Anime is really starting to find a large audience domestically as “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” has kept the top spot at the domestic box office and has crossed $555 million mark globally, making it one of the highest-grossing anime films to ever come out of Japan.
“Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” (released by Sony Pictures) ended up outpacing the Jordan Peele-produced sports horror film “HIM,” as mentioned by THR; it ended up making a solid $17.3 million after amassing an impressive $70 million last weekend.
This comes after animated projects such as China’s “Ne Zha 2” and Sony Animation Pictures/Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters,” both also tackle demonic plotlines, having quite the impact on a global audience. The former earned a massive $1.9 billion, making it the top-grossing feature of 2025 without much of a chance for other movies to outgross it. We suspect that “Avatar: Fire & Water” may have a chance to end up toppling “Ne Zha 2,” but that’s not a possibility for a while.
For some context, “Mugen Train,” another “Demon Slayer” movie from 2020, ended up making $486.4 million, so this one, surpassing that number, is a huge win for everyone involved.
What this means for future “Demon Slayer” movies at the box office remains to be seen, but this certainly highlights a demand for more anime installments as it speaks to the taste of a younger global audience raised on anime and manga material. Perhaps, we’ll see more of a push to import other high-profile anime films to Western theaters.
There are expected to be two more “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” movies to be released in the future, capping off a trilogy. But fans of the anime will have to wait as they won’t be coming until 2027 and 2029, respectively.
Christopher Marc is lead writer at The Playlist and the primary engine behind our daily news coverage. Chris is based in Canada and tracks everything from Marvel and Star Wars developments to arthouse acquisitions and festival buzz with equal enthusiasm and an instinct for the story readers actually want to read.
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