Thread 282182720

Saw it in the theater today, and damn, Ufotable cooked. Animation quality was amazing in the previous seasons, but this film is on a whole other level.

>>282182720 (OP)
I'm going in a few hours.

>>282182720 (OP)
Going on the afternoon here in hueland.

So many teens are mad for the fact the age rating was bumped all the way to 18+ while all previous theatrical releases were 16+. The rating board must have raised a stink on scenes like Akaza's mangled body and Doma playing with corpses.

>>282182720 (OP)
I'm wondering why the international release is keeping the movie title condensed with "Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle" while Japan went all out with "Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinity Castle - Part 1: Akaza's Return". The second movie will be called what internationally? Infinity Castle II?

>>282182890
I guess it's done just to keep it short enough. Official movie name here is "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle" while in the movie they are adding "Part 1: Akaza's Return"

No offense but why is this franchise so popular? I tried watching it but quit after a few episodes. It seems to be a standard story and lots of battles. Am I missing something?

>>282182948
It's like a normal battle shonen but for human beings instead of 80 IQ power scalers.

>>282182948
Sometimes being standard is what catches the masses, and the animation helps.

>>282182987
Why is it so popular in Japan, even among older people?

If these theatrical releases keep being rated for older audiences outside Japan, then they should just make Sanemi swear like a sailor just like in the /a/ scans.

>>282183011
Because it is very in touch with traditional Japanese values of the early 20th century, Tanjiro is what they want for a grandson.

>>282182948
Some times all you need it's a simple story that will appeal to the vast majority of people.

>>282182720 (OP)
Seeing it tonight in IMAX. Its finally his time!

>>282183192
What is thumbs up giyu from?

>>282182948
It has a very strong beginning and siblings usually work as main characters very well since there's no "ship" shit constantly. Sadly it turns to worse quite soon and made it unwatchable. pic related
I read it to the end and it was among the worst endings in manga that I have read. Also the whole thing feels very rushed like the mangaka hated it or something

>>282182948
Redditors and youtube essayists seem to be convinced that media needs to be "deep" in order to be popular, but the most popular things are consistently, just simply, good.

>>282183324
Only plebs hate this best written character.

Why do you think he was so popular?

>>282182948
>Am I missing something?
the story isnt targeted at you.

>>282183324
> it was among the worst endings in manga that I have read
Read more than two titles. The last chapter was the perfect conclusion to the manga. The entire manga is built around the Buddhist ideology of "do bad things - go to hell, do good things - receive good things in the next life".

>>282182720 (OP)
japan yes.

>>282182720 (OP)
Why did they fuck over Zenitsu so bad? He's the most popular character.

>>282182948
I liked the cute drawings.

>>282183320
No clue. Looks like fan art.

it was shit

I miss her bros

>>282183606
What do you mean?

>>282183606
They adapted his fight 1:1, he wasn't "screwed over" by expanding the Kaigaku fight for the sake of it, changing that fight in any way would completely change the theme of it.

>>282183678
Some people aren't happy that Zenitsu's fight is a 1:1 adaptation while Giyu got his dick sucked with an expanded and better showing against Akaza.

Previous Zenitsu scenes in the anime were a little enhanced compared to the manga, specially how Godspeed looks in the anime, so some people got used to preferential treatment to a point where a 1:1 adaptation looks "lacking"

>>282183366
>>282183606
Repeating this lie won't make it true.

>>282182948
It's pretty, very very pretty.

>>282183606
I can't imagine Zenitsu's fight not looking like a million bucks
Ufotable love him
But I guess I'll find out tomorrow

>>282183724
Denying reality won't make it a lie.

>>282183678
>>282183680
>>282183720
Most boring direction and worst fucking animation in the whole movie. No budget, no effort but every other fight got all the fucking tax evasion money poured into it. Zenitsu doesn't get any other big moment, this was all. They fucked him.

>>282183720
Probably because you can't extend Zenitsu's fight too much, since he is using IAI techniques. But they have added additional scenes to it, in manga he just regroups and finishes Kaigaku, while in the film - he charges for 20-30 seconds with an amazing animation sequence.

>>282183786
It looks good, but as said in >>282183720
It goes exactly as it went in the manga, there's no wow factor in which ufotable tries to make it even better like how went all out with Godspeed before.

>>282183796
>Zenitsu doesn't get any other big moment, this was all.
Not quite, he still has a little moment by the last stretch against Muzan.

>>282183720
>>282183796
Well I'd rather Shinobu and Giyu get the budget than Zenitsu this time around. Fucker had it good all this time. Also Kaigaku doesnt deserve the honor, the little shitbag.

>>282183825
>ufotable tries to make it even better like how went all out with Godspeed before.
Man, Goodspeed wasn't really a long scene, his last attack against Kaigaku is animated much better as I said here >>282183820

>>282183011
It's got a solid moral and emotional core and an adult theme of death that elevates the "people fight"

>>282182948
Demon Slayer is the MCU of shounen. It’s pretty to look at, makes a ton of money, and has just enough emotion to tug at your heartstrings. But it's easily as expendable as it is accessible. It's a one-and-done series you enjoy at the moment but once everything has been said and it's out of the equation, you don't think much about it and move on with your life.

>>282183820
>>282183863
You have an unique point of view regarding what makes the 7th Form enhanced in the movie while Godspeed isn't quite like it. To me is the exact opposite.

Godspeed is infinitely more enhanced in fhe anime, it doesn't even look like the same attack from the manga, it looks much stronger. The 7th Form does get the enhanced charging sequence but the technique has no enhanced speed momentum or damage scale on the level Godspeed had in the anime.

>>282183915
It's still leagues better than Attack on Titan,MHA and Chainsawman.

At least it's consistently entertaining while having a bit of depth.

>>282183935
AOT has a lot more depth though and the premise is way more interesting, it's not even close

>>282183935
>having a bit of depth.
It really doesn't. It's not that deep, it's just another shounen. And whether it's better than Shingeki, CSM or BNHA is another thing, but at least when a story is trash, I feel something even if it's just anger. I felt nothing from Demon Slayer.

Why'd it take so long to see Kaigaku's face?
I'm almost done rewatching the series, and it's always hidden until this movie, iirc.
What's the deal with that? It's just a normal face?

>>282183720
zenitsu fans aren't people so based decision

Why isn't it released simultaneously worldwide?
Two month delay between Japanese release and Western release is hard to understand.

>>282184113
He was a lot more hidden in general in the manga, like the bit with him being one of Himejima's orphan kids was something you'd only catch by paying close attention when his magatama was shown in a panel.

>>282182948
It's the most generic shonenslop imaginable with 0 redeeming qualities. It's popular with old ladies in japan. Nobody else cares about it.

Series ended 5 years ago and dedicated fags still seething about its success.

>>282184432
If I had to make a comparison, Demon Slayer is pretty much comfort food like lasagna or spaghetti given how it blew up during the pandemic where normalfags and obaasans were locked indoors for a whole year and got traumatized so they watched anime on Netflix to seek refuge and this one just happened to be the one they locked onto by how generic and inoffensive it is

Pretty much the Harry Potter of anime

>>282182948
Tourists.

>>282182720 (OP)
Already saw it pirated, is it worth the movie trip and ticket?

>>282184802
You said you've already pirated it, how can you not know if it is worth a trip or not?

>>282184883
I mean, i want to know how the effects and all look on a big screen

when are we getting a good quality rip?

I've almost forgotten this arc
Gonna be great to see it tomorrow and be reminded of how good this series can be

Tomorrow for me, pretty hyped.

Just watched it in cinema. Too many flashbacks. Absurdly.
But movie is good.

>>282185798
Just wait for next movie, kokushibo has like three alone for himself.

>>282185826
Damn.

>>282185869
Next movie had
>inosuke
>sanemi
>Koku being pathetic #1-3
Fir flashbacks.

>>282185946
>next movie
>koku
Huh? that soon? The three parts includes Muzan's death too?

>>282186116
Yeah, with 2.5-3 hour movies they should be able to cover all manga in 3 parts

>>282186116
If these movies keep being long ass 2 hours and 35 minutes each, then yes, it can actually cover everything all the way to end by the 3rd movie.

Akaza's movie alone covered about 17 chapters.

>>282186602
I predict that they'll end the last movie at praying before the blue spider lilies on the graves of the Kamados and save the extra stuff like the will sequence and future epilogue for a TV special.

search for me in the archives in 2030 with the keyword: Disenfranchised Cyclohexylamine

>>282185643
The original one from July looked good enough for me, but now that the movie is being released internationally there will be plenty of new CamRips popping out so look out for those.

Every review I read of this movie so far is that it's beautiful to look at, but shallow to experience with a simple boss rush structure and no real arcs. MC is sidelined, the imouto is absent, side characters take over and cliffhangers unresolved. They also complain that it's marketed as a movie, but is really TV season padding made as a trilogy for money.

Oh and flashbacks killing the pacing. Too many flashbacks. They did say Akaza was the best part, though.

>>282183915
the difference is that KNY ended, unlike the MCU

>>282182720 (OP)
how far into the castle does the movie get?
does zenitsu get his big fight done with?

>>282183011
It's not post modernist or modernist at all, the morality of the story is played straight, which is important for capturing an older audience (if you want them). Never does Tanjiro have to make a morally grey decision and he's treated as the ideal, virtuous protagonist like classic stories. The setting being Taisho Japan also helps.

>>282182720 (OP)
I'm still not going to watch this slop.

>>282185751
>>282184113
Kaigaku is a girl, what changes?

>>282187302
It covers three fights

Zenitsu vs Kaigaku
Shinobu vs Doma
Tanjiro & Giyu vs Akaza

All to the end, well to Shinobu's end that is.

>>282187302
End of chapter 157

>>282187392
People feel more simpathetic to her plight
Sorry, I meant sympathetic.

>>282187541
Actually about halfway through 157

I want to watch this, does this show have side character clutter? I’ve been allergic to character overload due to Bleach.

>>282187608
It's one of the few shonen that uses every side character for something.

>>282187648
Is this good or bad

>>282187648
And also neglects the MC and the heroine

>>282187573
they also ship her with zenitus, and there's a ship war between those and the yaoi shippers

>>282187713
It gives them plenty of focus.

>>282182948
I never really heard of it until it suddenly showed up all over the place during Covid, so I was always under the impression it was a right time right place thing since everyone locked inside had to find something to watch

>>282182948
the animation isnt impresive for someone who went to vhs clubs to watch vampire hunter d akira hokuto no ken onisama e midnight goku bublegum crisis cobra. even without the animation the plot of those animes are way more interesting and tried to show how techonlogy was going to be a important element to control in future societies and doenst surrender to nihilism. here in demon slayer i just watch generic stuff like flashback of the enemy after he was killed, so i dont give a fuck, battle with lights and a lot of movement to impress tik tok modern anime audiences, and a generic revenge plot. it isnt bad if you like it, its just 12 temples executed way better with an interesting edo. but i cant say the same with lobotomy kaisen

>>282188099
That narrative falls down when the momentum kept going much after COVID, and just 2 months ago Shueisha updated the series' lifetime manga sales to 220 million, meaning it sold more 70 million copies after 2020 with the numbers then being 150 million.

This movie has already grossed 300 million dollars with Japan and some of Asia theaters only, making it the 4th best box office in Japan currently, with the 1st place being Mugen Train still.

>>282188094
>MC
Gets sidelined for the side characters
>Imouto
Sleeps throughout the arc

They're not given focus, they're being disrespected in favor of characters who aren't even main characters

>>282182948
Finish it, some parts are kino and most are low Tier shonen

>>282188221
it's very likely to beat superman and The Fantastic Four at the box office

>>282188245
Wrong in all accounts.

>>282188245
found the naruto fan, what were you expecting? For Tanjiro to unlock god mode and beat everyone?

>>282188300
Tough job on Superman, but in terms of profit is absolutely destroys them, this movie likely didn't cost much more then Mugen Train at 43 million dollars, this one be around 60 to 80 million.

>>282188363
They actually said the cost of the trilogy is cheap as fuck, like this movie has a budget of 20 million USD on the panphlet.

>>282182720 (OP)
Even though it’s only been released in Asia so far, this movie is already closing in on Mugen Train’s total worldwide box office.
Once it opens in the West starting tomorrow, it will likely set an unprecedented record for an anime film, one that won’t be broken for more than a decade.

It's made 100+ million on asia alone outside of japan so far.
It's 20 million away from breaking mt's record overseas and it hasn't released in the big markets yet.

>>282188363
Since the CGI for Infinity Castle required the addition of a new state-of-the-art CPU, the production costs are probably several million dollars higher than Mugen Train.
That said, it’s still just an anime film, so the budget is limited. The highest production cost in Japanese anime history to date is said to be Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, at around 40 million dollars.

I'm glad I managed to make a proper discussion with anons and hear their proper criticisms regarding the movie and the series in general while some them admitted some of the positives and enjoyment of the series in general.

I'm always going to point out hiw I like Tanjiro as a protagonist and he's definitely superior to the likes of losers like Eren, Deku, and Denji.

>>282188584
Honestly, the criticisms are as expected, the IF arc was flashback heavy and in a movie format they just keep coming one after another compared to a tv series.
But the quality is fantastic.

>>282187706
It's good but it's not the only way. There's appeal in a simulationist spokon kind of thing where you're supposed to imagine side characters having their own stories offscreen and not everyone is introduced into the story for a specific role.

>>282188584
kids admire Tanjiro more than they admire their fathers

>>282188363
probably a third of those numbers for both MT and this.

>>282188484
To think it'd be at 400+ million usd if the yen didn't go to shit.
It's legitimately a bigger movie at this point.

>>282188431
>>282188484
> Loses to Akaza in the main story.

>On the global box office stage, his movie is already on the verge of losing to Akaza’s movie.

>Even in Japan’s domestic box office, at this pace he’s about to lose to Akaza’s movie too.

Why is he always destined to keep losing?

>>282188329
Nah
>>282188344
Demon Slayer is inspired by Naruto
And at least Naruto remembers that Naruto is Naruto's story

>>282188632
so basically the others characters have stories and we ahve to iamgine them? It'd be dumb to imagine zenitsu vs kaigaku or pillars vs koku, but I'd rather just see it

>>282188698
The works that KnY is strongly influenced by are Bleach, Berserk, JoJo, and HxH, while the influence from Naruto is limited.
About the only part that felt Naruto-like was Demon King Tanjiro resembling the Nine-Tails.

>>282188698
and it's also inspired by bleach, demon slayer remembers that it's about demon slaying, it's not called Tanjiro after all

An anon in another thread pointed out that Kimetsu's breathing is basically similar to Jojo's Hamon but I disagree that's it's a straight copy.

The Breathing Styles just enables the Demon Slayers to reach peak human performance but it's still an uphill battle since the Demons are still OP without fighting dirty and taking advantage of the demons' arrogance.

Also, Hamon users could easily beat Muzan and the Demons because they can apply sunlight to anything unlike the Slayer who need Nichirin Blade to fight or they are fucked.

>>282188791
practice your english and reread the posts

>>282182720 (OP)
fr fr

>>282188820
Eh they're both a fantasy of peak human performance. You can't cut a rock with a sword, that's magic.

>>282188804
Cope
Naruto is the blueprint and not Hiatus x Hiatus or Cuckserk
>Gotoge revealed the top three manga that inspired Demon Slayer.
>“There are too many [manga] to count, but if I had to choose the top three, they’d be Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Naruto and Bleach.”

>Koyoharu Gotoge: “I don't think I could be as the master authors of Bleach and Naruto, Tite Kubo and Masashi Kishimoto, respectively, in my entire life."

>>282188851
>Bleach and Naruto, Tite Kubo and Masashi Kishimoto

>>282188099
It's a testament to the power of two things:
Flashy animation and good direction

The manga fucking sucks. It's ugly and stupid and terribly paced and the fights are visual soup with no sense of geography or choreography.
To say that UFOtable does a lot of heavy lifting would be such an incredible understatement that there should a new stronger word for it.

>>282188950
The manga is pretty solid, some fights are spectacular, but I think it has its faults. Overall it's a solid 8/10 with some great scenes.

I guess I'll be seeing it Monday. It's funny how the only time I drag my ass to a movie theater is to watch weeb shit every couple of years.

>>282188851
KnY contains countless essences of HxH. The part being adapted in the current movie is, quite literally, the Chimera Ant arc rebuilt in Gotouge’s style.
As for Naruto, the only real essence it has is Demon King Tanjiro’s final technique, which resembled a Tailed Beast Bomb.
I wouldn’t say Gotouge loves HxH the most, but along with JoJo, Bleach, Berserk, and Shigurui, it’s clearly one of the top works that influenced her, and from the looks of it, Naruto doesn’t even make her top ten.

>>282189016
>Shinobu weighs 37 kilograms.

Imagine eqsily lifting her up during love-making.

>>282188851
I think Gotouge is just saying Naruto for the sake of it lol. I really don't see any Naruto resemblance. It's more closer to Bleach with Hollow of the week format.

>>282188851
Hello Narutard.
Long time no see.

>>282189009
I don't want to be mean, but if you think the Demon Slayer manga is better than a 5/10 you need to read some better manga.

>>282188851
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>282189164
Then suggest better manga to reccomend, Anon.

>>282188698
Naruto forgot the story was about Naruto and hard focused on Sasuke.

gotouge more like gotouGAY

$316M, so far. Not too shabby for weeb flick. But still beer money to what Hollywood makes on average.
>>282188300
>Superman
$619M, and it's actually still running on theaters. A milestone no anime movie will ever reach.
>Fantastic Four
Got mogged by Superman, but still made $515M, more than the highest selling Japanese movie and that movie was ass.
>>282188484
>It's 20 million away from breaking mt's record overseas
Sorry chief, you need $190M to beat it and from the looks of it, Japan is tapped out. Wanna know how much it earned today? ¥100M. Japan did a lot of carrying with the holiday boosts. And Asia alone can't carry it to $500M without China. LATAM? Will do numbers, but Mexico is what really matters and unless you're Dragon Ball, you won't make $10M. Europe? Only France matters for anime and right now, I hear The Conjuring debuted as #1 today. It's right now at $243.6M. How does it feel that some horror flick in less than a week almost beat a weeb flick in 2 months? America? See you on Sunday. NFL is gonna brutal. They mogged The Conjuring and they'll mog Demon Slayer too.

>>282189281
>But still beer money to what Hollywood makes on average.
300 million in profit? Hollywood kills for those margins, jeremy.
>Sorry chief, you need $190M to beat it
OVERSEAS, retard.
>Japan is tapped out.
Still outpacing the movie that made 40 billion there by a whole two weeks (after its own christmas boost btw).

>>282189281
Hi Jeremy. I'm glad I made an early thread and made a proper discussion with anons with your skitzo ass ruining it.

>>282188851
Gotouge actually said that Berserk was one of her favorite works outside of Jump.
The only reason Naruto was mentioned was because it was a big name within Jump, and she was just being considerate toward Shueisha.

>>282189217
>Togashi shilled KNY
>Gotoge gave him the cold shoulder and name dropped Kishimoto
I expected no less from the mastermind behind Naruto
>>282189112
Cope
>>282189077
>hiatuscuck cope
Kek

>>282189338
>cuckserk cope
Even more buckbroken than Hiatuscucks

>>282182720 (OP)
He's so close I can smell it. next year is Kimetsu's 10th anniversary

>>282189281
Just a few weeks ago, you were loudly claiming this movie would be a huge flop and end up below Mugen Train in worldwide box office. Please explain the current situation, where with only an Asian release it’s already closing in on Mugen Train’s global total.

>The fights are also just a drag. The artificial stakes keeps breaking my immersion and why I can't get into Demon Slayer. We know Nezuko isn't gonna die since she's one of the main characters. And then she gets saved by a new ability from out of nowhere. This story plays everything too safe. No one except Rengoku dies until the final arc. A story with proper stakes would have killed many important characters along the way, not wait until the end of the story where it's the safest time to start killing your darlings.

I agree with most of that anon's criticisms but this one is weird. Berserk only had the Band of Hawk dying until the Eclipse but the story still has proper stakes and tension.

>>282189473
the entire reason the entertainment district arc is so much better than every other arc is that things genuinely look hopeless before a turnaround that is (for once) well established prior

>>282189473
Unironic GoT brainrot. People just HAVE to die.

>>282189517
There's also how it also explores Japan's seedier aspects of society in the form of prostitution.

If the author didn't rush it,I'd feel like it would explore more. Maybe elaborate on Doma's cult or maybe imply that Muzan has foreign connections.

>>282189473
Wasnt this the same anon that said Nezuko should have died during swordsmith?

>>282189585
No, that wouldn’t work.

Just think about what would happen if, after the Swordsmith Village arc, they did an “Akaza Revenge” arc, then a “Doma Cult” arc, then a “Kokushibo and the Fate of the Earrings” arc in order, and only after all that wrapped it up with the Muzan arc as the final arc. It would drag on endlessly and become unbearably boring.

>>282189680
Yeah but that would be a very pointless death since it's always been hinted that Nezuko is a special kind of demon that Muzan neglected to find out.

Nezuko bros...

>>282188245
Okay but does it have the equivalent of FKT arc in Bleach?

>>282189700
>>282189585
The fast pace of the manga is one of the few good things going for it. It would have been nice if Muzan dropped a few lines about how he spent time outside of the country but mostly kept a low profile in Japan because that was the only known location of the blue spider lily, or something like that, but nothing more.

Didn't watch the 2 previous seasons but I read the Manga. Will be watching it 90 minutes from now on the big screen. Thank god it's subbed.

>>282189317
>300 million in profit? Hollywood kills for those margins, jeremy.
Not really, it's literally beer money for Hollywood. Thunderbolts made $382M and it was considered a flop in Disney's eyes. The Conjuring made $243M in just 6 days, and it's still growing. It's closing in on what Infinity Castle made in 2 months on record time. $300M is nothing to what Hollywood earns on average.
>OVERSEAS, retard.
I'm aware. Still won't beat it overall.
>Still outpacing the movie that made 40 billion there by a whole two weeks
USD >>> Yen

>>282189735
Hey she was there to gasp for air while being sick.
>>282189772
Prepare for cawing. Make sure to pee as well, it runs for 2h30m.

>>282189735

You think that's bad?

>Kaigaku is hype in advertisments as being part of the Upper Ranks.
>Gets killed by Zenitsu so fast and gets KWABed (Kek what a bitch.)

>>282189790
>Thunderbolts made $382M and it was considered a flop
You do understand the difference between money and revenue or not?
The thunderbolts lost money.
Superman barely made 50 million.
Demon slayer has made 300 million IN PROFIT at this point, and that's all they care PROFIT MARGINS.

>>282189700
Yeah I agree. I like how short the manga is.
The story not speeding up immediately after Nezuko conquers the sun would be strange, too.

>>282189790
>thunderbolts budget 180 million, double that for marketing
So uhhhh like 20-25 million profit if you're optimistic.

>>282189830
Anon, stop arguing with the local shitzo.

He'll always deny how Kimetsu beat his precious My Hero Academia like a butthurt bitch.

Is anyone struggling to get past the beginning episodes of Naruto because of how childish it is?

>>282189790
>>282189865
>It is one of the lowest grossing MCU films, with Variety reporting that it needed to earn an "unachievable" $425 million worldwide to break-even
Lmao. So a 240 million marketing budget for a literal who marvelslop spinoff. Hollywood is out of its fucking mind.

>>282189905
It was complete axebait aside from Kakashi carrying

>>282189830
Hollywood don't give a fuck about profit margins alone, they care about scale + franchise sustainability. Disney and Warner would never greenlight a blockbuster that caps at $300M, because they need billion-dollar hits to feed their machine. Anime films succeed because they're cheap to make, but that also proves their global ceiling is low.

So again, $300M is beer money to Hollywood on average.

>>282189935
I think what ruined it for me is that I have zero nostalgia for Naruto.

>>282189935
*the second chapter of Naruto is one of the most dangerously pointless delays in a first volume of a non-axed manga you'll ever see

>>282189473
My biggest gripe is shoving all the character interactions (mainly the Hashira) into the fanbooks or Taisho secrets.

>>282189830
>Thunderbolts lost money
It made 100 million dollars in profit
>Superman barely made 50 million
Superman made in the neighborhood of 200 million in profit
>That's all they care PROFIT MARGINS
Except no, in all three cases the direct profit is just gravy. The goal is to build and maintain franchises with positive brand recognition.

>Sanemi's fight is in the next one
Shame, he's the best of them all.

>>282189866
Stop talking to yourself, fag. I care very little of your ex-girlfriend MHA-chan (nice porn though), lol. Your two and a half hour flashback flick is still about to get beat by The Conjuring in lesser time (that movie was mid btw). NFL will still hurt its earnings in America by Sunday and this is actually bad btw. Anime movies rely on Friday-Sunday more than anyone else. Happened to The Conjuring (mid but a mainstream hit).

Btw, you gonma watch football by Sunday? The Chiefs are up against the Eagles. You should give the NFL a shot, I'm not even kidding, you'd drown in pussy. Guaranteed.

>>282190142
KWAB.

>>282190140
You mean GODjima's fight?

>>282190059
It's kinda crazy that Mitsuri didn't have a bigger reaction to Rengoku's death, considering they trained together.
It also makes the fact that she walks around with her chest completely exposed quite funny to me.

>google AI says mugen train budget was $15 million, and mugen castle is likely much higher at $390 million
Heh heh. Realistically the budget was probably around $20-30 million, pretty insane.

>>282190142
>NFL
Take that shit to /sp/

>>282189861
In reality, this manga isn’t short at all. At 23 volumes, it’s actually longer than Yu Yu Hakusho, and for a popular series it’s about an average length.
Thanks to Wan Piss, everyone’s sense of scale has been warped, but not too long ago even Dragon Ball’s 42 volumes were considered an unbelievably long epic.

Gimme some KnY reaction pics

>>282189281
>Japan is tapped out

The sales pace in Japan is still ahead of Mugen Train. And outside of Japan, in the rest of Asia, it has already surpassed Mugen Train.

>Doma's backstory and Shinobu story is eh
>Zenitsu's revenge story is pretty decent
>Akasa's backstory was actually good

I think I'm in for a good time.gonna be a decent movie I wager

What does he do?

>>282190562
As far as the movie goes Akaza>>>>>Shinobu>>Zenitsu.
Shinobu got a ton of kove and Hayami was good as the seething womanlet.

>>282190499
The smuggest.

Was the action hard to follow on the IMAX screen?

>>282190344
I liked the part in Swordsmith Village where she casually says to Tanjiro see you again if we're both still alive, which means she does have full consciousness that death is the job despite being pretty much a comedy character.

>>282190732
It's not a Gyuyaro vs. Tengen fight. Kaigaku's is pretty slow despite being lightning. Douma was just fucking around. Akaza is still Akaza.

You guys watching sub or dub? About to buy tickets

>>282190822
I actively try not to be a sub snob but I can't tolerate the DS dub at all. There's so many unfitting shitter voices that are doing ludicrously bad cartoon affections on top of the scripts and timing always being terrible.

>>282182720 (OP)
Its literally 2 hours of flashbacks and maybe 30 minutes of fighting sprinkled in

By the way, how was he able to host a screening just a few weeks before the Western release?
I can’t believe Crunchyroll allowed that just because he’s a star player in the PL.

>>282190822
Sub, but I am interested in seeing it again in dub just for Channing Tatum

>>282184432
>It's the most generic shonenslop imaginable with 0 redeeming qualities.
You described Jujutsu Kaisen
>Nobody else cares about it.
That's why is totally not making shitload of monay overseas, right?

>>282190852
Everything about Amerifat dubs feels so amateur even when they spend money. Like that Dandadan music episode with the metal band, the dub version has really strange sound mixing that sounds terrible even though they brought in moderately famous musicians. Everything feels like it was done by lazy high school students.

>>282190822
Sub. The DS sub is atrocious.

>>282190902
They held screenings before Thursday
And it's no secret thay he's a hoodweeb, if you follow his Instagram, it's full of anime like Naruto and JJK

>>282182720 (OP)
They covered so much. Next movie is kokushibo and douma next is sunrise countdown?

>>282190394
Nerd

>>282191172
Most likely.

>>282191172
Douma fighting in both movies seems cool
I thought not getting his own movie would suck, but surviving this long might make him look even better

>>282191013
>That's why is totally not making shitload of monay overseas
With Japan doing a lot of carrying btw

>>282191247
His fight was atrocious so I'm glad they cut him and focused on UM3 and UM1 instead

>>282191254
>100 million overseas before hitting usa and europe
No, it's doing amazingly well and by the end of its run will be a clean 50:50 split between japan and overseas (this is good).

>>282191291
3/4 of the total gross from Japan btw

>>282189473
The key point is that they killed Rengoku off quickly in the Mugen Train arc, which was still early in the story. That firmly established the image that “this series, like JoJo or HxH, kills off major characters easily,” and it succeeded in giving every battle a sense of tension.

In fact, during the RLD arc, readers were still traumatized from Mugen Train and feared that Uzui or Inosuke might die. If there was any sag in tension, it was only in the Swordsmith Village arc.

The Infinity Castle arc, on the other hand, was filled with tension: Shinobu was killed off early, Giyu nearly died, and Muichiro and Genya were brutally killed. Every fight carried a palpable sense of danger.

The idea that “nobody dies until the very end, so there’s no tension” is only the perspective of someone who already knows the outcome from the start.

>>282182948
The key to a big moneymaking franchise is to have a setting where the good guys all have relatively the same powers with their own personal style. See Jedis, Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Dragonball, etc.

>>282191291
My prediction is that this movie will probably earn more overseas than in Japan.
One reason is that the series’ popularity outside Japan has grown significantly compared to the time of Mugen Train. In fact, even now, its box office revenue in Asia outside Japan has already surpassed Mugen Train.
Another reason is that the value of the yen has dropped sharply compared to five years ago.

>>282191371
People always claim KnY has a high body count and while it does it doesn’t do it in a way that’s axtually interesting or matters. The only character death that really mattered was Rengoku, every other character that died did so during the final arc and most of them during the final battle itself. Who cares about Kanroji or Iguro dying (especially Iguro since he got all his development mid Muzan fight) dying when literally 3 chapters later the manga ended. Lots of manga kill off their cast at the end.

>>282191371
>Shinobu was killed off early
Did anyone here not think Shinobu was dead, when first reading the manga?
The fact that Douma absorbs her, something we've never seen a demon do up to now, really made me believe Kanao was going to cut her out of his body, Little Red Riding Hood style.
I just didn't feel the tension when Shinobu first died because it was only when Douma died and the fight was fully over that I even realized
>Wait, where's Shinobu?
>She's... dead?! Really dead??
I know I can be a bit slow but I can't be the only one who didn't catch that she was *dead* dead when she first died...right?
I kinda just wish Douma violently cannibalized her corpse like a starved maniac
Would have been easy to understand and insanely horrifying
and hot

>>282191695
In the final battle, the majority of characters dying is something JoJo does as well.
If someone were to die every single time, it would just become a pattern of “ok, again,” and people would stop feeling anything about character deaths.

Your point might hold if KnY were structured like One Piece or Naruto with dozens of arcs, but in reality there are only four arcs total from Mugen Train. Mugen Train had Rengoku’s death, RLD had Tengen becoming a permanently disabled veteran, Swordsmith Village had everyone survive, and Infinity Castle was a bloodbath. That’s a smart way of dividing up the pattern.

>>282191719
It's shocking but when the idea of her, a self professed weakling, straight up 1v1s UM2 without waiting for back up, sinks in. You can accept her own death as her being too impulsive.

>>282191695
>Lots of manga kill off their cast at the end.
Name 5 mangas that did it.
why do you ignore the Upper moon 1 deaths? Or shinobu? Fucking assuring the death of Upper moon 2 was important.

>>282191908
>Akame ga Kill
>Devilman
>Gantz
>Stone Ocean
>Bokurano
>Elfen Lied
Who cares about Shinobu. She doesn't do anything until her first real fight and big finale, she's a plot device

>>282191719
I didnt believe Genya died at first.

>>282191908
Dragon Ball kills off every main character except Goku and Vegeta in its final arc. However, that’s the complete opposite of creating tension.
In shonen manga besides KnY, the only series that truly kills off a large number of characters in the final battle is probably JoJo.

What makes people think part 2 won't just be one hour of Douma after how they handled Pillar Training?

>>282192080
Mamoru Miyano is expensive

>>282192061
>Dragon Ball
Muted by the fact that Dragon Balls exist and somehow they can still cheat out the 1 time resurrection limit.

>>282192055
>genocide endings
Retard.

>>282183324
Nah the ending was good. But the "final FINAL fight" should have gone a lot longer, but that is my only gripe.

>>282191875
>Mugen Train had Rengoku’s death, RLD had Tengen becoming a permanently disabled veteran, Swordsmith Village had everyone survive, and Infinity Castle was a bloodbath. That’s a smart way of dividing up the pattern.
An incredible flow to things. You can really see how planned out things were.
As disappointed as I was with the lack of tension in SSV first time round, it all comes crashing back in the castle and made it all worth it.

>>282192105
Every single VA in these is expensive.

>>282192055
>Can’t even list proper names, so all you bring up are seinen and monor works.
>The only shonen you mentioned is basically a “sekai-kei” with a bad ending.
>Shinobu’s a character I hate, so I’m not counting her.

>>282192061
Akame ga Kill is one of the few shonen that actually does it right where KNY fails. It actually commits to killing off the characters as the story goes. AOT started out that way too, but it became apparent over time that our group of heroes were always going to be fine, and the illusion was shattered

You could never count on the main cast having plot armor. When Mein squared off against Esdeath in the Tatsumi rescue mission there was a real chance she'd have bought it right there (and in the anime she actually did)

In KNY, every major character death is reserved for the finale because it's the safest time to kill off your characters and you won't get so much backlash

>>282192105
Ufo (tax evasion) table we are talking about.

>>282192184
You didn't say shonen, you asked manga and I gave you the answer
And there's a difference between killing off a side character you rarely see and killing off a major character you know

>>282190822
I am open to dubs and like some of them. KnY is not one of them.

>>282192144
They're not expensive, a lot of these VAs are in indie mobile games
You could prolly afford them too if you have the money

>>282191908
Off the top of my head for series that waited until the end to trim away its supporting cast
TTGL killed off the fodder dudes
Katanagatari did away the whole ninja clan and a couple of the main characters
Bleach, JJK and FMA killed off several named side characters

>>282191695
>Lots of manga kill off their cast at the end
Considering most newer shounen cop out with even that (MHA) it was a pretty big deal. Imagine having a major final fight with zero casualties.

>>282192347
>JJK
Lierally none except for gojo and fucking kashimo.

>>282192370
Fair I just threw that in
Ending was so forgettable I just assumed all the people who threw themselves at Sukuna had died

>>282192415
All retconned.

Reincarnation. Cop out epilouge or no?

>>282192474
Arguably is one but the cycle of reincarnation being referenced a lot previously saves it.

>>282192474
Nah. It's been an aspect of the story since the hand demon and is consistently brought up throughout the rest of the story.
I don't like it, but then again I don't like any of the supernatural elements (inherited memories, ghost kids, etc) that aren't related to Muzan's blood. So whatever.

>>282192474
It is a cop-out especially with bullshit like Iguro and Mitsuri. The nips fucking love reincarnation, to see it as genuine closure. Tons of series use it as a crutch without complaint, and I hate it. It's only one facet of why nips suck at endings in general.

the fights and animation were top tier, but those flashbacks ruined the entire flow of the movie. i get it that they are meant to build the surroundings and the tension, but that kind of stuff only works in a seasonal type anime, in a movie setting it's disastrous and kills the momentum of the action

>>282192661
>Akaza refuses to fucking die
>*cue 30 minute flashback*
It didn't really need to be that long desu.

>>282192232
Aren’t you under the mistaken impression that killing off characters left and right is what makes a series “ballsy”?
Even in relatively harsh worlds like HxH and SnK, very few main characters actually die,maybe two at most.
KnY and JoJoall pile up deaths in the final arc, and for good reason, it gives credibility to the idea that such sacrifices are necessary to defeat an overwhelmingly strong final boss.
Plus, if main characters kept dying one after another along the way, it would just become repetitive and boring.

You act like KnY is uniquely guilty of “not killing off characters until the final arc,” but you’re ignoring the fact that even other so-called hardcore manga follow the same pattern.

And the fact that the best example you could come up with was something as obscure as Akame ga Kill, a minor Gangan title, only shows how off-base your whole argument really is.

>>282190822
dub, but not in engl*sh

>>282192347
Did any named characters besides Hughes actually die in FMA?
Honestly, Hughes never seemed like that important of a character to me, so I’ve always wondered why his death scene is treated as such a big deal.
It would’ve been far more shocking if Armstrong had died instead.

>>282192661
Nothing will top the placement of Iguro's flashback.
I couldn't believe that was happening while reading it
I get that he hadn't had one yet but christ, it's the final battle, dude!

>>282192834
Ninja gramps, Greed, Hohenheim, Buccaneer on the good guy side
Bad guy side doesn't really count I guess but they did all go down together in the final arc, even Kimbley

>>282192474
Since the characters’ lives in the present world were made so cruel, giving fanservice in the epilogue by showing their reincarnated selves feels like it’s been a trend for the past ten years or so.

>>282192962
Mikasa and Armin got a happy ending in the present though, it was Eren who got fucked over.

>>282192474
Not
the point of it and the point of setting the whole thing a hundred years ago was that no matter what, the characters you cared about were dead whether they lived through the final battle or were marked or whatever and that world is gone. Honestly perplexing to me that power scaler teenage boys were too stupid to get it.

>>282192722
Never said high death count = good. I said KNY's timing makes its deaths safe than risky. Not the same as every story should mow down characters constantly
>HxH
Gon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio all basically have thick armor. Deaths mostly hit secondary characters
>AOT
Eren, Mikasa, and Armin survive crazy odds, but plenty of major characters like Erwin, Sasha and Bertholdt get axed mid-story

KNY is not in the same league, because aside from Rengoku, most of its character deaths are saved for the finale
>KnY and JoJoall pile up deaths in the final arc
Doesn't excuse the safe middle stretch. If you only do it there, the audience eventually catches on and think "They'd all be fine until the big bad." JJBA at least plays it differently every part sometimes you lose multiple allies along the way (Golden Wind), sometimes barely anyone (Diamond is Unbreakable). KNY is formulaic by comparison
>And the fact that the best example you could come up with was something as obscure as Akame ga Kill, a minor Gangan title, only shows how off-base your whole argument really is.
That's irrelevant because Akame still committed to killing its cast that change the story trajectory. That makes it a legit counterexample whether or not you personally rate it or if its popularity is comparable

>>282182720 (OP)
Watching it with my sister tonight. We've been counting the days l. I am so ready bros

>>282182720 (OP)
Is Demon Slayer actually good, or do you only watch it because "Ooh pretty colors"?

Plenty of parents who got forced by their kids to take them to watch a R rated movie in the screening I went to were wondering why the movie was so long. 2 hours and 35 minutes really is out of norm for theatrical animated movies, anime even more so.

>>282194537
They did 17 chapters and have 48 to go so better get used to it

>>282194537
I think an hour and 45 minutes is the perfect movie length, with some wiggle room up to 2 hours max. Anything longer than that is directly insulting the viewers' time and points toward inept direction/production. That works for original stories designed for the medium, but adaptations are harder. They managed to pull it off really well for Mugen Train, but these final arcs are just too long to be forced into movies. It's the same with HF.

>>282194834
There's also the fact that they're eventually going to chop these movies up and sell them to Netflix and others as episodes and probably have recurring income for decades of streaming-syndication, so there is an extra enticement to fully adapt the manga and keep the manga's pacing (which provides convenient moments to cut episodes on the serialization cliffhangers).

>>282182948
Personally, I think you have to be into the time period to like it. Its the last time Japan was truly great, which I imagine why its so popular in Japan. Fundamentally, the series isnt anything special but the Taisho era has been demonized by the government and American occupation for decades and this show is very pro Japan at a time when Japanese need to be more nationalistic.

oh its a movie?
I thought it was gonna be an episodic arc

>>282182720 (OP)
>Movie butchered my favorite scene by making it a cheap PPT
I'll never forget UFO.

>>282183672
I wish she would play with my balls :(

>>282194718
Next movie will for sure go to 180 (about 22.5 chapters) and leave 25 chapters for the final movie. They'll probably cut the future epilogue like LotR cut the scouring of the shire, so 24 chapters.

Just finished watching it was fun seeing animeonlies reacting to akaza refusing to die.
Also tanjirou giving up stealth and proclaiming he was going to cut off his head, the entire room went "oh come onnn"

People reacted to pretty much every zenitsu moment.
People giggling with inosuke
When Akaza killed himself a woman went "ooooh he killed himself!".

People around me kept checking their phones all time. Outside that it's fun to go the movies. Lots of normalfags doing cosplay
Also the place was completely full not a single empty seat left

>>282195670
Pretty sure he was saying this as he was slaughtering the entire dojo.

>>282195707
>Also tanjirou giving up stealth and proclaiming he was going to cut off his head, the entire room went "oh come onnn"
hah, that sounds great. I remember laughing hard at Giyu's reaction during serialization but then of course it immediately makes sense and is the same thing his dad did

>>282195752
That's a different moment, anon, they extended it to show how Akaza killed the convoy that was after him for killing the dojo guys, right after being blooded by Muzan. Akaza holding the corpse of his beloved is just a fucking still with a fade effect. My fault for expecting better from shonenslop. Fuck everyone who says the anime is the finale experience, the potatoes have SOVL.

The Akaza flashback is an insane pace killer. It hurts the movie even though it's a good story.

>>282196017
It works perfectly for me; you need a breather from that many flashy fights. But yeah, it works better in the manga, you need a slower pace to set that story in animation.

I'm surprised by how full my screening was. I watched subbed too which is probably less popular among casuals.
You guys watching chainsawman next month too? I'm curious to see if it will be packed too. I think l csm isn't as popular among normalfags

>>282196119
More than pacing the fact that it's in its own chapters fixes it. You know implicitly that not even a moment is passing in the "real" timeline. Movies just don't work that way and I don't really see a way around it.

>>282195734
I saw this collage with Kanao in it too before.

>>282196227
It might be the opposite and Demon Slayer makes theaters think there's more demand for all anime than there really is and they have too many showings relative to how many viewers CSM can pull in 2025.

>>282196227
They showed Chainsaw Man Reze Arc's trailer in the screening I went to, both are being distributed by Sony internationally (Aniplex belongs to Sony, and several of CSM ed theme songs were under Sony Music).

CSM might not be as packed yes, CSM is more for a specific fandom.

>>282196265
She has the best one actually.

My theater ran out of the cups and buckets by this afternoon. My auditorium is fully booked too.

>>282183988
That's unfortunate, Demon Slayer is about family and if that doesn't resonate with you that may be from a poor upbringing.

>>282196366
it's not about family
it's about DEATH
think about it and you'll know it to be true
and honestly that probably butthurts a lot more surly teenage boys than a theme of family would

Already predicting the random guy going "you guys get stronger by eating people right? Quick, eat me I don't mind, hurry!" and then being told to fuck off scene will get a lot of laughs in theaters. Probably the funniest gag in the entire series.

>>282196366
I get along well with my family and this series isn't deep like the fans make it out to be
It's actually very shallow and surface level, especially the brother-sister bond

I just came back from it, most well behaved audience I’ve ever seen for a movie in my life. Not a single person said a word the entire movie. What a great viewing experience not having to share a theater with screaming children and autistics. Maybe it’s because I live in a smaller midwestern town but people actually treated the movie with the respect it deserves.

>>282196494
It's quite consistent with the sibling tragedy. Its not surface level

>>282196667
Just because there's tragedy doesn't make it not surface level
I'm actually stunned by how in your face this series is and how little subtlety there is

>>282196697
You aren't familiar with its themes and you think it lacks subtlety.

>>282190344
Sucking on Mitsuri's titsuris

>>282182948
You're missing your inner child. Must suck.

>>282196748
I'm well familiar with the themes because the characters scream out loud what they think and feel
It's really not that deep. Author isn't even trying to be subtle about what they wanna tell you. Which probably also explains why it's popular

>>282196813
The accessibility of it is one of its successes, yet the central themes flew over your head.

>>282196591
It's an anime movie at the end of the day, even if extremely popular it won't attract loud hype beasts that would to a MCU movie or some popular action film; most of the audience will be quiet nerds.

>>282196850
Not really, the central themes are so in your face becauze the author constantly tells you the theme with narration, flashbacks and lengthy speeches instead of trusting subtext
That's also why it's accessible and popular among all ages

>>282196896
Those central themes are?

>>282196851
Wasn't one piece red or something famous for having videos of french audiences chimping out

>>282188851
It's always going to be Bleach. Kubo is known as the father of shonen for a reason.

>>282196937
Family, perseverance, compassion breaking the cycle of hatred, legacy, duty
Typical stuff you'd find in nearly every shounen
They're not hard to get. Story literally spells them out for you in narration, flashbacks, and villain death speeches
That's what I mean by surface-level, they're universal, but delivered with 0 subtlety

Just finished watching it, here's my thoughts

>The sound design is underrated compared to the animation. Not to say the animation was bad by any means, but the almost comically loud parts were the ones that revved my lizard brain the most

>Zenitsu was my favorite fight, because it felt like you could discern individual moves better than in the other ones, even if it was the shortest

>The pacing was indeed an issue, but not to the extent that it ruined the movie for me. I feel like it will age better when it's chopped up into episodes, and if you see it in the theater, you'll have a better time if you think of it like "alright, time to binge a season in one sitting" instead of "alright, time to watch a movie."

>I liked the gentler version of Akaza's theme song that played during his flashback

>Kokushibo tease at the end has me hyped for the next movie, his brief soundtrack was great as well. I've got faith that UM2 and UM1, plus UM1's flashbacks, will have a proper adaptation, and I think it might feel more movielike with the pacing since it's only two fights.

>There were audible reactions in my theater to Douma getting eyepoked, you're too slow, scum, the bear getting heemed, Tanjiro announcing his attack, and the biggest one was to Akaza getting beheaded, which got straight up applause and cheering. There were also reactions to some of the humor bits early on, and to Akaza grabbing his head after getting beheaded, and in general continuing to fight.

Akaza: The Movie

>>282191719
I'm pretty sure Douma broke her spine before absorbing her, I wasn't expecting her to return

>>282183915
>MCU of shounen
> pretty to look at
>emotion to tug at your heartstrings
So nothing like the MCU

If you saw the theatrical trailer you saw all of Mitsuri's scenes.

>>282196494
I think, except for the chapter 17, Tanjiro and nezuko relationship is undercooked, but I still like him as a character

>>282197021
Oh you missed a few of them. Not sure how with them being so obvious.

>Akaza flashback
>Koyuki's dad says she loves Akaza and asks if he wants to marry her
>she goes red
>women in audience go "awwww"

>>282197049
Now it's obvious she's dead the movie. they did a great job with animating her neck snaps while in Douma's embrace

>>282197021
You copy pasted those from Naruto, I think the biggest theme is the ability to transcend despite our own mortality, and it's contrasted by having immortal demons as enemies. I think it's presented the best during the Koku fight, as we see an immortal demon Slayer VS his successors

>>282197110
How did they feel when it cuts to Doma going "omfg Lord Akaza is dead....lul what's for dinner?"

>>282182720 (OP)
It didn't feel like a movie at all. It's 8 anime episodes and most of them are budget-saving flashbacks.

>>282197110
>Hey random criminal child with confirmed murders, want to be taught how to kill better?
>Can you also take care of my sick daughter? I'll leave her to you, completely alone.
>Hey wanna marry my daughter?
The guy was very chill.

>>282197054
Actually that's a pretty good comparison
MCU are visually stunning just like KNY, emotional beats hit hard thanks to the acting and soundtrack just like KNY and both are pretty shallow at the end of the day
If you've Endgame, Ironman's sacrifice is pretty much Rengoku dying

>>282197143
He already established hierarchy, although Akaza struggles with this whenever it's impressed upon him he doesn't forget it. Plus he only reacts to threats, and his sick daughter wasn't exactly threatening.

>>282197143
he hadn't murdered anyone, stripes was for robbin'

>>282197143
He was. "Yeah my wife killed herself this morning. En Garde!"

>>282197143
He doesn't kill anyone until after they poison the well.

>>282197154
I hope they don't try to continue Kimetsu, it works great as a self contained story, and made Oda throw a huge tantrum towards TOEI

>>282197143
Akaza was just a punk, not really a bad dude until he mass murdered an entire dojo and who knows how much more

>>282197194
Quick rundown on oda throwing a fit?

The Akaza flashbacks should have been more evenly spaced out through the movies, opening with his dad's death and joining his master and only having his family's death and demonification at the end.

>>282197233
Nah you can't make him gradually more sympathetic during the fight, the beheading has to feel completely triumphant

>>282197233
This >>282197252 and like what was mentioned above, it works out in the manga since it's allowed room of its own, but on a continuous movie, it will feel like it's blocking the flow. Having the action pause to give a snippet of it throughout the fight will be pretty bad as well.

>>282197132
You just described Naruto's themes in a different outfit
Orochimaru did it, Madara did it, even Kaguya did it
Mortality vs immortality, passing the torch, successors outdoing predecessors is shounen 101. This series really is not as unique or deep as you make it out to be, it's actually very blatant and in your face

I want to go to my local showing but my shitty city is full of monkeys and mystery meats hollering at the screen at every single movie, would rather wait for the Blu-ray.

>>282197288
The most egregious and horribly placed flashback was Iguro's , but without it his death would've had zero impact

>>282197297
Ehh, I think Orochimaru ended up helping with his edo tensei and got away with everything, overall Naruto theme is to have the best genes

>>282197323
I'm going to the cinema at the fancy district

>>282197329
That worked nicely in the manga because it led off a volume. It really will be a problem if they start a final movie at chapter 181 and it's right smack in the middle

>>282197194
Kimetsu no Yaiba: Last Breathing
Tanjiro is called out of retirement with the surviving pillars and his pals to defeat Upper Moon Zero, using special support gear derived from the training dummy to allow him to use a sword again. This is the last mission he goes on before his premature death by natural causes, mimicking his father killing the bear, his son watches him use the sun dance to completion to win. the movie also teases a spinoff of an international demon slayer corps. Gotta milk that horse.

>>282197372
I'd be ashamed but I'd watch it.

>>282197364
I'm already in a "posh" area, but those things have public transportation. I'd have to travel 200km to get to a countryside town with a cinema. Oh well.

Hopefully it's worth the wait, I liked the manga ending, it felt like early JoJo.

>>282197406
Sanemi-Sama on top. He knows he will steal the show next movie

>>282197406
Needs sweaty scared Tamayo

>>282197043
Well yeah, it is subtitled as such in Japan even once it got near release. The west kept the condensed revealed title till the end.

Some people were upset when Shinobu got the fatal injury. Never got the appeal of the character. Sanao however ended up undercooked and the little she gets to do at the very end was really good, shame she didn't get more

Needed moar crows.

>>282197346
Orochimaru getting off with a slap on the wrist is funny as hell and pretty metal
But point is that this series isn't deep or unique like fans make it out to be. The things it wants to tell was already told a lot of times before
Mortality vs immortality > Orochimaru
Passing the torch > Will of Fire
Successors outdoing predecessors > that's the whole point of Naruto
The author doesn't have a unique voice to say anything that wasn't said before

At least we got a Inosuke flashback.

I hope they actually made Shinobu look fast. The manga didn't do her justice.

I think this movie hammered down the "yeah I'm definitely not going to heaven" thing harder than ever before.

>>282197406
Imouto literally sweating this one out.

>>282197406
I love when a strong woman gets angry.

>>282197813
If the manga wasn't as in your face then this movie will be less subtle
It's a kids show after all

>>282197225
I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that KnY's first season airing a few months before Toei drastically improved the anime's art and animation for Wano was not a coincidence.

I’m still baffled on how they decided to make an original episode for Rengoku instead of adapting the actual canon content wani made with that oneshot.

Seeing Akaza's death entirely through gyu and tanjiro's pov is funny as fuck because they just keep watching and going "what the fuck is he even doing"

>>282197813
Explain

>>282197526
It was fucking retarded, just like sasuke yeah sorry, orochimaru should have died like muzan crawling and begging for his life

What did you like better: -Akaza the Movie-, -Gramps Liked Me Better- the movie or -Douma is a Total Dick- the movie?

>>282197957
It was. And I know it wasn't supposed to be funny but Re-Animator Akaza just kinda hanging out until he beats the shit out of himself was hilarious.

I saw it in Japan a few weeks ago. I like the tiny little postcard that you get as a bonus

>>282198015
Nice. I used to get Chirashi and other merch in the states at films all the time until fucking c19 hit.

>>282197955
Might have been something really cynical like they didn't want to mess up his brand image for merchandise with a teenager version

>>282198003
That and when he whigs out and throws a backfist at a not even there sensei while babbling.

>>282197809
They did make her forms look way more impressive than in the manga, ufotable were always Shinobu fags and also Shionobu x Giyu shipping fags also, they wouldn't miss the chance of making Shinobu and Giyu look good in this movie.

>>282198015
Toho Cinemas also had these displays

>>282197965
Yeah, but Orochimaru getting away with everything and becoming immortal is still funny as shit
Will probably outlive the heroes too

>>282197962
Akaza has an actual redemption by killing himself and rejecting muzan but says like 3 or 4 times that he's going to hell and the ghost of his loved one's welcome him back but they all say it's a shame he can't go to heaven
He didn't even get a choice because muzan just goes and forces him to become a demon.

Previous villains deaths were like that too but they didn't repeat multiple times in a row like he did

>>282198141
Ah, it never crossed my mind he wasn't going to hell so i wasn't familiar with any argument. I always thought Daki was going to hell too, just the lesser hell where the demons that turn back into humans in their last dream moments go

>>282198141
Yeah and when she finally holds him in his arms again they are both surrounded by flames. Like Angela ascending the burning staircase in SH2.

>>282198188
*her arms

>>282198141
You are applying the western definition of Heaven and Hell for Akaza's fate, you should take in consideration the fact this series is Japanese and one that follows the Buddhist lens on a lot of things related to karma.

Akaza isn't going to hell just for the things he did as a demon, he is going down because he killed 67 people in cold blood, there's no righteous killing in karma, you took a human life, you are stained period.

>>282182948
>Am I missing something?
Not really, if you don't like it watch something else like jjk.

>>282198269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpUsFlyG-0

>>282198269
I believe the distinction between heaven and hell actually is if you killed as a human. It's why Daki had the chance to avoid punishment, and most the shitter tier demons near the start including Rui had good (enough) endings.

>>282198269
I think even the sins committed while being demons and thus under mind control counts as bad karma which makes it a lot more fucked up and unfair

>>282182948
I don't mean to insult you but if you can't follow along with the beginning of Demon Slayer you can't follow along with anything. Or anime just doesn't interest you. Every episode felt different.

Can this movie win first place in the US?

>>282189402
he better cut the infinity fortress in half
and douma better obliterate his arena with the ice statue

>>282198691
The run will most likely be extended since it is after summer pre-halloween. Who knows what the weekend numbers will do.

>>282183011
Japanese nationalism
Japanese traditionalism
Japanese family values
Japanese never give up spirit

>>282198691
Whats playing in the US? The new conjuring? Kny probably will win

>>282198141
>>282198269
In that belief system, hell is temporary though, right? So unless I’m mistaken, at least he doesn’t have to stay there forever, just for a while, I think in proportion to how many he’s killed

>>282198858
When is that Tron ver.2025 or whatever the fuck it is coming out?

>>282198880
Yes, hell has levels/layers and is temporary in tyat belief system, a condemned person will spend time in it to be cleansed and reincarnate someday.

>>282193568
How many other manga had the big bad throw all his henchmen and all of the good guys together to fight all at once, rather than one henchmen per arc one at a time?

>>282198899
October

Did anyone get any other /a/ or /m/ trailers? I got Jujut..100 Meters and The Girl who Leapt through Time. And some horrorwood shit about a haunted pizza joint or some shit.

>>282198880
Both heaven and hell are temporary in Buddhism, yes. The goal in said belief is to escape the cycle of reincarnation by becoming enlightened, to become a Buddah and reside in a higher heaven for eternity.

In the gag hell post-endgame chapter several demons are seen in hell, but only Muzan has his hell layer confirmed, it's the Avicy, the lowest layer, meaning he has so much karma he has no chance of reincarnation for untold millions upon millions of years of being tortured/cleansed. Although the chapter ends with it all being a dream by Go-to so maybe it shouldn't be taken literally.

>>282199169
I got Chainsawman Reze Arc's trailer in the screening I went to.

>>282199174
It was cool that Gyutaro was in human form even though it was really difficult to notice it in his final panel of walking into the flames. While the ones that never changed were still demons.

>>282199188
Oh I forgot that is gonna play soon.

>>282197406
>Nezuko: "It's over..."

>>282199169
I got a Reze arc trailer. Based on the mangas, I was a lot more hyped for this movie than I am for the Reze arc movie, but I gotta admit, their marketing is way better than the ads for this movie were

>>282197406
sanemi crying, gyomei not crying
these are all closely based on specific manga panels if anyone is too animeonly to know

>>282197194
Demon Slayer vs TMNT
The turtles learn breath styles

>>282197406
Shinobu........

>>282197077
Not the credits sequence

>>282182720 (OP)
Movie was good, but damn was the Akaza backstory long.

>>282199169
Only Chainsaw man trailer and some woke shit with Leonardo DiCaprio and his mulatto daughter saying her friend's pronouns were they/them.

>>282198666
She is so unbelievably cute i will cry when I see this.

Watched it earlier with my cousins in leaf land. It could’ve been another season but I’m glad ufo loves Akaza that they gave him another movie.

>douma's edgy speech about God not existing and there's nothing after death
>teenagers in the audience snickering going "yeah that's right"
>the same movie and the entire story proves him wrong because literally everyone has visions of loved one's spirits

>>282198666
Thank you satan. After seeing Koyuki, Akaza giving up on life after her death is 100% understandable.

An autismo directly in front of me spazzed out and flicked Douma off everytime he hurt Shinobu and went full spaz mode in his seat seething when he killed her. Shit was funny as fuck.

>>282198666
>meets one guy
>do you want to inherit everything I have and fuck my daughter?
What was his problem?

>>282200520
Sounds like you wasted a great opportunity for public confrontation.

>>282182720 (OP)
Absolute cinematography! Shit was fucking beautiful. I swear i was struck on my seat, covered in sweat by the end of it. Also, probably the longest Anime movie I've ever seen? Will watch it again in IMAX

>>282200543
The rival dojo scared everyone away from his dojo. This was his only chance.

People are complaining about Akaza's flashback but won't half of the next movie be kokushibo's story with flashbacks inside flashbacks?

Nobody has brought this up at all, the greatest thing about this movie
3 S tier shotas

>>282198666
>>282200480
>>282200543
>>282200608
Reminder this plot is eerily similar to an Uziga Waita guro short story. It's seriously depressing.

>>282200577
I feel like you guys are overrating this and I'll be disappointed. I've read the manga, so no surprises. And the last time I was impressed by the animation was at the entertainment district episodes.

>>282182720 (OP)
If people were moved to tears by fucking rengoku in mugen train, i cant wait how insufferable akaza fangirls are going to get with his backstory

>>282200998
He should've never had one. It sucks

>>282198666
>She proposed to him
What a go getter

Just got back from seeing it on the biggest screen possible. You have the lackluster moments that I enjoy typical to KnY with the out of place humor and situational flashbacks, but everything to do with the fights and exploration of the castle is simply wonderful. Akaza's especially is the best UFO fight yet next to Saber vs Rider as of now. Cemented by Tanjiro mastering the transparent world being what pushes it over even that for me. One of the best sequences I've ever seen put to animation. Unlimited Budget Works strikes again.

>>282200952
The movie was way better than entertainment district

>>282200998
I heard a few sobs. But for me it was Zenitsu and grandpa.

>>282201135
Tengen vs gyutaro was fucking amazing so i'm excited to see it now if IF can surpass it

>>282201103
>Unlimited Budget Works strikes again.
Not for Zenitsu though. What the fuck.

>>282200615
He has one flashback that hypebeast retards won't be bored by at all, but the main one was a whole chapter to itself just like akazas. I hope they figure out a transition to it that sells that it's only a moment

>>282201180
>Tengen vs gyutaro was fucking amazing
It was hard to follow

>>282200577
Everyone's talking about how kino they made Giyu fight but did they manage to make him likable? That's the important part. What's the point of giving the best animation to a character that's disliked by others?

>>282201215
My jaw dropped when the dragon came out. It was based.

>>282201234
He is not disliked by others
Memes aside, Giyu telling Akaza he hates talking and how irritated he is because his back hurts was funny.

>>282182720 (OP)
>"Im glad Kyojuro died, he wouldnt have gotten stronger a-anyway"
>Asks Giyu's name and offers him demonhood immediately after seeing him
Fucking whore

>>282201337
I am an other and dislike him.

>>282183324
>it was among the worst endings in manga that I have read.
Huh they’re way worse at least ending the mangaka know when to end a story instead of dragging it.

>>282201370
He's just lonely anon.

>>282195670
This bothered me as well. Would’ve so good if Akaza was actually crying and moving instead of a still image of the manga panel.

>>282188698
Tanjiro is a likeable guy who fought hard to keep his sister safe.
Naruto is a screechy little bastard carried by magic bloodline heritage from his parents, and given hand outs from the Nine Tails as life insurance. He is a selfish prick who forces himself on others like a emotional leech.

>>282191719
I thought she was doing a grand strategy of doing feints to learn about his immune system to conjure up a proper counter to him.
Very disappointing.

>>282188245
>MC
>Gets sidelined for the side characters
What nonsence.
Read bottom left.
She'll be "cutting" them characters next movie lel

>>282199169
>some horrorwood shit about a haunted pizza joint or some shit.
Fnaf 2 is gonna be Kino

>>282202445
the second one looks a lot better than the first

Watched it subbed earlier today in my bumfuck middle of nowhere town. Quite a few people in the theatre surprisingly. Enjoyed it quite a bit, but when I was leaving, I saw the line for the dubbed showing. I have never seen so many people here, like the room was packed and the parking lot was spilling over into the businesses nearby, it was kinda crazy. Even though I don't like the KnY dub, I hope they all enjoyed it as I haven't seen so many people here for an anime film since Ghost in the Shell 2, which was...a long time ago

>>282202544
i watched the dub(because of my brothers) and for the most part they did good
the only let down is Tanjiou's va
he doesn't have much range in the voice he uses for Tanjirou

>>282202583
I hope you enjoyed it! Currently downloading some episodes with an English track to see how the english VAs are. If they're any good, I'll go watch it again dubbed and if not, I'll see when the next Sub showing is, since it was a pretty fun watch

>>282202638
i did very much so
though some of the audience got annoyed at the flashbacks my brothers liked them but thought they dragged them out a little

>>282182948
Normally I'd brush off posts like this as just trying to bait out an argument by faux-curiosity in a backhanded attempt to dismiss the show, but thinking about it, this is actually an interesting question. Even when I first watched it, everything was coming off as a generic shounen and giving off those vibes, but after I got through a few episodes I would struggle to call it generic in the slightest even though all the window dressings are the same.

I think what really sets Demon Slayer apart from everything else are a couple of attributes that are low key and can be found elsewhere, but put together make for an absolute titan.

1. Power: Everything looks like it is immensely powerful and you can feel the weight of the hit.

2. Pain: Everything also looks like it hurts like a bitch. You can see the effects that even just long term fights have on all the characters with slowing them down, draining their stamina, etc.

3. Weight: You can feel the weight of the characters even doing normal things. You can hear their footsteps, you can see how much effort it's taking them to do minor things, and even moreso the major things. That makes the power and pain of what they do that more heightened.

4. Tension: The demon's powers are often extremely powerful and the show makes it clear that it is willing to hurt and kill your favorite cast members, so when you feel all of the above, it matters way more.

5. Intelligence: The demons aren't just threatening because they are powerful, they're a huge problem cause they also fight like main characters. You can genuinely see why upper ranks can easily kill people as strong as the Hashiras when they hide dozens of surprise powers and then hide their weaknesses. It's actually sheer dumb luck half of them get defeated at all.

6. Sensible: A normal shounen would have the bad guy stay in a fortress the entire series. Tanjiro bumps into him on accident and the bad guy reacts by trying to get him murdered as fast as possible.

>>282202660
I agree on the flashbacks, though my showing was pretty quiet. I'd be interested in seeing how it was for the one after mine, since I'm almost certain it was completely sold out

>>282198691
Unlikely. Anime movies aren't known for their staying power in the US. They're historically very frontloaded, making nearly all of their money on OW then nosedive. It's also too long to sustain in theaters. In Japan and Asia, they not mind long movies because it's within their culture but in America, they have zero tolerance for a nearly 3 hour niche movie. They prefer shorter movies, because they can be shown more times per day.

I suspect this movie won't last beyond Week 1. So, one or two weeks then it's out. Fans will show up in mass, casuals not so much.

Just got home after watching the movie. Holy fucking shit it's good.

>>282202718
it's opening around $60+ million in the US
it will probably have shit legs but it might win the weekend
downtown abbey is the only thing that is competing with it

>>282202352
You didn't watch naruto, did you, zoomie? Spouting retarded shit you read on flebbit reveals your age.

>>282191908
Zeta Gundam
Gundam 00 and IBO
JJBA
Fist of the North Star
Saint Seiya
Devilman

Get some culture, scrub.

>>282202780
I hope it overtakes pokemon for maximum meltdown.

>>282192232
>Akame ga Kill is one of the few shonen that actually does it right
AgK is how NOT to kill off characters. Unless you're a dumbass that thinks giving characters a flashback before they're offed or killing newly introduced characters is somehow good writing.

>>282190822
Probably dub because I can't imagine keeping up with subs at a fucking theatre. Not even getting into if the quality of subs are good to begin with.

>>282192290
I'm amazed that Zenitsu's dub VA is the one that got a big breakout. Nigga is in everything.

>>282202780
>it's opening around $60+ million in the US
lol to think people here still think overseas market mean USA

>>282202780
Nobody gives a fuck about Downton Abbey besides old women. The only real competitor here is The Conjuring and maybe that Stephen King movie. Projections says it opens with $40M for Friday/Saturday/Sunday in the US. So it seems like it'll make all of its money on OW just like I suspected. Sunday will be a challenge though, because projectors don't account to how the NFL hurts movies. It happened to The Conjuring, Sunday NFL came and it had a drop off of -70%.

>>282202858
You mean the overseas market where kimetsu has done 100 million already.

Their were people beside me crying during Akaza's flashback.

>>282202888
should have been double if chinks release it

>>282202917
and you clapped?

>>282182720 (OP)
Do people actually watch anime movies in the cinema?

>>282202961
What else is there to watch at the kinoplex? Capeshit?

>>282202961
its only allowed for good looking people, balding greaseballs should watch it at home

>>282202932
Some did.
Got a problem with that?

>>282202983
Sorry its not Iron Man fucks Spiderman in the ass Homecoming.

>>282202996
yeah i hate americistan culture

>>282202961
I only watch anime movies when they actually feel like a movie like Ghibli or Ghost in the Shell. I don't watch shounen anime movies, because you can easily tell by the direction that it was made with TV in mind, like Demon Slayer.

>>282203007
nice imagine watching this in 4DX

>>282203010
The world fucking sucks. Let people enjoy a moment of relief.

>>282202993
half the cinema was fat fucks

>>282203112
which color and gender?

>>282202887
Okay Jeremy.
>Projections says it opens with $40M for Friday/Saturday/Sunday in the US
At least you finally gave in and admitted it's not doing 20 million.

>>282203164
60% brown and a 50/50 on the gender surprisingly

>>282203168
More data came in and Deadline's projections were conservative and based in what Sony provided them at the time. Still, from the looks of it, it'll make all of its money on OW. Projectors make guesses but they never account into the NFL, the hidden box office killer.

The Conjuring lost -70% on Sunday and that's a mainstream horror with broader appeal. Anime is even more fan-driven so once the diehards show up Friday amd Saturday, Sunday collapses harder. I'll wait by Sunday to see how much it'll actually make.

>>282203236
>More data came in and Deadline's projections were conservative
The same excuse over and over.

>>282203248
That's not an excuse. That's how box office projections work. They make estimates based on the data at the time and that data can change when more data rolls in. They're not fixed and only idiots think that.

>>282203278
They do, but you don't.
People tell you over and over, and you never listen. But why am I talking to a person who predicted half of the box office it's actually going to make.
>220 million tops!

>>282203175
>60% brown
i thought US weebs were 90% asian (chinese, korean, japanese, vietnamiese, phillipino...)

>>282203305
AUS

>>282203297
Irrelevant deflection. What matters is I'll wait until Sunday. That's the real number that shows staying power (or lack thereof). Box office projections rarely ever adjust for the NFL. It's a hidden killer because box office models don't factor "football ate the normalfag crowd" into their math. The Conjuring is proof, it got obliterated by a -70% Sunday crash. And that was a mainstream horror flick with date-night appeal. Anime is way more fragile. Once diehards are in, Sunday will crater even harder.

>>282203334
anime is more family oriented than horror

>>282203334
retard, last rites had 30% declined. why you always lying??? can you just be retard only and but not vile ignorant too.

I've never seen this anime before since it's a normie magnet and everywhere. Is it actually good or just normieslop?

>>282203236
retard. why you always wrong???

>>282203395
If you got nothing else to do or watch, it's a good movie to be entertained at.

>>282203334
A reminder that Kimetsu no Yaiba is utterly superior to My Hero Academia in everyway possible.

No amount of bitching will change that, Jeremy.

>>282203392
>>282203408
Shut up with your cherry picking, retard. You picked a single number out of context. Saying 30% decline is misleading because Saturday and Sunday was not -30%, it was -37.7%. But the real crash was still Sunday and Monday by -69.7% (BOM, on The Numbers it's 70%). That's the NFL hit I'm talking about. So my point stands. The Conjuring nosedived once NFL Sunday kicked in, and the Monday numbers prove it even harder.

>>282202687
its the emotional and aesthetic.
JJK is way better on technical level but gege didnt care too make the characters linger or do emotional scene longer than a page. even when jjk more brutal. like i never sob or care, because gege and mappa didnt too.

thats why OP sales 400M more than Bleach.

>>282203461
>deflection
I don't give a fuck about BNHA, so I don't care if one shit shounen is better than another shit shounen. It's only monkeys who make these worthless dick measuring contests.

All it tells me is that you're an ex-BNHAfag who wasted his time reading some worthless manga about some buckbroken MC then latched onto another shit shounen with a boring moralfag MC instead.

>>282202718
you also said that KNY frontloaded in japan yet now its 2nd place highest earning already and still selling.
and you said that international will not match japan at all. and yet make 110M USD only in east and SE asia. and will breaking MT number to dust (MT hold all anime record overseas too btw)

why you still believe your own arse nonsense???? none believe you and you still keep ridicule yourself

>>282203474
that's a weekday you retard

>>282203474
RETARD. thats normal, you talking about WEEKEND to Weekdays. 60% drop is normal. more if its not summer, holliday and R-rating. F4, had 65% drop on SUMMER with PG rating.

thats not gotcha moment you think, dumbass

>>282203351
Irrelevant. Emasculated zoomers are simultaneously extremely sensitive, but also have no understanding of actual human emotion. If you ask Chad and Stacy, they will pick a horror flick before they'll pick a weeb flick a date night before sex.
>>282203530
>you also said that KNY frontloaded in japan
That's right, because I assumed Japan operated similarly to America. They don't, Kokuho ran for 3 months and it's still running in Japanese theaters. Japan clearly loves long movies. That doesn't mean America does. Actually, they have a zero tolerance over long movies because long runtime = fewer screenings per day = less potential revenue. Christopher Nolan and James Cameron both had trouble getting screenings for Avatar and Oppenheimer. Just because Japan gives Demon Slayer the VIP treatment, doesn't mean the West will. Actually, one of my friends who lives in Europe told me this movie only has one week to run where he lives, then it's out.

>>282203570
and no NFL.

>>282203575
retard, AVATAR and TITANIC AND LOTR and AVANGERS endgame have 3 hours and they all BILLIONS dollars giant movies.
so why you used them as prove?? when in reality audience can and will watch any long movie as long as they are great and cinema event.
the fuck is wrong with your retard brain??

>>282203570
Yup. Most movies drop 60-70% from Sunday to Monday after OW especially outside of summer/holidays. BUT the difference here is why the drop happened. For The Conjuring, the Sunday numbers were already hit by NFL kickoff, which bled into Monday. So it wasn't just a normal weekday decay, the NFL accelerated the collapse earlier than expected.
>>282203606
You're having a melty, weeb. And those billion-dollar long movies you mentioned ALL had global studios, decades of built-in global audience fanbases, and marketing budgets bigger than Aniplex's entire production. They're exceptions because they appeal to everyone. Men, women, young, old, etc. Demon Slayer isn't that. It's a niche anime film, frontloaded by hardcore fans, with minimal general audience appeal. Runtime works against it because unlike Endgame, the average casual moviegoer isn't committing nearly 3 hours to an anime finale they haven't followed for 4 seasons.

>>282203606
and NEZHA. now if you think about it, all 2 Billions dollar movies was 3 hours movie event.

>>282203575
so you learn about JAPAN's Movie quirks and still claim that KNY will frontloaded back then???? did any KNY fan tell you that JAPAN is and always different and you still think that 20B is not possible even tho its breaking OW record.

like seriously, that fact is not new, everyone but you knew that back then. but you didnt listen and keep said retard and wrong things.

i thought you are box office savant?? thats a LIE too. obviously, only you believe that and none else buying it.

why are you so retard and NEVER LEARN. even now???????

>>282203474
HAHAHAHAHAHA. this guy, man! he is special kind of braindead
this is not even his top 3 retardation on how simple things work or simple logic operate.

>>282203702
>NEZHA
You mean the movie that dropped on Chinese New Year and made pretty much all of its money in China? Are you fucking stupid?

>>282182948
I was in a similiar position. IMO the first season just wasn't that great outside of a few interesting scenes. I only kept watching because my roommate was watching it.

Once it got to the Entertainment District arc something clicked, the directorial style shifted and everything just worked for me. Honestly I think you can just watch that season on it's own and decide if you like it enough to continue.

>>282203689
>Endgame
made 70% of it's money in it's first 2 weeks
and kny is the biggest anime franchise currently
it isn't niche at all

>>282203816
what's with niggas and fat bitches?

>>282203798
Endgame making 70% of its money in 2 weeks is true. But its frontload leads to its record-breaking $2.7B global run and even after that steep frontload, its legs still added hundreds of millions. Your comparison is useless becayse Demon Slayer isn't operating on the same scale. Once you strip away diehard fans, there's no casual audience to keep it afloat. Frontload kills it faster.

Demon Slayer is the biggest anime franchise right now, but anime as a whole is niche in North America and Europe. Endgame could bring in boomers, teens, families, couples, everyone. Demon Slayer = anime fans and existing viewers. If you haven't watched 60+ episodes, you're lost. That by definition is niche.

>>282182720 (OP)
Just got back from seeing it and it didnt really feel like tv episodes stitched together to me, especially not everything from Akaza onward. Zenitsu's fight was fine but paled greatly in comparison to Shinobu and Giyu. It wasnt as bad as people made it out to be. The flashbacks were excessive as fuck though but I think some of them weaved their way in well enough. Seeing some corps members hold their own was nice. The silence from Tanjiro and Giyu when Shinobu's death was announced was great. Tanjiro figuring out selfless state didnt need to be that goddamn long but the actual execution of it was fantastic.

>>282203834
endgames total production and promotion budget was in the $800 millions
so it's run is not as impressive as you think

>>282203833
NEW YOOOOOOOORK. CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF!

>>282203855
This is cope. Endgame did not cost $800M to make and market. Production budget was $356M according to Disney’s filings and marketing is estimated to be around $150-200M. So it cost around $550M max, not $800M so Endgame's profit is still insane.

Weebs brag about $300M but that's literally beer money compared to MCU scale. Thunderbolts made $382M and Disney still called it a flop. For anime, $300M is record-breaking but for Hollywood, it's barely a footnote.

>>282203924
>Thunderbolts made $382M and Disney still called it a flop
because the movie by itself cost $300 million

>>282203938
Thunderbolts didn't cost $300M to make, it cost $180M to make plus $100M to market. Get your facts straight, dude. Disney called $382M a flop. Meanwhile, you're hyping Demon Slayer for making less than that worldwide. That's the definition of niche.

>>282203833
average citizen childless mutts

>>282203816
>>282203861
>>282203935
>no white people at all
are we sure the NHK didnt go to Mexico?

Can the second movie top this one? Theres no really a sad flashback but the deaths by the first moon might compensate that
Last movie is 100% beating the previous 2

>>282203924
retard, KNY IC will destroy not THunderbolts but f4 box office.
also KNY IC had 10x less budget.

this guy now compare KNY IC to hollywood, because no anime left to compare it.

And there are two(2) more movies. The last one will make the most.

>>282204048
people were excited at my showing with the brief glimpse of UM 1
so if they glaze him and Douma in the trailers, i think it will do the same as this one and the 3rd will be the biggest of them all

>>282203745
RETARD. who cares???? it made 2 B. without bitch hollywood and international. not even hollywood ever do that
the point is beside 1, all 2 B movies is 3 hours movies.

>>282203689
RETARD. if KNY is niche, ALL anime or Japan's film is.
WHY ARE YOU SO RETARDED????

>>282204057
pnly if they dont wait 5years to release it

Oh great, the ESL salesfags are here.

jeremy now bring ENDGAME and AVATAR to compare it to KNY.
lol. Not Thunderbolts or F4 or Superman when came out.
He is no even compare it to Mugen train either unlike for like the last month or 2.

hahahahahahahahaha. this guy have no shame or brain

>>282204049
Demon Slayer marketed itself like Hollywood. Infinity Castle rolled out to 3000+ US theaters which is the same scale as a MCU/DC film. Crunchyroll and Aniplex hyped it with "record-breaking anime box office" headlines, putting it in direct competition with Hollywood releases. If you want to play in that sandbox, you get judged by the same standards. Otherwise, stay in your lane. You don't get to cry about wanting special treatment.

Anime is still a niche while Hollywood is made for a general audience. Weebs brag about $300M worldwide meanwhile, that shitty ass Fantastic Four movie made $512M with a budget of $200M and Disney still called it underwhelming. Same ballpark numbers, different expectations. That's what scale means. Hollywood isn't chasing $300M grosses, it's chasing $1B blockbusters, something no anime movie will ever reach.

>>282204143
sorry amerifat
anime is more popular than hollywood shit in india
we no longer love you fatty mutants

>>282204101
Every single year has had new Kimetsu content since the anime debuted in 2019, if ufotable skips 2026, or makes the TV cut of the first IF movie right away and considers that as "new" content for the year then that will be a first in this franchise.

Some low brow anime blogs are claiming they will take two years between movies, so 2027 and 2029, but that's completely baseless rumor so far.

So the real source of news will either be Jump Festa in December or KnY's own animation reel at the beginning of each year for hard confirmation on when the 2nd movie will be released.

>>282204143
>Hollywood isn't chasing $300M grosses, it's chasing $1B blockbusters, something no anime movie will ever reach.
the chinese movie almost did without oversea, its just a matter of accessibility with same number as big blockbuster

>>282204220
thats weak for a +1 billions shitter population

>>282204228
technicaly they must have made all 3 movies together and just waiting for final touch and correction between the releases, and since Japan always make colabs with café, restaurant, sport event and cons that also count on the schedule

>>282204274
>technicaly they must have made all 3 movies together
That's very likely, as it ufotable already claimed they started working on the Infinity Castle trilogy 3 years ago, their production of the KnY anime wasn't linear.

I saw that it released septembre 5 in France dont we have numbers for that?

>>282204143
to bad they mostly only get films around the $300 million range on average

>>282204274
>technicaly they must have made all 3 movies together
No, they didn't. Just to make this one movie they used all staff in the studio, postponing all other projects.

>>282204303
>started working on the Infinity Castle trilogy 3 years ago
It was a shitty translation, "3 years" was about rendering time.

on other news. new line cinema drop MHA live action and bring it to Netflix.
straight to streaming movies. lol. like FMA live action, yuyu hakusho and death note. and all of them is bad and flop.

>>282203924
>t.seething faggot with a dying industry
kek

>>282204343
france is next week for wide release. week late than the rest eu, same with germany.

>>282204244
still 6 best of all time among foreign/import movies, above it was avangers, no way home, avatars

>>282204402
i dont understand why Sonygger always shit the bed and doesnt make a worldwide release yet and without limited seats, its as if they think people outside Japan dont care about anime

>>282204390
>yuyu hakusho
it was decent and would have been perfect if they didnt burn money on their flop wokepiece

>>282204220
>India
Good morning saar.
>>282204236
Yes, but here's the difference: China alone can actually easily rake in billions unlike Japanese movies because China has the biggest population.
>>282204396
Cope. $300M is beer money to what Hollywood earns on average. And Hollywood may not be in a good state right now, but when they actually drop good shit, they're still miles ahead of Asia. Like when they made Shogun, the best period drama we had for decades. It blows away anything Japan has produced for the past 20 years.

>>282204456
>$300M is beer money to what Hollywood earns on average
lol its more like 30k after you count the cost of publicity and theater fees

>>282204456
>t.seething faggot with a dying industry
kek

>>282197029
>The pacing was indeed an issue,
how it was perfect, i saw it 30+ times

>>282204456
>$300M is beer money to what Hollywood earns on average
using 2024 total world wide box office of $32.3 billion
and only using US and Canada film releases in cinemas(569 films)
the hollywood average for a film is less than $60 million per film

>>282204456
>Cope. $300M is beer money to what Hollywood earns on average
okay, post 10 movies that made 300 million in profit this year.
PROFIT, jeremy.

>>282182720 (OP)
The akaza standing up headless was so fucking KINO

>>282203968
>Thunderbolts didn't cost $300M to make, it cost $180M to make plus $100M to market. Get your facts straight, dude. Disney called $382M a flop. Meanwhile, you're hyping Demon Slayer for making less than that worldwide. That's the definition of niche.
It's a flop because it needed 700M to break even you dumb faggot. do you know how box office works?
Theaters get 50-60% of the revenue. Ie a budget of 200M needs 400M to break even

Demon slayer budget is likely 10-30M maximum. meaning it's going to be one of the most profitable movies/franchise in history

>>282204723
>Sinners
$366M
>Final Destination
$302M
>Thunderbolts
$382M
>Black Captain America
$415M
>Fantastic Four
$515M
>Superman
$614M
>Mission Impossible
$598M
>F1
$621M
>How to Train Your Dragon
$633M
>Minecraft
$957

Anime ain't shit.

>>282205124
in profit not gross retard

>>282205124
Damn, didn't know all these movies just poofed out of thin air, magical profit baby, hell yeah!

>>282204852
Him grabbing his head to keep it on and the scene of him tearing at his self inflicted, wounds telling himself to stop regenerating. Fucking fantastic.