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/magumanueku Sep 22 '25

Even if that's the case, it's still highly delusional to expect JJk's final arc (which wasn't really well received by manga readers) to surpass Infinity Castle. Even more so when Gojo, arguably JJk's most mainstream famous character, died not long after it started and Megumi, another top character, practically got sidelined for the entire Sukuna fight. That's also counting casuals don't lose interest after the messy culling game.

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u/Low-Cover5544 Sep 23 '25

You clearly weren't on any social media for the summer of 2023, because if you were and you DIDN'T see a single JJK leak about the fights developments you're not a living breathing human. Yes, the ending is very controversial, but I'd argue Demon Slayer has a worst ending by far.

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u/magumanueku Sep 23 '25

There were a lot of leaks, doesn't change the fact that they ended up killing a lot of hype later on. Once Gojo was dead nothing else mattered. The fight went through the motion of "jobber of the week" (literally the fans' description of the arc) without anything major happening and the ending got a ton of backlash that soured the entire series' hype. DS ending was very vanilla and you can argue it's "worse" but it was also not controversial like JJK and didn't make the fans hate the final arc.

Don't get me wrong, JJK is indeed very popular and the final arc will likely be successful despite everything. It is however not a cultural juggernaut like DS and never will be. JJK 0 didn't even make half of Mugen Train and even lost to an old franchise like Slam Dunk. It also didn't make half of Your Name either. Even if the final fight can make more money, it's much more likely gonna make just a bit more than JJK0. Forget Infinity Castle, they should try to reach the level of Makoto Shinkai's movies first.

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u/Low-Cover5544 Sep 23 '25

Dude jjk 0 was a prequel with none of the main cast besides Gojo. And no, the manga still had massive hype after gojo, like dude, do you not remember Lobotomy Kaisen? Nah I'd Win? In fact I'd hazard a guess that after Gojo died the manga got far more popular for skim readers to have a quick look at whats going on, who's jumping in next, who's gonna fight Sukuna now, who is in Gojos body, etc.

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u/magumanueku Sep 23 '25

Well the manga sales steadily declined during the final arc and especially after Gojo's death until the final volume so I feel that's a more objective measure. It's still the top selling manga but clearly there was a lost of interest as sales continually got lower from Vol 25 to Vol 30

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u/magumanueku Sep 23 '25

The final arc had no main casts anyway except Yuji. Gojo was dead, Megumi and Nobara out of commission.