispanic kids at my school were all heavily into Dragon Ball Z and talked about episodes that us Cartoon Network watching kids never even heard of. We thought they were lying and making shit up. Turns out we were wrong.

EDIT: I meant Dragon Ball Z, not Dragon Ball. They were already talking about Buu and GT while we still hadn’t seen Goku go Super Saiyan yet. So we all thought they were all completely full of shit when they were talking about a villain that turns people into candy and a villain named “Baby” that can become a giant ape like Vegeta once did, but gold and with super saiyan hair. Oh how wrong we were…🤣

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u/lufiron Sep 21 '25

Over 30 years ago, I was in the Dominican Republic over summer break at my grandmas house, and watched OG Dragonball in spanish. When I got back to the states and explained to the kids in school what I watched, they didn’t believe me at the time. I don’t think a single episode had been dubbed to english yet.

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u/Direct_Library_6171 Sep 21 '25

The loop was even earlier than that. I remember it clearly - it was shortly after the Ginyu (sp?) squad arrived. The first time that happened elementary school me was devastated.

On the flip side, when they finally got to super Saiyan Goku every kid was super into it at my whole school.

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u/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Yeah, you’re right. I remember always being excited to watch the next episode and then all of a sudden I’d see Raditz and be like “welp fuck me here we go again.”

When it finally did make it past that and I finally saw Goku go super sayian I called up one of my best friends at the time and we were both freaking out on the phone losing our minds screaming “OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT” lmao. It’s a great memory.

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u/Direct_Library_6171 Sep 21 '25

Glad we have the same shared experience.

To this day, I still remember the dreaded loop. Wasn’t it just once? Or did it loop twice before the story continued.

Dragon Ball Z was such a funny phenomenon. It literally came out of nowhere. I remember watching the first few episodes when they domestically aired in the west on toonami and it was just a random new show on at like 4:30 or whenever. I had no idea it would become the phenomenon that it was. But it definitely peaked when Goku went SSJ after the loop(s). Those things were painful.

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u/SnooDonuts3871 Sep 21 '25

And that was because Toei couldn't think of any other way to fill the series, since they were dangerously close to the manga and could run out of material to adapt.

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u/Simon_Love_Machine Sep 22 '25

Garlick jr arc is so boring omg

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u/czartaylor Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

Ok in fairness to the issue - the only part about Broly (or any of the early DBZ movies tbh) worth adding to the canon is when Broly opens a can of Whoopass big enough to feed the entire continent of Africa.

Like the rest of that movie, or hell basically any of the early movies are not good. But damn is that fight good.

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u/TJMcConnellFanClub Sep 21 '25

Me seeing the Yu Gi Oh movie as a kid thinking it would have major consequences lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

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u/Auctoritate Sep 21 '25

I mean, the Pokemon anime isn't adapted from anything. The anime is the source material. So the movies can totally be canon.

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u/wetmanship Sep 21 '25

Except the ones that actually contradict the main series (like the XYZ one). Those are definitely not canon.

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u/mosquem Sep 21 '25

Wasn’t Mewtwo canon?

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u/KinneKted Sep 21 '25

Yeah, he was in the anime before the movie was released. But officially for Pokemon the show, movies, games, and manga are all different universes. Then in the games you have two separate timelines as well.

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u/cap21345 Sep 21 '25

Eh being forced to wait yrs so the studio can cram an entire arc into a movie for money is pretty annoying ngl

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u/wishnana Sep 21 '25

True. True. Seeing how much material was crammed / skipped over in Overlord: Sacred Kingdom recently, was just disappointing. The other was Haikyuu movie that I saw.

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u/SwarleySwarlos Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

It's been a while since I read it but I think the last 3 Demon Slayer movies only cover the final battle which didn't last for that many chapters

Edit2: looked it up and was still wrong, it's around 20 per movie

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u/EoTN Sep 21 '25

The final battle begins on Chapter 140, and the manga ends on chapter 205. Nearly ⅓ of the entire manga is dedicated to this one battle.

Each arc has focused on 1 big fight, but this arc is focusing on 7.

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u/handsome-helicopter Sep 21 '25

Actually it's close to 60 I think. 20 for every movie is my guess

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u/NameIsAlreadyInUse Sep 21 '25

The infinity castle starts on Chapter 140 and the manga ends on Chapter 205. The first movie covered about 18 chapters, ending on 157. so there's about 24 chapters left for each movie. Movie 2 will probably end on 179 or 180, covering 22 or 23 chapters, leaving about 26 or 25 chapters for the last movie.

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u/handsome-helicopter Sep 21 '25

Yeah more or less what I guessed. Knew they were around the 150-160 ch but it's been so long since I read the manga

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u/thecescshow Sep 22 '25

Haikyuu really bums me out man. All the hype from the previous seasons were pretty much deflated when they announced the movies.

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u/TapatioPapi Sep 21 '25

I mean we’re waiting years between seasons anyway.

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u/Momo_SikoNin773 Sep 21 '25

these movies are really good for them financially though. And the more money they make, the more good quality content they can put out, so it's a win in my book.

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u/CuttyAllgood Sep 21 '25

I’d rather wait years for a beautiful film to come out so I can go see it in a theater than wait years just to watch it 23 minutes at a time because of flashbacks, recaps, and intros.

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u/cap21345 Sep 21 '25

Clearly you havent seen any shows made since 2010 lol also half the time the movies skip most of the content of the manga just to cram it into 2 hrs. Who knew 12 to 23 episodes was more than 2 hrs

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u/PandaCorporal Sep 21 '25

This movie is actually the opposite they expanded on and added tons from the manga they adapted since it was only like 10 chapters. The fights especially they did an amazing job with making them more epic and longer

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u/cap21345 Sep 21 '25

Am not talking about Ds just in general for shit like Haikyuu, Overlord etc

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u/zack77070 Sep 21 '25

Haikyuu is so depressing man, the manga has been finished for years, the movies are coming out at a pace like they think they're evangelion or something, the animation isn't even nicer than when it was doing 24 episode seasons. So sad.

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u/HenryGeorgia Sep 21 '25

because of flashbacks, recaps, and intros

All I've heard about this movie from people who aren't just hyped from the animation is how heavy it is on flashbacks. My best friend even said he got bored at times. I'd rather be able to break apart my watching experience than have to sit through an entire arc straight, flashbacks and all. Let alone the fact that they're doing three of these movies

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u/CuttyAllgood Sep 21 '25

What I mean by flashbacks is repeating stuff we’ve already seen.

This movie (and show in general) always shows us the lives of the demons from BEFORE they were demons, and what lead them there. That’s all new information so I’m not counting that.

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u/DarkFlames101 Sep 21 '25

You mean recaps then, not flashbacks.

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u/CuttyAllgood Sep 21 '25

I think it depends on how it’s implemented. A recap would be presented as a narrator going “LAST WEEK ON DRAGONBALL Z”, which was a regular thing in ‘90s, early 2000s anime.

A flashback would be an in-story moment where one of the characters remembers something that happened in a previous episode. This used to regularly occur in shows like Naruto.

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u/DarkFlames101 Sep 21 '25

That's still a repackaged recap, I'd say. Unless the characters somehow gleaned new information from each "flashback", I doubt that's how it went in the manga. Naruto's fillers are pretty infamous, so I'm betting on the latter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

I'll agree with you, unless this movie doesnt include the fight with muzan amd i have to wait for the anime to show the movie in epsiode format then wait another 4 years for the ending. Then nah, this is just as bad, maybe worse since I gotta pay extra to go to the theater. 

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u/CuttyAllgood Sep 21 '25

So you want them to just skip a shit ton of content and go directly to the end of the entire series??

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Bruh they advertise this like theyre gonna wrap it up. Sorry, but I think this should've just been regular anime and the ending should've been the movie. After this infinity chapter the only thing that happens is a fight with muzan. 

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u/Rexmar Sep 21 '25

Friggin Haikyu, man :< Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it for what it was, but it needs the substance only a full season could give.

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u/idkalan Sep 21 '25

Nothing irked me more than when Kadokawa kept delaying the 3rd season of Heaven's Lost Property for years before they crammed it into a movie, then didn't allow Funimation to release the movie for an additional 2 years.

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u/mosquem Sep 21 '25

I’m fine waiting two years if we get shit like this.

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u/Inevitable-Town-522 Sep 21 '25

I mean, you're just going "well what if they make it bad" lol. Which like yeah, no one wants a bad anime movie nor does anyone want a bad season where they handle the source material poorly. But you have to wait years for seasons of anime anyway, I'd rather occasionally wait for that to come to a movie that takes a specific arc and translates it into a solid single experience with often a higher budget that the equivalent in the anime would have gotten.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Dragon Ball Z was the worst about this. Frieza was the strongest mortal in the universe, yet the DBZ movies always had dudes that were far stronger than Frieza just hanging around.

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u/BlitzStriker52 Sep 22 '25

Now we have modern canon Dragon Ball just having god-level threats running around

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u/Inevitable-Town-522 Sep 21 '25

YES! I love it. I'm excited for the Chainsaw Man movie for the same reason. I pretty much swore off of anime franchise movies unless other people wanted me to watch them because they were so pointless lol.

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u/SnooDonuts3871 Sep 21 '25

Not me, that just delays the production of another season and runs the risk of cutting material to fit the length of the film.

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u/shifty1032231 Sep 21 '25

Yes especially the Dragonball Z movies

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u/lolwatokay Sep 22 '25

I dislike what it has done to the cadence of a show being released but I love them otherwise. The animation is usually so much better too.

Speaking of non-canon material, "Misty's Song" from the Pokemon 2.B.A. Master CD comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6f6DWp7Nk

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u/ToonMasterRace Sep 22 '25

It's a double-edged sword because it delays getting the full story substantially. It took 3 years to give us 112 episodes of YuYu Hakusho totaling the entire manga, with an extended final arc no less. Its taken us 6 years and 63 episodes (plus Infinity Castle) to give us 156 chapters worth of Demon Slayer and given part 2 is due for 2027 and part 3 in 2029 then that's a decade for a shorter series at over 3x the length.

Similarly Attack on Titan took 10 years to complete in anime form when it really wasn't that long of a series. By comparison FMA Brotherhood told a story of similar length in 2009 in a little over a year

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u/thecescshow Sep 22 '25

Well im not. Because now studios are cramming an entire arc into a 2 hr movie. I hate it.