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I'm guessing it'll slowly add more as it keeps playing in theaters here. Per the Demon Slayer twitter, it already surpassed $40 million USD.
Top 10 per The Numbers
Anyway, saw it a few days ago, great movie.
Congrats Demon Slayer!
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“Demon Slayer: Mugen Train” surpasses Chinese film “The Eight Hundred” to become the highest grossing 2020 film
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I'm guessing it'll slowly add more as it keeps playing in theaters here. Per the Demon Slayer twitter, it already surpassed $40 million USD.
Top 10 per The Numbers
Anyway, saw it a few days ago, great movie.
Congrats Demon Slayer!
This is totally going to happen.
Highest Grossing Movie of 2022: Here. We. Go!!!
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It helps that it's relatively short
The Power of Rengoku
It helps that it's relatively short
It would have to be a multi part movie, which would make even more money, so yeah.
yep lol they can't do all those fights in one movie. It'll be like waiting for Endgame after Infinity War ended haha.
It's like watching the entire 2nd season of a tv show.
You can get the gist of everything fairly easily but it's really for the anime fans.
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It's great. And yeah you 100% should watch the first season of the anime. It's on Netflix in the US now. The movie picks up literally where the last episode leaves off and is completely canon.
I think it'll get easily beaten this year, at least worldwide, by the Marvel releases like Black Widow and stuff.
oh it will be beat in the second half for sure, I meant I dont see a anime film being top off the box office as a trend, just a one off becouse of covid.
Not to be that guy, but Full Metal Alchemist (Brotherhood) from Bones had a pretty incredible production, even looking back on it. It's a great looking show through the end.
But I totally get you.
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If I had the time I would check the legitimacy of the statement but it logically makes sense. It would have happened either way with The Eight Hundred leading the way until DS surpassed it.
No, not really it's subpar but great animation.
I would recommend watching the anime at least before seeing the film. There is a lot of characters that even I didn't remember since the anime stopped airing.
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Ah... dang. Should've guessed there was some kind of prerequisite, oh well. Thanks for the info.
The show is pretty easy to mainline. 1 season of 20 something episodes. It's all on US Netflix and without credits the episodes are like 19 minutes.
They released three "movies" which encompass pretty much the entire first season.
With that said, you're obviously missing a lot unless you watch the first season.
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I haven't read the manga but in your opinion how do you think the rest of the series will be split up? Season 2 and 3 and then another movie? Or season 2 and a movie? Not sure how much material is left.
I would say two seasons, or one season and two movies. Final arc is way too big for a single movie and there isn't really a good spot for it to be split.
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Three more seasons honestly. Or two more seasons and a two part movie
I read the first volume and it just... did not click at all. Is the anime better, or am I totally out of the loop here?
If I was in charge, I would do a season 2 covering the next two arcs, a season 3 for everything in the final arc until the final fight, then a movie for the final fight/epilogue. Easy money lol.
at the end of the day it's just some fantasy story. The anime has great voice acting and animation. I enjoyed it mostly cause of the anime and voice acting. The story in the manga remains good throughout IMO and has a clear cut path the author wanted. Doesn't stray or outstay it's welcome
The first volume doesn't complete the First five episodes of the anime. It's very faithful, so I would check out the anime for a couple of episodes past that and see if it clicks. A lot of people will say episode 19 is what got them hooked.
I made it (in the manga) to where the MC is in a more modern city and senses a demon, seemingly the one that ate his family. Is it that much better in motion? I feel like im really missing something cool here with all the hype lol
It's the kind of manga that hit jackpot with the anime adaptation that elevated it way more than what the source material could be.
The manga was pretty mediocre and already on the verge of getting axed before ufotable came in with a banger adaptation and made it an absolute behemoth of a series.
Hell, it's not like it suddenly became massive once the anime started. The earlier part of the anime didn't even made that much of a buzz (it had its moment here and there and the animations, particularly the fight scenes, are always good) until one particular sequence toward the end of the season that they went all out with the animation and the internet exploded. Then the movie came out and it's even better than that.
The manga was already heading toward the end by that time though so they can't really squeeze more out of it.
I also heard that the author didn't actually get that much (at least directly) from the success of movie because the licensing was like a one time payment.
At least she get to ended the manga knowing that she created one of the most successful series in the recent years though.
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I just got back from this with my daughter.
She was ballin her eyes out. asking my "How are you not crying right now".
First time I ever been to the theater for an anime, and I got caught up on it on Netflix just so I could take her to go watch it in the theater, since we hadn't been in over a year, and she was all about this movie.
She was ballin her eyes out. asking my "How are you not crying right now".
First time I ever been to the theater for an anime, and I got caught up on it on Netflix just so I could take her to go watch it in the theater, since we hadn't been in over a year, and she was all about this movie.
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The series you can watch on Netflix. This movie will be released digitally in June.
the anime is immensely better yes. it has some of the best looking animation of any weekly anime, just genuinely majestic looking stuff.
one of the instances where the manga simply can't compare just due to the inherent limitations of the medium.
May be the only way the manga is better than the anime is because your ears won't have to endure Zenitsu's screaming.
My wife's been watching Demon Slayer at the request of one of my friends. I've caught a few episodes, but it seems somewhat generic? Like "spend all your time learning _____ unrealistic skill then defeat all baddies". Any other plotlines take ages to explore.
Meanwhile I couldn't get her more than a few episodes into Code Geass.
Meanwhile I couldn't get her more than a few episodes into Code Geass.
It is pretty generic yeah, but it has the best animation quality by far for shonen anime.
Try get your wife to watch Jujutsu Kaisen, it's coming to Netflix next month.