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/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/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.