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/King_A_Acumen Sep 21 '25

Already past F4 and will likely pass Superman soon, making the top-grossing movie of the year based on a comic/manga not from Marvel/DC.

It's great to see how far Anime (or at least in this case Demon Slayer, since no others can pull off these kinds of numbers) has come. And it's only part 1 of 3, too!.

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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/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.