{"id":2042342,"date":"2025-09-23T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2042342"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:07:32","slug":"crunchyroll-ceo-on-the-blockbuster-implications-of-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-its-now-undeniable-how-big-anime-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/crunchyroll-ceo-on-the-blockbuster-implications-of-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-its-now-undeniable-how-big-anime-has-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll CEO on the Blockbuster Implications of \u2018Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u2019: \u201cIt\u2019s Now Undeniable How Big Anime Has Become\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The late summer box office has delivered an unlikely juggernaut: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 Infinity Castle<\/a>. The anime epic has stormed past $555 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time and the top-earning anime feature ever released. In North America, where anime movies were once relegated to the margins, Infinity Castle has stunned with $104 million in two weekends \u2014 by far the biggest U.S. theatrical run ever for a Japanese title. Given anime fandom\u2019s penchant for repeat viewings \u2014 and a planned China release still in the works \u2014 there\u2019s no telling just how rich Infinity Castle\u2019s worldwide haul might become.<\/p>\n

Demon Slayer<\/a> (Kimetsu no Yaiba<\/a>) is based on a wildly popular manga by Japanese artist Koyoharu Gotouge<\/a>. After the release of an initial TV series adaptation in 2019, the property quickly became one of Japan\u2019s most beloved pop culture exports. The saga follows Tanjiro Kamado,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late summer box office has delivered an unlikely juggernaut: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 Infinity Castle. The anime epic has stormed past $555 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time and the top-earning anime feature ever released. In North America, where anime movies were once relegated to the margins, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2042343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2042342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Crunchyroll-CEO-on-the-Blockbuster-Implications-of-\u2018Demon-Slayer-Infinity.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}