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Popverse Jump: The case for giving the Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movies a worldwide release date - and why it could be bigger in America than Japan
With its unique popularity in the West and distribution companies that include Sony and Crunchyroll, the upcoming Demon Slayer movies could be the biggest anime film in Western box office history.
The world is primed and ready for the grand finale of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. For years, the series has been one of the biggest anime in the world, but the approaching Infinity Castle movie trilogy looks set to set records that the studio might not expect. While the Mugen Train movie remains the highest-grossing film in Japanese history, the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movies could prove more popular in the West than in Japan.
Research released over the summer of 2024 helps paint a picture of how the upcoming Demon Slayer movie will be received both in the West and in Japan. Specifically, it notes that the latest season of Demon Slayer – the Hashira Training arc – was significantly more popular in the US than it was in Japan. Demon Slayer skews so heavily toward the West
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