Demon Slayer pulls down $70 million for a record opening for an anime film

[Jman]

https://deadline.com/2025/09/box-office-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-conjuring-long-walk-1236529652/
 

37% Latino audience.  Latinos are never beating the weeb allegations.

[Mr. Idea Box]

Seventy million dollars. For the latest Demon Slayer movie.

I am not dunking on that film. That is a legitimate surprise, even regarding the past decade of anime in the US.

[[classic swim]]

A guy in Arizona was arrested for pissing on a child during a screening of this.

[scoobdog]

It was really fucking long.

[Jman]

6 hours ago, scoobdog said:

It was really fucking long.

It's basically 3 stories parallel.

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The recurring motif seemed to be revenge.  Even Zenitsu was completely locked in for being in a samurai revenge movie.  No jokes, no weird flirting, just straight up "You killed my master", stuff right out of a Shaw Brothers film.  

 

[scoobdog]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

It's basically 3 stories parallel.

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The recurring motif seemed to be revenge.  Even Zenitsu was completely locked in for being in a samurai revenge movie.  No jokes, no weird flirting, just straight up "You killed my master", stuff right out of a Shaw Brothers film.  

 

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Well, his master and his fiancée who is kind of thrown in there to give it some emotional weight, though neither is really fleshed out properly.

My real issue is that they tried to make it like four back to back to back to back episodes and the pacing got distracting.  You don’t necessarily care that there are charters that are unused because you’re supposed to know them anyway, but they still remind you that this is continuation of an episodic narrative and the arc has no real beginning or end.

[Toonamiguy321]

17 hours ago, [classic swim] said:

A guy in Arizona was arrested for pissing on a child during a screening of this.

 

8 hours ago, scoobdog said:

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Well, his master and his fiancée who is kind of thrown in there to give it some emotional weight, though neither is really fleshed out properly.

My real issue is that they tried to make it like four back to back to back to back episodes and the pacing got distracting.  You don’t necessarily care that there are charters that are unused because you’re supposed to know them anyway, but they still remind you that this is continuation of an episodic narrative and the arc has no real beginning or end.

Because despite their claim of not doing so, they absolutely are going to chop this up into episodes for a TV run in a few years. Just making it clean and easy. 

[scoobdog]

30 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

 

Because despite their claim of not doing so, they absolutely are going to chop this up into episodes for a TV run in a few years. Just making it clean and easy. 

Nothing clean or easy about that.  It would still have to be re worked to be an actual episodic ark.