Thread 282270903

This is literally the biggest tragedy to happen to anime in the last 30+ years.
The consequences of this will only become clear in the next 5-10 years.
This is the beginning of the end

*farts*

>>282270903 (OP)
calm down

>>282270903 (OP)
If it makes you miserable it makes me happy.

Big day for anime I don't give a shit about

>>282270950
why
>>282270977
that's kinda mean

>>282270903 (OP)
You misspelled "the Internet".

>>282270903 (OP)
>Shounen dogshit makes lots of money
Not even news, it's already known that the average normalfag has no taste.

>>282270903 (OP)
>This is the beginning of the end
I thought the end had already begun

>>282270903 (OP)
BLACHGODs win again.
Meanwhile Warm piss and Nardo inspired successors are just flops

>>282270903 (OP)
>Crunchy getting a sizable chunk of those profits
A tragedy indeed.

>>282271093
>one piece successor
what

This doesn't actually mean anything for anime, because Demon Slayer is the only anime that can pull these numbers. It's an anomaly.

>>282271148
>one piece successor
didn't realize people were vying for the coveted lowest common denominator troonslop garbage crown

>>282270903 (OP)
The lighting in this pic is all retarded.

>>282270903 (OP)
But enough about Mugen Train.

I mean people already stopped buying anime anymore and it was all on streaming services to fund them.

>>282271000
Because you’re retarded.

>>282271148
illiterate dumbass
>One Piece
and
>Naruto inspired successors

I am 36 and have never seen a episode of Demon Slayer. Is it worth watching?

Hello /a/nons, I am a tourist who used to browse this place in 2010 - 2016-ish and had a faggot /a/ approved 3x3.
I really enjoyed this movie, have I become trash?

>>282271446
32 here, yeah.

>>282271477
>>282271446
Update: Apparently I did watch an episode of Demon Slayer and just forgot. Should I try again?

what will the consecuences be? better animated shonenslop?

>>282271446
It's nothing special, but it's well executed and has a lot of wholesome family and friendship values. I'd recommend watching it with your wife/girlfriend.

>>282271477
I also haven't been on /a/ in a while and came back after seeing the movie... Damn your 3x3 is a throwback to that era.

>>282271537
>I also haven't been on /a/ in a while and came back after seeing the movie
Yeah in the same boat, just wanted to check this place out again.
I'm still on other boards now though, here forever isn't a lie I guess

So if I dropped Demon Slayer after the first episode should I try and power through it anyway? Like give it the three episode rule?

>>282271715
It got mildly okay at episode 19 only for the sakugashit

>>282270903 (OP)
>>282270936
>>282270950
>>282270977
Anyone else get annoyed at the flashbacks and the Beauty and the Beast ballroom animation trick?

>>282271770
Also I got annoyed that they started three fights but didn't finish all of them.

>>282270903 (OP)
I'm still not going to watch this astroturfed slop
Biggest gaslight in the history of anime

>>282271741
>sakugashit
I don't know what the fuck this means.

>>282271528
Hollywood jews attempting to sink their claws even deeper into anime and destroy it like they did vidya and comics.

https://x.com/AmiriKing/status/1967265318491062424

Nigger pisses on child during demon slayer movie opening week. Father steps in and beats him during zenitsu fight and others join in to help

I just hope this doesn't encourage studios to push out badly paced movies instead of full seasons.

>>282271518
Yes.

>>282270903 (OP)
>The consequences of this will only become clear in the next 5-10 years
More shounenslop getting the bigger budgets, more generic anime, anyone can see that
>This is the beginning of the end
No, official western streaming of anime was, this is just a droplet of pee in an ocean of piss.

>>282271841
Did Jeremy survive?

>>282271193
dragon ball can make infinitely more. A few months back there was a official rescreening of battle of gods marketed as a "fan event" in bosnian theaters for about 2 days and it was unironically the only time ive ever seen a full movie theater and ive been going to the same place for years now. It was rescreened in other countries in the region too

>>282271933
anime in the 2010s was way better than anime in the 00s so you are objectively wrong

>>282271841
the actual bad thing about this is the garbage english dub

>>282271770
>Beauty and the Beast ballroom animation trick?
It's not a trick, at least not in Beauty and the Beast where they spent months just on that scene's timing.
Timing in this case being matching the cel drawings to the background cgi so it looks like they're the same camera angle.

>>282271446
It has some nice moments, as far as katana fighting animation goes, but the characters and plot are weaker than random mid-low budget forgotten 00s anime like Law of Ueki or Black Cat. You can expect a bunch of visual effects, slightly likeable archetypes as characters, weird-ish character design, some CGI slop (albeit better executed than a lot of other CGI slop), everyone to have had a traumatic experience that shaped them to become the hero/villain they are, training arcs, mentor characters, a chuunin/hunter exam, named attacks, asspull powerups, you know the fucking drill, it's fighting shounen, it doesn't try to be anything else.

>>282271995
Not only you are wrong, your point wouldn't relate to what I said even if you were right.

Kadokawa makes 1 billion dollars a year.
>dude anime industry makes money! OMG

>>282271335
exactly, which is why we should probably expect more anime to do theatrical releases. Because it makes money.

>>282271715
Demon Slayer's first season is rough. Read a recap of season 1, then watch the Mugen Train movie and move directly to season 3. I disliked Demon Slayer too but the third season won me over.

>>282272114
My target

It made more money than every BnHA movie combined.

>>282270903 (OP)
Why do slice of life and rom com fags complain when a different genre gets success?

>>282271841
Average hoodweeb

>>282271715
As an oldfag, if I drop something on EP1, it's bad. I usually give 3 EP if meh or ok, and drop by 3rd. I have not watched DS, it's on backlog for me. Hentai for it is hot though.

>>282273406
>thing I don't like gets massive commercial success
>while thing I do like gets limited success
>ENVY.jpg

It's just the natural green monster in all of us that likes to seethe when others succeed.

>>282273686
I was going to do that but I gave it another episode just to be sure and found it to be pretty decent. Overall it's a decent series that doesn't fuck itself later on like so many other shonen battle manga. Though it also never reaches their highs either.

>>282271048
you say this but you never put the effort into watching anything that isn't shonenshit

>>282271841
average Kimetsu no Yaiba fanbase

>>282271715
The first season is boring up until episode 19. At that point, only Japan and China really cared about the series.
What resonates with Western audiences comes after Mugen Train, when the Upper Moons appear.

My Hero WHO!?!?

>>282271979
None of the Dragon Ball movies have ever come close to this numbers

is this even worthy of news
everyone knows that shounen seties are massively popular round the world

>>282271093
Based

>>282271048
shounenshitters already ruin anime and manga, now normalfags will completely rape it to death and nothing will remain

It's only a tragedy for shounenfags.

Magical girls stay winning. No way that shit gets popular in the West.

>>282274102
Not really.
Demon Slayer is the only anime film that draws such large audiences.
Dragon Ball and Jujutsu Kaisen rank below it, but neither comes close to Demon Slayer’s current pulling power.
Shonen is still very much a minor genre on the global stage.

>>282271841
This is the downside of the series going mainstream and attracting more normalfags.
When I went to see it, there were more normalfags than actual anime fans, and it was a terrible viewing experience.
Nothing like this happened back during Mugen Train.

>>282271841
this is why I don't like going out

>>282271446
If you’ve been watching anime, it’s nothing new or special. It’s just done very well. It has minimal, if any, filler and the plot moves on. The MC is kind but not a bitch, he’s not a deku. The supporting cast is good, especially Inosuke. The biggest draw, is it looks great, it has a unique style. The first time I watched Demon Slayer, it was pretty refreshing. It didn’t try to have “deeper” meanings, it was straightforward. I enjoyed it, it’s not my favorite, but i can appreciate it. /a/ hates anything popular, and desu, sometimes it’s for good reason. Just watch it and make your own opinion.

>>282270903 (OP)
sorry op, demon slayer win again!
>>282271841
>pisses on child during demon slayer movie opening week. Father steps in and beats him during zenitsu fight and others join in to help
Were going to see a massive hard backslash against public degeneracy. Its about damn time

>>282270903 (OP)

The only tragedy is we don't get to see Daki on the big screen in this movie.

Though they did show some Entertainment District Arc eps in theaters a long while back.

>>282270903 (OP)
Well, you rather live in a world where China rule the anime world instead?

>>282271841

>Fake tweet were racist twitter-tard makes up sick story to go with video

>>282274302
i want to go see it and I could, but i think i will wait until the BDs are on torrents for the only reason that I don't want to give money to the western industry. i don't want people working in western movie theaters to be employed. i don't want westerners localizing Japanese culture and subverting it to be employed. I don't want westerners making dubs employed. So ethically it would be wrong for me to buy a movie ticket in the west.

>>282274726
>i want to go see it and I could, but i think i will wait until the BDs are on torrents for the only reason that
>I don't want to give money to the western industry.
>i don't want people working in western movie theaters to be employed.
>i don't want westerners localizing Japanese culture and subverting it to be employed.
>I don't want westerners making dubs employed.
>So ethically it would be wrong for me to buy a movie ticket in the west.
All solid points. I truly wish that piracy was as damaging as game and media companies made it out to be, that every torrent literally robbed them of profits

>>282274792
i'm also immune to fear of missing out because i got into a tradition over the last 5 years of being 1 year behind so i always watch everything a year after it airs. Once 2026 begins I will look at everything that aired in 2025 and watch it. I'm currently finishing up fall 2024 right now.

>>282270903 (OP)
Most people on this board don't even know who Go Nagai or Leiji Matsumoto are so let's not pretend the anime fandom is some refuge from normies. You probably spend more time shitting on western comic books and films (which every single great mangaka read and was influenced by at some point) than you do actually reading manga.

>>282274726
If you actually care about Japanese culture, you should go watch it.
Demon Slayer is probably the only franchise that can put up Hollywood-tier numbers worldwide, and it’s not an exaggeration to say the future status of anime and Japanese culture on the global stage depends on this series.
Dragon Ball and Naruto are fossils.
Jujutsu Kaisen is another hope but its #2, and maybe won't gonna leave numbers as iconic as Demon Slayer.

>>282270903 (OP)
NO! This is the beginning of the cleansing. Capeshit struggles to break a billion dollars worldwide, now they have to be reminded about fighting the biggest foe of all... demons!

For me, it's this Infinite Castle

>>282274854
>the future status of anime and Japanese culture on the global stage depends on this series
That's even more incentive to not pay for a movie ticket. Better that Japanese culture remains on the Japanese stage instead of being more ruined by the west.

>>282270903 (OP)
Honestly, if they had gone for a worldwide simultaneous release, I think it could have pulled in twice the box office revenue.
The sheer number of camrip pirated copies flooding online in July was unprecedented, I haven’t seen anything on that scale since Endgame.
That was proof of demand, and because Aniplex made the stupid decision to delay the Western release by two whole months, they ended up losing a huge amount of potential profit along with countless records they probably could have broken.

>>282274973
The only thing that should matter is it does well in the Japanese market for Japanese people. The western release should be treated as the second class citizen it is.

>>282270903 (OP)
Any nipples?

>>282271014
>>282270903 (OP)
What are you guys talking about? This happened because things have already changed.

Anime and the internet ARE for normalfags now. And yes, anime, followed by manga, will be sanitised to make it acceptable to neo-puritan Westerners and younger generations. Yes, oldfags of /a/, your hobby is dying.

>>282275032
It's not even being sanitized, it's just being straight up outlawed by the west now from fear of competition.
Australia, canada, the uk, france, spain have all made some aspect of anime/manga illegal in their countries. The U.S. is next.

>>282274835
kinda respectable, how do you find the files? private tracker? some series on nyaa seem to lose all their seeds within months of airing

>>282275057
And the corpos will follow the money. If anime needs to be cleaned up to have mass appeal in the globalized shitfest modern world it will be. That market will eclipse the old, small, otaku market. We'll look back in 20 years time and see anime up to the mid 10s as a wholey differnt thing. There won't be an outsider, non-normalfag 'otaku culture' driving anime in the future.

>>282275103
I use nyaa and so far I find everything I've looked for.

>>282271446
if you've watched any other shonen before you've seen everything it has to offer. Just look clips of fight scenes and pretend you've seen it, that's about equivalent.

>>282274993
If they really think that way, then they’re complete idiots.
The Japanese market is only going to shrink further due to the declining birthrate, and with the yen crashing, there’s no point in clinging to it anymore.
Infinity Castle will likely be the first Japanese film to generate more profit overseas than in Japan. Even now, probably about half of its worldwide box office revenue is coming from outside Japan.
Once they face that reality, Sony will realize just how wrong their decision was.

>>282271446
Yes it's pretty.

the only tragedy is having to wait 2 years in between each movie.

>>282270903 (OP)
The 9/11 of /a/

>>282271841
Fatigue....

Sorry I don't watch zoonime

>>282274132
>Magical girls stay winning
That's where you are wrong. Now every suit will scream "do not add little girls or we will miss the massive imaginary west money". So you will never get any more of those animes.

>>282271446
It bored me to tears but it’s shonen and the hate here is unwarranted

>>282270903 (OP)
The biggest tragedy was when KnY alone outsold the entire comic industry since it put them on sight for americans to try to destroy anime out of spite
This one will be comparable since they will try once again to get their hands on it, and if they cant then they will try to keep destroying japanese media for daring to overtake their own media.

>>282278385
Who gives a fuck about Japanese media, you're not Japanese and they don't like you, they just like your money

Anime don't deserve anything and Japan selling out is their own fault

>>282270903 (OP)
And why did they choose an image of Mitsuri's thick thighs for this?

>>282275057
Southern US already doing it.

>>282278401
>Who gives a fuck about Japanese media
Apparently americans since they keep trying to get their hands on it lol

>>282270903 (OP)
This will mean and effect nothing beyond more new anime movies getting dumped in theatres for a few years before suits realize KnY is an anomaly.
>>282271477
2/6

I don't understand the oldfags.
Nothing can be changed about the good old things you love, they already exist,
no one is going to take anything away from you.

>>282278868
It's just people aged 14-25 pretending to be oldfags really.
The majority of people who make these threads tend to have gotten into anime sometime from 2013 onwards, which means their first anime were likely one of the following:
>Sword Art Online
>Attack on Titan
>My Hero Academia
>Kimetsu no Yaiba
>Jujutsu Kaisen

>>282278401
Same with you and your israel overlords, fatty. But you keep sucking their dicks with such gusto

Anime is not you secret club. It is a billionaire industry.
>>282271048
Your favorite anime will never make this numbers because it is not good.
>>282271446
We know you don't have anything better to do in your life or you wouldn't be here. Go watch it.

>>282271841
>In america
of fucking course

>>282271414
That anon is not illiterate, you are. Look up what an oxford comma is.

>>282271841
He is... the demon slayer

>>282279378
Ahahaha look at this loser watching some garbage shounen anime made for dumb little kids and thinking it's high art
Nigga you watch an anime where fags yell out their attack names mid fight
Only numbers you'll never make is the numbers of bitches you won't smash
You're probably in the spectrum lmao

>>282271841
Should have beheaded him desu

>>282279740
All anime is made for kids.
All anime is a low, very low media and doesn't matter the type.
I only watch anime on my phone, while I am outside home in public transportation, when I have nothing else to do.

If you have anything better to do and you still watch anime, you are a loser.

what do people see in kny? it's by far the most formulaic anime i've ever seen, it has nice animation and doesn't have blatant awful writing, but it's very bland and none of the characters hold a candle to old school shounen

>>282280306
If you don't get it by now there's no point explaining it to you.

It's a children and their family bros. No one is looking at this as something kino. Kids will grow up and realize it's bad. Happened with Naruto.

>>282270903 (OP)
Shounenshit being popular with a wider audience is nothing new.

>>282280811
>Happened with Naruto.
Didn't happen enough.

>>282270903 (OP)
oh no, I guess anime movies will copy the trend of... actually having good animation for the entire movie instead of lazy slop with 1 minute of sakuga like the one piece movies... the horror!

>>282280811
Kimetsu feels closer to Dragon Ball than to Naruto in the nostalgia deal, mostly for being a shorter story with less filler.

>>282280910
>moralfag mc
>flashbacks thrown in the middle of the fight
>sad backstories seconds before the bad guy dies
This series is more Naruto than Dragon Ball
Which makes sense because the author is a Narutard (and a woman so she doesn't understand manly concepts)

>>282281006
Is closer to Saint Seiya, and why do you call Tanjiro a moralfag? Are you in favor of eating people?

>>282280755
i've only watched it like 3 weeks ago there was like a crunchyroll marathon on youtube for the entire series so i said fuck it and downloaded it because youtube use av1 which is pretty small, right now i'm at swordsmith village and every arc feel the same, there are 0 twists, every villain has sad flashbacks, tanjiro will pull an asspull, there's 0 world building, hashira only exist for their respective arcs, they have 0 presence compared to something like gotei 13

>>282281104
>Saint Seiya
stop it or you will sumon the macacos ans the latinx shitters

>>282281209
Again, you should get it by now. The same fun you had with Bleach other people are having with this, with better animation and less filler. You already had your shounenshit to enjoy so you can't do it again, the difference it's this one managed to go mainstream.

Anime was dead the moment burgers took it from us
Thankfully manga is safe has they are all iliterate

>>282271477
>haibane renmei

opinion disregarded entirely. Anyone who watches that depressionslop with the delirious belief they are "psychologically profound" because they're sad, should probably go ahead and kill themselves so they dont burden others with their trite.

>>282280866
lol i bet a yaoi movie would do the same number

>>282270903 (OP)
2000: This is the beginning of the end
2005: This is the beginning of the end
2010: This is the beginning of the end
2015: This is the beginning of the end
2020: This is the beginning of the end
2025: This is the beginning of the end

Yup, right on time.

>>282280306
you just described what they see in it. soulless generic humans like soulless generic media

>>282270903 (OP)
JJK did it first

>>282282858
you mean Pokemon

>>282283056
no, pokemon is neat
JJK has nothing even remotely interesting about it and people jump on it like it's free crack

Nothing will really happen, they will try to make more movies from anime series but nearly all will bomb.
Is the same with vg movie adaptions.

>>282272031
People massively underestimate just how much effort went into traditional animation and I don't mean the hand-drawn cels.

>>282270903 (OP)
I hope this means we get a Demon Slayer live-action adaptation

>>282273345
to be specific, in less than 30 days, the movie in Japan only beat the entire boku no hero academia franchise global box office lmfao

>>282271741
>Sakugashit
Oxymoron. Unless you meant to say "forced animation" in which case you're retarded.

>>282283429
Pls no

>>282283429
Navi Charles as Muzan

Do you ever stop crying about being a victim?

>>282283429
only if its made by japanese in Japan without jews money

>>282271193
>>282274099
Yes retard, anomalies often change the way we view things.

>>282271477
Congrats, you have a bland taste.

>>282274178
>Shonen is still very much a minor genre on the global stage.
LMAO

>>282274835
That is retarded, why woukd you handicap yourself like that?

>>282284185
not him but that sounds like a decent way to avoid series that shit the bed in the last half/quarter actually

>>282280306
>it has nice animation
Mugen train wasn't even well animated. It's literally a meme series.

>>282278868
>>282278929
It's called gatekeeping

>>282282117
>2000: This is the beginning of the end
>2005: This is the beginning of the end
>2010: This is the beginning of the end
>2015: This is the beginning of the end
>2020: This is the beginning of the end
>2025: This is the beginning of the end
Who said this?

>>282284228
Might aswell stop watching anime if you have that mindset

>>282284439
you can like anime without liking the shitty ones believe it or not

>>282284461
Strawman

>>282284500
false dilemma

>>282270903 (OP)
Dont care, somehow it was, somehow it will be, only retards and corpos care for sales.

>>282284351
>retard misunderstands the concept of gatekeeping
You don't (can't) gatekeep a whole medium, you gatekeep insular communities.
"Twitter" and "Youtube" are not communities. The local theatre is not a "community" unless it's a non-franchise arthouse theatre. These cannot be gatekept because they function regardless of userbase, not because of.
/a/ was at one point gatekept not by whining about how a shitty movie is successful but by abiding by retarded made up rules and self-policing, which none of you will ever do because none of you actually care about quality of community or whatever, you want to play the victim and feel like you're a part of something.
Ego maniacs.

>>282284399
my wife

>>282277389
Mr. President, a second movie has hit theaters.

>>282284581
All hardcore /a/ users are all gone now. By complaining about this, you're one of the few remaining and can't let go or you're one of the tourists LARPing as an oldfag. Which one is it?

>>282270903 (OP)
>We will stop getting isekai shit caused by SAO being super popular
>A bad thing
This sounds a plus to me.

>>282272004
This. Only subhumans watch Dub. This would have never happened in a Sub showing.

>>282281757
It's uplifting you fucking fag.

>>282284776
>Which one is it?
I'm not actually mad that /a/ isn't gatekept, I'm more making fun of you for being retarded.
/a/ devolving into a shithole was an inevitability. No point being upset about it.

>>282274178
Dragon Ball pulls in more money than average than Demon Slayer's entire lifetime, the fuck are you talking about? Shounen has always been popular among normalfags.

>>282271048
It's just far better than moeshit.

>>282284508
Strawman

SAO is not Isekai
SAO is not a harem
Harem is a sexual polyamorous relationship with three or more women
Asuna ruined SAO by turning it from a science fiction adventure to a rom com
Action > standing around and talking
Deal with it

>>282284581
Lurk moar

>>282284960
I will keep complaining about this movie and there nothing you can do but cry about it

>>282284853
>”I’m sad, therefore I deserve special privileges and opportunities”

its resonance within an echo chamber. If you think it’s uplifting, it’s because you’re hearing your own voice as an affirmation that you think you’re special. You’re not special at all - get over yourself, or kill yourself. Everyone will be relieved you’re no longer dragging them down, either way.

>>282284399
Everyone. All the dame time. Whenever there's something popular, it's going to ruin anime.

>>282286174
I don't know why people don't like the anime about the girls doing underwater basket weaving while watching paint dry.

>>282286174
Ia "Everyone" in the room with us right now?

>>282272004
based

>>282285569
At least thanks to Asuna we could explore SEX IN VIRTUAL REALITY
Anyway, poor hospital bed where Kirito left those "2 years of accumulated cum"

>>282274118
I don't get how people think there's a distinction between civilians and shounen consumers. No shit, show from the biggest household name in comics in Japan has non-otaku following it

>>282284185
All the BDs are out by the time I want to watch so I don't have to suffer stream quality on the first watch if I so choose. And I avoid following seasonal airing so I don't have to suffer any of the obnoxious normalfags trying to fit in with the flavor of the month and get an objective perspective since it's already finished airing.

>>282287101
>so I don't have to suffer any of the obnoxious normalfags trying to fit in with the flavor of the month and get an objective perspective since it's already finished airing
Weird issue to fixate on, might aswell stop watching anime with that mindset.

>>282289432
I generally don't talk about anime with people online anymore. This is the first time I've posted on /a/ in months or maybe a year I forgot. /a/ was overrun with /tv/ and /pol/ and /v/edditors years ago sadly. I just watch anime at my traditional year behind schedule and enjoy it.