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.

[naraku360]

23 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

I am not dunking on that film.

I am.

Because it's Demon Slayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Demon Slayer sucks.

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

When I saw that number I had to do a double take. Then I thought, okay that's gotta be worldwide, right? Surely that can't be what it made just here domestically. But nope, it's for reals. First anime movie to ever top the U.S. box office. Granted, it didn't have much competition, but still it did so well that it wasn't even close. Just imagine what the third film is gonna do.

Anyway, I want to see this so bad, but I haven't gotten to see Hashira Training yet, so...

[Jman]

How people want Hollywood to react - "You know, maybe there's a market for animation besides ugly looking comedian driven sitcoms, baby shows, and therapy session cartoons for women with weird colored hair!"

How Hollywood will react - 

[Mr. Idea Box]

57 minutes ago, Jman said:

How people want Hollywood to react - "You know, maybe there's a market for animation besides ugly looking comedian driven sitcoms, baby shows, and therapy session cartoons for women with weird colored hair!"

How Hollywood will react - 

I hate how right you are in this case. I really do.

[Top Gun]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

How people want Hollywood to react - "You know, maybe there's a market for animation besides ugly looking comedian driven sitcoms, baby shows, and therapy session cartoons for women with weird colored hair!"

How Hollywood will react - 

Hell I'd watch that. 

[Jman]

 

There’s a greater than zero chance this ends up making more money than Fantastic Four, for roughly a tenth of the price.

[naraku360]

4 hours ago, Jman said:

 

There’s a greater than zero chance this ends up making more money than Fantastic Four, for roughly a tenth of the price.

The worst timeline.

[PokeNirvash]

I know Shueisha's gonna get the majority of the profits that'll wind up trickling back down to the industry, but I hope ufotable gets big enough a share to do an ambitious original project once they've finally washed their hands of Demon Slayer as a franchise. 

[Blatch]

On 9/18/2025 at 10:25 AM, Jman said:

Looks like Mr. White Pharaoh's gonna have some competition.