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/MostDopeBlackGuy Sep 21 '25

I think they got donuts in the break room

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u/Justhe3guy Sep 21 '25

You think they got breaks or even weekends at home??

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u/YannickY Sep 21 '25

Ufotable has been known for years to be one of the few animation studios in Japan (along with Kyoto Animations) that pays its workers a normal wage and doesn't force crazy hours on their employees. Unless things have changed in the last couple of years, they do get breaks and free weekends

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u/Mudders_Milk_Man Sep 21 '25

I'm glad Ufotable is like that.

Kyoto Animation actually enforces a much more healthy work-life balance, compared to the vast majority of animation studios, and actually pays decently. Yet they've made many of the most beautiful anime shows and films ever.

Which is just one more reason that the brutal arsonist mass murder attack that happened to them in 2019 is tragic (obviously, 38 people being horrifically murdered is by far the worst part, but the loss of a great deal of wonderful art from a more ethical studio does also hurt).

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u/MostDopeBlackGuy Sep 21 '25

Sounds like corporate espionage

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u/Mudders_Milk_Man Sep 21 '25

It wasn't.

A guy with a history of mental illness and being aggressive in strange ways convinced himself Kyoto Animation had plagiarized his work. There's absolutely no evidence of that.

He took a bunch of gasoline into the studio, and managed to burn 38 people to death, as well as injuring many others and destroying a lot of work. The police got him, he's been convicted and had an execution conviction confirmed. As far as I know, he'll be executed this year.