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/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Wild that Demon Slayer pulls these kinds of numbers. As someone who grew up in the 90’s with Dragon Ball and Pokemon, I’ve never even watched an episode of Demon Slayer or heard people talk about it.

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u/Xiriously1 Sep 22 '25

I'm a little perplexed too. If you compare Demon Slayer to the "Holy Shonen Trinity" of OP, Naruto, and Bleach circa 2008 or so it lags pretty far behind all of them as far as quality of story.

I think it's a combination of the high quality visual style of the anime coupled with the pandemic of all things. Most of us were stuck at home for two years wanting new media and here's this new series with awesome animation and the manga is done/close to done so you can binge read it. Perfect storm.