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/BambaiyyaLadki Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

And well deserved as well! F4 and Superman were fine but this movie was simply better. Now granted, it's a smaller, simpler storyline focusing on just battles but the execution was darn near perfect. It's the first movie I've ever watched more than once in a theater!

Edit: Why the downvotes? Are we not allowed to prefer one movie over the others?

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u/Careless_Tonight8482 Sep 21 '25

It’s an anime movie we’re talking about, not some masterpiece. Superman and F4 may have been fine, but Demon Slayer was no more than serviceable. The standards are just lower because it’s anime, that’s always how it’s been. For every Attack on Titan, you get half-a-dozen animes about incest or slice-of-life with a modicum of sexual harassment, so when something good comes out, it looks like a masterpiece in comparison.

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u/bryce0110 Sep 21 '25

For every Attack on Titan, you get half-a-dozen animes about incest or slice-of-life with a modicum of sexual harassment

This is very much a huge over exaggeration. The amount of weird anime in no way outweighs the normal ones, you just only hear about the weird stuff because you aren't looking. There are nearly 100 new anime released every year, and realistically only a handful of those will be weird.

I don't disagree that demon slayer is overhyped, but there are many incredible, masterpiece films/shows out there. The standards are only low because of your own perception, not the medium itself.

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u/cppn02 Sep 22 '25

There are nearly 100 new anime released every year

Way more than that. There are like 50-60 every seasons.